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The Terri Cole Show

745 Know Your Worth with Meggan Watterson

The Terri Cole Show

Terri Cole

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, I'm lucky to be sharing a chat with renowned feminist theologian Meggan Watterson. She shares the narrative of Thecla, a saint whose story was nearly erased from history, and describes how her story can inspire us to take back our own inherent spiritual authority. Tune in to uncover the transformative power you can claim when you know your own worth and reclaim your spiritual authority. Plus, how piety might look different for women than for men.

Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/745

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show.

0:04.5

I think you're going to love this episode.

0:06.9

I hope you do.

0:09.5

This is an episode.

0:11.3

It's really a girlfriend jam with one of my old friends, Megan Waterson.

0:16.4

So Megan is a renowned feminist theologian.

0:19.9

She's a bestselling, in a Wall Street Journal,

0:21.8

bestselling author of Mary Magdalene revealed. She has a master's of theological studies from

0:28.1

Harvard Divinity School and a master of divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia

0:34.2

University. She's very smart. She's very well educated, but she created the House of

0:41.1

Mary Magdalene, a spiritual community to study sacred texts left out of traditional canon like

0:46.4

the Gospel of Mary and the Acts of Paul and Thecla. So she's basically reclaiming the female voice

0:53.6

in theological literature.

0:57.2

Her work has appeared in a bunch of media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker,

1:01.4

Huff Post, TEDx women, Marie Claire, a bunch of places.

1:04.6

I've known Megan for years, and she was one of my friends. We were all sort of coming up together a whole

1:13.3

bunch of us in New York. Just so many, Gabby Bernstein and Megan and Chris Carr and Latham

1:23.1

Thomas and Kate Northrop and just a whole but Marie Forleo, we just were all friends sort of

1:29.7

coming up together with different interests and different expertise.

1:33.4

But she was always such a good and supportive friend.

1:36.0

And when my oldest sister needed a liver transplant, my sister Tammy, she, I was raising

1:44.1

money because she had four kids and didn't have a lot of money.

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