Sary gets real and shares her story- the nitty, the gritty and where she’s found resilience and inspiration. From healing trauma to avoiding drama, how to rock being a single mom amidst it all and what she’s got up her sleeve to share with the world.

Fact Check:

1. Malcolm Gladwell

Anne-Marie misquoted Malcolm Gladwell's studies. Correction: As Gladwell noted, they found that it took a remarkable amount of time on such practice—some 10 years' worth or 10,000 hours to gain mastery. This theory has been challenged many times. You get decide what you believe!

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2. Jehovah’s Witnesses

A person note from Anne-Marie: In this episode, Sary discusses her experience as a Jehovah’s Witness. Since this podcast is about girlfriends sitting together and relating, some of the words, analogies and/or metaphors used to relate her experience are out of line with the belief systems of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This podcast is about completing the full circle, so we invited a trusted source to bring forth another voice of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. This person has outlined some perspectives below to accurately "clear up" some burdensome language that Sary and myself do not wish to carry as we open ourselves to expressing and vocalizing our life experiences. I spoke to Sary about this content and she shared with me that over 30 years 

The intention of including this content in the Episodes Notes is to express a sense of respect and honor to all voices and attempting to accurately provide commentary to further align to our intention- creating a safe space for all. We represent respect, responsibility and freedom of expression. If you have any additional comments or feedback, please feel free to reach us at [email protected] so we can continue the conversation. With love, Anne-Marie

Jehovah’s Witnesses:

"A. Active, practicing, Jehovah’s Witnesses would not use the word "preachers kid". In fact, they would use it to discredit your knowledge of the religion. They consider themselves and I quote “no part of the world”, and that includes most religions terminologies. They don’t go to church they go to meetings. Men in the kingdom hall that had positions would be considered elders, ministerial servant‘s, circuit overseer‘s etc… The only way "preacher" would be used in that way would be if they were describing "preaching the good news" from door to door. 

B. Sary mentioned she could sell magazines. It is very important to Jehovah’s Witnesses that they are a recognized donation-based religion funded on brotherly love. They never sell their own literature. This has changed since Sary was small.

C. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe humans go to hell. They believe you just die, and when the world is made into a paradise you will be resurrected back onto earth or you will survive Armageddon and the great tribulation and make the world a paradise so your loved ones can come back to this planet as a perfect paradise like the garden of eden. 

And just a side note on why I corrected any of this...

Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught to really look for the small in accuracies of people that are speaking out against them .so that they can discredit them to the congregation a.k.a. the church. Any small verbal slip up would for them be used to discredit the fact that you were even a strong participant in the congregation.  It would immediately discredit you because you weren’t using the proper wordage. It would show to them that you were not knowledgeable of the full truth; that you didn’t educate yourself fully on Jehovah‘s teachings, and that you were coming from a place of ignorance. So the wording is actually very important to them because it’s what they use to discredit anyone that goes up against them - it’s part of their teaching technique.
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