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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. Let's get started. Hello everyone so I have gone through some major transitions in the past

couple weeks I'm planning for a massive wedding and by massive I mean I would be content to get married

with like three people present and we are having a hundred people there and I am

Excited to go on a honeymoon for two weeks and I am excited about all these big things so if you've been following along on Instagram you saw that I went wedding dress shopping and just so many big changes are afoot and if you heard last week's episode you also know we're prepping and

planning for baby which is I mean you know how I am I like to do it all and I like to do it big

but the number one question that I've been getting in my DMs during this process of everyone seeing me die full on

Headfirst into my you know newer fancier better aligned life is Nicole. How did you know, newer, fancier, better-aligned life is, Nicole,

how did you know when your marriage was over?

Like, how did you know that it was time to step out?

And I know that this comes up a lot

because so many of us are in places of transition.

And when I say step out, I mean not just your marriage, the job, your marriage, the friendship, you know,

like even being a mom, I'm stay at home.

How do I know I need to return back to the workforce?

And all this boils down to is just big decision making.

And I know how I make my decisions.

It's really and truly not something I struggle with. I may struggle with the anxiety and the

nerves around moving forward, but I don't actually struggle with the decision itself, right? Like, I figure it out,

I add some plan to it and I get moving.

So I decided to tap one of my dear best good friends who is brilliant

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