Priorities & Career in the Wake of Vocation, With Alden McRae | Ep 228

What In The Dang Heck

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Religion & Spirituality, Leisure, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.2 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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@aldenleemcrae joins us this week! We chat about her pull between law school and wanting to be ready for a family when entering marriage. How did she make her decision? How did she honor her God-given talents while also best prepare for her vocation? Her experience is one so many of us have or will have to navigate… tune in! Ring our HOTLINE at 312-775-2615 and tell us your What In The Dang Heck moment, Heck Yes, Heck No, or ask for some advice! If you’ve been blessed by our podcast, we ask you to prayerfully consider supporting us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/whatinthedangheck @Hallowapp get your 3-month free trial at www.hallow.com/whatinthedangheck @thelittlecatholic_ Use Code: Heck20 for 20% off https://www.thelittlecatholic.com/ @saltandlightbysami Use Code HECK10 for 10% off https://saltandlightbysami.com/

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0:00.0	It's Cecilia and Megan. Let us distract you while driving, cleaning, working out. We're chasing babies. Actually, what in the dang heck, just sit back and grab something to sit. It'll be like eavesdropping in a girl's night, all wrapped up into one. Thank you. 101. Hey guys, happy
0:23.6	Monday.
0:39.9	We have probably everyone's most long-aided guest on with us today if you did not read the title, which I always feel funny, like, introing like, hey, guess what it's going to be today?
0:50.1	And I'm like, literally everyone clicked on the title they know.
0:52.6	But it's okay.
0:53.8	Let me have a moment of excitement.
0:55.6	Okay.
0:56.5	We have all been with us.
0:58.3	Finally.
0:59.4	Hello.
1:01.5	She's so mysterious.
1:03.1	Like everyone's like, what does this girl do?
1:05.8	Who is she?
1:06.8	Where does she live?
1:07.8	Does she have a home?
1:09.4	Is she a home?
2:01.5	No, she doesn't. She has none of those things. She has no stability. But she has been a what in the dang hecker for three years now. So this is like the craziest thing to be here with your faces above and below me. I'm tripping out. I love it. No, we were so glad that you could come on. And initially, kind of, I had seen you posting something on your story talking about, like, I went to law school. And then I was like, shoot, should I have gone to law school? And then, like, I got married. And then I was like, shoot, I want to be a Catholic mother. And then I was like, but law school. And so I just want to like take time today to like break that down because I think a lot of people, it's not exactly the same. But they are like, get really confused about what they want. And so I want to hear this discernment process and how you walk through that.
2:07.0	Yeah, I was catching up on all the things I'd missed after like a month of not having commutes and listening to y'all every single Monday on my morning drive.
2:12.1	And I was kind of thinking, like, you got you guys, I've been doing so many amazing interviews
2:15.6	with women in the last month and a half about balance between vocation and professional life and I was like oh gosh where the heck do I
2:22.3	fit into this and it's it's kind of nice because I'm actually like right in the middle of it like
2:26.9	really trying to set myself up to figure it out so hopefully like I can inspire at least someone to
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