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About Nikki P.

I'm Nikki P. — a former therapist turned storyteller, host, coach, and collaborator.

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I built this work because I was drowning in the gap between who I was and who I was becoming — and I realized I wasn't alone in that. Every hard human experience asks you to let go of who you were before you know who you're becoming. That gap is the messy middle, full of anxiety, contradiction, and feelings nobody has language for yet.

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Everything I do lives in that space. The podcast. The meditations. The coaching conversations. The workshops and keynotes. The systems work. All of it is built around the same belief: that complexity isn't a problem to solve. It's a place to be seen.

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However you found your way here — I'm glad you did.

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What I do

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Why “It’s Both”

 

When you're holding joy and grief, ready to move forward and not ready to let go, certain about the decision and terrified about what comes next — this work is for you.

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If you're navigating divorce, diagnosis, faith transition, identity shifts, or any major life change, this space offers conversations that validate your complexity rather than trying to fix it.

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You're not broken for feeling it all. You're human. And you don't have to go through it alone.

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How I work

 

My lens is trauma-informed, relational, and anti-toxic-positivity. I draw on more than a decade in mental health and social services — from crisis response and advocacy to private practice — alongside years of collaborative systems work across nonprofits.

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I care about outcomes. And I care about the wellbeing of the people doing the work to get there.

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Because life isn’t either/or—it’s both.

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My Background

I'm a licensed therapist who stepped away from clinical practice to build something I needed myself: a space where people could hold contradictory feelings without needing to choose one over the other.

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I've worked in crisis response, advocacy, private practice, and nonprofit leadership. I've facilitated everything from trauma-informed care trainings to cross-agency collaborative planning. I've sat with people in their worst moments and helped design systems that support helpers.

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And through it all, I kept running into the same truth: the messy middle is where real life happens. And we're not taught how to live there.

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So I built this show for the people living in that gap — the space between who you were and who you're becoming. For people holding too many contradictory feelings at once. For people exhausted by everyone telling them to "just choose" or "let go" or "move on."

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If that's you, you're in the right place.

Partnering Together

I work with values-aligned people and organizations to create conversations, tools, and experiences that honor complexity without toxic positivity. Whether you're an individual ready to do the work, an organization trying to take better care of its people, or a community looking for something that feels different — if your work lives in the messy middle, we're probably a fit. Reach out now

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  • 1:1 Coaching
    For individuals navigating life transitions, burnout, identity shifts, or that unnamed feeling that something needs to change. We slow it down, name what's actually there, and find language for where you want to go — without rushing you toward an answer that isn't yours yet. Single sessions and ongoing containers available.

  • Organizational Consulting & Retreats
    For teams, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations ready to treat their people like the strategy. I design and facilitate restorative experiences that build cultures worth staying in. Offerings include:

    • The Renewal Day — one full workday, 9am–3pm. Starting at $4,000.

    • The Cohort — monthly or quarterly team gatherings. Starting at $1,800/session.

    • Leadership Development — custom scoped.

    • Culture Consulting — custom scoped.

    • 1-on-1 organizational support — standalone or add-on. Starting at $175/session.

Every engagement includes a 30-day follow-up. 90-day deep dives and ongoing leadership coaching available as paid add-ons.

  • It's Both Women's Gathering
    A half or full day experience for women to go deep AND let loose. Real conversation. Genuine connection. And actual play — because you're allowed to hold both. Not a workshop. Not a networking event. Something you didn't know you needed until right now. Nashville first. Coming soon.

  • Speaking & Keynotes
    Talks and live sessions on bothness, transition anxiety, emotional resilience, and building cultures where complexity is welcome. Designed for teams, nonprofits, conferences, and retreats. Formats: keynotes, fireside chats, panels, and workshops.

  • Podcast Collaborations
    Be a guest on It's Both — story-forward episodes that normalize emotional complexity. Invite me to your podcast — topics include bothness, identity in transition, burnout, and the messy middle of major life change. Mission-aligned sponsorships and ad reads also available.

  • Guided Meditations
    Commissioned meditations for events, programs, and communities — anxiety, overwhelm, transitions. Licensing of select It's Both: Guided Meditations tracks also available.

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What It’s Like to Work Together

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  • Both/and lens. We hold nuance and design for real-life constraints.

  • Trauma-informed & accessible. Pace, language, and structure that care for people.

  • Story + substance. Clear takeaways, not clichés.

  • Organized process. Clear scope, timeline, and shared goals from the start.

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Values & Fit

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  • People first. No shame, no quick-fix promises, no pretending the hard stuff isn't hard.

  • Mission-aligned partnerships only—especially for sponsorships and co-created content.

  • Anti-exploitation: we don’t sensationalize pain for clicks.

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