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Hey, listener, it's me, Carol Fisher.

Just a heads up, this episode will contain spoilers for the Girlfriend season one and two.

So you you might want to make sure you've listened to both of those before listening to this one.

Also, a warning: we mentioned some distressing themes, including violence and abuse towards women.

And of course, you may hear some bad language from me.

Just typical.

First up, I want to start by saying thank you so much for all the love for the girlfriend since our second season season finished back in the summer of 2024.

It's just incredible to think that this crazy journey I've been on as a host, starting from one bad boyfriend, has come to an end.

I feel so grateful to have shared my story with you.

Telling the story of Gail Katz in season one and Heidi Balch in our second season has been the honor of my life.

These two women are the cornerstones of the Girlfriends and thanks to all of you, they will never be forgotten.

Today, The Girlfriends has become even bigger than Gail and Heidi's stories.

And what the brilliant production team has realized is that there's so many important stories out there.

Stories of incredible women who have fought injustice, they stood up for themselves and for others, making a real difference.

Girlfriends supporting one another.

And so I'm really excited to say that there's a a lot more of the girlfriends to come.

And I get to pass the baton to a new host, a new generation.

Well, sort of.

The new host is a girlfriend who we all know and love.

She's a beautiful human and my daughter in another life, my favorite vegan and superstar producer, Anna Sinfeld.

Hey, Anna.

Hi, Carol.

It's lovely to be back here with you.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe the band's back together.

And oh oh my gosh, I'm so excited for you.

Are you like freaking out?

Are you excited?

Tell me.

I am freaking out.

Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, I'm excited because being the new host means that the girlfriends is continuing.

But it's also, I mean, there's some pretty big shoes to fill.

Well, look, I'm only a size six and a half shoe, so you're going to be fine.

You can fill those easily.

You know, I am just, I got to tell you, I am so happy that you are going to keep this beautiful show going.

And I'm really proud of you for just growing from a producer to a host.

It's just amazing.

Thank you.

You know we built something together and I will never forget that that that was such a partnership between the two of us as well as Mindy and Elaine and everyone else who got on board for seasons one and two and as much as it's a strange transition to see that changing, it feels like the best way of honoring what we did together is to keep doing it, to keep our mission alive, which we agreed on at the beginning, which was to tell these amazing stories of how women are just more powerful together and can do amazing things.

And, you know, in so many situations where you interpret women as potentially losing in these true crime stories, we're telling the other side where they win.

Yeah.

I think you're going to love the shows.

I really do.

I think you're going to love what's to come.

Well, look, you can always count on me, Anna.

You know, I'm continuing my work as an ambassador with our charity partner from season one, no more.

I'm excited.

They do such incredible work

fighting to end domestic violence worldwide, and I'm really dedicated to helping them.

And I'm expanding my journey.

I'm doing keynote speaking now, and I'm continuing to do executive coaching.

And for those of you who want to keep up with me and my work, you can find me on social media.

Just search Carol A.

Fisher.

Make sure you grab the E at the end of Carol.

But enough about me.

I'm so curious.

What's coming up on the show?

What can we expect?

Well, you've got to get ready because we'll be bringing a lot of new stories.

That's the main claxon at the top of this: that the girlfriends is coming back with a vengeance.

So there'll be more stories like yours, Carol, and of course, Gail and Heidi's, these nice long narratives in which we follow one group of amazing women across multiple episodes as they come together and raise hell to make sure justice is served.

So I think you'll like those ones.

Definitely.

A couple of those are actually already in the works and they are some of the most fascinating and important as well stories that I've ever come across.

But we're also starting, and this is coming sooner, the Girlfriend Spotlight, which will arrive on the feed in April, so really soon.

And in every episode, I sit down with a different woman and talk to her about her own own amazing story.

And gosh, the stories that I've heard, Carol, they are incredible.

I love that.

You're really creating a space for women to have a voice.

Badass women.

And so I just think that's fabulous.

Anna, what are these individual stories going to be about?

Well, this is the coolest thing about it.

We have all of these wonderful but very different women to talk to.

Women from all over the world who've lived very different lives, but all of them embody the spirit of the girlfriends.

In their own way, they each transcend their circumstances and achieve something extraordinary.

For example, I speak to a woman who escaped a shadowy polygamous Mormon group.

This is Luanne.

I was approached to be married to my cousin slash nephew as his fourth wife.

I knew that it was going to happen with or without my consent.

I talked to a former detective who solved nearly 100 cold cases using this long-forgotten database of DNA evidence.

I had told my detectives when they first went there, make sure you tell these women that we've never forgotten you.

I meet an Indian financial journalist who uncovered one of the country's largest ever scams.

It was a big story to start with, but what it blew up into, that was unimaginable.

I chat to an incredible guitarist who toured the world with her all-female rock band in the 1970s, blowing sexist preconceptions out of the water.

I might as well have said we're gonna walk on the moon as say we're starting a band.

I mean, was that ridiculous, you know?

And I hear the inspiring story of a woman who turned a terrible tragedy into an amazing new life chapter, which took her all the way to the Paralympic Games.

I took my first shot, I hit the target, and I'm just like, oh my gosh,

I love this.

This is amazing.

And so, so many more.

It just sounds like a beautiful group, a great collection of women and their stories.

Yeah, it is.

I mean, it's been really inspiring and humbling and eye-opening hearing all of these women's voices coming together.

I mean, we have every kind of story imaginable.

I can't stress it enough.

But that's not all.

This time around, we also want to hear from you, our listeners, our girlfriends out in the wild.

Please send us voice notes and tell us small stories from your own lives.

Times when your own girlfriends had your back and lifted you up.

I'm thinking stories like the time a friend called you with a fake emergency when you're on a bad date, or when your bestie showed up with a week's worth of lasagna when you just had a baby.

Bless her.

They can be big or small, life-changing or everyday.

We'll play them out on the show here.

You can email them to thegirlfriends at novel.audio.

You are going big, Anna.

Yeah, we are.

So, Anna, when is the girlfriend spotlight starting?

Soon.

The first episode will be out on April 7th, right here in this feed.

And if you want to listen ad-free and one week early, you need to get yourself an iHeart True Crime Plus subscription, which is available exclusively on Apple Podcasts.

So, Carol, please, listeners, spread the word.

Let's make the Girlfriends Club bigger than ever.

Well, wait, are we done?

Yeah, so Vince really wants to go to Burning Man.

That's so fantastic.

Oh my God, it's so fucking Vince.

So then I start watching videos last night on Burning Man.

And I don't know if you know much about it.

Now I'm from Las Vegas Desert Community.

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