BEST OF 2025: The One with Big Feelings About Marriage, Divorce & Motherhood with Nicki Marie
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this engaging conversation, Sarah and Nicki discuss their unexpected journeys into content creation, the complexities of identity and authenticity in the digital age, and the profound impact of divorce on personal growth. They explore the surprising lessons learned from single parenthood, the challenges of navigating non-traditional family dynamics, and the emotional intricacies that come with these experiences. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of community support and the evolving nature of content engagement in a world where personal stories resonate deeply with audiences.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostus, Sarah Nicole, |
| 0:10.4 | and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:17.8 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital |
| 0:23.3 | space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. And you are essentially hopping into what has |
| 0:29.5 | become an extended voice note conversation back and forth. I've got Nikki Marie here. |
| 0:34.4 | And we connected online and we started shooting the shit in our voice notes back and forth |
| 0:41.0 | on Instagram DMs and we're like, you know what, it's podcast time. Let's do it. And you just |
| 0:45.9 | started to tell me, you said that Nikki Marie came about a little bit accidentally and I'm so |
| 0:51.4 | curious because my Sarah Nicole also came about a little accidentally. Tell |
| 0:55.5 | me your story. It was just, so I didn't want to put my, I never thought this was going to be this. |
| 1:01.5 | Yeah. You know, and I, when I got an Instagram, I was like, oh, you just put something where people |
| 1:06.5 | don't know your last name if you have a public account. So it was my middle name. And I was non-committal. |
| 1:13.1 | Even when I got engaged, I was like, what am I going to do? My last name. I can't give it up. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm the girl in the family. There's no like headcase USA. That's how Marie came in. |
| 1:24.5 | You know what? Same, though, because I got divorced and I was like, I don't want to go by, I had been |
| 1:31.4 | married for 11 years. |
| 1:32.6 | I didn't want to go back to like what essentially was my high school last name. |
| 1:36.2 | And I didn't want to have a different last name than my kids. |
| 1:38.7 | And I didn't know what to do next. |
| 1:41.2 | So I just went by Sarah Nicole. |
| 1:43.8 | And I added the Landry when I got remarried, |
| 1:47.5 | but I only like, even with that, I was like, I just want to go by Sarah Nicole. Like I don't want |
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