Welcome back to the Boss Babe podcast. So today's guest, Nicaea Homer, I actually discovered in a bookstore. I picked up her book

randomly and so many of the words on those pages resonated with me. And I brought the book home and I

snapped a picture of one page in particular.

And the quote was, she said, I'm just not giving up.

The woman I'll be a few years from now is counting on me and the world shifted.

And I posted that and it went so crazy viral.

And I just knew not only do I really resonate with her words, but all of our community does, and I have to have an in-person conversation with her. So I'm really excited

to be inviting her on the podcast. This was a really beautiful healing conversation.

And my hope after you listen to this episode is that

you feel really comfortable and confident stepping into the fullest version of yourself

and doing whatever it takes to do that. Nakia is a bestselling author, a well-being educator and self-healing guide.

She has so many incredible books. And I'm not going to say too much more about her than that

because we're going to kick off this interview with her backstory that almost had me in tears.

And so with that, let's dive straight in. This is going to be a good one.

Do you remember for you? Was there that moment where you thought, that's something I can chase? Was there

another moment where you thought that could be my way out? There was a woman in an assembly talking to other

people like me about statistics. She said, if you grew up in an environment where there was drug use and alcoholism,

if your parents were teenagers, that could be your life. Every single statistic, every circumstance

she mentioned, that was my life. I was not supposed to be another generational aspect of my family that just just repeated patterns i didn't want to be

in poverty i also didn't want to be a teen parent i didn't want to be a victim of domestic violence

because everyone in my life was and so that was the beginning that's how i set out to become

who i am today simply by saying me, I want to do things

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