Ep. - 1463 - SATURDAY SERIES: NICOLE PAGGI
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Paggi is an actress whose career has spanned drama, sitcoms, and daytime television. Nicole began her journey just outside Austin, Texas, later training in both Los Angeles and New York while earning her degree in Business Administration and Marketing from Texas State University. She broke out early with roles on the Fox drama Pasadena, followed by her turn as Sydney Shanowski on the ABC comedy Hope & Faith, and later as Sara Crawford on the UPN sitcom One on One. Her career includes memorable appearances on shows such as CSI, Rizzoli & Isles, 90210, 9-1-1, and a recent stint stepping into the role of Maxie Jones on General Hospital.
In this episode, Nicole talks openly about navigating the unpredictable world of acting—how rejection has shaped her, how stepping away to focus on family shifted her perspective, and why life experience ultimately makes you a stronger, more grounded performer.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K.S. Wondery. That's audible.com.com. UK slash Wondery. |
| 0:11.7 | The amazing Kate Casey. Welcome back for another episode of reality life with KKC. |
| 0:18.8 | And welcome back for this Saturday series episode. |
| 0:27.0 | My guest today is my friend Nicole Paggy. Nicole and I met on the sidelines of our daughter's soccer games. They were both placed on the same club soccer team. And if you have kids that play sports, |
| 0:31.9 | you know, you spend a ton of time at practices, at games, at tournaments. |
| 0:42.1 | And really, there's nothing better than if you have a team with fun parents. |
| 0:44.5 | It makes all the difference in the world. |
| 0:49.3 | I loved chatting with Nicole on the sidelines because she's an actress and she's got great stories. |
| 0:51.0 | And we would always end up talking about everything from just about true crime, |
| 0:56.3 | movies, parenting, cooking. She's one of those people that makes the healthier version of |
| 1:02.0 | every recipe that you can think of. She's got great style. She's absolutely someone that you would |
| 1:07.3 | want to follow on Instagram for all of her tips. And she's somebody who is really, my one friend calls people like yummy friends. |
| 1:16.4 | They're the kind of friends that you sit and talk to and you can talk about just about |
| 1:20.3 | everything and feel safe with them. |
| 1:23.5 | Nicole is so down to earth and I suspect a lot of it comes from the fact that she's from |
| 1:29.1 | Austin, Texas. So you can only imagine growing up in Austin, Texas, and you're not around |
| 1:35.0 | anybody who is an actor, and she took the leap in a career where she really didn't have any |
| 1:40.4 | connections. So she trained in Los Angeles in New York. She got her degree from |
| 1:45.4 | Texas State University. And then she goes out to L.A. and she gets a big break. She got a breakout |
| 1:52.0 | role on the Fox drama, Pasadena. And from there, she made her mark in comedy as Sydney on the |
| 1:58.0 | ABC sitcom, Hope and Faith, then is Sarah Crawford on the UPN hit one-on-one. |
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