Monique LaBorde

Mm hmm. Another thing that has been so special about Betrayal and working on Betrayal is the community that's developing. I mean, from the people who write in to us and to our Gmail to the people who share their stories on the podcast, they're like a part of making this with us.

And as you know, some of our storytellers choose to receive listener mail and connect with people directly who want to share their story and connect with them over the phone. So it feels like there is a real community around this show.

And as you know, some of our storytellers choose to receive listener mail and connect with people directly who want to share their story and connect with them over the phone. So it feels like there is a real community around this show.

And as you know, some of our storytellers choose to receive listener mail and connect with people directly who want to share their story and connect with them over the phone. So it feels like there is a real community around this show.

Okay, let's get on to some listener questions. I want to start with like a rapid fire round of questions we've gotten a lot of. Okay. So first off, the question is, why do you mostly feature stories from women? Why are there so few men on Betrayal Weekly?

Okay, let's get on to some listener questions. I want to start with like a rapid fire round of questions we've gotten a lot of. Okay. So first off, the question is, why do you mostly feature stories from women? Why are there so few men on Betrayal Weekly?

Okay, let's get on to some listener questions. I want to start with like a rapid fire round of questions we've gotten a lot of. Okay. So first off, the question is, why do you mostly feature stories from women? Why are there so few men on Betrayal Weekly?

You know, what's interesting is that sometimes we get women writing in being like, I know a man who was betrayed, but it's not the man writing into us. Men do write into us. And we have featured a few stories from men on the weekly series. And some of those we had to go looking for, like Ramon Sosa. We had to intentionally find him because we didn't want to create a lineup of exclusively women.

You know, what's interesting is that sometimes we get women writing in being like, I know a man who was betrayed, but it's not the man writing into us. Men do write into us. And we have featured a few stories from men on the weekly series. And some of those we had to go looking for, like Ramon Sosa. We had to intentionally find him because we didn't want to create a lineup of exclusively women.

You know, what's interesting is that sometimes we get women writing in being like, I know a man who was betrayed, but it's not the man writing into us. Men do write into us. And we have featured a few stories from men on the weekly series. And some of those we had to go looking for, like Ramon Sosa. We had to intentionally find him because we didn't want to create a lineup of exclusively women.

But at the same time, there is something going on that's bigger than just our podcast and the selection for our podcast, which is I think that maybe there's more shame. Men have more shame about saying I was deceived. That might not be as common or as practiced for men.

But at the same time, there is something going on that's bigger than just our podcast and the selection for our podcast, which is I think that maybe there's more shame. Men have more shame about saying I was deceived. That might not be as common or as practiced for men.

But at the same time, there is something going on that's bigger than just our podcast and the selection for our podcast, which is I think that maybe there's more shame. Men have more shame about saying I was deceived. That might not be as common or as practiced for men.

Our next question is, do we vet people? Or similar question, how do we fact check these stories?

Our next question is, do we vet people? Or similar question, how do we fact check these stories?

Our next question is, do we vet people? Or similar question, how do we fact check these stories?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. So when we get a story that comes in through the inbox and we reach out to the person to talk for what we call a pre-interview, which is just not recorded, hearing a little bit about their story, one of the first things we ask is for documentation. And it's not that we don't believe them. In fact, a trauma-informed approach to this work is that we're approaching everyone in with belief.