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Being Secular Mormon with Jessica Paige

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Can you stay Mormon if you don’t actually believe it? Jessica Paige identifies as a secular Mormon and joins me to talk about why she stays, how she defines that label and what it actually looks like to participate in Mormon life without belief. You can find Jessica on TikTok here. Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠⁠here⁠ for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. For ad inquiries please email girlscamppodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Haley Rawl and I am joined today by Jessica Page. Welcome, Jessica. Hi. Thank you. I am so excited

0:51.8

to talk to you. You are currently living an experience that I've been very

0:56.0

curious about for a long time, but I feel like it's hard to find people currently living your

1:01.8

experience that are also openly talking about it. Yes. Because you are P-I-M-O. Do you say P-M-O or P-M-O?

1:09.6

I say P-M-O, too. Okay. So let's just go with P-B-O. Okay. I was like, gonna Google this. I was like, how do you pronounce that? Because I say P-M-O, that's the acronym. Yeah. For those who are unfamiliar with this like Mormon, ex-Mormon lingo, physically in, mentally out, otherwise known as Pimos. Pimo. And that is what you are

1:31.2

currently doing. Yeah. I hate the word Pimo. I use it online. I just say hate the way it sounds, right?

1:38.1

Yeah. It's a silly word. It has a bad like mouth feel. Yes. So when I'm talking to people about it in real life, a lot of the times

1:45.9

I'll say secular Mormon. Love. I really like that approach. To me, it feels a bit more intentional

1:51.8

than just being stuck in a place. It's like, this is a place I'm actively choosing to be.

1:56.1

And I've had to actively change my mindset and the framework in which I view church.

2:00.8

Instead of just being like stuck in this place where I feel like I can't say what I feel

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