Hi, I'm Kate. And I'm Lori. We've always thought that the most compelling story

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Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times. We can spin from hard, We don't really know how to live life without both the humor and the authenticity.

Our podcast might be a little bit of whiplash at times.

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next door. Hi, welcome back to our podcast, The Good Truth, about the girl next door.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Lori.

So today we're talking about, so April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

And, you know, we want to have a conversation today kind of about what that really means.

Like I think a lot of people are like, oh, yeah, like wear whatever color it is, you know,

national child use months, national whatever month was human trafficking awareness month in January.

And it's like, oh, yeah, wear blue, you know.

But like the reality of what that means and the reality of the child abuse statistics and

and then to take it a step further as to if we understand what the statistics say about

child abuse about sexual abuse what does that look like for now educating and building this

army of helpers right what that, how does that translate out

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