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 122: Leading in Faith (re-release)
Episode 121: A Book of Her Own
Bonus episode: Femininity and Power
Episode 120: Does Your Partner Support Your Success?
Episode 119: Women in Medicine are Burning Out
Episode 118: A Year for Women?
Episode 117: Behind the Scenes at The Broad Experience
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Episode 116: The Reckoning
Episode 115: Putting Yourself First
Episode 114: My Answer is No (If That's OK With You)
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Episode 113: What's in a Name
Episode 112: Your Weight, Your Worth
Episode 111: Hiring Hell
Episode 110: Stress and the Benefits of Being Outside
Episode 109: Ambition on Hold
Episode 108: Conservative Women Speak Up
Episode 107: Expect the Unexpected
Episode 106: Authenticity vs. Conformity (re-release)
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