Hello, everybody.

Hi.

Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole with an asterix.

It will be explained in a moment.

We are a weekly podcast where we bring on queer folks from all walks of life.

They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.

Because her doesn't love a coming out story.

All right.

Now, right now, you're probably thinking, Nicole sounds very Australian today.

But it's not Nicole.

That is, in fact, the voice of the lovely Mandala Rose, frequent guest of the pod.

So as I'm sure most of you, if not all of you know, Nicole very recently pushed a human out of her body.

She created life, and that life is now awake and in the world and keeping her up

all the time. So she is on a brief maternity leave. And in fact, you might hear him in the background

screaming at some point. Oh my goodness. That'll be a first. That's very exciting. Yeah. We actually,

just before we recorded, we got to see Nicole pop on camera and prove to us that she is in fact awake and alive and doing well. But we are giving her a little bit of maternity leave from the podcast. So while Nicole is, you know, breastfeeding and all that other stuff that moms do that I know nothing about.

I am going to have a revolving door of co-hosts, and we thought, who better to kick it off with than Mandala, who you all know very well.

So today, Mandala and I are here with PJ Hayes.

Hi, PJ.

Hi, PJ.

PJ is an aspiring screenwriter.

I say aspiring because she is a wee babe of 21 years old.

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