Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostas, Sarah Nicole,

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or

something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. All right, friends, I am so, so excited to be sitting here today on my

living room couch with my dog at my feet with today's guest who drove all the way to be here with me

today to have some incredible conversation please introduce yourself i am lease wilcox and it is a

pleasure to be here lees okay i'm so glad that you say your name for me because like i'm one of

those people that when i read words i say it like like it is. Like you know how like Kansas.

Okay, Kansas and states, right?

And then there's Arkansas.

Like A-R-K-A-N-S-A-S.

Let's remind ourselves, Kansas is spelled K-A-N-S-A-S.

And then they throw A-R in front of it and becomes Arkansas.

I'm like, I said R, Kansas for a ridiculous amount of time of my life. There are so many words I do that with. So I was like, I am not going to say your name on this podcast. I wasn't even going to ask you first. And I was like, I will mess it up because once you have somebody's Instagram handle in your head, like that's it is is. Because your name is spelled L-E-I-S-E.

It's a Dutch name.

So it's just a little more complicated.

So this is my life. This is like 99% of my introductions. So tell me, how do you say your name? Yeah, like how do you say your name? That is like, yeah, that is like such a thing. Okay. So I'm so glad that you came this way to come and talk with me.

We met on an airplane. I, so I'm so glad that you came this way to come and talk with me.

We met on an airplane. I know. I was joking on my Instagram this morning that we bonded over a love of our, of, um, a star is born. Yeah, I saw you watching it and I was such a creep

and I was like, but I got it to go to the bathroom at like the most poignant part of the movie and you were slow, you're like, this isn't the first time you've seen that, right? I was like, can you know what's about to happen? Well, to be honest, on the way down to Austin, um, because I was there for the mom to conference, I was on the way down to Austin and the girl beside me who I was traveling with Tina. She was watching Starsborn for the first time and I was like, I kept like looking and looking and looking being like, oh gosh, I need to like brace myself to hold her. Like this is going to be bad. So when I saw you watching it, I was like, oh, oh no, oh no, here we go. Like we're we, yeah. So it was like a moment we ended up talking you were like I fell in

love with you um because I'm one of those people on an airplane that if there's a stranger sitting

beside me like I want to be their friend like I want it's like such an opportunity yeah and you were

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