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- Lyndsay Soprano (00:01.464) Season four, season four. How is it possible I'm opening season four? Big, huge, ginormous things are happening here, guys. my goodness gracious. And you know, when I started this thing here, I had zero clue that I would end up falling in love with every single one of you. You have seriously turned my life upside down and all around. And I love every moment of it. no matter how difficult some of our conversations are and have been. And you also have helped me stay hopeful too. And that is incredibly powerful for me. And one of the reasons that I get out of bed every day is for you guys. So thank you for being here for me. So season three was a beautiful whirlwind of amazing. my goodness. I had some of the most powerful soul shaking. sets of conversations that I've ever had in my life. It wasn't about fixing pain. It was about facing it. It was about naming it, surviving it, refusing it to refute and refusing to let it be the end of our stories. So if you didn't catch season three, you must play a little catch up. Don't go all the way back to season one. That is a not a completely different show, but it's definitely different than where we are now. So Catch up on season three if you have it and get ready for what we've got going on. So I went back and forth on how I wanted to open season four, down to what did I wanna wear? What kind of lip gloss did I wanna wear? No, it wasn't that big of a deal, but I am wearing a sparkly tank top today for you guys. But I almost opened up with like a full blown Lindsay meltdown about the non-United States of America. And then I thought, I am not giving that guy any more air time. Even in the midst of all the stuff that we're dealing with right now in our country and in the globe. I mean, what's a little bit of a war for you when we, know, said we weren't gonna get into those things ever again, but what do I know? Then I was thinking, okay, let me break down some of the episodes from season three and talk about my favorite guests. And then that was out. And I just went back and forth on how I wanted to do this thing. Lyndsay Soprano (02:23.15) And then after 32,000 glasses of Prosecco, gratefulness poured in. And 2025, know, guys, was a tough year for all of us in one way or another, but man, I still am grateful for it, no matter what it dished out. And, you know, I've got big VIP kind of gratefulness things that I can talk about here real quick that I wanna celebrate with you guys, because if you've been listening to the show, You followed me through all of this stuff. finally moved into our new home after a year and a half of construction. I got to marry my sweetie after another 32,000 glasses of Prosecco up in almost a decade of time in a castle in Verona, Italy. Finally, I tossed out people and things from my life that no longer served me. I established a mountain of boundaries and my goodness, certainly I'm working on establishing some more. My God, is that ever hard. It makes me feel as a people pleaser that I am going to lose those people in my life if I boundary them. And that has actually been the case in some instances, which supports the I tossed out people and things for my life that no longer serve me, right? I am much more resilient. I am a stronger interviewer. but I also am a better listener. I've learned to say yes in places that I should and no in places that I absolutely should be saying no to. I've learned to appreciate small wins and not lose hope when I don't win the big ones. I give myself more grace. I have more patience. I mean, let's be real, most days, some of you guys know who I'm married to, so. And now I have a community that I can always count on and that's you So ask yourself right now really quick. What are you grateful for right now in this moment? It can be the car that you're driving in it could be the 17 item Starbucks coffee that you're drinking right now It could be anything that you're grateful for we always have something to be grateful for and sometimes in our darkest moments It's harder for us Lyndsay Soprano (04:40.92) to be grateful. And I certainly understand that from a pain perspective because living in pain the way that I do and show up the way that I do is getting harder and harder each day and taking longer to accomplish the things that I want to accomplish. My focus is not as good as it once was. And so I'm battling all these different things on top of trying to like be the stellar personality that's got all this, all this. energy and all this love and all this might and wants to do all of these things but her body is like nope and I keep having to tell her Thelma, Louise, get your shit together. And that is what we do every day here, right? So as I was planning this next season, I asked myself, how can I level up? How can I truly help others in more ways? How can I be a rock for my listeners and guests when some days I Basically, I'm just a marshmallow person. How can I keep giving pain purpose and offer a new lens on stories we too quickly forget? So for season four, I've turned toward true crime, but not in the way that you might expect. guys. This isn't A and E, you know? This isn't Dateline. This isn't about sensationalized cases or shock value. I don't want to retell crimes. What I do want to do is talk to the people living in the aftermath of crimes, the survivors, the families of those lost, and also the professionals who've walked through these stories differently. crime scene investigators, forensic psychologists, medical examiners, prosecutors, defense attorneys, all of that, all of those people who've had to process trauma from the inside out. So I wanna know what happens when the news cycle moves on. right? How do survivors rebuild their lives after these horrific things that happen? to their daughters, their spouses, it's unbelievable what people get through, their resilience. How do professionals who face the darkest corners of humanity every day keep going and what toll does this take on their health? Lyndsay Soprano (07:05.666) their body, their mind, their spirit. This is what I wanna know. And so in this season, we will sit with those answers. We're gonna talk about survival, chronic illness, grief, resilience. I've used that word like seven times already, guys. Don't fact check me on that, it might be six. And what it means to keep living after the unimaginable, because behind every headline is a human story and pain. that deserves purpose. So I'm here to honor and celebrate these stories, their work, their missions, their losses, their wins, and you. It's in the aftermath that we can work together to heal and have hope together. And also, you know, I want to find some peace for all of us as we all battle through what we are faced with, whether outspoken about it or those of us who are still suffering in silence. God, we've all been there. I certainly have. I did it for way too long until I started this little puppy here. Because when these headlines fade, the pain doesn't. So put your big girl panties on, guys, because get ready for conversations that are from a young journalist, for example, who lost her dad in a mass shooting to a gal working in a nonprofit. for underage teen sex trafficking, to an Alaskan detective in the freezing tundra of sex crimes, to romance and dating fraud, a crime reporter becoming the headline, and much, much more. And we have much more coming to you besides the big show. We are launching our Giving Pain Purpose merch store and also launching an online community built for women, for women. called the Pain Hub. And it's something you cannot find anywhere else. So stick with me and the PGP, that's Pain Game podcast team. We will not disappoint. Well, we haven't so far. So let's just keep the ball going. But I do ask you this, get more engaged with us on social this season. Share more, review more, help us help others that need to hear these conversations. Lyndsay Soprano (09:31.34) share them with your loved ones. Don't be scared to share. If somebody doesn't wanna listen, they don't have to. But keep sharing, keep sending the love, keep sending the DMs, keep getting engaged, just raise the bar even more, let's all level up together in the Pain Game Podcast world for season four. So get ready guys, it's gonna be a doozy. You are exclusively invited to share this new season, The Aftermath. VIP pain journey together. Let's get to the heart of how to heal with you by my side. Please follow the pain game podcast wherever you digest your podcast content. We will be there. Visit us at thepaingamepodcast.com and follow us on all the socials. Thanks for listening my little VIPs. Catch you on the other side.