TW: Mentions of eating disorders & addiction Sammi's BFF Lily joins us to share her story & give a little insight on the church's health code ✨The Word of Wisdom✨Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

TW: As many of you know, General Conference is pretty jam-packed with content that can be quite triggering in various ways. Please take care to only listen if you're in a good headspace and allow yourself time to process if needed. We're here for you. 2/2 - We did some digging through the talks given at the church's Semi-Annual General Conference t…

TW: As many of you know, General Conference is pretty jam-packed with content that can be quite triggering in various ways. Please take care to only listen if you're in a good headspace and allow yourself time to process if needed. We're here for you. 1/2 - We did some digging through the talks given at the church's Semi-Annual General Conference l…

TW - Mentions of racism and suicide Our special guest Daryl shares his story of traveling hours with his family to participate in the church in rural Australia as a child. After raising children in the church, his move to the USA, and marriage to a Never-Mo, started his questioning & eventual exit from the church.…

TW: Discussion of transphobia & homophobia. The church recently made a policy change around transgender people and their involvement in the church. We're here to fill you in and rage about it.Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

TW: Mentions of sexual assault, abuse, neglect, and suicide. Part 3/3 - Alice wraps up her story by sharing how she discovered her gender identity and sexuality, and what it took to accept herself despite religious conditioning and opposition from family.Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

TW: Mentions of sexual assault, abuse, neglect, and suicide. Part 2/3 - Our guest Alice continues her story of clinging to religion even while questioning it as she faces hardships that no one should have to face.Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

TW: Mentions of sexual assault, abuse, neglect, and suicide. Part 1/3 - Our guest Alice shares her story of growing up in an rigid Protestant household and what it was like to start questioning everything she believed after having an honest chat with an atheist.Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

A continuation of last week's episode, we continue to explain the ins-and-outs of Mormon terminology. We're still blown away at how long this took us to record! And I'm sure we'll think of other random words as we keep creating content for our lovely listeners!Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

There's a whole long list of words that are exclusive to/have exclusive meanings in the Mormon Church! We're here to make sense of it all! Stay tuned for part two!! When we say there are a LOT of words, we mean A LOT!!Por Sammi Earnest & Karina Vance

TW: Mentions of suicide -- we give a trigger warning for potential mentions of self harm and eating disorders in the recording as well, but those topics did not come up. Devyn, OUR FIRST GUEST EVER, shares her experience converting to Mormonism during her young adulthood just to be immediately blindsided by things that are kept "hush-hush" in the c…

Last week's episode was HEAVY, so we're here to bring you some more lighthearted, hilarious content as we talk about a bunch of random, super cringey things we experienced as youth in the Mormon church. More to come ;) Be on the lookout for PART TWO. We referenced a song in the episode, but couldn't remember who it was by. It's Everclean/Sons of Pr…

TW: Mentions of homophobia, transphobia, self-harm, and suicide Being queer and Mormon is a TRIP! Things that leaders of the Mormon church have said about being gay are absolutely horrendous and beyond damaging...and we're about to talk about it! Sources: 1. https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/official-statement/same-gender-attraction#:~:text=…

Sammi shares what it's like being deeply invested in the church just to realize that you can't stand by the beliefs and history that you spent your whole life defending. CES Letter (print): https://cesletter.org/ CES Letter (audio): https://archive.org/details/CESletter Note: We are not experts--we are just humans with real-life experience.…

TW: Mentions of sexual assault, self-harm, and suicide. Karina shares her story of growing up in Mormonism and what it's like realizing that your whole life has been a lie. CES Letter (print): https://cesletter.org/ CES Letter (audio): https://archive.org/details/CESletter Note: We are not experts--we are just humans with real-life experience.…