706: Women of a Certain Age (WOCA)
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2017
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
We are a group of women 40+ with longer life experiences. We are grandmothers, mothers, aunts, single, divorced, widowed or married. We are LGBT friendly and feminists! Many of us are just learning feminism. Having felt the pain of patriarchy, but not having a “language” to describe our experiences, we are giving ourselves permission to flourish and grow with no limitations or constructs.
Many of us are at the beginning of a life we never imagined. We have had to make tough decisions, been tried by our choices, and some of us have lost important connections along the way. Being of a “certain age” makes it harder to make friends and to find a community of like-minded souls with whom to move forward with love, joy and friendship. We realize that our decisions can affect many generations, so our time is spent fostering relationships with our loved ones and excelling in our careers, businesses, and at home, all of which leaves little time and opportunity to make new friends.
This group is for “women of a certain age” or lovingly called WOCA (Wah-kah). We also have a group for “women of a certain age” and under. This age group, affectionally known as the UNDERS is from 30-40. The final group under the umbrella of WOCA are the COCAs. These are “Couples of a Certain Age” for those wishing to participate as couples. And housed inside of COCA is the “men only” group which meet regularly in men-only events.
WOCA activities are NOT within the paradigm of our former religious background, although themes from our lived experiences may come up. We have transitioned from our former organized religious choices and wish to create wonderful spaces where ALL people with commonalities can come together, share and find community.
If you would like to join us, please contact, from the list below, the appropriate person from your geographical area by way of Facebook messenger.
Wasatch (The Mother Ship): Christine Elkington & Kim Turner
COCA: Brett Nord
UNDERS: Ruth Tyson
Phoenix: Amy Grubbs
Boston: Amy Grubbs
Las Vegas: Christine Elkington
Bay Area: Kim Turner
Texas: Lisa Keyes
So-Cal: Lisa Durtschi
Idaho: Lisa Keyes
Sacramento: Lisa Keyes
Seattle: Nicole Bruderer
Cedar City/St. George: Nicole Bruderer
Denver: Ruth Tyson
Florida: Kim Turner
Oregon: Kim Turner
And if where you live isn’t on the list, please join our ONLINE group and be with women around the world just like you!
ONLINE: Kim Turner & Christine Elkington
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| 0:31.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John D'Alene. It's March 7th, 2017. |
| 1:00.0 | We're in downtown Salt Lake City at Club Cafe at 50 West to celebrate women of a certain age or walker. Let me hear it everybody. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I'm supposed to say we're super excited to have you all here. Super duper. Super duper. |
| 1:25.0 | Excited to have walker. We want to thank Jake Jensen and the good folks at Broadway Media for making this possible. Let's give them a hand everybody. |
| 1:36.0 | Hope you enjoyed your dinner and assorted beverages of your choosing. We love this venue so we're really glad to be here. |
| 1:46.0 | All right, so let's get into it. Some of you may know that we just released episode 701 through 704 of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 1:57.0 | How many of you have had a chance to check that out? Look at that. Look at that. Somebody's a superstar. Yes, for those who don't know. |
| 2:08.0 | For the viewing audience, listening audience, we just released our interview with Kim Sandberg Turner. We're sorry we couldn't have Terry on the interview as well, but that was an epic four plus hours of wisdom and thought and blather. |
| 2:26.0 | And I just refer listeners to that because we certainly did do a not sufficient, but certainly a deep dive into the life of Kim Turner and her wonderful family. |
| 2:38.0 | And in that, if you want to learn more about Kim and her background, she is one of the founders or co-founders of Waka, depending on how you want to spread the responsibility and glory. |
| 2:53.0 | But that was a wonderful interview. So those of you listening are watching for the first time. Check that out if you haven't. You'll learn all about Kim and what led her to want to create Waka. |
| 3:02.0 | But we're going to go ahead and we're going to repeat a little bit of that tonight as well. And she did talk about Waka in part four. |
| 3:08.0 | But tonight is different. Tonight is a community event where we're going to be able to celebrate together to bring up people from the audience to share comments and questions and experiences. |
| 3:19.0 | And we have this wonderful, amazing panel up here as well. |
| 3:25.0 | Team Waka. We have Team Waka. And I'll just tell you in 705 episodes of Mormon Stories, no one's ever provided me with a list of questions. |
| 3:36.0 | Never. Never has anyone said these are the questions you'll be asking. But these are the questions I'm to ask. |
| 3:45.0 | Now was this a Waka thread? Did you guys all come up with these? What is up with that? Is she micromanaged everyone this way or is it just me? |
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