Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be Therein 5 Podcast.

I'm Kate Kennedy.

Hopefully you're coming here from part 2.

This is part 3 of the Mormon Mommy Blogger series, third and final installment.

And if you want to know more about me, I encourage you to listen to episode 1 of this entire

podcast or heck, why not make your way through the entire 70-something episode catalog of

hours and hours of me.

And occasionally I guess rambling about what I like to call meaningful discussion about

meaningless topics.

And this event we're actually talking about to me that I find rather meaningful, which

is exploring something that may seem trivial in nature, such as a topic like bloggers

or influencers, but digging into it a little bit deeper to uncover what's the connection

between the people that we are most fascinated by being of the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints, what has to do with just the qualities of bloggers period.

And what about this world is soliciting this level of intrigue that I think is unparalleled

in terms of obsessing over influencers within a certain group.

And the first episode was kind of a stream of consciousness of the world of influence

and as it relates to the apparent prevalence of Mommy Bloggers in the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints, particularly in the fashion and beauty and lifestyle world.

The perception I have of their impossible good looks, their effuny new construction money,

their business empires, their children that pose for pictures and are behaved so well,

they're intricate ponytail braids and really just have a lighthearted discussion about

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