Hello, everybody.

Hey, 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?

We are here today with a fellow podcaster, Tricia Friedman. Hello, Trisha. Hello. It's hard to say hello after you do the

singing hello. Mine feels very flat, but I'm going to tell you that every week when I listen back to the episodes to give notes, I'm like,

ah, Lauren, just fucking talk like a normal person in the intro.

And then I do the intro the next week.

And it's like I'm doing it for the first time and have forgotten that note I gave myself.

So it's not a choice.

I like it.

I like it. I like it.

I like it as well.

I have no control over it.

But so as a fellow podcaster, you are appreciative of doing intros multiple weeks in a row.

I know Trisha because, so Trisha is a listener of our own podcast, and she reached out to me many, many months ago, and asked me if I might be interested in doing her podcast.

So it is worth saying Trisha is, and this is her very professional write-up that I'm reading from,

Tricia is a longtime educator who now has her own

consultancy via ally ed.org. She is also the creative content director with shifting schools,

and both of those organizations have their own podcasts. Tricia also is hailing from Canada

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