Episode 58: Susan Cottrell of FreedHearts

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In today's special episode, we speak with Susan Cottrell of FreedHearts, an incredible organization that helps parents (especially religious parents) embrace their LGBTQ+ children. Susan discusses choosing her daughter over her church, and offers invaluable tips on approaching parents who have not yet been able to do the same. She also talks about reframing faith in the most loving terms imaginable, and debunks the infamous Bible passages that are often used against the LGBTQ+ community.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:07.0	Hey y'all.
0:08.0	Welcome. This is Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have
0:12.6	queer folks on from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends,
0:17.2	family, and the world at large.
0:19.2	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:21.3	We have a very special guest with us.
0:24.0	This whole episode is a special episode.
0:26.8	We are sitting here with Susan Kutrow.
0:29.0	Yay!
0:29.6	Of Freed Hearts, who if you listen to the podcast,
0:33.4	you have probably heard us mention Freed Hearts a number of times.
0:36.9	It is an amazing organization, and she's just in town for a little while.
0:41.3	We're so excited that she reached high for us.
0:43.3	Do you want to go ahead and, yeah, say a little bit about Freehirt again.
0:47.3	I'm glad to be here.
0:48.3	Just delighted to be here.
0:50.3	Yeah, Freed Hearts is the organization, my husband and I run.
0:53.3	It's a nonprofit.
0:54.9	And we help parents embrace their LGBTQ kids, especially parents of faith.
1:00.4	And we can deconstruct all the theology and all the conditioned responses that the church is conditioned into them and culture.
1:08.7	And we just love it.
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