389: Faith & Feminism: Valerie's Vision & Maxine’s Musings

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Mental Health

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! In this part one of a two-part conversation, Valerie is joined by Maxine Hanks for a deeply personal and reflective conversation exploring their parallel journeys as Latter-day Saint female thought leaders navigating faith transitions, church discipline, and personal empowerment. This episodes is more a tender conversation between two friends than an interview where both women share of the depths of the commitment to honor their higher selves, their experience...

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0:00.0	As we move into this season of giving, we invite you to support the healing work happening here at
0:04.9	Latter-day Struggles. Our podcast is a proud partner of the Faith Journey Foundation, a 501
0:10.1	C3 nonprofit, meaning every contribution you make is fully tax deductible. Your gift goes entirely
0:16.5	towards scholarships that open full access to our premium content, helping us expand the reach
0:22.0	of this healing work.
0:23.6	This is your opportunity to invest in integrity-based, psychologically informed spiritual care
0:28.6	and to stand with both the providers and the recipients of this work within the LDS
0:33.2	Faith Expansion Community.
0:35.2	Give today at latterday struggles.com.
0:49.4	Hello, everyone.
0:50.3	Welcome to Latter Day Struggles.
0:51.6	This is your host, Valerie,
0:52.6	and I am just so excited to have my dear friend and colleague here with us today for a two-episode series. Hello, Maxine Hanks. How are you, my friend?
1:02.7	Hi, Valerie, I'm fine. It's nice to be with you, as always. I was just counting it up this morning. She's been here with me for one whole series that just sort of documents really
1:12.9	beautifully her own life story. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in a second.
1:16.4	And that's episodes 179 through 182. And then Maxine and Jody England Hansen came on twice at different
1:25.5	points in time in 2024 for episodes 222 and 272, where all of us talked about
1:32.4	some of the different emerging conversations going on about the temple garment. And those two
1:37.9	have been some of my highest downloaded episodes of all. So you need to go back and grab those.
1:43.7	Maxina is a wonderful, wonderful
1:45.4	conversation partner. And we come together today and in our next episode together on a special
1:52.7	little mission. And I'm going to give you a little bit of a backstory before we jump right in.
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