Episode 226 (Transcript): I Am a Woman of Faith | Tackling Imposter Syndrome

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CW: That reminds me of one of my favorite Rachel Held Evans quotes. I just read it the other day, where she said, “Grace is already out of hand when Jesus said, ‘Forgive them for they know not what they do.’”

Like it’s out of control with Jesus. Or at least when you switch to the Jesus that you just described, that's much different than the “Jesus of the contract” or the “quid pro quo Jesus”.

SH: Right. 

CW: Yeah. We really struggle with… let me personalize that. I really really struggled making that shift, but it had to be made, and it gave me my faith back, so I totally resonate with what you're saying.

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SH: Hello, I'm Susan Hinckley 

CW: And I am Cynthia Winward

SH: And this is At Last She Said It. We are women of faith discussing complicated things, and the title of today's episode is, “I Am a Woman of Faith - Tackling Imposter Syndrome”. Hello, Cynthia! Let's do it. 

CW: Are we qualified at all to talk about imposter syndrome? I would argue we actually are.

SH: I was just gonna say, who is more of an expert at imposter syndrome than I feel like I am. So yeah, we are. I mean, the greater question is, do we have any expertise to talk about faith? And I'm not totally sure about that, except for my own.

So let's start the conversation right there. Let's preface everything by saying we're just gonna talk about our own experiences. 

CW: That's what we're gonna do. Should we jump in? 

SH: Let's do it. 

CW: Well, we had our July book group, which can I just pause and actually give a quick advertisement? Our next book group is October 9th, and it's The Next Mormons by Jana Reiss.

And I just wanna say Lindsie and Shaless do the most amazing job running our book club. Even if you don't read the book. 

SH: They're so good. 

CW: They are so good. And I hate to admit, but there have been times where I haven't quite gotten to the book, or I haven't reread the book in years, and we show up and they put on the most amazing discussion.

So that's our plug. If you're looking for a little bit more community, go to our website and look up information there about our book group. So anyway, we had our July book group, we're on Zoom, and on that call one of the participants was lamenting that they had imposter syndrome now that they are navigating this big faith change. And then on another Zoom call (we actually attended someone else’s book group), one of the men on that call said that he really appreciated what you wrote in the book, Susan (I think it was your Metamorphosis chapter where you wrote about being a woman of faith?). And I just have been thinking about those two experiences.