Yes and this episode is about the Omaha I know - the food, neighborhoods, traditions, Black history, and family that shaped me. It’s about growing up surrounded by Black excellence before I even had a name for it.

I also talk about why I left Omaha in 2012, what leaving allowed me to become, and what it means to return nearly 15 years later with a completely different appreciation for home.

I may have left Omaha, but Omaha never really left me.

Now, hear me out.

In this episode, I’m taking it all the way back—from nursing school and joining the military to finishing my master’s, watching God make a way when I couldn’t see one, and eventually finding myself applying to a school I was convinced wouldn’t accept me.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t getting into the room. It’s letting go of all the old evidence you’ve collected to convince yourself you don’t belong there.

So, what are you still using as evidence that you don’t belong in a room you’ve already earned the right to walk into?

In the first episode of Now Hear Me Out, I’m going back to a note I wrote while five months pregnant with my daughter, when I was questioning my decisions, looking for pieces of myself in other people, and learning what it really meant to trust God when life did not look anything like I planned.

Almost six years later, I can read those same words and see the woman I was becoming—even when I couldn’t see her yet.

This one is about relationships, motherhood, self love, finding my voice, and realizing the people who told me I couldn’t do it alone were right.

I didn’t.

God was there the whole time.