Big personality. Red hair. Red lip. Huge heart. Her life ballooned beyond blue collar expectations into a higher education in performance. A built-in family and a special needs child lead her to a life of nurturing, advocating and creating a new normal.

 Listen to this Pontiac, Illinois transplant talk operatic music, singing as a learned skill, big age gap in sibling dynamics, her stage partner becoming her life partner, marrying an older man with two little ones, struggling to get pregnant and finally giving birth to her son.  Nicole refers to her family as the "1 percent family." If it could happen, it did. Enter Maxwell, the love of her life and the focus of her day-to-day. Stay tuned for the end of the podcast for future predictions.

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