Hey, y'all.

Lauren here.

I love how I say that as if it's someone else.

Who else could it be?

For those, if you've been listening for a long time, you know my voice, so you know it's not more good.

Anyway, it'll be just me today on the mic.

This is a personal message from me to you.

I think if you've been following us long enough, you can probably gather that personal accountability is something that is very important to me. I honestly really just kind of live by

that decree. I just, I just do. I think as a producer, personal accountability is everything.

Not in just the way that we really try to encourage our own cast members to be personally accountable. But I think just in me,

it's just kind of in the fabric of who I am as a person. I think a lot of that probably has to do

with my childhood. And the distorted reality that I was confined to and forced to live in.

So honesty, transparency, basically any of the hallmarks that anybody on average is looking for in a person, just think about that times ten.

I'm almost like hypervigilant about it in a way for any of you out there who have a

parent or a guardian or essentially you were raised by someone with a personality disorder.

It can be quite the challenge. So anyway, in this episode, I really want to discuss, well, personal accountability.

And to be clear, this is my own personal accountability. I really, I honest to God, really do live

by this because I truly believe accountability is a fundamental part of maintaining good mental

health and well-being because there's nothing more freeing than taking ownership of yourself.

As Heather Dubro would say, self-realization or introspection or looking from within.

Whatever you like to colloquially call it.

I do.

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