Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R Boston.

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Yasminne Ammer.

And I'm Andrea Aswahay. So Yasmin we've got some news for our

listeners. This is officially the last episode of our show. I am really sad. I'm

bummed but I'm really glad that we got to make this show and that we got to make it together

How are you feeling? I mean I loved making the show with you. It was wonderful to talk about kindness for the last two years of my life. It felt like a huge privilege. I mean who gets to do that? And I really did love the show and working with you and

interacting and talking to our listeners and hearing from our listeners and it's just

you know it's affected my life. That's what we're going to talk about today.

We're not going to talk about today.

We're not going to talk about the show ending as much as we want to talk about how it's grown.

And who better to ask about that than past Kind World producers.

My name's Erica Lance. I produce Kind World from 2015 to 2018

and I make documentary podcasts. My name is Zach EZOR. I was a producer on Kind World from 2014 to 2015 and I'm now a lawyer living in North Carolina.

My name is Nate Goldman.

I was Kind World's First Producer.

I am a senior editor at Medium and I live in Brooklyn, New York.

And Nate actually started Kind World in 2013.

It started initially as a web project. It existed on Tumblr back when

Tumblr was a lot bigger than it is now. The idea behind it was just sort of short under three minute

non- narrated stories of kindness. I recorded the first one it was the story this woman named

Rebecca Jay, a story about a poetry book that she got as a kid and it just stuck

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