About
Nicole Allshouse is an Emmy nominated television journalist and Associated Press Best Reporter Award winner.
She graduated Cum Laude from Kent State University, interned at CNN in Washington, DC, and started her career as a weather anchor for NBC16 in Joplin, MO.She then moved to NBC6, where she was a crime/investigative reporter, first in Rock Hill, South Carolina, then onto Charlotte, North Carolina.After covering multiple murders involving youth offenders, Nicole lobbied the FDA to print suicidal and homicidal warnings on the back of anti-depressants prescribed to juveniles.
Her career then shifted to FOX News in Atlanta, GA. There she broke multiple national and international stories, including a planned Terrorist attack in DC by a GA Tech student and the most egregious police corruption case in Atlanta's history involving the killing of Kathryn Johnston.In her 30s, Nicole met a man from Alabama and moved to Birmingham in 2008 to marry him.The same year, she started with ABC and launched a morning lifestyle show called Talk of Alabama, which she anchored and produced for 14 years. Nicole then took an anchor position with FOX in Birmingham where she currently works.
Nicole started her communication consulting business, Communicaring (a word from the Bible that means “to share”) after seeing so many young professionals struggle with public speaking and interviewing. Some of her clients include Bridgeworth Financial, Mercedes Benz U.S. International, and New York Life.
In her spare time, Nicole is a motivational speaker - talking to churches and schools about an ordeal in 1981 after a drunk driver drove through her childhood home and smashed into her bed at four years of age. The working mother of three says God saved her life and she is forever grateful for his grace and love.
I should’ve been dead.
When I was 4-years-old, a drunk driver crashed through my home, smashing my toddler bed, leaving me mangled and broken.
As a result, I spent the next 15 years undergoing dozens of operations and growing up in a pediatric hospital in Ohio.
My parents physically cared for me daily, but didn’t know how to use their voice to fight for me.
Big difference.
No one teaches you in school how to verbally advocate for yourself or others.
We didn’t get a penny from that crash and the drunk driver walked free.
I became a journalist so I could craft my words to help people.
And the truth is, powerful or persuasive communication can be taught.
It’s not about having the rights words for one moment in life.
It’s about having the right words for every moment in life.
For the CEO, that may be explaining important details to stock holders.
For the manager, that may be convincing your team to buy into a vision.
For the young employee, that may be speaking up to ask for a promotion.
You see, intentional communication will advance your life in ways no paper degree ever could.
It’s a skill set you will carry forever.