Welcome to Navigating Advocacy, the True Crime podcast that goes beyond storytelling to ignite change and seek justice.

I'm Melissa.

And I'm Whitney.

As true crime enthusiasts turned passionate advocate, we've seen the power of storytelling raise awareness about unsolved crime and bring hope to victims and their families.

We hope to inspire action and promote positive change within the true crime community. Our definition of action-oriented

advocacy is doing something more than just talking about the issues. It's taking concrete steps

to address them. We're here to empower you to also become advocates for change, no matter where or who you are.

We are navigating advocacy.

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So August 18th, I fly from Tampa into Austin, Texas to meet up with Whitney.

So then we can just turn around and drive 12-ish hours to Albuquerque. It was good times.

We said we were going to work. We did not work. We did not work. It was a long day for

Melissa and I felt really bad because she did. She traveled literally across the United States

in multiple forms of transportation. So we get to Eric's house pretty late that evening. Eric was

our gracious host that was like literally better than a full service B&B.

It was better than any hotel we've ever stayed at. Yeah. Oh, that's nice.

We had like in New Mexico, you don't get mints on your pillow. You get green chilies on your pillow.

Amazing. Which I actually used mine and Melissa's because Melissa couldn't fly with hers. I couldn't fly with her. Awesome. What did you do? What'd you do? I made chicken tacos with it. My Instapot, it was super good. Had to fight my husband off for the leftovers tonight for dinner.

That's amazing.

That's so good.

I'm glad.

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