The amazing Kate Casey. Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey.

Hope that you're having a great holiday celebration post-New Year's. I hope that you have had a lot of

time with your friends and your family. Of course, I've tried to give you as much as possible to listen to

and to watch over the holidays,

and I hope you took me up on it. And I thought it would be fun for the Saturday series episode

to do something a little bit different. I wanted to revisit some of the most special and compelling

Saturday episodes from the last two years. Conversations that stayed with me long after the microphones were turned off.

I did this in 2023 and didn't realize that I didn't do it last year. So I thought, this might be fun

to just go back. The Saturday series actually began after a conversation that I had with a colleague

when I realized that I had been thinking more and more about telling parts of my own story.

I asked so much of my guests. I asked them to share their origin stories, the painful

moments, the heartwarming turns, the life-changing experiences that shaped who they are.

And at some point, I thought, maybe I should be willing to do the same. So I started by going through my own life.

I shared stories I'd never said out loud before. And then I began inviting in people from my

immediate circle, including my parents, to help tell those stories from their perspective.

And from there, the series expanded. I started introducing you to people in my life, people

you may not know,

but whose stories, I think, are extraordinary, moving, and deeply human. And that's really the

common thread of this podcast. Unscripted television is built on unscripted stories. Real people,

real situations. There's no polish, no performances, there's just the truth.

So today's episode is a look back, a reflection on the conversations that remind me

why I started the Saturday series in the first place and why these stories matter.

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