Hey there, it's me, Hillary Frank, and I am here with an announcement for you.

And it's a big one.

The announcement is that after nine years, almost a decade, the longest shortest time will

be ending at the end of this year.

I want you to know that I have not taken this decision lightly.

It's something I've been thinking about for a really long time.

And when I finally made the decision, I don't know how else to say it.

It just felt right.

Like a calm came over me.

I started this show at a very specific time in my life when I was dealing with trauma

after having a baby.

And my baby is almost 10 now.

And my life is really different.

And the things that I want out of life and out of work are different.

And parenting media these days is completely different than it was when I started this

show.

In 2010, it was really hard to find anything that felt real about parenthood.

You know, that's why I started this show.

I felt like I was filling a void.

I wasn't finding stories that felt like the version of parenthood that I was experiencing

and that I suspected other people were probably experiencing, like something that was really

complicated and full of ups and downs and absurdity.

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