Episode 243: Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Whitney Call
Release Date: 11/04/2025
Episode 260: Big Ideas | Letting Go
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“The spiritualities of all great world religions teach us letting go, or how to step aside,” writes Richard Rohr. Letting go is an intentional process. We may let go of our emotional attachments, limiting beliefs, or past events. We may give up control, the need to be successful, or the need to be right. It’s an ongoing process of surrendering to what is, and adjusting accordingly. In Episode 260, Susan and Cynthia take on this big idea, a central theme in spiritual practice.
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Episode 259: What Do You Say? | 3 Conversations About Mysticism, Music, and Living in the Now
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In Episode 259, Susan and Cynthia ask Mer, Zinah, and Carol, What Do You Say? It's the second installment of ALSSI's wide-ranging conversations with wise Latter-day Saint women. Each guest answers randomly selected questions about their memories, insights, and beliefs through stories of their personal lives and experiences.
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Episode 258: Cynthia and Susan's Ragecast Potpourri
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ALSSI doesn’t usually focus on church announcements or events, but our conversations about Big Ideas do exist within the current context of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In Episode 258, Susan and Cynthia take a beat to discuss a few recent headlines and explore some questions raised by these changes.
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Episode 257: Big Ideas | The Beatitudes
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Is there a richer text for Christians than the Beatitudes? Yet we don’t all think or teach about them the same way. Many Latter-day Saints talk and teach about them as a list of saint-like attributes to which we should aspire, traits that will bring us closer to God and eventual exaltation. But Nadia Bolz-Weber suggests, “What if the Beatitudes aren’t about a list of conditions we should try to meet to be blessed? What if they are not virtues we should aspire to? What if Jesus saying ‘blessed are the meek’ is not instructive but performative—that the pronouncement of blessing is...
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Episode 256: Shadow Work | A Conversation with Jana Spangler
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Shadow Work is a phrase that gets a lot of airplay, but it can be hard to get your head around exactly what it means or how it can apply in your life. The “shadow” consists of unconscious, repressed, or hidden parts of our personality. So what might it mean to uncover, understand, and integrate our shadow self? How might this work affect our responses and relationships? “The human soul wants belonging, but the ego really doesn’t know how to give it to us. It just...helps us fit in. It helps us show up and be acceptable—and it thinks that hiding the shadow is the thing that’s going...
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Episode 255: What Do You Say? 3 Conversations About Spiritual Seeking, Being Forgotten, and Chasing Equality
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In Episode 255, Cynthia and Susan ask Aubrey Chaves, Debbie Squires-Coleman, and Darice Auston, "What Do You Say?" It's 3 wide-ranging conversations with wise Latter-day Saint women answering questions about their memories, insights, and beliefs through stories of their own lives and experiences.
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Episode 254: Big Ideas | Piety
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Does piety serve anything besides the ego? Is our piety an asset or a liability? And what are we—individually and collectively—getting from it? In Episode 254, Susan and Cynthia consider these questions and more in a conversation examining the piety that is a cultural hallmark of our church. For Latter-day Saints and other Christians, is a focus on outward appearances or superficial “churchiness” sometimes a stand-in for real inner transformation?
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Episode 253: Revisiting Purity Culture | A Conversation with C.A. Larson
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When Latter-day Saints hear the phrase “Purity Culture,” they may associate it more with evangelical churches than with our own. LDS talks and lessons focus on words like virtue, modesty, morality, and chastity to describe our ideals. But regardless of the specific words used, the messages are the same. Therapist C.A. Larson points out, “Purity culture is a moral control system that ties worth to sexual behavior, especially for women. [...] Purity culture in the LDS Church is institutional, enforced through interviews, modesty rules, and silence around consent.” In Episode 253,...
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Episode 252: Reclaiming Your Voice | A Conversation with Katie Ludlow Rich
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Many Latter-day Saint women feel some constraint when it comes to using our voices at church, but it can even be hard to express what we think, feel, and believe in our own homes or personal relationships. Writing down thoughts that don't fit neatly in the box and hitting publish can bring consequences, but once a woman begins to speak, she's likely to find the repercussions she feared were much bigger than the ones she'll actually face. In Episode 252, Susan and Cynthia are joined by writer and independent scholar Katie Ludlow Rich for a conversation about her personal journey to reclaim her...
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Episode 251: What Do You Say?
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For 6 years, Susan and Cynthia have been asking podcast guests, "What do you know?" In Season 11, they'll be asking a variety of Latter-day Saint women new questions about their memories, insights, and beliefs, with a card game called, What Do You Say? Episode 251 introduces the game as C & S break out the decks of cards for a fun and wide-ranging conversation of questions and answers.
info_outline Each Latter-day Saint’s path looks different, a combination of unique experiences, choices, and challenges. No matter how insistent our culture may sometimes feel, no woman fits in a mold. “I think my life began with holding dissonance,” explains comedian Whitney Call. “I grew up in a very faithful LDS family...but a little squidgy around the edges. We would go to church and activities every week, and we’d watch the Simpsons together on Sunday nights. We’d bear our testimonies to each other, and we used crude humor about sex.” In Episode 243, Cynthia and Susan are joined by Whitney for a wide-ranging conversation about all of it—how it started, how it’s going, and one thing she knows right now (or did at the time of recording).
CW: pornography, sexuality