Back to School With Nakkiah Lui

Nakkiah Lui's high school regret: "I didn't kiss enough people."

This post is presented in partnership with Monash Business School.

Student Edge's webseries Back to School With invites Australia's most interesting and successful people to share stories from their school days. In each ep, they let us know how they landed their dream careers, as well as how they faced all those inevitable obstacles of teenagerdom along the way.

Over six seasons, we've interviewed Jimmy Barnes, Amy Shark, Julie Bishop, Saroo Brierley, Samantha Jade, Dr. Karl, Daniel Ricciardo, Rachel Perkins, Ita Buttrose, Tom Ballard, Layne Beachley, John Marsden and many, many other fascinating peeps.

But a new term brings a new season and even more incredible Aussie stories.

In the second episode of Season Seven, we chat with comedian and playwright Nakkiah Lui, from Black Comedy and the upcoming Kiki & Kitty. She told us how she had "pimples and a lisp [and] and a bad haircut", and explained what it was like to go through her teen years without "a whole heap of friends" at a school that was "a little bit racist."