Welcome to the Refine Collective Podcast. I'm your host, Cat Harris.

This podcast is designed to hold space for honest conversations. From purity culture to

faith, sexuality, relationships, identity, culture, deconstruction, and more. My hope is

to look doubt in the face, be curious, seek God, and ask meaningful questions to address

any elephant in the room with openness, nuance, and grace.

I won't pretend to be an expert and definitely don't have all the answers. And though it

may feel easier and more comfortable to exist in the black and white, I invite you to discover

God with me in the gray and unexpected spaces.

So whoever you are, whatever you do or don't believe, you are welcome here and have a seat

at this table.

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All right, let's go ahead and get to it.

Welcome to the Refine Collective Podcast. I'm your host, Kat Harris. And thank you so much

for being here today. Before we dive into today's episode, let me give you a rundown on what

is going on in the Patreon community this month.

So next week, August 24th at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, I have my monthly live Zoom group

coaching call. That is a mouthful for all of my Patreon community. So essentially every

month for an hour, I log on to Zoom and any and all my Patreon members can join and ask

coaching questions on anything from dating to faith, to deconstruction, to sex, to what

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