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Uncorking a Story · Nikki Mamanno on Breaking Good · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Nikki was raised in the greater New York metro area and spent her early 20s in Hawaii before returning to the Northeast, where she settled in Montclair, New Jersey, home of the Montclair Blues, I might add, to raise her daughters.

Her debut memoir, Breaking Good, explores her lived experience of addiction, recovery, and the criminal underworld of Oahu.

An evocative, unsanitized look at the systems people fall through and what it takes to rebuild a life.

Welcome to Uncorking a Story, Nikki.

I'm excited to have you here, Nikki.

I'm curious, where does your story as an author begin?

I love how one of the impetuses here is, if that's even a word, is impetuses a word?

I don't know.

I think I may have just made something up.

I'm not sure.

Let's just go with it.

But one of the motivations, let's use the word motivation, was to help people.

And when you felt like you had enough information or enough of a story to help people, that sort of got you started.

Tell me more about that motivation.

Why was that so important to you?

So, you know, it's not lost on me that the title of your memoir is somewhat related to, you know, one of my favorite TV shows, Breaking Bad.

Of course, yours is Breaking Good.

Tell me a little bit about the sort of the backstory of naming your memoir Breaking Good.

Is it, as it seems, like related to Breaking Bad?

So in the story, do you see yourself more as Walter White or Jesse Pinkman?

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