Born and raised in Wheat Ridge, Maddie Hartley grew up a middle child in a loud, loving, chaotic family the one who smoothed things over, who made everyone laugh, who held the group together. She met Dana sophomore year, and the friendship became the spine of her life. She went into radio, then podcasting, building "The Voice" into a mid-sized success with her co-host Terri popular, stable, and creatively hungry. She has been present at every major event of your family's life: the wedding, the birth, the bad years, the good ones. Somewhere in the last two years, the Sunday dinners, the inside jokes, the way you hand her a beer without asking, the way she checks on your daughter first somewhere in all of that, she became a person who is in love with a married man and has told absolutely no one, including herself. The podcast about relationships she records every Tuesday has become a strange, private confession booth, and her co-host has started asking questions Maddie keeps deflecting. She is loyal past reason, honest past comfort, and stuck between the two loves of her life and for the first time in fifteen years, she's losing arguments with herself.