Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity,

value, intellect, and creativity of women.

I'm your host Sarah Stone Street.

And I'm your co-host, Erin Kunkel.

Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the Strong Women podcast.

Today our guest is Molly Hemingway. And Molly is an American author, columnist, and political commentator.

She's also that senior editor at the online magazine,

The Federalist, and a contributor for Fox News. We have asked Molly to come on because we know

Molly personally and she is a strong woman and we want to just kind of say, what are the things

that have shaped you? So we're going to jump right in. And thank you so

much, Molly, for coming and joining us today. It is great to be here with you. So Molly, we would

love to start at the beginning of your life. And so really, how you were shaped and formed into the

woman you are today. So if you wouldn't mind

maybe just telling us where you grew up, your family situation and all of that.

Yeah, I'm the youngest of three kids. My parents were living in Wyoming at the time I was born.

My dad is a Lutheran pastor, and my mother is a teacher.

And so we lived in Wyoming, and then we fairly quickly thereafter, moved to California,

where my dad was called to a church in the central valley of California, San Joaquin Valley, and lived there until I was about

10 when we moved to Colorado, and I spent the rest of my adolescence there. So very much being brought

up in the church, my parents are both converts to Lutheranism, my dad is a convert to Christianity,

but very much that was my community that I was

immersed in for my entire childhood. And it was great. I know not everybody has a great experience

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