Nicole Stawiarski
Nicole Stawiarski is the Lead Content Manager at Thought Catalog. She has authored hundreds of articles for digital publications, ranging from TV and film reviews to horoscopes and personal essays. Whether she’s analyzing plotlines or personalities, she takes a layered, nuanced approach to the human experience to forge meaningful connections with readers.
Core Roles
- Nicole is the Lead Content Manager for The Thought & Expression Company, Inc. and has been contributing here since 2017.
- Prior to her work with Thought Catalog, Nicole spent over a decade in digital advertising, working closely with streaming platforms and theatrical studios to grow ad sales and inform branded campaigns.
Experience
- Nicole is bilingual in English and Spanish, and has studied French, Italian, Portuguese, and Hindi. Her love of Mexican telenovelas inspired her to pursue a Bachelors of Arts in Spanish at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, as well as the start of her career in media and advertising at Telemundo Chicago.
- Nicole is an expert on Bollywood and Hindi cinema, an avid fan of Korean dramas, and all TV and film with subtitles. She is passionate about the ways cultural currency has become more accessible in the digital age, and the remarkable ability art has to connect people on opposite sides of the globe.
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How You’re Secretly Hurting, Based On Your Birth Month
April You need help, but won’t ask for it. Responsibility is weighing heavy on your shoulders, but you see this task as your obligation, so you keep your mouth shut and plod on. The problem is the stress is seeping out in curt remarks, shortness, and irritability with everyone not involved. People are walking on…
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What You Don’t Realize Others See In You, Based On Your Birth Month
April Behind your competitive reputation lies another one for fairness. Where you think others see you as too much, which occasionally you can be, they also know you play by the rules. You’re the type who wants to know they deserved each and every achievement, that the fight you won was clean and fair. People…
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4 Birth Months Who Will Receive A Sign They’ve Been Waiting For This September
Did you know that the timing of the universe can feel like it’s speaking directly to you? While some people wait for months or even years to feel a nudge in the right direction, September has a way of delivering clear, undeniable signs to those who are paying attention.
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What Your Fantasies Say About Your Reality, Based on Your Birth Month
Fantasies often act like mirrors, reflecting the parts of your reality you can’t, or won’t, face directly. They reveal desires, frustrations, and longings that your conscious life may suppress, giving you a glimpse into what you truly need, fear, or crave. Here’s what your deepest daydreams reveal about your real-world experience, based on your birth…
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4 Birth Months Who Will Heal This Week
Healing doesn’t always look like a big breakthrough. Sometimes it’s as simple as resting, revisiting an old dream, or choosing to do things differently than you have before. These small shifts can create powerful change over time. This week carries an energy of reset for a few birth months in particular. It’s about addressing what’s…
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These Are the 4 Bluntest Birth Months
Honesty is a trait that people tend to either admire or struggle with, depending on how it shows up. Interestingly, certain birth months are more naturally inclined to this direct style of communication. They don’t always sugarcoat things, but they also don’t leave you guessing where you stand. Whether it’s calling out a problem, giving…
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How You Respond To Change, Based On Your Birth Month
Change is one of the few constants in life, yet everyone responds to it in completely different ways. Some people run toward it, others resist it, and many fall somewhere in between, depending on the situation. Personality plays a huge role in how we process uncertainty, whether we see it as a threat, an opportunity,…
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How Each Birth Month Will Recognize Their Soulmate
There’s no single, cinematic moment where everything suddenly clicks and you just know someone is your soulmate. More often, it reveals itself in subtle shifts, quiet realizations, and the small ways your behavior begins to change without you even noticing. The way you argue, the way you give, the way you open up, or even…
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4 Birth Months About To Take A Life-Changing Risk
Taking a risk does not always mean making a dramatic, overnight change. Sometimes it’s a quiet decision, a small action, or a shift in mindset that sets everything else into motion. There are moments in life when playing it safe no longer feels like an option. Growth often asks us to step into the unknown,…
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4 Birth Months Who Are Unashamed To Have Loved And Lost
July You are the type who suffers in silence July, but you don’t hide your feelings out of shame. You don’t feel the need to draw attention to yourself after a breakup, no matter how serious the relationship was. You don’t go looking for pity or revenge. You just deal with your hurt privately. Your…
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The Month Your Frenemy Came Into the World
There are endless causes for covert tension in what appear to be perfectly cordial relationships to everyone looking in. Subtle shades of envy, healthy doses of competition, and foils who force us to self-evaluate all lend way to frenemy dynamics. Looking to understand your worthy opponent better through their birth sign? You’ve come to the…
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4 Birth Months Whose Worlds Will Be Rocked This September
September is shaping up to be one of those transformative months, especially for a few birth months who are about to experience major internal and external breakthroughs. There are moments in life when everything seems to shift at once, when clarity replaces confusion, confidence replaces doubt, and opportunities appear where there once were none. Whether…
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4 Zodiac Signs About To Rip The Bandaid Off Their New Life Chapter
SAGITTARIUS What people don’t realize about Sagittarius is that though their comfort zones are at the very far ends of the spectrum, they struggle with all the room in between. They can spend a lazy day at home in their pajamas or spontaneously hop on a plane to another country, but facing an unknown change…
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4 Zodiacs Whose New Life Will Be Scary But Worth It
SCORPIO Your new life is filled with authenticity and vulnerability, and I know the mere thought of that feels like it’s going to make you go catatonic with shock, but the truth is, Scorpio, that this is what’s best for you. This is what will finally allow you to breathe and feel comfortable in your…
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4 Zodiacs Commencing A Growth Journey
You are an ocean of unrealized potential. You cannot imagine how deep and how wide your capacity really is unless it’s been tested until you’ve been moved beyond where you thought your limits were and have had to redefine them. Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year CAPRICORN Capricorn is about to be thrust into the fire,…
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4 Zodiacs Embracing Risk To Find True Love
ARIES Your comfort zone is strength, Aries, but love requires softness. It requires surrender and compromise and flexibility. It requires you to trust that the other person will not take advantage of you, and that when you give, they will reciprocate. It requires you to trust yourself, that you have the capacity to tell the…
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4 Zodiacs Who Have Been Set Up For Failure But Will Come Out On Top
VIRGO People see your strength, Virgo, and decide you don’t need the same support as your peers. Instead of thinking about how much farther you’d get with the right tools, they count on you to build your own, while focusing on those you don’t have your grit. It’s infuriating and isolating, and it’s no wonder…
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4 Birth Months Who Will Find Rebirth This Autumn
April If you were born in April, your rebirth this Autumn represents the end of something you’ve been training for. Whether this effort was purposeful or unconscious, the switch is being flipped from rehearsal to opening night. This winter was your Rocky montage, albeit in a much different form. You weren’t running the streets of…