Hi everyone. Well, I have made it to episode 100 and I feel like I should say a few words.

If you just want to skip straight to the episode, just fast forward about three minutes.

Firstly, thank you so much for listening and for your support and messages and ratings and reviews

over the past few years. I never thought that I would make it this far and I certainly wouldn't

have if I hadn't had you tuning in for each episode. When I look back, I can't believe how far I've

come. This podcast was a creative project just for me. But with luck and timing on my side, it took off

and now, almost five years later, Canadian true crime episodes have been

downloaded around 45 million times. The podcast is still my passion project, but I still

struggle with it immensely. In many ways, I was naive when I started this podcast, and there were

a lot of things that I didn't prepare for or even think about. The biggest

is the great weight of responsibility I feel to tell true crime stories in a way that's

empathetic and informative and minimizes negative impact. It's not something that I take lightly

or for granted. I also struggle with always being in my own head. I have perfectionist tendencies.

I have imposter syndrome where I feel like I'm a fraud and I shouldn't be in the space. And because I'm

highly introverted and pretty easily overstimulated, I've become quite reclusive because of the

attention, whether it be positive or negative. I'm

uncomfortable with it. And let's not even talk about depression and burnout and the general

disillusionment with this world that we've all experienced during the pandemic. So why am I

telling you all of this? Well, we're in a culture where we're supposed to project success.

And right now, we're getting some freedoms back that we lost during the pandemic and we're

supposed to act like everything is fine and normal. And you know, we're all settling in well to

this new world and society that we've found ourselves in. But I don't think anybody really is

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