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, 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 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 About the Girl Next Door.

I'm Kate and I'm Lori.

And today we have a super special guest with us, someone once again that we met to, in our trip

when we went to Albany, New York.

Kim, she is going to introduce herself, but she works for the New York State Children's Alliance.

But Kim, I'm going to let you introduce yourself because you'll do a way better job than I will.

Oh, no.

That just about sums it up.

My name is Kim Hay.

I am the director of public policy and membership support at the New York State Children's Alliance.

Amazing.

So we met you because we were in Albany. We've talked about this before with CFC2, who are also going to do an episode with their founder as well, advocating for the Care Act. So the Child Abuse Reporting Extension Act. That's it. Yep. And Kim was there in support of that as well. And then come to find out that you actually do this work all the time. This is literally what you do and that there's like so much more to know about it and so many more laws out there that need to be changed. So here we are to have that conversation.

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