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Hi, everyone.

I'm Rachel Zoe, and you're listening to Climbing in Heels for your weekly dose of glamour, inspiration, and of course, fun.

Well, you are in for a real treat

today. The wonderful, powerful, iconic, all-around shining light of a human being. Nicole

Avant is on the pod today. Nicole's many, many things, actually I think too many to name, but to name a few of

her titles, bestselling author, producer, and ambassador. I've never said that before on climbing

in heels. Today, she's sharing her incredible story from growing up in literal music royalty in

L.A. to working for Obama, to her shift into becoming a producer

and now author Nicole's beautiful book. Think You'll Be Happy. It's available now in paperback

and you must read it. Nicole is a wealth of knowledge and experience. Her experience with grief and tragedy,

she lays out in this book and it's so incredibly healing and I'm so grateful that she's on

the pod today. So here she is my friend Nicole. I want to start up by saying I could talk to you for 17 hours.

So like I know my brain have to be like, okay, how do I make sense of this for people

that don't know so much about you?

And it's funny because you are one of the most fascinating people.

I want to talk about because because climbing in heels is really

about celebrating and talking about and sharing the journey to get to be you, right? Get to where you

are now. So I want to start just a little bit at the beginning because you are so fascinating and

you have done so much.

And I've had such incredible women on climbing in heels,

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