What better way to kick off the year than an episode with Marla Taviano! Check out her first episode on the podcast here to hear the backstory behind living wholeFARTedly, and about her amazing trilogy: unbelieve, jaded, and whole. In this episode Marla and I talk about being creative as a way to heal, looking back at our past selves, and Marla’s cool goal of being on 50 podcasts for her 50th year!

Check her out on Instagram(s) or her website, and most of all, go buy read and ENJOY her cool cool books 😎

Website: https://itsmemarla.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marlataviano/

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Not again… Right? That’s what we’re all thinking over at the Dauntless Media Collective. So we got together to talk about our grief, our anger, and our sadness about the election results on November 5th. We don’t have answers, but grieving together can feel better than grieving alone. So, come sit in your uncomfortable feelings with us. 

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Nate co-hosts the Full Mutuality podcast with his wife Gail, and he co-founded the Dauntless Media Collective with their friend Jessica, who hosts the Leaving the Village podcast.

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Nate co-hosts the Full Mutuality podcast with his wife Gail, and he co-founded the Dauntless Media Collective with their friend Jessica, who hosts the Leaving the Village podcast.

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Gail (she/her) is an EXvangelical who is passionate about processing religious trauma and creating spaces to help people heal, deconstruct and decolonize harmful beliefs. She wants to be as determined in her dismantling as she was in her dissonance. She is a Canadian who just assumed American citizenship ready to move and roll up her sleeves to make a difference.

Trigger warning: childhood abuse and domestic abuse

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Listen to Nate and Gail’s Ash Valentine’s Day episode here, and check out my episode on Full Mutuality here!

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Janice Lagata (she/her) is a writer, musician and matron saint of cats who is passionate about using humor to tell the truth about heavy things. Her work consistently laces themes of race, religion and gender with threads of witty wordplay and hopeful skepticism. In her capacity as an “exvangelical” person, she is known for being a vocal critic of evangelical megachurch culture in general and the hillsong brand specifically because she believes (almost) everyone involved deserves better.

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April Ajoy (she/her) is a content creator and podcast host who uses humor to shine light on harmful, toxic, and sometimes just weird traits of American Evangelicalism. After growing up an evangelist’s kid entrenched in Christian Nationalism and working in conservative Christian media, she saw the harm caused firsthand. Still a Christian, she uses her platform to expose the dangers of Christian Nationalism while promoting a more inclusive faith. She’s been married to Beecher for 10 years and they have two daughters together.

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Daniella Mestyanek (she/her) Young, scholar of cults, extreme groups and extremely bad leadership. Daniella is the author of Uncultured, a critically acclaimed memoir of growing up in the children of god cult and then going into the cult of US Army. Daniella holds a masters in organizational psychology from Harvard, and is working on a second book called The Culting of America

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Nick Vallentino (he/him) has experienced 30 years of religious trauma and abuse and has since figured out how to be happy and take his own life back. Now he's helping you do the same as a religious trauma coach and by sharing his own story on the podcast today.

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Sarah McCammon is an NPR Correspondent and author of “The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.”

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