At Last She Said It is a podcast that seeks to amplify and explore a variety of voices, stories, ideas and experiences of Mormon women.
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Sep 29, 2026 · 1:11:57
It's a commonly stated idea that politics and religion don't mix, but for many Latter-day Saints it seems there's no separating the two. And this fuzzy boundary extends beyond…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:14:45
In Episode 273, Susan and Cynthia ask Mary, Laura, and Evann, What Do You Say? It's Season 12's first installment of ALSSI's series of conversations with Latter-day Saint women…
Sep 15, 2026 · 1:20:00
Dr. Jana Riess of Religion News Service published an article recently asking, "Why are young women leaving Mormonism?" It's a great question, and one we could ask about every age…
Sep 8, 2026 · 1:17:29
Do Latter-day Saints believe our own stuff about faith? How does it differ from all the other words we sometimes get it tangled up with? What role is it meant to play in our…
Aug 11, 2026 · 1:08:18
What do women do with Christianity? While some experiences may be specific to Latter-day Saints, when we talk to women in other churches we find a surprisingly big overlap: our…
Jun 30, 2026 · 51:27
One of the hallmarks of a Big Idea is that there's always more to say about it! In bonus Episode 269, Cynthia and Susan have conversations with 3 women from the ALSSI…
Jun 16, 2026 · 1:11:59
One of the hallmarks of a big idea is that it's connected to so many others. In Episode 268, Susan and Cynthia revisit the Big Idea episodes that formed the theme of ALSSI Season…
Jun 9, 2026 · 1:19:07
In Episode 267, Susan and Cynthia ask Jen, Jessie, and Anne, What Do You Say? It's the fifth installment of ALSSI's series of episodes involving questions, answers, and the…
Jun 2, 2026 · 1:17:32
What would a generative day—one that might throw off energy into the rest of your life—look like? In Episode 266, Susan and Cynthia take on the concept of Sabbath. It's a…
May 26, 2026 · 1:01:12
Vocation at its deepest level is "something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself, but are nonetheless compelling."…
May 19, 2026 · 1:17:47
What do you think of when you hear the word 'myth?' You might use it to describe the opposite of what is real or factual, maybe a widely held but false belief. However, sacred…
May 12, 2026 · 1:20:27
In Episode 263, Cynthia and Susan ask Stephenie, Blakelee, and Tedi, What Do You Say? It's the fourth installment of ALSSI's conversations-about-everything with wise women. Three…
May 5, 2026 · 1:20:16
We all know change can be hard, but what about changing our own thinking? Can the discomfort associated with conflicting ideas keep us from fully engaging with them, or prevent…
Apr 28, 2026 · 1:07:29
Some things in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seem to be changing more regularly than they have in the past. Many members have lived through decades where it…
Apr 21, 2026 · 1:14:51
"The spiritualities of all great world religions teach us letting go, or how to step aside," writes Richard Rohr. Letting go is an intentional process. We may let go of our…
Apr 14, 2026 · 1:14:22
In Episode 259, Susan and Cynthia ask Mer, Zinah, and Carol, What Do You Say? It's the third installment of ALSSI's wide-ranging conversations with wise Latter-day Saint women.…
Apr 7, 2026 · 1:13:20
ALSSI doesn't usually focus on church announcements or events, but our conversations about Big Ideas do exist within the current context of The Church of Jesus Christ of…
Mar 31, 2026 · 1:09:06
Is there a richer text for Christians than the Beatitudes? Yet we don't all think or teach about them the same way. Many Latter-day Saints talk and teach about them as a list of…
Mar 24, 2026 · 1:15:24
Shadow Work is a phrase that gets a lot of airplay, but it can be hard to get your head around exactly what it means or how it can apply in your life. The "shadow" consists of…
Mar 17, 2026 · 1:11:23
In Episode 255, Cynthia and Susan ask Aubrey Chaves, Debbie Squires-Coleman, and Darice Auston, "What Do You Say?" It's 3 wide-ranging conversations with wise Latter-day Saint…
Mar 10, 2026 · 1:18:16
Does piety serve anything besides the ego? Is our piety an asset or a liability? And what are we—individually and collectively—getting from it? In Episode 254, Susan and Cynthia…
Mar 3, 2026 · 1:29:46
When Latter-day Saints hear the phrase "Purity Culture," they may associate it more with evangelical churches than with our own. LDS talks and lessons focus on words like virtue,…
Feb 24, 2026 · 1:08:45
Many Latter-day Saint women feel some constraint when it comes to using our voices at church, but it can even be hard to express what we think, feel, and believe in our own homes…
Feb 17, 2026 · 55:49
