A Place to Rest: Nicole Taylor’s Next Bright Chapter

Nicole Taylor has a way of finding joy in places most people overlook. Her Instagram bio sums her up with the kind of perspective that only comes from someone who has lived a lot of life and still chooses light: Uno Champ. Josie’s person. Here For The Joy.

Josie.

She moved to Tulsa in 2010 and built a life filled with friends who became family, music that fills her home, books stacked on every surface, and a cat who believes her role in the household is equal parts comic relief and emotional support. Her life has been stitched together by travel, laughter, dancing in the kitchen, and a commitment to choosing joy even when joy feels like a moving target.

In 2021, Stage IIB infiltrating ductal carcinoma — or “Brenda,” as Nicole calls her right breast with a trademark wink — arrived and reshaped her world. Treatment brought challenges, but Nicole met each one with her characteristic honesty, humor, and determination to keep moving forward. She learned to navigate neuropathy, taste buds that briefly betrayed her (even French fries were a no-go), and the emotional weight that comes with survivorship. Through all of it, she kept returning to the things that steadied her: therapy, community, her faith, and her cat Josie, who showed up in the middle of chemo and decided Nicole was her person for life.

Today, Nicole stands firmly in a new season. She is healthy, stepping into a new job, and ready for a fresh chapter defined not by fear but by comfort, confidence, and rest. And that is where her Love Bomb comes in.

Nicole has slept on the same mattress and box spring since 2011 — a stretch of time generous enough to prove her point: she deserves something better. Something supportive. Something that welcomes rest instead of simply allowing it.

Her Love Bomb will give her a proper bed — a bed that honors the miles she has walked, a bed that reflects the steadiness she is building in this new stage of her life. A bed that signals, in the simplest and most powerful way: you deserve comfort, and it is finally your turn.

It will also serve another purpose. Nicole is, after all, Josie’s person — and Josie will undoubtedly claim her preferred corner of the new setup, offering her purrs and biscuit-making as background music while Nicole reads, rests, or simply breathes at the end of a long day.

The Rural Gone Urban Foundation’s Love Bomb is helping Nicole create something she has long earned: a space that brings peace. A place where she can sleep deeply, dream freely, and wake knowing she is surrounded by the life she worked hard to build — one filled with laughter, music, cat hair, and the companions who carried her through the hardest days.

Nicole has walked through enough. She is ready for softness now. Warmth. A good book, a soft blanket, and a bed that won’t quit on her.

And this bed — this long-awaited place of comfort — is where her next bright chapter begins.