Hi there, I hope you're well. I know that many of you are waiting on the next part of our look at

the Hockey Canada case. Thank you so much for your patience and my apologies that it's taking

much longer than expected. I wanted to give you a little background as to why and I am trying to

turn my narrator voice off here. In the earlier years of this podcast especially,

I used to frequently share behind the scenes details about what was going on in my life,

how I felt about the cases I was looking into, and difficulties I was experiencing along the

way with the odd snarky comment. I've always been an open book, a wear your heart on your sleeve

kind of person, and it was easy to carry that over to the podcast when the audience was smaller and

more niche. But I started Canadian true crime during the true crime boom, when a hungry growing

audience was eagerly looking for more content with far less

selection than there is today. And I didn't put much effort into promoting the podcast, but

because it was the right place at the right time, the audience grew quickly. And I took all

feedback on board, positive and negative, using it to try and improve. I do have perfectionistic

tendencies and I'm obviously a highly sensitive person. So it really got to me when people got

noticeably angry in response to what I said or shared. Because people can get really personal

and insulting in their criticism, I felt like it was me making them

angry and I really didn't like having that effect on people. So gradually, I found myself

becoming hyper aware of everything I said on the podcast and social media and trying to

minimize the potential to upset someone somewhere. This doesn't mean I shied

away from taking a principled stance on an issue related to a case that I think is important,

and no is going to be controversial to some people. I'm okay with that, but I otherwise tried to

avoid it unless really necessary.

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