Let's LINC with Felicia Nicole

In this episode, I talk about what my hustle drive was and why I worked so hard to build a good life for my children. I started my cleaning business 31 years ago while working part-time and going to college full-time. I was hungry, I was driven, and I wanted to show my children that how we started was not going to be how it would stay or end.

Hello everybody, thank you for sticking around, and welcome to the new series "The Hustle." In this first episode, I discuss how I was able to level up as a teen mom. I purchased a home and started a business. It wasn't an easy journey but due to my support system and my desire to give my children a good life, I worked hard to make it happen.

This is the final episode of this series, Tales of a Teenage Mom. I share about how I gave birth to my son at home as my 3-year-old slept through it. I talk about how being their mom wasn't easy, but I was determined to give them a good life and to raise them to be good people. I express the importance of being a good role model for your children and how, even at 16, I wanted to give my baby t...

In this episode, I share more about what life was like as a teen mom, and I share a few of the fun moments my children and I had. I talk about growing up with them because I was so young that we honestly grew up together. I share how they saw me make mistakes and how I fix them. I share how they're seeing a good coparenting relationship with their dads was critical. I never promote or encourag...

In this episode, I talk in length about how hard it was for me as a teen mom. I stress that I don't want to make it seem as though life was easy. I had lots of sleepless nights and shed more tears than I knew was humanly possible, so in no way do I promote teen pregnancy or want to glamorize it. I will always be honest because it was hard and scary as hell. I was able to survive and make it th...

In this episode I talk about having my second child, a boy, at 19 years old. I have been told that my son has a lot of my traits. He is outspoken, loving, strong, and protective. My son gave me a different kind of love. I do not glamorize being a teen mom, but I am thankful that I have my children. My son has grown into a great man; he is respectful, kind, and takes pride in himself and our family...

In this episode, I talk about some of the struggles I faced as a teen mom in an environment where I didn't feel safe, but I had to be protective of this little human being. I speak about knowing I had to get an education because I knew that would be the way out of the situation I was in. I thank the support system of my grandparents, aunt, and friends, who encouraged and uplifted me. I thank m...

In this episode I talk about becoming a mom at 16 in the midst of utter dysfunction and turmoil. How I navigated high school, having little to no money. I discuss how my beautiful baby girl made me grow up and how much support my grand-parents were

In this episode, I talk about understanding that Addiction is an illness and how we should offer grace to those trying to get clean. I urge addicts to go to NA and AA when or if they are ready to start their recovery and healing journey. I close with a story about my child's father, who, unfortunately, was overtaken by the beast that is drug addiction. I talk about his sacrifice to walk away f...

In this episode, we cover a lot. We talk about my oldest child's father being on cocaine and how very, very violent he was. We talk about a time when he snatched my daughter and ran with her because I refused to give him back the money that he had given me. We discuss how I was in a tornado, going from one house to another, where there was turmoil, dysfunction from alcohol and drugs. I was tra...

In this episode, I pick up about the story of me just fresh out of the hospital from giving birth to my first child, that I am out in the middle of the street fighting a local dealer because he was beating up my brother, who had used the drugs he was supposed to sell. Why people thought it was a good idea to give a drug addict drugs to sell is beyond me. I talk about another time when a guy came t...

In this episode, I speak more about how I navigated growing up with my mom and really only parent addicted to crack cocaine in the 80's that would continue for more than 4 decades. I speak about a time when my aunts were discussing possible involvement of child services because my mom had been missing for days, so to keep that from happening, I walked the streets of Brooklyn looking for her, g...

In this episode, I discuss why I named this series There's a crack in this house. I speak about talking to my mom about her drug addiction and how, although it's healing, it is very emotional. I ask for Grace to be given to my mom and me during this series. None of us is perfect. I forgave my mom a long time ago, and she has forgiven herself and apologized to me for everything we went through. Dru...

Here in this season 1 series 2 episode 7, we will be diving into how my family and I navigated the Crack epidemic. We went from having it all to losing it all. It was as if an explosion had blown up our lives. I recount the first time I saw a table full of what I later learned was cocaine, to home invasions, thefts, and guns being pulled on us as kids. I go into how often we moved around, and at t...

Hello Everyone (my Linc's) I wanted to give a little info on why I decided to create this podcast and the LINC organization. I did so primarily to reach other people who have survived different traumas and may not feel comfortable ot safe speaking about and who may also feel stuck in their pain or trauma. I wanted to be a voice and an ear to let them know that they are heard, and I will tell my st...

This is the final episode of this series."How do we keep our children safe from Predators within our own families?" I close this series by saying that we must create a safe space for our children to feel comfortable and safe to talk to us about anything and everything. They have to believe that they will be believed and protected. We must also understand and accept that predators do exist within f...

Although it is sometimes hard to believe that kids can be predators too. In this episode, I talk about one of my older brother's bestfriends that lived with my family for a short time. One night, during a family gathering, he came into my bedroom and tried to remove my nightclothes. Thankfully, I was able to fight him off and get my mother, but what if she wasn't home or if I wasn't st...

These are a couple of the questions I want some feedback on Why are the victims os sexaual assualt, moletation or rape not believed? Why are the Predators protected and given free rein to prey on the children in the family? We have to give our children a safe space to talk to us and to feel like they will be believed. Trust our intuition, when our children behaviors change, and they may not want t...

It is essential to help our children feel safe in sharing anything with us, no matter what it is. Predators use fear and manipulation, which makes us feel as if we would get into trouble or they would hurt our mom and dad if we told. We have to instill in our children that even if someone says that, they should still tell.

It's my story to tell, so I'm telling it. Sexual abuse is not okay, and telling is freedom. The veil of shame and secrecy has to be removed, as it allows the predators to thrive and walk around in families, feeling safe.

It has been too long since the veil of secrecy that protects predators within families, which has allowed them to hunt and prey on family members without fear. I am a survivor of a family predator who smiled and danced at every family function because he was secure in the fact that I wouldn't tell anyone. Once I told my family and took my power back, he shrank, and a few years later, when he died,...