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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. Hey friends, so if you've been keeping along with me on social media, you know that I am

deep in this book tour. So along the tour with all of these podcast interviews I've been doing

I get a lot of questions about Nicole your book is really vulnerable.

You are sharing some moments there that, and giving a glimpse into them that people never would expect.

You know, moments by my daughter's bedside while fighting stage for cancer or you know moments where I am

wrangling with you know what to do in my marriage or in my business or with my

parents you know and you know I share these things I think a lot of you have tuned in for a while,

you know, over the past 12 years, it's not really that unusual to you because, you know, that I've big on sharing my journey.

But the question that I often get after that you know is

Nicole you know how do you know what to share and how did you get comfortable being this vulnerable knowing that you never know how people are going to respond to it and when you're writing a book you know I've mentioned this before in other chats that we've had it's like you're writing in a bubble. it's like you're writing in a bubble.

It's like you're writing in a vacuum because you're creating this thing over years

that you have no idea what the reception is going to be when it comes out.

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