Episode 233 (Transcript): Embracing Your Journey | A Conversation with Jen Dille

Episode Transcript

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JD: You two have helped me so much. Like I know there was a season or two where you were like, ladies, find your voice. Listen to your inner knowing. And I remember having my headphones on and listening and feeling so small and so underdeveloped and in my head I’d kind of have a conversation with you and be like okay.

I can do it. I’ll listen to myself. Wait, could you just say that one more time? Could you say it like a thousand more times? Because I needed to hear it like a million times to have permission because I really needed a permission slip to dismantle the good girl voices in my head.

CW: Hello, I’m Cynthia Winward. And I’m Susan Hinkley. 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 Jen Dille. Welcome, Jen.

SH: Hi, Jen!

JD: Hi. Thank you. I’m so excited to be here with both of you.

CW: Well, Jen, we’re so excited to have you today. We’re excited to hear more about your journey. In many ways, I feel like Susan and I have interacted with you a lot lately, and we’ll get to that. But also I feel like we don’t know you terribly well, so I know Susan and I have said to each other, I am so excited ‘cause it’s like Christmas for us. We have no idea what packages we’re going to unwrap today with Jen.

SH: Exactly.

CW: So, yeah, we’re super excited. Thanks again for being here with us.

JD: Oh, thanks for having me. This is gonna be a treat.

CW: Well, Susan is going to lead our conversation today, so go ahead, Susan.

SH: All right. My pleasure. So, Jen, we have sort of retooled our questions that we usually use for these episodes, and you are the first one trying out the new set of questions.

So, we’re excited about that, but we wanna start where these interviews usually start, and that is with the beginning, kind of how it all started for you. Could you give us a sort of quick snapshot of your life as a Latter-day Saint?

JD: Yes. Thank you. This was really helpful for me to kind of go back to the foundation.

So I grew up in Mesa, Arizona. I was raised in the same ward my whole life, and I feel like I managed to find a way to be on the edge of inside and mainstream kind of all at the same time.

CW: Wow.