Hey, it's Jamie Scrimgear. When I became a stepmom, I quickly realized that while

moms are encouraged to keep it real, there's a big double standard when it comes to stepmoms.

So, I decided to start the conversation myself. Thriving as a stepmom doesn't just come from conversations about being a stepmom now.

Here we dive into marriage, relationships, personal growth, and more.

My mission?

Inspire you to live a kick-ass life while bringing you along as I create my own.

This is the kick-ass step-mom podcast.

All right, Dr. Nicole, welcome to the podcast.

I'm pumped to be here.

Thanks for having me.

Anxiety is such a hot topic for stepmoms, and your take is so, I feel like your take is quite unique to the mainstream

conversation about anxiety. So I was like, we have to get it on. So I'm very excited to dive in.

Now, I feel like the best places start. Could you give us a little bit of just an overview of

what you do and your work? And then we can really dive right in from there.

As you ask this question, I'm just kind of like almost laughing inside of my head that

the work that I do is unique because that's sort of like it is.

And that's just mind blowing to me because it's sort of like, have you ever seen the documentary idiocryocry?

No, but now I will.

This guy is cryogenically frozen and he's woken up in the future.

And in the future, everything is just really dumb.

Like they're pouring like Kool-Aid on their crops.

And then they're like standing there scratching their heads,

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