Welcome to At Last She Said It, a podcast where women of faith come together to acknowledge

that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out.

Hello friends and welcome to today's episode of at last she said it.

Happy New Year, Susan.

How are you?

Happy New Year to you, Cynthia.

I'm pretty happy about having a new year. I think I'm not alone in that.

No, let's have a new year and let's just forget the old and move on.

That would be good.

Well today with a new year year and I know we have a lot of new

listeners lately new followers on social media. So today's episode I think is kind of

timely and we're calling it what's in it for me.

And it's kind of our own little version of why I stay.

I feel like that's a big topic that people always want to know about is why you

stay in the church and so we're calling it what's in it for me so that's exactly what we're

gonna do today and you and I have said this is an episode we could do in our sleep because it's something that you and I have talked about so much so.

We have talked a lot about it and I think that when you I mean some people some people

hearing why why I stay probably think well I don't even understand the question like what what else would you do but then some people

When you're a person who is willing to talk about some of the difficult things or point out some

Challenging things with the, then I think there are also so nice people who regard you with suspicion, right?

And they think, well, obviously, you know, she's on her way out, she's not going to last is not going to

stick you know I'm sure that we have both of those kinds of responses among our

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