118. The Girl Who Baptized Herself: Meggan Watterson on Worth, Divinity & Coming Home to Yourself
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
What if no one is coming to save you…because the one you’ve been waiting for is you?
In this episode of the Plenty Podcast, I sit down with one of my dearest friends, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Meggan Watterson, whose new book The Girl Who Baptized Herself has cracked my heart wide open. This conversation is a soul homecoming—one that explores the raw, real journey of reclaiming our worth, rewriting our spiritual stories, and becoming the version of ourselves we’ve always been, but perhaps were never given permission to fully be.
We talk about:
- ✨ The moment Meggan chose herself and stopped settling for crumbs
- 🕊️ The sacred story of Thecla—the girl who baptized herself—and why it matters more than ever today
- 🍷 What getting “sober sober” really means (and how it was never about the wine)
- 💔 How trauma shapes our self-worth and why healing means going all the way in and all the way through
- 🌹 Why coming home to your body is the most radical spiritual act of all
This episode is for anyone who has felt stuck in a story that doesn’t fit, who’s been waiting for external validation or permission, or who simply knows there’s more—but isn’t sure how to get there.
If you’ve ever questioned your worth, longed for a deeper connection with the divine (especially in a female body), or needed a reminder that coming home to yourself is the most sacred journey of all—this conversation is for you.
Listen in and be reminded: you already are the one you’ve been waiting for.
With so much love,
Kate
🎧 Listen now and be sure to get your copy of Meggan’s powerful new book, The Girl Who Baptized Herself.
“No one is coming to save us—except the one we become by saving ourselves.” –Meggan Watterson
🎤 Let’s Dive into the Good Stuff on Plenty 🎤
00:24 Megan Watterson's Journey and New Book
03:18 The Story of Meeting and Collaboration
04:51 Reclaiming Authority and Identity
09:27 The Role of Women in Spiritual Narratives
11:45 The Gnostic Gospels and Their Significance
15:18 Patriarchy and the Editing of Scriptures
18:26 Personal Reflections on Self-Worth
23:06 Going Inward and Finding Strength
30:56 The Challenge of Reclaiming Worthiness
37:21 The Nuances of Sobriety
44:11 The Journey of Healing and Transformation
54:14 The Alignment of Timing and Purpose
57:36 Conclusion and Reflections on Worth
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't need to use language anymore. They knew from the look on my face that there was no mirror needed. |
| 0:05.5 | And what was so powerful in that moment was that I could feel and I knew everything. Like, I knew |
| 0:12.9 | everything I needed to know and I really owned it. One of my best friends in the world is on the |
| 0:19.4 | podcast today. I have been trying to get her in this |
| 0:21.9 | freaking studio for years. And though she lives in the same state as me, it is hard to get this |
| 0:28.1 | woman out of her house. Her name is Megan Waterson. She is the Wall Street Journal best-selling |
| 0:34.2 | author of Mary Magdalene Revealed revealed and her brand new book, The Girl |
| 0:38.9 | Who Baptized Herself, is out today. I am so proud of Megan and the five years that she |
| 0:46.5 | devoted of her life to this particular scripture, this particular story and the relevancy it has |
| 0:54.0 | for humans, particularly women today. |
| 0:57.7 | And in this conversation, we went everywhere from Meg's story of getting sober, sober, to my |
| 1:06.1 | story of how this book about a girl who baptized herself really helped me to unhook from some really |
| 1:14.3 | sneaky ways in my life that I was still waiting for permission, still waiting to be chosen. |
| 1:21.3 | So if there's any part of you that is waiting to have what you want, settling for crumbs, going back over and over and over |
| 1:31.1 | again to situations or people that you know are just not it. |
| 1:37.1 | This conversation is for you. |
| 1:40.4 | Meg is not only trained from Harvard and Columbia in divinity and theology. She's hysterical |
| 1:49.5 | and one of the most human, real people you will ever meet as well as one of the most brilliant. |
| 1:57.7 | So enjoy the episode. Welcome to Plenty. I'm your host, Kate Northrop, and together |
| 2:04.5 | we are going on a journey to help you have an incredible relationship with money, time, and energy, |
| 2:12.8 | and to have abundance on every possible level. Every week, we're going to dive in with experts and |
| 2:20.9 | insights to help you unlock a life of plenty. Let's go fill our cups. Please note that the opinions |
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