Ep. 24: Nicole's story & why she's taking the stage at The Down There Affair

Nicole King — known as Ms. King, of Ms. King's Kitchen, serving caribbean-inspired meal prep, catering & events — spent over a decade on birth control before anyone asked why she was in pain in the first place. It took passing out mid-catering-job on a 300-person boat ride, a fallopian tube destroyed by endometriosis before anyone told her, and a parade of doctors offering the same three "solutions" — birth control, painkillers, or go get pregnant — before she landed anywhere close to real answers. She's since been declined for a specialist referral four times. Amy and Nicole get into what it's like to become "the guinea pig" at your own corporate job, why fertility gets treated like a cure for a disease that actually causes infertility, and why two women who don't look anything alike ended up becoming the exact partnership this movement needed. This is a conversation about being dismissed again and again — and choosing to get louder every single time. Nicole is now a partner of The Down There Affair and will be stepping on stage with Amy on September 26th!KEY COMPONENTS:She passed out mid-shift catering a 300-person boat ride and kept working, and it finally pushed her to demand answers.A doctor told her a dye test would check her fallopian tubes and the room went silent. Everyone's face told her something was wrong before anyone said a word.Declined for a specialist referral four separate times: The bureaucratic runaround that happens after you finally find a doctor who believes you.Why she posts her surgery scars on Instagram and doesn't care who's uncomfortable: The reaction that made her decide to keep doing it anyway."Your pain is your pain. Don't ever let anyone dim it or try to tell you anything differently. People aren't living in our bodies — they can assume they may know what you're going through, but you are the only one that actually knows." Follow Ms. King's Kitchen on Instagram Watch Ms. King's Kitchen on YouTube 👉 Click here to join the movement at downthereaware.org🩲 Subscribe, like, and share to show us you care!🤘 Podcast produced by Binge-Worthy Studio For informational and entertainment purposes only — not medical advice. We're here to get loud, not to play doctor.