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I have my cousin, Tyler. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me, Julie. I'm so excited to talk with you.

So Tyler does my hair and we were talking about this podcast and she said, I have a topic for you. So I said, let's,

let's do it. Let's talk about it. So what's your question for today? Well, Julie, first I have to tell

you, so my question has to do with around the idolization of motherhood in the LDS church. And it was

so funny because I'm a researcher.

And so I just kind of typed that into Google.

Uh-huh.

And guess whose article came right up?

Mine?

Yes.

So this is obviously, must be an issue with people and not just me.

So that was super exciting to see.

But so yeah, my question just basically has to do with, you know, growing up in the LDS church,

it was idolized to be a mother, to be a stay-at-home mother.

And I can even pinpoint, you know, situations and people who,

you know, ingrained that in me. And, you know, that's your most important role. And so I didn't

really think of anything else other than I didn't really think about a future other than get married, have kids, be a stay-at-home mom.

That was pretty much it.

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