Women Beyond Faith
It’s our turn. We’re Speaking.For women who have walked away from faith, the challenges can be overwhelming. Finding how and where we fit into this crazy world can be tough.We matter. And our stories matter. And each and every time we tell a story the narrative shifts. We listen to other brave ass beauties who’ve walked comparable journeys and are reminded that we’re not alone. Here we are – It’s our turn. We’re Speaking. Speaking Up. Speaking Out. Even if our voices shake.We’re Speaking. By Women Beyond Faith.Finding Freedom on the Other Side. One story at a time.
Episodes
69 episodes
Meet Carrie Part 2 --
Carrie's back! Join us as she share's the rest of her journey up to present day. May her badassery inspire you!Carrie Doan is a pleasure coach, writer, and business strategist who is passionate about empowering women to rediscover...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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Meet Carrie Part 1--
Carrie Doan is a pleasure coach, writer, and business strategist who is passionate about empowering women to rediscover their worth through practices of pleasure. She believes that every single part of us is deserving of love and acti...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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1:00:57
Meet Janice --
Janice Selbie is a Registered Professional Counsellor and religious recovery consultant. She Divorced Religion after nearly 40 years in the Pentecostal (and briefly, Mennonite) denomination. After also divorcing her husband, Janice went back to...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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Summertime Musings
Work. Family. Vacations. Nude Beaches. Putting into practice the Speaking Up and Speaking Out.
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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39:16
Meet Alaine Part 2 --
Alaine is back! In this episode she shares the pain, isolation and wonder associated with deconstruction.It takes considerable courage to confront cognitive bias head on. Many of us, hoodwinked since childhood, become driven to dis...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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Meet Alaine Part 1 —
Alaine is a Gen-X former evangelical raised in the Deep South who found out the hard way that the unconditional love of Jesus had more than a few conditions. When her world began to crumble following a difficult divorce, her ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:16:08
Meet Bess Part 3 --
Bess is back from rural Pennsylvania to share with us the rest of her story – at least up to current day Spring of 2022. In her mid 20s and wise beyond her years Bess talks university, working through anxiety and panic attacks, the...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:24:33
Meet Reagan Part 2 --
Reagan's back! In this conversation she talks specifics regarding the multiple small businesses she runs here in the Greater Cincinnati area. Reagan is a career coach, professional photographer, CEO of a Nature Preschool, blogger, ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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Meet Reagan Part 1 --
Reagan is a mom and owner of multiple small businesses here in the Greater Cincinnati area. She grew up in the church. She and her family frequented the same homeschool circles as my family. Her people played on the same homeschool sports teams...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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Leah & Bess talk Purity Culture --
Trigger warning: This episode contains material that may be difficult for some of our listeners to hear. Conversations cover porn, body shaming, Josh Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, statutory rape, purity cultur...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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Meet Bess Part 1 --
Bess is in her mid 20s. She lives in a small rural Pennsylvania town. As you'd expect, she's been surrounded by conservative christians as far as the eye can see for the entirety of her life. Raised in the church and educated in c...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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Responding -- Ask Me Anything with Leah
Responding to your questions -- Leah talks work, Covid family relations, homeschool mama days and the kids subsequent trauma, as well as the movie Captain Fantastic with one of her crushes -- Viggo Mortensen. #WereSpeaking
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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Meet Andrea B. Part 2 --
She's back!! Catch the rest of Andrea's deconstruction story here at Andrea B. Part 2!Born the 4th of 5 children to strict young earth creationist parents in the Midwest, Andrea B. was at church every Sunday. At the age of 9, she ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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Meet Andrea B. Part 1 --
Born the 4th of 5 children to strict young earth creationist parents in the Midwest, Andrea B. was at church every Sunday. At the age of 9, she began attending summer camp at Kanakuk (think “Jesus Camp” Documentary) in Branson, Missouri. <...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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Meet Alyssa --
Alyssa is a 27 year old spouse & momma of two who is still adjusting to the freedom of "life on the other side" after recently deconstructing her beliefs from the Evangelical Church.After her parents divorced at the age of 8, she...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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Meet Deconversion Therapy's Bonnie and Karen -
Deconversion Therapy is a comedy podcast about religion. Bonnie and Karen punch up at charlatans like Jim Bakker or Jerry Falwell Jr. They don't discuss real trauma rather they point listeners to other spaces for that. They have fun with old...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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1:16:47
Meet Kimberly The Exvangelical Parent --
Kimberly Poovey is the founder of The Exvangelical Parent, a community of misfits, questioners, and wanderers, sharing our stories and navigating ethics, morality, and spirituality in parenting. We come from a wide variety of backgroun...
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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Meet Justice Renee Part 2 --
Justice Renée, born trans-female, raised in Young Earth Fundamentalism was taught through shame to hate her trans identity. As a preteen, Justice dedicated her life to Jesus and dove heavily into ministry. Steeped in fundamental...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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Meet Justice Renee --
Justice Renée, born trans-female, was raised in a Fundamentalist Evangelical Home. Her father was a leader in the Young Earth/Creation Science movement in Utah and surrounding states through the 1980s and 90s. She was taught through shame to...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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Update
Speak your truth, Leah, even if your voice shakes. We matter. Our stories matter. And our voices need to be heard. #speakup#speakout#werespeaking#imspeaking#ourturn#exvangelical
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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23:21
Meet Delta —
Hey friends! Leah's back with an update and honest appraisal of the current state of affairs in which we find ourselves. She talks contracting COVID, extended family discord, fundie antivax friends, mental health struggles in the time of pandem...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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40:48
Meet Julie Part 2 --
She's back for more!!! We here at WBF are lucky to have Julie, aka Cornflower Girl, back to continue the conversation! She and I get hung up on our distinct versions of homeschooling (child-directed learning) and many of the casualties of...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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49:22
Meet Rachael -- Part 2
Rachael is back!! This recently deconverted beautiful mama of two sweet boys, wife, therapist, sometimes poet, and fierce advocate for those recovering from trauma continues her story. We talk stepping-stones leading to her decons...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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Meet Rachael Part 1 -
Rachael is a recently deconverted mama of two sweet boys, a wife, a therapist, a sometimes poet, and a fierce advocate for those recovering from trauma. Rachael believes in LOVE and imperfectly lives by that principle. Follow her work o...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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54:54
Meet Charisse -- The Existential Ginger
Charisse, born and raised in northern Utah, was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormonism) until 2017. An abrupt divorce plunged her head-first into an existential crisis, leading her to walk away...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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