Hey, y'all. It's Lauren. And I will jump right to it. So like the title of this, I don't know,

mini episodes said, I am going to be putting the podcast on hiatus. I am somebody who hates change and gets freaked out by it. I assume some of you

are like that as well. So I wanted to just like talk through it, give a full transparent

explanation, explain everything that I know at the moment.

And just, yeah, I don't know.

I just, I wrestled so hard with like how to share this and I feel so awkward doing this.

I'm literally reading off like a bulleted list on my laptop because I want so much to say everything that's on my mind about it.

So, yeah, the first thing, I don't know for how long.

I want to be honest about that.

It's going to be going, I'm going to be starting the hiatus at the end of this month so

there will be two more episodes coming out um and uh I am not doing any kind of like a final episode

or anything like that because I cannot imagine a scenario where I don't do more episodes eventually. I don't know

what that will look like. I don't know if like if I bring the podcast back, like, do I do

that when I finally found someone who I feel like they would be a good co-host and it's like

another iteration of it. Or do I bring it back and it's no longer every week because that has

been so hard to do on my own? I don't know. Like do sporadic episodes. Again, I'm trying to be like super honest that I don't,

no answers to these questions at the moment. But what I do know is that I didn't do a final episode

because this is not, this is not like in ending. yeah i i i cannot imagine not doing some episodes during pride month

this june um you know there's always like national coming out day i can't imagine like not

releasing something for that um And just in general,

like, there are still so, there are so many more people who I want to speak to and more people's

stories that I want to tell. I get emails, it's literally, it's just about once a day, or at least

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