Death, Sex & Money - When A Banker Became A Nun
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🗓️ 8 September 2021
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Summary
Sister Josephine Garrett grew up Baptist and worked her way up the corporate ladder—only to realize in her late 20s that she wanted to convert to Catholicism and become a nun.Â
Watch Anna's check-in with Sister Josephine earlier this year on our Instagram feed @deathsexmoney.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna. This week we are sharing one of my very favorite episodes that we've made. It first |
| 0:06.5 | came out in 2019, but it's one that I find useful to re-listen to because of how it makes me think |
| 0:13.0 | about the choices I've made and the values behind them and how I'm responding to needs in my |
| 0:18.4 | community now. I think you'll really enjoy it. |
| 0:21.7 | In the meantime, we are working on some really great episodes coming up this fall. |
| 0:26.0 | You can keep up with what we're working on by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, |
| 0:30.4 | which also includes recommendations of what we're listening to and stories that we're hearing from you. |
| 0:36.4 | You can subscribe at death, sexmoney.org |
| 0:39.2 | slash newsletter. And now, here's Sister Josephine. |
| 0:44.6 | When did you first have the inkling that you might want to become a nun? |
| 0:50.4 | It was not an inkling. It was like a brick in the face. |
| 0:58.1 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 1:02.3 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 1:09.9 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 1:18.7 | Okay. and need to talk about more. I'm Anna Sale. Sister Josephine Garrett was a vice president at Bank of America |
| 1:22.6 | when she first started thinking about becoming a nun, |
| 1:26.2 | and the idea wouldn't go away. I started to freak out. |
| 1:32.0 | Like, I can't stop thinking about nuts. I don't know what you think about nuts, but I don't want to be a nun. |
| 1:38.4 | And when you say freaking out, were you like telling friends of yours like, oh my God, I'd had this thought and it isn't this crazy? |
| 1:46.5 | No, no. |
| 1:47.7 | Freaking out meant I told no one. |
| 1:50.1 | Like I put it in the vault and I went and got a therapist. |
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