Relief Society
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Oct 29, 2026
Laura WelchGUEST
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Laura WelchGUEST
I think one of the things that makes me sad is we have women in the church that have been Relief Society presidents and counselors and teachers, and yet they don't believe that they are qualified to lead, and they don't believe they have the skill set to do it.
Laura WelchGUEST
And it's crazy to me.
Laura WelchGUEST
And my husband, he's a professor and an entrepreneur, And him and I will always talk about it because we are so lucky that we will have some of our LDS friends who are women and have done the path of motherhood and then wanted to return to the workforce.
Laura WelchGUEST
So say you're in a social environment.
Laura WelchGUEST
We have the ability to be more in tune with the emotional needs of people around us because we are caregivers.
Laura WelchGUEST
So we can go into a Relief Society meeting and know that Susan here has just gone through a divorce, that Tiffany, like all of these things that we have a pulse on because we are... more empathic.
Laura WelchGUEST
We are more in tune.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
He's like, hammer me.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
And then as an umpire, I'm getting damned to hell by some lady in the Relief Society from my same ward because I'm not calling the strikes and the balls correctly.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
So, yeah, I can empathize with these refs.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
It's a very difficult job.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
I feel like I came from more of a pretty happy environment.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
And so, I mean, of course there were girls in my young women's that struggled and I was aware of that, but to just realize, I just started realizing in lessons, I was in the Relief Society presidency for a time in one of my wards.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
And I just started realizing, wait, like this is universally, like there's something broken and women are really hurting.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
And that has only increased.
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Hannah StoddardGUEST
Snow.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
So Eliza R.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
Snow, of course, is the second Relief Society general president.
Hannah StoddardGUEST
In some ways, she's kind of the first because she's the one that helped kind of put it back together after it was not functioning for a long time.
Jennifer Finlayson-FifeGUEST
And especially in a faith culture where we often think of those as separate spheres entirely.
Jennifer Finlayson-FifeGUEST
I remember once my Relief Society asked me to come and teach on my dissertation topic, which was LDS women and sexuality.
Jennifer Finlayson-FifeGUEST
And someone was like, you're going to have her speak about this in the church? Which is to say, like...
Jennifer Finlayson-FifeGUEST
Could you have anything more, you know, anti-spiritual than that? So I think we have a lot of cultural ideas that the two work in contradiction.
Samuel D. BrunsonGUEST
They were writing tax law.
Samuel D. BrunsonGUEST
Senator Bennett, Bob Bennett, right? Wanted to protect actually the Relief Society and the Sunday School.
Samuel D. BrunsonGUEST
And those were not separate entities from the church, but they were their own entities.
Samuel D. BrunsonGUEST
And the other church auxiliaries from having to, it wasn't just not file a 990.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
He's like, hammer me.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
And then as an umpire, I'm getting damned to hell by some lady in the Relief Society from my same ward because I'm not calling the strikes and the balls correctly.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
So, yeah, I can empathize with these refs.
Brady PoppingaGUEST
It's a very difficult job.
Marshall McConkieHOST
Yeah.
Marshall McConkieHOST
And we kind of like, what are you laughing at? And she said, do you remember the magnet that I had on the refrigerator? And for years, I think she came away from some Relief Society lesson like a decade before.
Marshall McConkieHOST
And it just been our refrigerator this whole time.
Marshall McConkieHOST
It was a quote attributed to Mother Teresa.
DianaGUEST
It's hard to go to church by myself.
DianaGUEST
I actually, because I knew I was going to be on this podcast, I actually talked about not having my husband come to church in Relief Society.
DianaGUEST
I talked about it in Relief Society for the first time the other day, and I told them about that angry prayer that I had had.
DianaGUEST
I feel like we all have trials that we go through that Heavenly Father's like, you know what? You actually really did sign up for this.
DianaGUEST
And I feel like that up in heaven, this is the gospel from Diana.
Ben SchilatyGUEST
I wish we had a program like that for church leaders.
Ben SchilatyGUEST
Like when their brand, like a brand new Relief Society president could be like, Hey, Veteran Relief Society president, like what's going on? And people can do that, but it's not like an organized program.
Ben SchilatyGUEST
So I wish there was something like that.
Ben SchilatyGUEST
As far as this handbook was given to me, and because I'd been in this LGBTQ space openly for a while by the time I was called, I knew about a website the church has called Counseling Resources.
ZacGUEST
There were some amazing things with that car accident.
ZacGUEST
The Relief Society would watch my wife.
ZacGUEST
They would babysit my wife in four-hour shifts so that I could go to work.
ZacGUEST
My dad passed away right after that car accident.
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