Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women of faith today.

I'm Shailen Back.

And I'm Carly Geiman.

We are your co-hosts.

And today we are very excited to welcome

Rebecca Mayer to the studio as our guest. Rebecca, welcome. Thank you. Great to be here. Yes.

We've been looking forward to this. Rebecca is a member of the General Relief Society Council

and actually serves as the chair of the Relief Society Communication Committee. So in that position,

she has been hugely supportive

of the podcast and we're so grateful to finally have her in the studio to have her share her

testimony and experiences. As a brief introduction, Rebecca is such a delightful and capable woman.

She is. She was raised in New York and Maryland in the United States and studied computer

science at BYU. She worked as a computer engineer and marketing executive in the tech industry

for several prominent international companies and then later brought those talents to work for

the church's history department, which is really neat. She speaks French. She's sang in the

tabernacle choir. She's served in many

significant church callings. We really could go on and on, but we'll hear more about that today. We did want to mention she married Dan Mayer in 2007 after the death of his first wife. And so she's going to talk today more about that experience of becoming kind of an instant mom and grandma to six children and many

grandchildren and also share her early experience of divorce, which we really appreciate, as we know,

these experiences are things that many women experience in the church.

So thank you so much for being here.

We're excited to jump in and talk more today.

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