Ellen Snee decided to become a nun in the early ‘70s, which seemed an inopportune time. Society was changing rapidly, there were riots on her college campus, and as a friend told her, nuns and priests were abandoning convents and the priesthood, not joining. But Ellen felt a sense of mission and purpose that didn’t go away. She spent 18 mostly happy years with an international order of nuns, the Religious of the Sacred Heart.
In a stereotype-busting conversation, Ellen describes how life in a convent gave her a freedom her married girlfriends lacked, how she hoped to change the Catholic Church from the inside, and how taking a vow of chastity didn’t mean the end of her relationships with men. Since leaving the convent in the early 1990s Ellen has used her wisdom and insights within corporations, to help professional women “learn how to know what they know, how to recognize their desire, and how to pursue it.”
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Final Episode: What's Changed in Ten Years
Episode 200: You and Your Money
Episode 199: Age and Possibility
Episode 197: Facing the Music
Episode 196: Where Partner Violence Meets the Workplace
Episode 195: The Road Less Traveled
Episode 194: How to Confront Bias
Episode 193: Bucking the System
Episode 192: Better in Scandinavia (re-release)
Episode 191: Woman in Command: Life in the Army
Episode 190: Difficult Relationships: managing drama at work
Episode 189: Stop Telling Women to Find an Equal Partner
Episode 188: You vs. Burnout
Introducing Remote Works
Episode 187: Redefining success (revisited)
Episode 186: Our Obsession with Winning (and how to re-think)
Episode 185: Women Getting Paid
Episode 184: The Long Game
Episode 183: Rejection
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