Hey everyone, I hope you're all enjoying the stories every week and a huge thank you to everyone

that sends me lovely messages about how much they love the show and all of the wonderful story

requests that we receive. We read every single one of these messages and it truly makes us so happy

that we're able to put a smile on your kids' faces every week. I wanted to talk to you about my

situation at the moment. First of all, I want you to know that for the last three years,

I have absolutely loved making this show. It brings me so much joy and it's something that I'm

very proud of. It's continued weekly since the start and I've not actually had a week off in all

of that time. However, things have become increasingly difficult recently and in order to carry on

with the show long-term, I'm going to need some more support. I have a team of very talented people

that work with me on the show and I pay them for their services. We all put in a lot of time and

effort into writing and recording these stories every week and it's important to me that everyone

is compensated for their amazing hard work, which I'm sure you understand. Kids content is

extremely difficult to monetize. Sponsorships are not guaranteed and it's very difficult to place

adverts on a storytelling podcast that are family-safe and not interfering in the enjoyment of your

stories. As an independent podcaster, I'm asking all parents to please help to support this show

by becoming a premium member. For less than the price of a coffee once a month, you'll be receiving

eight brand new premium-only stories that you can't hear anywhere else. Plus the entire back

catalog ad-free. Plus a guarantee that your story idea will be made into a story. I think that

this is a really great offer, which I think is more than worth it for the amount of content that

we provide and in order for this podcast to continue long-term. The last thing that I want to do

is stop the show and it would be such a shame. However, I really do need more support because

providing free content, which takes up a lot of my time and energy, is becoming more and more

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