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Hey. This is Kate… 

This is a podcast about how we become who we are — about making just about anything sound normal, from PTSD to podcasting to serial murder. It’s about people’s stories. Are you sure you want to know?

I spent my entire professional life in the fields of mental health and criminal justice. My favourite, hardest and most important work was specifically in the fields of correctional psych, forensic psych, and crisis assessment.

I grew up in upstate New York, and went to college near the Canadian border; my first psych internship was immediately next to the bridge between Ogdensburg, NY and Johnstown, ON. After that, I studied criminal justice and mental health counselling in Boston then spent several years in New Hampshire. I’ve worked in the NH State Prison system, a couple of different locked psychiatric facilities, and then several emergency rooms and eventually all manner of community settings.

I broke my back in 2014, and while I can move around a whole lot better than I could then, I’m still often stuck, as an acquaintance once pointed out, sitting on my couch listening to true crime podcasts all day. One thing I’ve noticed is that, quite often, I would hear someone ask, “But why would he do that?” or, “How could that happen?” or, my personal favourite, “Well, that’s crazy. That could never happen to me.” After a while of talking back, alone, long after they had moved on to new things, I decided to give this podcasting thing a try, myself. 

I do give some background, of course, but I’m not trying to create a deep-dive, detailed, narrative-style podcast. That has already been done, brilliantly, by so many people I admire. I can’t see any reason to try and compete with them, or even just add to the noise when I already cannot find enough hours in the day to listen to everything I’d like to hear. My goal, instead, is to try and answer some of those questions, at least from my perspective. I don’t pretend to have all, or even most, of the answers… but I can usually come up with one or two.

Over time, the focus of my show has widened to include the normal, the average, the ordinary, that all of us can understand… but we continue to think of ourselves as somehow screwed up, weird, wrong. We’re not. You’re not. Honest.

Just make sure you want to know. Because the most important certainty I carry, from all my time working with inmates and patients and onlookers, is that the only real difference between “us” and “them” is a key. And that everything we experience, from crippling anxiety to serial murder, is maybe not rational, but there is a logic to it. I can make things understandable.

And once you learn just how easy it can be to fall into the darker parts of life, you might think,”…I felt better before I knew that.”

 

Because sometimes… Ignorance Was Bliss.

 

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Invest In Yourself: the Podcast Series is the second show under the Invest In Yourself Podcast brand created by Podcast Mogul Phil Better. After the Award-Winning Success of the first Invest In Yourself Podcast, Phil was flooded with private messages from Podcasters from around the world asking for help with their Podcast. 

Knowing to when Capitalize on a good thing Phil decided to create a live case study on his Facebook to prove that his 30-day launch method can help you hit the top of the charts. Join him as he shows you what he does to launch his client’s podcast into the Top 10 on Apple’s podcast Charta!

You can join him every weekday live on his Facebook at 5:30 pm EST!

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Phil started his 2nd podcast called: Invest In Yourself: A Digital Entrepreneur Podcast to learn how to become an Entrepreneur.  To date he has: 

👉 Interviewed 100 successful Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and Influencers, 

👉 Invited to Media events like Startup SuperCup in Sarlat France.

👉 Created his own Business Phil Better Inc to become a digital entrepreneur himself.

Phil sign Lloyd Ross, Money Mentor to produce his Money Grows on Trees: The Podcast which 

👉 Sits at number 24 all-time in Australia for the How-to category after only 4 weeks!

👉 #1 ranked podcast in Iceland, Australia in the How To category.

👉 50% increase in downloads week to week 

Spurred on by the success of his client, Phil signed his second and third Podcasting clients the 1,2 with Kendrick and James for the NSPN NexGen Sports network and helping Sarlat Rugby in France to create a network for their sports team.

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Learn about his business on his Website: www.PhilBetterinc.com