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 we are back.

Our episode today is the first of a two-part series called Hopeful and Afraid.

We're going to be unpacking the way and a trauma survivor experiences the investigation process.

Our first half will be the criminal investigation process and how that's experienced by the survivor.

And in the second half, we will be unpacking how it feels when private organizations do an investigation.

And appropriate, not like when you do your own investigation

like we talked about before, but that's never recommended.

Never do that.

But how it feels even when an organization hires a private firm to do an investigation.

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