Before we start today's episode, I just wanted to give you a little reminder that it is British Podcast Award season

and it would be really amazing if you could vote for real life-go-stories in the listeners' Choice Award.

You just need to go to www.Britishpodcastawards.com-forward-slash-vote.

You just scroll down on that page, type in real life-go-stories into the search bar,

and then click on real life-go-stories.

You will then be sent to confirmation email and in order to make your vote count,

you need to click the button in the email and that is it.

It literally only takes a minute. It is super quick.

I am under absolutely no illusions that real life-go-stories will win,

but if I get shortlisted, it's just great advertising for the podcast, and that's it.

Also, you can only vote for real life-go-stories once,

but you can vote for as many podcasts as you like.

So if you have a podcast that you love, please be sure that you're selling them a vote too,

especially if they're an indie podcast. The link to vote will be in the description of this

episode. It's BritishPodcastawards.com-forward-slash-vote.

Hello and welcome to episode 163 of real life-go-stories.

To kick things off this week, we need to thank our newest Patreon subscribers.

I would like to thank Erin Whitehead, Lucy, Stephanie King, Eveen Kullen,

Maggie, Phil Harding, Ruth Vercus, Moira Kennedy, Pod Girl from the Black Lagoon,

Jessie, Iron Forests, Little Gold Fox, Chloe Chin, Sad, Lorraine Brooks, Rebecca Warbridge,

Haley Marin, Lana Hamilton, Wildflower, Beverly Thornton, and Rebecca Bayouk.

Thank you so much for subscribing to the Patreon. I love you and appreciate you every single day,

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