For 6 years, Susan and Cynthia have been asking podcast guests, "What do you know?" In Season 11, they'll be asking a variety of Latter-day Saint women new questions about their…
Feb 10, 2026 · 1:15:46
How do you feel about sin? Richard Rohr describes our inevitable human missteps as essential to our growth when he says, "Not doing it right seems to teach us much more than…
Feb 3, 2026 · 1:11:16
Latter-day Saints consider ours to be a non-credal religion, yet nearly all our Articles of Faith begin with the phrase, "We believe...." We're asked questions about our specific…
Dec 16, 2025 · 1:16:11
Latter-day Saints are often told that the contemporary Church is built on the same model Jesus Christ used to establish His church. In this bonus re-release, Cynthia and Susan…
Nov 25, 2025 · 1:12:22
Curiosity should feel foundational for Latter-day Saints—it's the birthplace of our religious tradition. Any member of the Church can recite the story of young Joseph Smith…
Nov 18, 2025 · 1:13:37
In a podcast season devoted to talking about change, it makes sense to revisit some previously covered topics to see whether there's been any. In Episode 246, Cynthia and Susan…
Nov 13, 2025 · 1:05:14
Every four years, D&C 132 comes around for study again. If you ask a Latter-day Saint woman what she keeps on her metaphorical faith "shelf," there's a good chance polygamy will…
Nov 11, 2025 · 1:15:37
Though Section 89 of the Doctrine & Covenants describes itself as a "principle with promise," "to be sent by greeting, not by commandment or constraint," contemporary Church…
Nov 4, 2025 · 1:18:02
Each Latter-day Saint's path looks different, a combination of unique experiences, choices, and challenges. No matter how insistent our culture may sometimes feel, no woman fits…
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:12:31
No matter what language we use to describe the Divine, for spiritual seekers the hope is that our understanding and connection will continue to expand and deepen. As Richard Rohr…
Oct 21, 2025 · 1:13:51
Was Joseph Smith a mystic? Searching for the term 'mysticism' on the Church website yields, "See: False Doctrine, Sorcery, Superstitions; Traditions of Men." So it's no wonder…
Oct 17, 2025 · 19:52
We can't get enough of these stories! Bonus Episode 240 features more ALSSI listeners answering the question, "What triggered your faith journey?"
Oct 14, 2025 · 1:00:11
"Differentiation of self is being a unique individual while maintaining connection with people you love," explains Dr. Julie Hanks. "We've been trained, particularly as women, to…
Oct 7, 2025 · 1:00:45
"With always wanting to do the right things, take care of people, and people please, this set me up perfectly to be an all-in member. Doing the formula. Hustling! I was married…
Sep 30, 2025 · 1:08:04
"There's no roadmap for how to do partnership in patriarchy, at least within our little Mormon frame of reference," explains Christine Pagano. "Patriarchy believes that men's…
Sep 23, 2025 · 1:07:05
It seems Latter-day Saints most often speak about resurrection in the literal sense: the reuniting of spirit and body. Jesus rising from the tomb holds promise for us after our…
Sep 16, 2025 · 1:03:05
"In all my angst about if I would marry and if I would have children and if I would have a career, I did not fully consider how the ideals in this proclamation from The Church of…
Sep 12, 2025 · 20:05
We asked, you answered! In Bonus Episode 234, more women from the ALSSI community share their stories in response to the question: What triggered your faith journey?
Sep 9, 2025 · 1:12:01
"Deconstruction doesn't just happen to lazy learners," says Jen Dille. "It's often the most true-blue Mormons and the people who are all in who have this experience." In episode…
Sep 2, 2025 · 1:02:24
Diana Butler Bass wrote, "To belong is to be, for belonging is ultimately a question of identity: Who am I?" For many Latter-day Saint women, a place where they can just…
Aug 29, 2025 · 18:22
What triggered your faith journey? In this short bonus episode, more women from the ALSSI community share their answers!
Aug 26, 2025 · 1:05:09
"I can take as long as I need on the edge of the chasm of the unknown," writes Jody England Hansen. "I can experience the terror of moving into the future for however long I feel…
Aug 19, 2025 · 1:03:17
How can we know if we're getting it right when it comes to meeting others with empathy? "Empathy is a tool of compassion," writes Brene Brown. "We can respond empathically only…
Aug 12, 2025 · 1:14:12
For many Latter-day Saint women, a faith journey begins as their personal experiences pile up and dots begin to connect. Abby Maxwell Hansen began to see a thread of internalized…
Aug 8, 2025 · 14:08
What triggered your faith journey? In Bonus Episode 227, 10 women share their answers.
