Episode 192 (Transcript): Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Anne Pimentel

Episode Transcript

Many thanks to listener, Emily Wadley, for her work in transcribing this episode!

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CW: Hi, I'm Cynthia Winward. 

SH: And I'm Susan Hinckley. 

CW: And this is At Last She Said It. We are women of faith discussing complicated things, and the title of today's episode is “Embracing Your Journey: A conversation with Anne Pimentel”.

Welcome, Anne. 

SH: Hi, Anne. 

AP: Hi, thanks for having me. 

CW: We're super glad to have you today for this Embracing Your Journey episode. They are, I know personally, some of my favorites and I think yours as well, Susan, because we just love to hear from women who are just like us, who have all the same things, not the same things necessarily, but we love so much about our church and it's also very complicated with the things that we struggle with.

So, before Susan jumps in and leads us through this conversation, Anne, can you go ahead and just give us a quick little snapshot of your life, anything that kind of would give us context for our conversation today? 

AP: Yeah. I grew up in Utah, in Utah Valley. I've been a member my whole life. I am one of the founding members of Meeting House Mosaic. We're a nonprofit trying to diversify Christian art. We uplift or amplify artists of color and we educate on why diversity is important and encourage members to use diverse art in their homes or in lessons or wherever they can. I also run the account called The Vision Beautiful on Instagram.

I post three times a week; I do Heavenly Mother Monday, Empower Women Wednesday, and Fundamental Rights Friday. So, those are my passions and so I started an account about them. Why not? 

SH: We're going to want links to those things so that we can put them in our show notes and our listeners will be able to find you.

AP: Awesome. I also just finished writing a book with McArthur Krishna. It will be coming out next March. And it's about women, LDS women through history that have been change makers and have left an impact or a lasting change on the church. And then I am married, and I live with my four boys, they're ages 15 down to six. So,it's a full life.

SH: You are doing the Lord's work raising boys. My daughter once said to me, she has boys and she said, “Oh no, I'm perpetuating the problem”. And I said, “you're raising the solution”. So that's what you're doing, Anne.

AP: That’s what I hope for.

SH: And thank you for that. 

CW: Well, Susan, how about you take it away and ask all our famous questions that we love to ask women when we have these types of episodes.

SH: All right, let's do it. Anne, we kind of ask a ridiculous question at the beginning, which would be a 30,000 foot view, glimpse of your Mormon life. What can you tell us, maybe memorable experiences that you've had, things that have given shape to your life as a Latter-day Saint woman, just to situate you for our listeners and give some context to the conversation. 

AP: Yeah. Like I said, I grew up in Utah Valley and I think I had a very typical Mormon girl childhood. I don't want to call myself a Molly Mormon, but I was a good Mormon girl. And I had great friends. We grew up in the same area from elementary on through high school and we still hang out today.