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By Nicole Edenedo

New travel series You Are Here with Nicole Edenedo arrives on YouTube January 2026.

“Every passing minute is a chance to turn it all around.”

I’ve always loved that quote from Vanilla Sky (2001), one of my favorite movies. I’m sure some version of it has been said long before the movie was made, but I like the way it’s said here.

I’ve had to start over many times in my career over the past decade. Being in television news, it’s like an occupational hazard. You find a job. You pick up and move. You’re there. You leave. Repeat. A professional rolling stone. Until you land where you want to be. 

Four years ago, it seemed like the pandemic would force me elsewhere. But for the first time at that point, after six years of constant upending, of getting rid of what I didn’t have room to carry with me, and hauling myself between cities, I realized — I felt — that I really didn’t want to leave. It wasn’t much at the time but I knew I had something I loved: a home. 

And while I didn’t have all the furniture I have now or the trinkets I’ve picked up from my travels, or the community I’ve come to be a part of in my neighborhood, it was something worth protecting because it was something I loved. And I loved who I was because of it. So I decided to stay. With no plan other than to pivot out of TV, with no prospects other than just belief in who I was and what I could do and what I wanted to do. And somehow, scared as I was, it all worked out.

This whole year, I’ve been battered by waves of a bitter sea, with no time to brace for the beating of the next. But what I’ve found, what I’ve remembered, is that there’s something powerful about repetition, about what feels like the same things happening over and over again to you. You learn. 

You sit with something long enough and forced to take the beatings over and over, you start to hone in on what you just don’t like about this situation and how it makes you feel. And then you start to think about how you want to feel and why you want to feel that way, and why you should totally be feeling that way. And then you come up with a plan. You dig your heels in, you brace for the next wave — you know where it hurts now but you also know what you want — and this time, something new is on your side: a wind. And somehow, for the first time in a long time, you’re carried somewhere new and the waves recede behind you. Like in Cast Away.

I’m not sure what kind of boat this is that I’m building. Maybe it’s more of a raft, maybe I’m just kicking my feet, but the wind has come in and I’m going to take my shot.

A new day begins in 2026. 

Live from New York. 

You Are Here with Nicole Edenedo.