Aug 5, 2025 · 1:08:57
Sometimes it's hard to untangle specific beliefs from our ideas about faith. Is struggling with church policies or doctrinal tenets an indictment of a Latter-day Saint woman's…
Jul 29, 2025 · 1:04:21
"I have always felt the gentle nature of Jesus being one of the most resonating parts of what I saw and knew as the gospel, and I always imagined Jesus speaking to me, saying,…
Jul 22, 2025 · 1:05:49
Maya Angelou said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." When things start to get shifty in your faith life, it can feel overwhelming and difficult…
Jul 15, 2025 · 1:16:59
"There is hope in the certainty that things do change," writes Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg. But there is also real anxiety in the certainty that things do change. Change is…
Jun 17, 2025 · 1:04:35
In this bonus episode, Susan and Cynthia share and discuss a few voicemails from the ALSSI mailbag. The male gaze, sad heaven, organizational/prophetic focus, sealing policy, and…
Jun 3, 2025 · 1:21:50
TW: Emotional Abuse and Physical Abuse Members of the Church don't talk much about polygamy, but isn't it time we did? After all, it continues to haunt our family trees, our…
Apr 15, 2025 · 1:26:48
How much in the Church is still, in 2025, coming to us through the male lens? Pretty much all of it. Our scriptures, doctrine, ward boundaries, curriculum, conference talks,…
Apr 8, 2025 · 1:21:12
Linda Hamilton explains, "I spent my whole life believing that spirituality was in big things. Visions from heaven, angels, signs. We always say in Mormonism, don't wait for a…
Apr 1, 2025 · 1:29:27
Therapist C.A. Larson defines a high-demand religion as "a religious group that exerts significant control over its members' beliefs, behaviors, and daily lives. These groups…
Mar 25, 2025 · 1:05:25
"We have direct access to light and knowledge and power, and we have the right—the divinely given right—to take that power, even if it says to us something different from how the…
Mar 18, 2025 · 1:12:51
These days it seems Latter-day Saints talk about the importance of temple attendance in almost every meeting and lesson. It makes sense: in 2001, then-Elder Russell M. Nelson…
Mar 11, 2025 · 1:10:23
Shibboleths are customs, traditions, words, or phrasings that distinguish one group of people from another. Latter-day Saints have a lot of unique identifiers. Garment lines,…
Mar 4, 2025 · 1:09:24
"Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a book about girls who ask great questions?" This question from a 9-year-old inspired authors McArthur Krishna and Anne Pimentel to create…
Feb 25, 2025 · 1:25:51
"What is it like to be an introvert in a church that really supports extroversion?" When therapist C.A. Larson asked this question in a previous episode, it was a lightbulb…
Feb 18, 2025 · 58:31
"My faith is this process of evolving, ebbing, flowing, forming, reforming, shaping, shape shifting," explains Kathie Debenham. It's no surprise that she describes her faith as a…
Feb 11, 2025 · 1:00:24
When asked about the possibility of priesthood ordination for women in 1998, Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley famously told Larry King, "It would take another revelation to bring that…
Feb 4, 2025 · 57:47
In Part 2 of the conversation about biblical marriage, Susan and Cynthia ask Dr. Jennifer Bird about virginity, purity culture, and—of course!—biblical polygamy. Joseph Smith…
Jan 28, 2025 · 53:17
"If we want to look at this sacred collection called the Bible as our guide, let's be really clear and honest about what it was saying on its own terms first, then leave it up to…
Jan 21, 2025 · 1:11:02
Latter-day Saints have a complicated relationship with the word patriarchy. We reverence it, including variations in some of our highest callings and ordinances, yet many members…
Jan 14, 2025 · 1:08:06
When it comes to talking about abuse and violence against women, "You have to become comfortable with being uncomfortable," explains Susan Madsen. In Episode 207, Dr. Madsen…
Jan 7, 2025 · 1:02:16
"How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you," says Darice Auston, quoting Robert Frost. In Episode 206, Darice joins Cynthia and Susan to share some of…
Dec 17, 2024 · 59:55
"The natural world, with all its varieties of God's creations, shows us so many [other] ways of being," writes Kaylee McElroy. Zooming out as far as human imagination can take us…
Dec 10, 2024 · 1:03:22
In a church where everything is "true," how do we allocate importance? With only so much bandwidth, we all have to make choices about what matters to us. Which ideas do we find…
Dec 3, 2024 · 59:34
There are some topics that seem to surface again and again in our ALSSI conversations: love, fear, self, change, and patriarchy, to name a few. In Episode 203, Cynthia and Susan…
Nov 26, 2024 · 1:12:44
When things start to shift around our faith, the need to tell people about the change can feel overwhelming. There are all kinds of reasons people want to share—it can feel…
Nov 19, 2024 · 1:04:35
David French wrote, "We live in an age of misplaced certainty, when even the smallest expressions of doubt or the slightest of disagreements break institutions and fracture…
