250: We Have the Power to Be Everything with Nico Tortorella
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Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with actor, musician, and writer Nico Tortorella to talk about everything from why this is the most nervous I’ve ever been for an interview; to how he discovered songwriting during his wife’s pregnancy. We discuss my journey with Nico’s work and why his book, “Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity” deeply moved me, how challenging it was for him to write the book, and how his views on gender have expanded since having a child. He shares how he was raised regarding queerness, how his and his wife’s monogamy has organically taken shape since having their child, and what it was like having a profound home birth experience. He also talks about his views on approaching gender conversations in households, his ten-year sobriety from alcohol, on allowing ourselves and others permission to change our minds, and much more.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- My journey with Nico’s work and why this is the most nervous I’ve ever been for an interview (
- On where Nico was in life when he wrote “Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity” and how challenging it was to write it
- How Nico’s views on gender have expanded since having a child and going through a pregnancy journey with his wife
- How he has reconnected with his masculinity since becoming a father
- On approaching gender conversations in households and with our children
- How Nico was raised regarding queerness, gender, and sexuality
- On Nico and Betheny’s current monogamy and how that organically took form since having their child
- On their profound home birth experience
- On sobriety from alcohol and being free of things that no longer serve us
- On Nico’s journey with music, songwriting, and writing a children’s book
- On allowing ourselves and others permission to change our minds and grow
Read Nico’s book “Olivette Is You” here
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| 1:09.2 | I have to, like, I want to lay some stuff out there and I was waiting until we were recording |
| 1:13.5 | because I like want this all. |
| 1:14.7 | Okay, cool. |
| 1:15.3 | I feel like this is probably the interview that I'm the most nervous for ever. |
| 1:19.5 | Nervous. |
| 1:20.0 | Because there are many roles that you've played in my life that you obviously have no idea |
| 1:24.9 | because this is our first time meeting to your knowledge. |
| 1:28.0 | When I was, it was COVID. |
| 1:30.3 | So August of 2020, I went back and looked at this and I have it to show you. |
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