Hey friends, it's so nice to be back and talking with you. I've really missed you all.

Over the past couple of months we've been gone. It's really meant so much to see you telling

your friends and family to see you following us on TikTok on Instagram and to hear your feedback

on the show. But by far the question that you've been asking us the most is where is season two

and I promise you we have been working on it. Some of you may know and remember that outside of

podcasting I'm a full-time wedding photographer and honestly we are coming out of one of the

busiest times of the year for photographers in my area. So I really care a lot about the quality

of the episodes I'm putting out there and I don't want to put out something that I didn't give my

full-time energy and attention. So I want you to know season two is underway but it takes time

to tell these stories in the right way and what I can promise you is it'll be worth the wait.

But I do want to thank you for your patience and give you a little something to listen to in the

meantime. So that's why I decided today I'm going to drop one of our Patreon exclusive conversations

and our main feed. For those of you who might not know Patreon is our online community where we

release bonus content and behind the scenes for folks who want to support the show. Signing up

costs as little as five dollars a month and it's currently the only way that we're able to

sustain this work because even though this show is free for you to listen to it's definitely not

free to create. So today I'm going to give you a little peek behind the curtain as what you can

expect as a member of the Patreon community and it's a good one because I had the opportunity to

chat with award-winning poet and author Olivia Gatwood and what led me to Olivia initially was the

candidness and vulnerability that she approached her relationship to true crime and her poetry collection

life of the party. With each poem Olivia explores how true crime shapes the experiences of so many

women by shutting lights on the ways it's impacted her own. In addition to life of the party Olivia is

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