Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hi, Kate.

Hi, Jess.

Who do we have with us today?

Today we have on a special guest.

Yes.

I'm going to have her introduce herself because I'm going to bungle it.

Hi.

I'm Jody Smith, licensed practitioner counselor.

And so we have a secret.

We've kind of been keeping from everybody. We lied about

Nance. This is Nance. Nance is not Nance. Nance is Jody. We were protecting her identity. Yeah.

But we wanted her to come on and she feels comfortable being herself. Yeah. So,

Nancy's Jody. Hi, Nance. Hi, guys. Can we still call you, Nance? I feel like it's just going to happen now. I mean, I'm fine with it. Yeah. So, Nancy's Jody. Hi, Nancy. Can we still call you, Nancy? I feel like it's,

it's just going to happen now. I mean, I'm fine with it if you really want to. Okay. So give us a

breakdown of your background and what you do. Well, I have been a therapist practicing for about 15

years. I worked primarily in addiction for about 10 of them now

and transitioned into private practice where I work with addiction, trauma, depression, and

anxiety. Basically years ago when I had started, I worked at a women's halfway house where

when we went severe trauma, addiction, live there for nine months to a year.

And we basically gave them treatment and a safe environment to really grow and clean up

everything in their lives to make them feel like they've healed.

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