# 414: What if you could never be the ice princess they wanted? Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening-314652/414-what-if-you-could-never-be-the-ice-princess-they-wanted Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening-314652/414-what-if-you-could-never-be-the-ice-princess-they-wanted.md Podcast: [This Is Actually Happening](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening-314652) Published: 2026-07-07T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/921774d7-f4d3-423e-9a21-2a2f33c94c54.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/921774d7-f4d3-423e-9a21-2a2f33c94c54.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-is-actually-happening-314652/episodes/414-what-if-you-could-never-be-the-ice-princess-they-wanted Duration seconds: 3836 ## Resource After becoming a teenage figure skating champion and Olympic athlete, a woman is broken open by grief, fame, addiction, and shame, but through motherhood, reinvention, and a return to the ice, she begins to stitch together the person and performer she was never allowed to fully become.   Today’s episode featured Nicole Bobek. If you’d like to reach out to Nicole, you can contact her at NicoleBobek.com. Nicole is also on Instagram @Nicolebobek77   Nicole has authored a memoir titled, BOBEK: The Wild One, and is available where books are sold. Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits   Content/Trigger Warnings: addiction, crystal meth use, disordered eating/weight anxiety, arrest/incarceration, sexual assault, suicidal ideation, public shame, grief, death of a mentor/father figure, overdose death, divorce, DUI accident, infertility/IVF, traumatic childbirth/newborn distress, and parental abandonment, explicit language   Social Media: Instagram: @actuallyhappening Twitter/X: @TIAHPodcast Facebook: This Is Actually Happening Discussion Group   Website: thisisactuallyhappening.com   Website for Andrew Waits: andrdewwaits.com   Support the Show: Support The Show on Patreon: patreon.com/happening Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app or visit Audible.com.  Read more about Whit’s insights into each episode on Beyond The Story Substack: whitmissildine.substack.com. On the Substack, Whit will be sharing personal reflections on the deeper themes that emerge from each episode and from across the conversations he’s been immersed in for years, including the psychology of radical transformation, the power of storytelling, the lessons of t… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-is-actually-happening-314652/episodes/414-what-if-you-could-never-be-the-ice-princess-they-wanted/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening-314652/414-what-if-you-could-never-be-the-ice-princess-they-wanted.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.