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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed

in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,

get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

All right, Catherine, when I was reading like kind of a blur before you came on here,

some of like your experience and everything is just there's a lot you've done. You've clearly

niche yourself into this technology realm, this startup realm. Tell me a little bit about yourself

and like how you got into it before we get into the whole conversation around relationships

and finding a healthy one. So give yourself a little intro for us all.

Yeah, happy to and thanks so much for having me on today. So background has always kind of been

in technology and startups, early stage startups. I've been employing number five at technology

companies, mostly in the marketing and sales space. Okay, and so it was really through my own

experiences that kind of Garbo and my life came to be what it is today and in the intersection

of technology and gender-based violence. So I'm a multi-time survivor of gender-based violence

and it was really through a domestic violence relationship with someone I met on an online

dating app that really inspired my journey to make sure that what happened to me doesn't happen

to anyone else. So let's talk about that a little bit because when it comes to domestic violence

or like gender-based violence, that can kind of be like a bit of a broad spectrum. And you know,

this is, it's not something new, it's not something that's been introduced by technology by

any means, but it certainly is something that can potentially have some signs, some signals,

and so that regardless of how you know them, regardless if there's technology involved,

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