Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter and while yes, I am awesome, this podcast is about people and the things that they have to offer to you. I believe in speaking things into existence. So it is with that, I offer you these amazing

people, these awesome topics. Sit back and enjoy. Diplomat, philanthropist, filmmaker, she's doing

all of the things. And with this latest project, she is showing us a blueprint for how we honor

people that we love. Think You'll Be Happy is the book moving through grief with grit, grace, and gratitude.

Let me welcome the great Nicole.

Avant.

Hello.

Hello.

And thank you for having me.

Listen, last time we talked, it was the documentary honoring your dad.

So I'm like, you are showing us how we

celebrate the people who have done who have made us and have done great things so thank you and

writing this book as i'm reading it i was like oh you know soul stirring first of all also it's a

reminder because i i don't know how you get up every day and do what you do,

but you do. So we can all do it, right? Because Nicole's doing it. So I want to say thank you to that,

to that blueprint that you've shown us. And also, I feel like when you wrote this book,

your dad was still here on this side. And so there's that too that he's woven through.

But so talk about the process.

Talk about the process of honoring your mom who left here so tragically.

But you so beautifully have told her story born in Queens.

Yes.

Oh, honey.

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