Thanks For Asking

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June 16, 2020Salome's Choice
Salome and Isaiah can't wait to become parents to Isaac and Joy, children they've come to love after multiple visits to Isaiah's home country of Nigeria. The children's birth mother has been unable to care for them, and Isaiah's brother has been helping the children's grandparents financially.
Isaac and Joy's mother agrees to the international adoption. But after the papers are finalized, the children are kidnapped ... and Salome and Isaiah are thrust into a system in which no one ever wins.
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42 min
May 26, 2020 The Other Side Of Belonging
Jen Hatmaker was a perfect prototype of evangelical woman subculture. She followed the rules close enough to not be problematic but had just the right amount of edge to be successful in the Christian blogger space.
In 2016, Jen finds herself ostracized from the community that once supported her after she voices love and support for LGBTQ individuals. She's sure she's lost it all — her friends, her income, everything — until Jen discovers a whole other segment of the evangelical community ready to welcome her and continue doing the hard work.
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47 min
May 19, 2020 Unemployed
Layoffs. Redundancies. Furloughs. Right-sizing. There are so many ways to say, “Whoops, sorry, you don’t have a job here anymore,” and Sarah Hagi has already lived through a few of them.
If you’ve ever been told some nonsense during a job interview about how the company in question is “like a family,” and the reason for the low salary offer is because there's free lunch and booze in the kitchen, this episode is for you.
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53 min
May 12, 2020 100?
This isn’t *technically* our 100th episode but rather the episode we made as soon as we’d learned that we’d already well surpassed 100 episodes. It’s an episode about milestones and anniversaries, and why humans care so much about them. It’s a chance for us to look back and reflect on our body of work.
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29 min
May 05, 2020 Life After Certainty
Kate Bowler grew up in a Mennonite church and has spent her academic career studying the prosperity gospel, aka the belief that God wants you to do well in life. Ever heard the phrase, "Everything happens for a reason"? Yep, that's based in prosperity gospel!
When Kate is told she has Stage 4 cancer, the diagnosis rocks her professional and personal world. Her illness is totally out of line with what she expected from faith, and it makes her begin to question her life's work.
It’s easy to believe in a higher power when things are going well, but what about when everything turns to crap?
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54 min
May 05, 2020Life After Certainty
Kate Bowler grew up in a Mennonite church and has spent her academic career studying the prosperity gospel, aka the belief that God wants you to do well in life. Ever heard the phrase, "Everything happens for a reason"? Yep, that's based in prosperity gospel!
When Kate is told she has Stage 4 cancer, the diagnosis rocks her professional and personal world. Her illness is totally out of line with what she expected from faith, and it makes her begin to question her life's work.
It’s easy to believe in a higher power when things are going well, but what about when everything turns to crap?
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You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis.

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Read the transcript for this episode here.
And check out our sponsors this week:
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50 min
April 28, 2020 Bad Moms
Do you need to laugh? Do you need to laugh REALLY HARD? Well, good. Because Nora turned the hilarious movie "Bad Moms" into a novel. It’s fun and funny and a perfect escape for right now, and you get the first three chapters right here.
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55 min
April 21, 2020 How's It Going In There?
It can be hard to be honest with ourselves, especially when something terrible is happening EVERYWHERE and to EVERYONE and we don’t want to call too much attention to ourselves because … it could be worse, ya know?
As the world locks down due to COVID-19, and as the lives as we knew them screech to a halt, we decided to ask you: “How’s it going in there?”
These are your stories from the era of isolation.
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42 min
April 14, 2020 Welcome to The Club
Stuff is hard right now. Like, really hard. If you feel like you're hanging onto a rapidly fraying rope? You are not alone. Not by a long shot.
The bad news about the Terrible Club? Your membership is non-negotiable. Something happens and boom! You're in the club!
The good news about the Terrible Club? You're not alone. We promise.
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Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here.
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24 min
March 31, 2020 Emily and Chanel
In 2015, a young woman was sexually assaulted on the Stanford University campus. The crime (and specifically, the man who committed it) dominated news headlines throughout the trial.
For years, the woman who'd been assaulted was known as Emily Doe. In 2019, Chanel Miller gave up her anonymity with the publication of her powerful memoir, "Know My Name."
In this episode, Chanel talks about the time she spent living with two identities — one anonymous but constantly talked about, the other trying to pretend she's the same woman she's always been.
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1 hr 9 min

About Thanks For Asking

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A call-in show from author Nora McInerny that lets real people get real honest about how they're really doing. Operators(me) are standing by to take your calls.