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 podcast episode. I am Cynthia Wynward.

I'm here, of course, with my favorite podcast buddy Susan Hinckley. How are things going with you

today Susan down in Arizona? Hi Cynthia things are heating up in Arizona. So let's just

jump right in. We're calling our episode today,

you have a friend in me.

So we're speaking about friendship.

And Susan, why don't you go ahead and introduce

kind of where we're gonna go with this topic today?

Okay, people might think that it's kind of weird or kind of dumb that we're talking about

friendship, but there's a reason that we're talking about it.

Well, a bunch of good reasons, I hope, and those will become clear as we have this conversation.

The specific reason that we chose this topic

is that we did a Q&A on Instagram recently

where we gave women the opportunity to give us ideas for things that they would like to

hear about on the podcast and we were surprised to have had women ask about friendship

a request to have a discussion about that. We had one woman ask, how can I develop

friendships? I struggle to find like-minded women and families in my ward. And we had another say I want friends but it's so hard to find people

how do we navigate that space and they're good questions I mean they the question

resonated with both of us right because I think that there is

something about being a Mormon woman who is within a ward community,

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