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I'm Mackenzie, Dr. Finlason Fife's assistant, and we are so glad that you're here.

This podcast was originally produced and published by Barbara Zabawa of the Lemon Spark

podcast and is entitled Religion and Financial Struggle carved a satisfying

professional career for Dr Jennifer Finlason Fife.

Thank you so much for being part of the Women's Spark Podcast.

I am just thrilled that you're here.

Everyone, Dr Finlison Fife is a coach and therapist and her main clientele are those in the Latter-day Saints community and she focuses on online instruction and podcast.

So she is what we call a hybrid professional

and welcome Dr. Jennifer Finlison Fife so happy that

you're here. Please tell us what lemons in your life led you to where you are now.

Well it's a great question. I think that led you are now?

Well, it's a great question.

I think that, you know, when I was growing up,

I was, you know, part of the LDS community.

I mean, I still am, but I grew up and there were so many wonderful things about it actually I grew up in

Vermont there weren't very many of us it was a very tight-knit and loving community

but I also was well aware of the kind of gender discrepancy and that even though I could feel and know that as a woman I was valued and beloved in that community that I had sort of a second-class status as a woman.

And that there was a lot of being a patriarchal church, more so at the time that it is now, because it's evolved in a lot of ways but there was this you know male leadership and women are there to kind of support it and

while I valued it and saw that I had a meaningful place within it. I was very aware, I think just

as a young social scientist in my bones, I was very aware of the kind of what I experienced as some sort of grief and loss of self and kind of suffering

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