Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.

I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.

I want to wish you all a very happy New Year.

I hope this new year proves to be one that brings with it a feeling of sanity and health and healing

and healing and is a year where you reach out for help if you need it,

and you reach out to help others when they need it,

and that others will reach out to you to offer you help

so that you don't actually have to ask for it.

I see that always as a gift to give somebody else. And I hope that it is one that is safe

for you and for your families. And for anyone who has dealt with a loss due to COVID or anything else,

I hope, again, that this year brings with it more

happiness not as much sadness and worry as last year did for many many people

and if you want to go to patreon.com slash indoctrination to keep our podcast going for this next year,

we would appreciate any amount of support. It really is something that we rely on the listeners and

supporters to keep going because I provide it as a public service.

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And if you already are one, if you're already a supporter, and I wholeheartedly appreciate it,

you can also move up a tier and go on to Patreon,

and it will guide you to let you know how to do that.

For today, I want to be able to introduce my guest, Lola Binkard, who is going to be speaking

with you today and also next week. Lola goes by she, her pronouns, is an author and actress, and she was born and raised,

fourth generation member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormon Church,

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