About Us

“Someone should do a podcast about that.”

And so we did. After saying it in conversation a thousand times to each other, we decided it was time to finally say some of what we needed to hear out loud. We hope these podcast conversations can help women feel connected to one another. So often thoughts, feelings, and experiences—some particular to the complex lives of Mormon women—remain unspoken or unacknowledged at church. Through conversations with each other and selected guests, we seek to amplify and explore a variety of voices, stories, ideas and experiences of women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We hope you’ll join us, and share your own.

Cynthia Winward makes her home in Provo, Utah although she will always be a California girl. Before pouring all her creative energy into the podcast, she put her business management degree from Brigham Young University to good use as the owner of an online embroidery business. She’s been studying Spanish for several years as she tries to catch up to her Mexican heritage. She may not have learned Spanish from her parents, but her mamá did teach her to make the world’s greatest red chile enchiladas, which she enjoys making for her friends and family. She prefers salty over sweet, TV over movies, and early mornings over late nights. She is enjoying the good life as an empty nester with her husband Paul.

Susan M. Hinckley is a storyteller in words and pictures. She’s every character in her webcomic Gray Area, and a Creative Writing graduate of the University of Utah. She spent her pre-ALSSI life exhibiting with the American Craft Council, creating art for books, magazines and private collectors across the US. Her essays have appeared in Exponent II, Dialogue, and Sunstone magazines. She’ll drive any distance for good green chile, the right bakery, or a glimpse of her grandkids. She splits her time between the midwest and the southwest, but wherever she is, her heart roams the desert. Preferably in a fast convertible.