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Nicole Walters Is the CEO of Her Life and Believes You Can Be Too

July 7, 2025

Nicole Walters is best known for quitting her six-figure, Fortune 500 dream job live on the internet. About 10,000 people were watching! The host of Tell Me More then proceeded to build an eight-figure business from her living room. That’s real boss energy. Part strategy, part auntie vibes, and part comedian, she is in her no bullsh*t era and it shows.

Walters sat down on the June 27 episode of Pre-Game with Kayla Nicole to share about her money moves, mom life, messy life pivots, and dating after divorce.Nicole and Walters sip on strawberry margaritas (made with Astral Tequila) with a little salt on the rim during the episode, a celebratory drink since it is Walter’s first drink since childbirth.

Walter’s motto is to be the CEO of your own d*** life, and we could all use more of that energy.

Nicole Walters on Divorce, Entrepreneurship, and Business

The many lives of Nicole Walters

You can’t fully understand the level of “boss babe” vibes that is Nicole Walters without knowing her back story. She has lived a lot of life in the past decade, including walking away from a six-figure sales job at a Fortune 500 company and ending her marriage of 14 years to ex-husband Josh Walters in 2021. The couple shared three adopted daughters, Daya, 25, Krissy, 22, and Ally, 12—who they welcomed into their family in 2015. In the past 10 years, she has guided her family through many crises—one daughter was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, another battled an alcohol addiction, and her dad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Walters found new love and married her now husband, Alex Csillag, in June 2024. At age 39, the author, influencer , and former reality star of USA’s docuseries, She’s the Boss, found out that she was pregnant. Now living in California, Walters is the CEO of Inherit Learning Company, a business training firm. Like we said, Walters has lived many lives.

Building a business like a boss

Walters knows what it takes to be a successful businesswoman. One piece of advice she offers is the importance of delegating your $10 problems when you’re worth $10,000. It’s important to work smarter, not harder. Delegation is the key to success as an entrepreneur.

Walters advises hiring a chief of operations or an executive assistant to handle the minutiae, so you can focus on the big picture ideas. Walters pays her assistant close to six figures, but she says she’s worth the cost. “Her ROI is that she makes me millions. I’m able to be on time, go where I need to go, and know my structure. It allows me to be more in my creative space.”

As Gen Z continues to shape the workforce, Walter says work must have impact and purpose: “In this day and age, I don’t think it’s possible for people to have work that is not meaningful. The younger generation wants to drive results and know the ‘why.’ They are willing to live a nomadic life rather than have a big fancy job and afford a big house that sucks. They are standing on business.”

Walter’s quick business tips

In a rapid-fire round, Walter dished business advice for aspiring entrepreneurs—so grab a pen, paper, or your phone, and take notes!

Starting a business with friends? Walters turns up her nose to the idea. The reason is simple: “I want them to stay friends. Second, you already know the friends who are ‘idea people’ but can’t execute. I don’t even like working with spouses or family members. There is no paperwork that could make it okay.”

Waking up at 5 a.m.? That’s a no for Walters. She is more of an 11 a.m. type of girl. “I don’t want to,” she states plainly. “I’m a lady who is meant for leisure and not labor. I want something very soft and to ease into my day, which I have earned. Really productive, successful people get the work done and charge full price for it—it doesn’t matter what time of day it is.”

Charging your friends full price? A CEO should charge their family and friends full price because they value the product or service you provide. “I’d rather pay my friends the full price and get full-price service. You get more value,” she says.

Hiring a life coach when you are broke? That’s another big no for Walters. She says you have to do what you can afford. “Now you have a life coach, but you also don’t have revenue to act on what they tell you. The return on investment is not there,” she states.

Business partners who don’t believe in therapy? That’s simple, according to Walters. “Everyone should be into therapy. I don’t do spouses who don’t believe in therapy, nor siblings, no one. I even ask my therapist, ‘How are your sessions going?’” she reveals. Walters is in therapy once or twice a month, but at the peak of her divorce, she went twice a week.

Navigating divorce: Sometimes, growth requires leaving someone behind

Walter believes in the beauty of leaving what doesn’t serve you—even if it costs you half a million dollars in divorce fees and your reality TV show. After Walters’ first season on reality TV, USA Network approached her about a second season, but she gracefully turned it down. “I turned it down because cast members were changing. That’s my nice way of saying I divorced my husband,” she admits.

Walters says her previous relationship was codependent. She was always doing the rescuing, which caused her to constantly take steps backward. She also says the internet was not pleased that she left her first husband.

“But I chose me, and I’m thriving, by the way. I have good skin, money in the bank, and I am pretty. All these things are true statements that bother people. I love that I am living my truth because if people are going to be mad, be mad because my life is real and good,” she says.