How can I find a place where I belong?

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Ben and Charlie are joined by Rachel Alder, a Social Worker and Miss Utah 2019 contestant, to talk about belonging. They have a conversation about feeling different, and how they came to find authenticity, support, and a place where they belong.

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0:00.0	Welcome to questions from the closet. I'm Charlie Bird and I'm Ben Shalati.
0:09.2	Each episode we discuss a question that we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Larity Saints.
0:14.0	We are not trying to answer this question or come to a consensus, but simply sharing our perspectives.
0:19.0	Today's question is, how can I find a place where I belong?
0:22.0	So Charlie and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions in life experiences.
0:27.0	For example, we both have roughly the same level of maturity.
0:30.0	But there are some pretty big differences. For example, Ben is 10 years older than I am, so he probably should be a little more mature.
0:37.0	It's hard to act my age.
0:39.0	We would like to provide a variety of voices and perspectives. So today we're joined by Rachel.
0:45.8	Hello. Tell us a little bit about yourself Rachel.
0:48.2	All right, so I am a student. I'm finishing up a degree in social work and neuroscience and I also work in
0:56.2	social work as a caseworker at the Women's Resource Center in downtown Salt Lake.
1:00.1	Fantastic. What do you want to do when you graduate?
1:04.0	Therapy ultimately is at least part of what I want to do and then ultimately I'd like to get a
1:09.5	PhD and do research and kind of some implementation of policy and procedure changes in
1:15.3	foster care.
1:16.3	Wonderful.
1:17.3	Yes.
1:18.3	Rachel I imagine this is a little bit less stressful than the first time I interviewed you?
1:22.0	Most definitely.
1:23.0	So just so everyone knows, I met Rachel when I was judging Miss Utah
1:26.2	this past year 2019.
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