Episode 226: I Am a Woman of Faith | Tackling Imposter Syndrome

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes it’s hard to untangle specific beliefs from our ideas about faith. Is struggling with church policies or doctrinal tenets an indictment of a Latter-day Saint woman’s faith? What does it even mean to have faith? And who gets to measure ours? In Episode 226, Cynthia and Susan take on a topic that comes up frequently for church members who find themselves on a journey of expansion or redefinition: Imposter Syndrome. It’s a conversation about faith vs. knowledge, Churchianity vs. Christianity, the place of doubt in a religious life, and finding hope by leaning into personal spiritual authority.

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0:00.0	That reminds me of one of my favorite Rachel Held Evans quote, I just read it the other day where she said,
0:09.0	Grace is already out of hand when Jesus said, forgive them for they know not what they do.
0:15.0	Like it's out of control with Jesus, or at least when you switch to the Jesus that you just described, that's much different
0:22.8	than the Jesus of the contract or the quid pro quo Jesus.
0:26.6	Right.
0:27.6	Yeah, we really struggle with.
0:29.0	I really, let me personalize that.
0:30.9	I really, really struggled making that shift, but it had to be made, and it gave me my faith back.
0:38.0	So I totally resonate with what you're saying.
0:44.5	Hello, I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:46.9	And I am Cynthia Winward.
0:49.2	And this is at last she said it.
0:51.4	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:53.9	And the title of today's
0:55.4	episode is, I am a woman of faith, tackling imposter syndrome. Hello, Cynthia. Let's do it.
1:07.3	Are we qualified at all to talk about imposter syndrome? I would argue we actually are.
1:12.3	I was just going to say, who is more of an expert at imposter syndrome than I feel like I am.
1:18.3	So, yeah, we are. I mean, the greater question is, are we, do we have an expertise to talk about faith?
1:24.2	And I'm not totally sure about that, except for my own. So let's start the
1:27.8	conversation right there. Let's preface everything by saying we're just going to talk about our
1:32.8	own experiences. That's what we're going to do. Should we jump in? Let's do it. Well, we had our July
1:41.4	book group, which can I just pause and actually give a quick advertisement?
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