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

strikes the perfect balance between an honest look at the mess of life and the humor that can be found in the mess.

To be perfectly honest, 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.

We can spin from hard and deep to humor and laughing on a dime.

The hard will be really hard and the truths we share are the ugliest of humanity.

We don't intend to make it seem like it's all fine or to pretty up the pain.

But we also know that the joy we found is all fine or to pretty up the pain. But we also know that the joy we found

is all the more profound because of the pain. So we hope you can stick with us through the ugly

because there will also be joy and hope and humor. Welcome to the ugly truth about the girl next door.

Hi, welcome back to our podcast, The Ugly Truth by the Girl Next Door.

I'm Kate, and today I am interviewing and doing this episode with my very wonderful friend,

Christiana.

So, hi.

Hi.

I'm so glad that we're doing this because we are also awesome.

So today, Cristiana is going to, first, we're just going to introduce her because I feel

like she's been such a huge part of this in the last several months.

And we keep kind of mentioning her name with our amazing website and some of the things that we have out there in the world.

But she also had a story of her own that she wanted to make public in order to support me.

And also to kind of just add to, I guess, the validity.

Is that the right?

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