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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Episode 182: Doing What Matters
Episode 181: Digital Body Language
Episode 180: A Book of Her Own (re-release)
Episode 179: Sixtyish and Loving It: Perseverance and the Midlife Career Change
Episode 178: Working Couples - Your Questions Answered
Episode 177: Couples That Work
Episode 176: Thinking Differently: Neurodiversity at Work
Episode 175: Rejecting Resilience
Episode 174: Alcohol and Work
Episode 173: A Nanny Speaks Up (re-release)
Episode 172: Speaking While Female
Episode 171: Unconventional
Episode 170: Emergency: Women in Medicine during Covid
Episode 169: Controlling the Controllable
Episode 168: Home Alone
Episode 167: Power and Body Language (re-release)
Episode 166: How to Work Better from Home - a conversation with Laura Vanderkam
Episode 165: Yes, You Can Negotiate During Covid
Episode 164: Hard Conversations
Episode 163: No Kids. Working Hard.
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