Hey everybody.

Hi y'all!

Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.

We are a weekly podcast where we have 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 who doesn't love a coming

out story? Um, y'all, we're here today with a fellow podcaster. Uh, Eileen Hanley. Hello, Eileen.

Hi. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Um, yes. Uh, Eileen is an actor, a singer, a comedian,

a writer, uh, all of the things.

She's also the co-host of a podcast called Crazy Hot, which we will talk about at length later on.

A very, very fun, very enjoyable podcast.

Your co-host is named Lauren, so bonus points for taste.

Lauren's are the best co-hosts. Every pod needs a Lauren.

Every pod needs a Lauren. Yes.

Hashtag, every pod needs a Lauren. I'm blushing.

Yeah, and basically, Eileen just hit us up, slid into our DMs, as it were, and was like, hey, I have,

well, I don't want to tip your story, but she was like, I have recently had some developments

in my life. I believe you're coming up on a one-year anniversary of sorts, it being October.

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But if you want to tell the people a little bit about yourself or anything that I miss, go right ahead.

Sure. Yeah, my name's Eileen. I know it's like an old lady name, but I'm like bringing you back.

It's like a hipster name now, though. It's like if you were like 10 or 15 years younger, yeah,

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