What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

The topic of advocating for yourself, especially for compensation, by the way, that's not just calling a meeting and saying,

I work hard, you better come ready.

You better show the value you bring in some way that's tangible and that they can't say no to.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

On today's episode, we have Nicole Savino, who left her toxic corporate job after 15 years

to start her own consulting firm, Nicole Adeline Design.

And today, we're going to hear all about Nicole's journey

of how she navigated through red flags in her corporate career

until the moment she realized it was time to walk away and find herself again.

Nicole, thank you so much for being here today.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

I'm so excited to be here.

So can you give our listeners a short summary of like what you do and who you are?

Yes. Unfortunately, what I do for my whole life has never been a short summary. It's just I'll never have the type of job that I can say, I'm an accountant, self-explanatory.

I've always been kind of like a Swiss Army knife of multiple things.

So to answer in the most concise way, what I do now is essentially work with small businesses,

startups, anyone who has a need for bringing on, I like to say,

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