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🎤 Season 4 Episode 1 Guest Niki Borger

"Despite everything that happened, despite everything I've been through, I really like who I am."

In 2018, Niki Boger left Germany and moved to the United States to pursue a career in acting. But while she was building something new, she was losing everything familiar. Over the next seven and a half years, she lost nearly every parent figure in her life, along with the relationship she thought was heading toward marriage, all while navigating a new country, a pandemic, and an industry that kept shifting beneath her feet.

From the outside, people saw the actress, the writer, the playwright. They didn't see what it cost her to keep going.

This is not a story about grief alone. It's about what happens when you're becoming someone new while losing so many of the people who knew who you were.

📝 Key Takeaways

• Sometimes the most defining part of a story is the season no one can see.
• Grief can strip away identity, but it can also reveal the core of who you are.
• Healing is not linear. It often requires releasing old beliefs and rewriting your internal story.
• Transformation is possible even when life keeps taking things away.
• The hidden chapter may not be what happened to you. It may be who you became because of it.

📖 About Niki Boger

Niki Boger is an actress, writer, and playwright whose work is shaped by deep personal experience, reflection, and transformation. Her creative projects include the play In Between, which explores the space between life and death, drawing from the emotional truths of grief, identity, and growth. She is currently in pre-production on a new TV show.

🎧 Listen If You're Interested In

• Grief and healing
• Identity and reinvention
• Immigrant stories
• Creativity as a form of processing pain
• Personal transformation and resilience

🎤 Episode Summary

Sometimes the chapter underneath the story is where we discover who we're becoming. For Niki, after losing so much of what once helped define her, the hidden chapter wasn't simply learning how to keep going. It was discovering that she really liked who she had become.

💛 Connect with Niki Boger

If Niki's story stayed with you, share this episode with someone who might need to hear it too. You'll find links to her work below, including her play In Between and everything she's created from this chapter of her life.

🌐 Website: https://nikijborger.com/

🎭 Her Play, In Between, and other works: https://nikijborger.com/plays/

📩 Reach out to Niki: niki@firewolfent.com

📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NikiJBorger

📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikijborger/

▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8kBxwCdcLCjttdZi3X12A

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🎵 Background Music: "In Time" by Folk_acoustic from Pixabay

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Season 4 begins a little differently.

Before we officially begin Season 4 of Hidden Chapters, I wanted to share a little more of my own story.

If you've been listening for a while, you're used to hearing me ask the questions. This time, the roles were reversed.

I recently had the privilege of joining Tracy "Mrs. JDog" Flanagan on the Tactical Treasures Podcast, where she turned the questions toward me. We talked about my military journey, the experiences that shaped me, the transition into a new chapter of life, and the story behind creating Hidden Chapters.

When I listened back to our conversation, I knew it belonged here. Before I ask my Season 4 guests to open the hidden chapters of their stories, I wanted to invite you into one of mine.

A heartfelt thank you to Tracy and the entire Tactical Treasures team for inviting me onto their show and graciously allowing me to share this conversation with the Hidden Chapters community.

🇺🇸 About Tactical Treasures🇺🇸

Tactical Treasures uncovers the powerful stories of the military community, highlighting service, the transition to civilian life, and the invaluable "tactical treasures" that guide people along the way.

If you enjoyed hearing my story through Tracy's questions, I hope you'll take a moment to explore Tactical Treasures and the stories they're sharing with veterans, military families, and the broader military community.

Listen & Connect with Tactical Treasures

🌐 Website:
https://tacticaltreasurespodcast.com/

📺 YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@tacticaltreasures

👩🏻‍💻 Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/tacticaltreasurespodcast

🎙️ Watch the original conversation:
https://youtu.be/JjBQSgdencQ?si=j781smE9dxjVFW4M

Support the show

🌐 Visit my website: https://hiddenchapterspodcast.com/ and stay connected!

🎙️ Want to be a guest on Hidden Chapters.

Send me a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/genevievekruger
or visit the website to apply to be a guest.

🎵 Background Music: "In Time" by Folk_acoustic from Pixabay

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Welcome to Season 4 of Hidden Chapters! 🎉

This is more than a new season. It's the beginning of a new chapter for the podcast.

In this short episode, I'm sharing the story behind Hidden Chapters' new cover art, why I've made the decision to move to a biweekly release schedule, and what you can expect from the conversations ahead.

"Hidden Chapters exists to honor the stories we don't always see," has become the heartbeat of everything I'm creating.

Thank you for being part of this community. Whether you've listened from the very beginning or you're just joining us, I'm grateful you're here.

🎧 🎙️Season 4 officially begins on August 21, and I can't wait to introduce you to the incredible guests and meaningful conversations ahead.

If you haven't already, be sure to follow the podcast so new episodes automatically appear in your library every other Friday.

Because every person carries a hidden chapter...and every story deserves to be honored.

Support the show

🌐 Visit my website: https://hiddenchapterspodcast.com/ and stay connected!

🎙️ Want to be a guest on Hidden Chapters.

Send me a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/genevievekruger
or visit the website to apply to be a guest.

🎵 Background Music: "In Time" by Folk_acoustic from Pixabay