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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John D'Alene.

We have been doing a lot of episodes lately but they're all super good and important so we're going to keep doing it as long as there's important stories or topics to cover.

It is July 19, 2017. I am joined by my brilliant and inspiring wife.

Hi, Pecaccia. Margie, glad to be here.

We're doing our weekly Mormon Stories last Mormon Transitions episode. We're Margie and I talk about practical themes dealing with the lived Mormon and progressive Mormon and post Mormon experience.

That's what we're doing today. Today we're really excited to be joined by Dr. Julie D'Azevedo-Hanks. We'll be introducing her in a second.

She's a blog post that she had released a year ago called 30 questions. Nobody asks my husband at church. This is a set of questions or a theme probably around women and gender roles and women working and Mormon women working.

Maybe even dare we say feminism? Is that scary? Yeah, feminism. It's an article that caught a lot of attention and we thought it would be really fun and interesting to bring Julie on to talk about it.

Also because there are a couple of events coming up that Julie is a part of that we thought it would be nice to do some co-promotion.

I will just go ahead and make a few very quick announcements. The first is that Julie will be holding a workshop next week.

Julie, I haven't introduced you yet. Tell our listeners quickly about your workshop and how they can sign up.

It's a Sunstone pre-conference called Finding Your Voice as a Mormon Woman. You can get information and sign up on Dr. Julie Hanks.com slash voice. It's a day long workshop, a lot of interaction, discussion. It's going to be a lot of fun.

I will make sure to add that to the show notes so that people can click on it and register. Thanks for letting us know about that.

Julie and I will be co-leading a retreat, a two-day retreat for couples who are in mixed faith marriages.

We wanted it to be 50-50, half believers, half semi-believers are non-believers. In Salt Lake or Utah, I think we are finalizing the location.

August 11-12, you go to morhamstories.org slash events to sign up for that. It's going to be powerful. We have already have 40 people signed up, 20 couples.

There may be a few more slots, but do not wait if you want to join us because definitely slots are running out.

We have a few more things. Seattle, Washington, September 14-15. We're coming to bring a Mormon Stories workshop there. October 20-22 will be in Sydney, Australia.

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