Hello and welcome to Mormon Stories Thrive Stories edition. I am your host,

Margie DeLin, and I am joined today by my partner in Life and in podcast as it

turns out. And in righteousness. Yes. Truth, justice, and righteousness.

Hi over there. Hey Margie, I'm so glad you're driving this one. Yeah, I'm so

happy to be here. Yeah. Excited for today's episode. We have a dear human to me here to

joining us in studio before we begin just a quick summary of the Thrive Stories project

and what it is and how it differs. Thrive Stories tends to be a shorter interview, usually

two to three hours around a certain area of thriving. What are some examples of areas

of thriving, John? And only on Mormon Stories is a two or three hour interview short, by

the way. It's relative. We'll try and keep it the two. Yeah. So in Thrive Stories, we try

to focus on healing and growth after religious orthodoxy. So whether it's mental health, physical

health, psychological health, spiritual health, relationships, those are just some of the

examples parenting, spirituality, sexuality, and probably repeating things. But it's just

it's a it's a traditional Mormon Stories faith journey, but with an emphasis on growth.

That's what I'd say. That's right. And what we love about this is it tends to kind of

challenge this narrative that after leaving life is especially pain ridden and dismal and

heartbreaking. So that's one aspect that we love about it. If you have listened to Thrive

Stories and don't feel like your story is represented here, I invite you to submit

your own own application. And you can go ahead and see below in the description box how

to do that. But we love as many stories as possible here. So we invite you to submit.

But without further ado, we're here to welcome Linda Barney. Welcome to the podcast Linda.

That's awesome to be here. Thank you for being here. So we can begin maybe with asking

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