Hey, everyone. Today's guest Ashley Flowers is the founder and CEO of the AudioChuck podcast

network and the host of Crime Junkie, which is one of my very favorite podcasts.

Ashley's compassionate approach to true crime takes our fascination and guilty pleasure,

then turns it into a true benefit to society. Her non-profit, Season of Justice, supports

victims of unsolved violent crimes and their families by providing funds for billboards,

private investigators, and even DNA testing. You can find out more in our show notes. I am

just so impressed and inspired by everything Ashley is doing. Later in the episode, April

and I talk with a listener who can't figure out whether she should break up with her boyfriend

or move him with him. But first, here she is, Ashley Flowers.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to On Qualified with your host, On Affairs.

Hi, Ashley. How are you? Hi, I'm great. How are you?

I am great. I'm really excited to be talking with you. I'm really excited to be talking

to you. This is like kind of a big deal for like somebody who lives in Indiana. I love you.

I want to get into all of that, but I want to tell you, we bought a camper van last year

and we've been driving all around the West Coast. And on our journeys, we listened obsessively

to your podcast. Thank you. So for our listeners who haven't heard your podcast, I could do

a summation, but would you mind doing it? Sure. Yeah. So crime junkie was started very

end of 2017 with me and my literally childhood best friend, Britt. And it kind of got started

a whole different host of ways. I was on the board of a nonprofit that I was trying to get

some attention for. I was a huge fan of true crime podcasts myself. And there was a show

I couldn't find. And finally, I was like, what if we just try and make it? So the whole

point of the show, I thought it was going to be this like cool local Indianapolis thing where

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