Episode 197: (Transcript) Season 8 | That's a Wrap!

Episode Transcript

Many thanks to listener, Juanita Verma, for her work in transcribing this episode!

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CW: Hello, 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 this week's episode is: “Season 8, That's a Wrap!” Welcome to our wrap party!

SH: Did you bring cake, Cynthia? I hope you did!

CW: I have peaches downstairs, so there's gonna be some kind of peach dessert today, so maybe a peach cake? I don't know!

SH: I am here for that.

CW: Anyway, we did it, Susan. We wrapped up another season. Hooray!

SH: Hooray!

CW: Cake all around, confetti all around! I'm excited as I've looked over our notes to see some of the things that we're going to be talking about today. But before we do that, can we just do a little bit of housekeeping for like three minutes up front?

SH: Sounds good.

CW: Yep. Okay. It's hard to believe that four and a half minutes in four and a half minutes (laugher while correction is made), four and a half years into this project.

SH: Did it go that fast, Cynthia? I don't think it did. I mean, it went

CW: fast, but four and a half minutes. But after four and a half years, there are still people who are like, I can't find the show notes.

And so people still don't know that we have a website. So people, when we say we'll put all this info in our show notes, what we mean is every show has notes that you can find on our website. We have every quote. We have, if we reference a book, we'll have a link to the book. I mean, Susan does amazing show notes.

She's the one that puts all the links in there. I think you go above and beyond, Susan, actually, so.

SH: Oh thank you. And what is our website, Cynthia?

CW: I guess we have to say that! www.atlastshesaidit.org

SH: Attlastshesaidit. org. Everything's there.

CW: Well, and hopefully, in the next few months, maybe by the time we come back for Season 9, it'll only be one website. We're doing our best, people. We've hired a techie person who knows what she's doing, and we're combining our two websites together. So, hopefully by the time we come back for Season 9, maybe? If people go to atlastshesaidit.org, Everything is in one place. So maybe that's the confusing part. Let's assume that.

SH: Okay, we'll assume that. But right now, it's all in both places. So either one you go to, you're gonna find the show notes.

CW: Yeah. What else Susan? What's our other housekeeping?

SH: More housekeeping would be our online event, which is coming, our fall gathering will be a virtual fall gathering this year for a variety of reasons. But one of them is we're making some lemonade out of some of the lemons that life has brought our way. And we're going to try something we've wanted to try anyway. And that is having an event that is available to all of our listeners, no matter where you are in the world.

So we're excited for the opportunity to share these amazing speakers that we have lined up for our event this year with everyone.

CW: Right. And that's October 12th. (2024)

SH: Right. So look for registration to be coming about September 1st, right? Yep. And then you'll be able to register for it and then when it gets a little closer to the event, the link will come to you and on October 12th, we're all going to be together online.

CW: I was also thinking too, Susan, because some people gave us a thumbs down when we decided to move it from an in person event to an online event. And I thought, well, I get that because part of the fun of getting together is meeting like-minded friends. And so we thought maybe once registration goes out there, maybe we could put a chat out on our sub stack we'll advertise it somehow. Maybe we'll put it in the newsletter. I don't know. We'll put some type of link to a chat where people can say, Hey, I'm in Seattle. Anyone want to go to dinner the night before? Right. So if October 12th is the day for our event, maybe Friday evening, October 11th, friends would want to meet up at, I don't know, to get an ice cream cone or something. So anyway, that would just be, that chat could be a good place where people could say, I'm in Seattle, I'm in Phoenix, I'm in London. Who wants to have a meetup the night before?

SH: I think that's a great idea. And then I'm going to wish I could be at all the meetups because that sounds really fun.

I'm going to miss seeing people in person. I can't lie. [00:05:00] I'm going to miss that. It's a lot of fun to get to put faces with names and things like that. But we hope that. People can also get excited about the idea that this will enable a lot more women to participate. So we're excited.

CW: How about we give a shout out to our team because it's not just you and me doing all of this work, Susan.

So something new we added this season we started offering transcripts. So many, many thanks for any volunteers who have helped make us sound a little smarter by cleaning up our transcripts and taking out and “ like, like, like, yeah”. So thanks to our volunteers who kind of clean them up. I mean, like we run them through like an AI transcript thingy and we're going to be paying somebody who's going to do that.

And then the volunteer kind of comes in at the last minute to clean them up. So thank you. Thank you volunteers for doing that.

SH: Yeah much appreciated.

CW: What about Say More? Who do you want to thank for that?

SH: Oh, I want to thank Blakelee because Blakelee has taken over editorial duties for Say More. She is an amazingly gifted curator and I don't know how we just lucked into Blakelee.

I mean, she's a woman of many talents because we've had her on an episode and She's amazing. She used to host our Ladies Night In gathering, so she's a terrific emcee. But also, who knew Blakelee has a knack for putting together these themed issues for Say More. And one of my great moments of this season was you and I were at dinner with a friend who brought his daughter along, who wanted us to meet his daughter because she had been a fan.

And she said to us during that meal, it's really Say More for me. The women's voices in that publication are making a place for me. And it just went like straight to my heart because I thought, “ this is it. This was the goal. This was my vision for Say More when we very first started talking about doing it and now it's happening”.