Hello and hi, friends. Today is Sunday, March 3rd, 2004 to 36 p.m. Pacific Time,

aka today is what came next first birthday, so I want to start by saying congratulations to my bestie,

producer and host Amy B. Chessler, aka Fishbowl Chessler, to know her is to lover.

I'm so, so proud of you and everything you've done for survivors over this past year,

not only helping us support more survivors and sharing their stories, but also with the

something was wrong update episodes, helping us bring those updates to our community

and also helping us just continue the support and mission of everything that we try to do for

our community. So thank you so much, Amy, and to our audio editor of what came next, Stephen,

thank you so much as well. So today I'm doing something

completely out of my comfort zone and I'm coming to you solo. I've had so many topics on my

mind that I've been thinking about, also having people reach out to me on Instagram and ask me.

So I'm excited to try this out, kind of a community catch-up,

but I look forward to your thoughts on everything that I'm going to talk about today as well as

your feedback on in general, do you enjoy these types of episodes from time to time, or do you

hate the sound of my voice as much as I do? But I digress.

You think you know me, you don't know me well at all, at all.

It can't know me.

You don't know me You don't know anybody

You don't know anybody

Until you talk to someone Someone Okay, so I kind of want to work my way backwards a bit, because like I said, there's so much I want to talk about.

Season 19 has been incredible.

Thank you so much to Jake of Strictly stalking for helping me kick off this season.

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