This week on Forward.

We're creating snacks that are just as delicious as they are good for you

so that people can celebrate eating what they love and feel great about it at the same time.

You know I made a small investment and I'm also making an additional small investment on

this crowdfunding campaign that only has right now on

we funder where if you want you can put in a hundred dollars and then you'll actually

get shares in this company.

You can own a piece of our cookie pie. It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast a young up-and-coming entrepreneur with a company he's going to tell us all about that I freaking love

founder and CEO of M. Lee Nick N Nclario. Welcome, Nick.

And Drew, thank you for having me here today.

So Nick and I met at a dinner last year, some friends,

and he just told me his story and I was like wow I freaking love this story

so Nick you grew up in the greater New York tri-state area and became a chef and then you discovered that there was a need for

healthier food, particularly healthier cookies in part because you had a weight problem yourself.

I did, I did. Yeah. I grew up in Westchester. Italian American family loves food.

Who doesn't love food? You know, early on I when when I was younger, I knew I was gay, bullied a lot in school and food was...

So when you said you knew you were gay, did your classmates know you were gay?

I think so. I mean I think they knew before before I knew.

So so when did you know? I knew when I was seven and I

Holy shit man they would they thought that before you were seven yeah

I think so I do think so dude that's I mean that's rough

so you knew when you were seven and when did you come out to your family?

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