Episode 213: Nicole Serrano

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Uh oh! We have a new BFF in Nashville and it's singer/songwriter GODDESS, Nicole Serrano! Nicole (she/they) identifies as non-binary ("I feel like 'female-plus'"), and remembers having crushes on girls as early as preschool. Growing up in the Pentecostal Church, however, meant constant messaging that "gay people were going to Hell," so when it came to her burgeoning sexuality, Nicole says, "I knew what I knew, but it was never an option." Meanwhile, she was singing regularly in church and began writing her own music at fourteen, which led to her gaining a sizeable following in the Christian music scene. Nicole shares how the intense stress of repressing her true identity eventually landed her in the hospital, and walks us through the moment she came out as gay on Good Morning America (talk about a baptism by fire! (no pun intended!)). She also discusses finally writing the music she really wants to write, and we get the scoop on her upcoming album all about coming out!

Follow Nicole on Instagram at @nicoleserrano, and listen to her music on all of the usual music-listening platforms!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey y'all.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:20.0	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:23.9	Today, we are very excited to have someone on the pod that I have been following through her coming out journey.
0:33.0	Oh.
0:33.9	And it's been very exciting on, you know, this side of Instagram to see what's going on.
0:41.3	And I've wanted you on the podcast for like months now.
0:44.7	So this is awesome.
0:46.3	Nicole Serrano is with us.
0:48.6	Nicole is a singer-songwriter and has your singer singer songwriter in a specific corner of the industry that made coming out like a whole thing.
1:04.1	I mean, it's always a whole thing, right?
1:05.9	That's why we literally have a fucking podcast about it.
1:08.0	But I'm so looking forward to hearing your story and asking a bunch of questions and all that.
1:15.8	So, Nicole, welcome.
1:16.9	Oh, my God.
1:17.8	Thank you for caring.
1:19.3	Like I said, thank you for giving a shit.
1:22.5	It's our job.
1:23.3	It's so cool to hear that that's how you learned of my name that I exist. So that's,
1:29.8	that's very exciting. A hundred percent. And like I can't even remember when I first started
1:34.9	following you if you were like recommended to me or I came across, I don't know, something.
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