Brittani Ard
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87 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Brittani Ard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So many emails and messages of people that were so supportive and also felt comfortable and wanted to share their story. And that's really how this season two has developed. And so that part is wonderful. Spotify, I love Spotify. the comments on episodes because somebody can leave a comment, I can leave one reply, and then that's it. It's like internet gold.
And to the snarky ones, I usually am politely aggressive. if they were aggressive to start, which a lot of it is like, I hope you find something that you do enjoy listening to. There are so many options. One comment, one guy, my favorite one, he was like, I hate this show. I cannot figure out how to get it out of my playlist and all these like big long review.
And I was like, imagine taking the time to leave this comment instead of learning how to use your app. Yeah.
Unfollow the show. It's really not that complicated. So those ones drive me crazy. I did get in a Reddit rabbit hole. And I avoided it for a little bit. And then a couple people were saying things that were just wild assumptions that really sort of pissed me off. Like, I don't mind if people don't like me. I don't like misinformation that's based on assumptions.
You listen to a couple hours of my life, you don't know the whole story. You don't know me. I'm a high school dropout. I dropped out my sophomore year of high school. Everything that I have done has been literally built from zero dollars. My family moved here with zero dollars. in their stuff in their car and built everything. And I'm not saying that I don't live a lovely life now.
I built it and I have earned every fucking dollar. So my story isn't, there are millions and millions of stories that are so much worse in so many horrific ways. Share your story because somebody relates to you too.
Well, and one person, the review said, it sounds like this person is just telling their story, talking about themselves.
Actually the name of the show.
like it's meant to be like what was your first clue my face on the cover or like i was thinking about i'm like isn't that what most podcasts are this is something that is in this genre you know like this is something that is interesting to me and i want to share it do you find it interesting then listen and that's that's it and so um i will say that
Getting into this side of the world, I had the best entrance because it blew up, because it went viral. And so, yeah. You know, for it, which is why in season two, I'm sharing other people's stories because it is a big lift. And so it's like here I I can I do have a space now for other people to share their stories. And I I want to be able to continue that.
It's originally it was really overwhelming. It was amazing because I was getting messages of support and I, you know, related to this or I related to that or this made me feel a certain way about something else in their life. So and that's really why I told my story. So it was amazing. But then to read through hundreds and hundreds of these messages, especially when
Season one was being released because I was new to this and my story got harder and harder as the episodes went out. And so I'm processing myself, you know, what's happening. I talk to my therapist a lot about how I talk to listeners because I'm not a therapist. I cannot provide therapy. resources myself. I can be a space to share with.
You know, I can provide links and places where people can get resources. And so I love hearing the stories, but I can't fix the problems. I can just create a space where people can connect. And, and, and that's, it's, but it's really hard because I, um, I do video calls, um, 25 minute video calls with listeners.
Um, and it's, it's a lot, but I set it up so that I'm like a couple of days a week, I have a couple hours, you know, that I will do this. And, um, Very specific. I said and I had a long conversation about it, too, because I was like, you need to be in therapy because I'm I'm doing this, but she's editing this. I mean, she's going through and like, oh, here's. Here's how this goes.
It is a lot because it is this is it's heavy stuff. And I think it's really important to get it out there. And I, you know, until Sid and I don't whatever. Do you think I'll ever run out of something to say? Because I don't know. I always think I will. And then I and then I keep talking. But, you know, it's worth it to me. I think that you are moving the needle around.
on awareness in an abuse that is, as you said, grossly under reported and prosecuted. And it's just, it's not out there. And So it's hard and it's expensive, but I think it's worth it. And I think that there's so much power in this medium.
And it's scary. And I don't want anyone listening to be like, oh, my God, I don't want it. I don't want to jump into this. It sounds like so much.
2025.
In season two, we cover all sorts of different topics. We're not sticking with just dating or grief. We have domestic violence, sexual abuse,
um just regular old divorce life we span all topics and i'm excited to keep that going um i am working on turning this into a memoir so that there's more depth around season one and season two stories and you know a sunday dinner cookbook i'm super excited about but yeah and then we're gonna just see what happens and season five is
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