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Hey friend, it's Nicole, host of the Nicole Walters Podcast.

Here's where we laugh, we cry, and we grant ourselves grace as we do life together.

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Hey friends, so this chat is actually kind of personal, but I'm excited to share it with you because I just had like another realization and I was googling everywhere.

You know how whenever you have something that occurs to you, whether it's an idea or something that happens to you health wise or an experience.

One of the first places we hit is like Dr. Google right we're going to self diagnose by looking things up and I could not find anything about this.

So I am excited to share with you kind of what I've learned through research and all that jazz and asking questions of professionals.

Now this is actually about my health. If you've been tuning in and hanging with me on these chats since the top of the season, you know that I've gone through a bajillion transitions.

I got divorced, I fell back in love, I am parenting now as a single mom, but not really because Alex is here and he's awesome, but I mentioned some up briefly, but I've had a couple dedicated chats about it that I had a lot of health issues at the kind of initiated a

part of the transition out of my marriage. And what's interesting was I talked a lot about kind of some of the things that I noticed initially.

And how I was just so grateful to really have had the time, you know upon my divorce and that separation season to really just focus on getting healthy again. Well, I have got updates.

So you've heard me talk recently about how I'm excited to kind of get my body and my physical self ready for the fertility process.

Like I'm really excited to possibly bring kids into this world, you know with my new partner and I announced that you know me and Alex are engaged and we're getting married and I'm just very excited to grow my family.

And so part of that has been, you know, going through the whole fertility thing, checking your hormones, getting blood work, but also knowing that I'm coming off of a season of heavy stress on my body, just really staying on top of things.

So, you know, for the moms who are listening, the sisters, the friends, all of y'all just starting from the top, there's not going to be any like horrible news here, but it's definitely worth listening to.

So you can like breathe easy. I'm not going to say something horrific, you know, but I do want to let you know that I am going to share with you just some things that I'm learning that I think may be like hugely eye opening for you if you're making certain choices around your health, your body, your environment.

So this past week, I went in for a follow up visit with a dermatologist about a mole on my back.

Now I want to say just to be completely transparent, I am a son lover. I am African, it is my natural way you can bake me in the sun.

I don't even know if I feel heat in a normal way like put me outside on a beach direct sun 90 degree temperatures and I am like a happy flame. Okay, like I just I love it.

Also, you know, without spending an entire episode talking about colorism and you know issues around complexion within the black community and the greater, you know, racial constructs within the world.

I like being black.

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