Nov 12, 2024 · 1:03:25
Our spiritual lives are our own, but they don't exist in a vacuum. We can do all the inner work we want, but as Latter-day Saint women our personal journey is always going to…
Oct 29, 2024 · 1:39:32
"All dogma begins in mysticism," says Rob Bell. But by the time programs, practices, and policies filter down to Church members, it's little wonder the criteria for determining…
Oct 1, 2024 · 1:31:48
An August 2024 Church Handbook update includes instruction inviting "Young Women class presidencies to organize youth to minister by welcoming visitors and members as they enter…
Aug 27, 2024 · 1:18:28
As a finale to this season of conversations about women's spirituality, in Episode 197 Susan and Cynthia revisit some ideas that stood out to them, discuss personal takeaways,…
Aug 20, 2024 · 1:05:29
"For me, broadening my thinking about ritual has given me more freedom to bring my whole self and my creativity to my spiritual life, as well as meet my unique and evolving…
Aug 13, 2024 · 58:39
Every Latter-day Saint woman's walk is unique. Cynthia and Susan are joined in Episode 195 by Candice Clark, who shares a glimpse of her personal path and some valuable insights…
Aug 6, 2024 · 1:19:32
"If one is religious but not spiritual, it will not enhance mental health," says therapist C.A. Larson. In Episode 194, C.A. joins Susan and Cynthia for a conversation at the…
Jul 30, 2024 · 1:02:33
Bad things happen to good people—good works cannot protect us from the natural consequences of being human in an imperfect world. But in a church where the narrative often draws…
Jul 23, 2024 · 1:06:27
"We can do things a little differently and still be okay," says Anne Pimentel. She's a natural—but also intentional—space-maker, devoted to the idea that one can be a "good…
Jul 16, 2024 · 1:10:53
"My faith life really begins with death," explains Pam Heggie. "Meaning, the real, genuine experiences of my life that molded me, shaped me and taught me what love and empathy…
Jul 12, 2024 · 20:27
Bonus Episode 190 contains all the voicemails we couldn't squeeze into the previous episode's discussion exploring unique complexities of being a Sister missionary for The Church…
Jul 9, 2024 · 1:21:29
In Episode 189, ALSSI team member and returned missionary Katie joins Cynthia and Susan for a dive into listener voicemails about women's experiences as sister missionaries for…
Jul 2, 2024 · 55:58
"If you lift up a prism, depending on how you slightly turn it, the light will hit different facets, refracting and coming out in different ways. That's how I like to approach…
Jun 25, 2024 · 59:45
"Spiritual stretching ... makes you stronger, gives you more balance, and keeps you stable. It took me years to understand that my questions and seeking that stretch me, and are…
Jun 18, 2024 · 1:06:46
"Life as a member offers relatively little social time or enjoyment," writes Candice Wendt. "Being in the ward is mostly about passive listening and being told to follow leaders…
Jun 11, 2024 · 57:54
Rob Bell describes interacting with scripture like this: there's the black ink (what's written on the page), then there's the white space around it (where we dance with what's…
Jun 4, 2024 · 59:55
Many of us make temple covenants as young adults. Are we expected to have the same perspectives and priorities at 80 that we had at 18? In a church that emphasizes concepts like…
May 28, 2024 · 59:37
We asked, you answered! Of all emotions, anger might be the least acceptable for Latter-day Saint women. Many of us are not comfortable being around it, expressing it, talking…
May 21, 2024 · 1:05:39
Does devotion always require walking uphill? What's the difference between good-hard and bad-hard? Do some Church members see the difficulty of a thing as a measure of the…
May 14, 2024 · 1:09:51
As the centerpiece of Sunday worship and an ordinance pointing directly to Jesus Christ, the sacrament holds deep meaning for many Latter-day Saints. In Episode 181, Cynthia and…
May 7, 2024 · 1:02:44
Mary once put a vinyl motto above her kitchen door that read, "That's What We Do!" It was a 4-word description of her life as a Latter-day Saint woman. For many years, she and…
Apr 30, 2024 · 1:06:28
What is spirituality? Am I doing it right? What does it look or feel like? Who decides? Episode 179 rounds out the intro of our theme with an exploration of James Finley's idea:…
Apr 23, 2024 · 1:06:26
Like flowers in the cracks of a sidewalk, women's spirituality has had to work its way around and through thousands of years of religious beliefs and practices established and…
Apr 16, 2024 · 1:13:28
"There is room to honor and hold space for the precious and the meaningful even as we evolve in our beliefs, our homes, and our lives. It's okay to bring some things with you."…
Apr 9, 2024 · 20:47
In this short bonus episode, Susan and Cynthia look ahead to the upcoming season of podcast conversations. Season 8 will center on Latter-day Saint women digging and drawing from…
Apr 2, 2024 · 1:04:51
In this bonus episode, Cynthia and Susan revisit part of an earlier discussion exploring the idea of Latter-day Saint women's complicity in our own marginalization. Recent events…
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