Grab a seat. Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens

after we quit drinking. I'm your host Tricia and I currently have a back injury that has me walking

like I'm smuggling drugs inside a very uncomfortable place in my body.

Thank you for joining me.

Today's introduction is partly food for thought and partly me just getting some stuff off my chest.

First of all, I want to thank you for listening.

This podcast has grown to something way bigger than it was when I first started at 15 months ago. So,

specifically in the last few months, it's blown up to

blown up to a much larger audience than I ever imagined would listen.

I remember when I first started getting reviews and most of them were great.

And we all love reading nice things about ourselves, right?

I mean, that feels good.

So when I get a bad review, it never feels good,

but it's part of sharing yourself with an audience and when the

audience gets larger you'll get more bad reviews so if 98 reviews out of a

hundred are great and two of them are bad it's just human nature to focus on that tiny percentage of negativity. We all do it.

I remember getting an email when I first started from someone who told me that she liked the podcast,

but that the sound quality needed improvement and she was withholding her

five-star rating until I fixed that. To be honest I kind of rolled my eyes and

if that's you and you're listening I sorry, but I rolled my eyes at you because I was and still am doing the very best I know how to do with the audio and I can't do more than I already am to get your five-star review.

Then I read another review from someone who said that the content is great, but that the

audio on the interviewee side is often terrible.

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