This Is What Happens When Women Read with Julianna Glasse

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Julianna Glasse was a Christian pop singer playing megachurches and arenas, married to a Major League Baseball player, and in January 2017 she sang at Donald Trump's National Prayer Breakfast weekend after voting the way her husband voted. Two years later she walked away from her faith, her marriage, and nearly everything she had built. Jen and Julianna trace the unraveling: the question she asked while holding her newborn daughter, the friend who handed her Plato's allegory of the cave, the "Christian drinkers" who changed clothes in the car after her concerts, and the day her then husband threw her books on the floor and said the sentence that became her title. They talk about love versus fear as a compass, why storytelling reaches people that shouting never will, and what Julianna would say to evangelical women quietly questioning how they vote. Now an Oxford alum, Julianna leads the This Is What Happens When Women Read foundation, which partners with Oxford's Saïd Business School to fund MBAs for women leaving high-control religions and cultures and has reached more than four million people in nearly 67 countries. Her memoir, This Is What Happens When Women Read, releases October 13.

Thought-provoking Quotes:

• “You cannot know that which you do not know, but once you do know, it becomes your responsibility.” – Julianna Glasse
• “Does it feel like love or does it feel like fear?” – Julianna Glasse
• “This is actually what happens when women read. We notice the systems of oppression that we are in.” – Julianna Glasse
• “Bare your teeth at the institution, at the dogma, at the policy. Do not bare your teeth to the human.” – Julianna Glasse
• “It's just the teeniest taste of hope and freedom, and that is the most powerful taste you will ever have.” – Jen Hatmaker

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• This Is What Happens When Women Read by Julianna Glasse (pre-order)
• Oxford Saïd Business School
• Maria Popova, The Marginalian
• Plato's Allegory of the Cave (The Republic)
• Rebecca Goldstein
• Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Measure of a Woman by Gene A. Getz

Guest’s Links:

Website - https://www.juliannaglasse.com/

Foundation - https://www.thisiswhathappenswhenwomenread.org/

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/juliannaglasse/

Foundation Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tiwhwwr/

Foundation Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/people/This-Is-What-Happens-When-Women-Read/61566356275917/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliannaglasse/

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