Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts

We get some pretty amazing emails, this week we're answering them on the podcast!As we launch season two of Courageous Hearts we're mixing it up! We'll continue to dive into the world of fundamentalism and explore what it takes to leave, but we also want to embrace  positivity after a year of in depth research into  the most toxic and vile communities we've ever seen.  Changing your life is always hard, and scary, and requires a depth of courage that most of us aren't sure we have until we dip into the deep reserves of our heart. This season we're going to be asking our guests one question: What's the bravest thing you've ever done? Join us as we stand in awe of the dozens of courageous hearts we'll meet this season!If you have any questions or want to share your own story in extremism, please get in touch! You can find us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartinc / @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!Episode is LivePublished: Jul. 27, 2021 @10AM EditUnpublishAdd a TranscriptGet episode better indexed by search engines.Add Chapter MarkersListeners can tap through & see what's coming up.Create a Visual SoundbiteBest way to share to social media for engagement.Share Episode On FacebookTwitterLinkedInMore OptionsEmail Link to EpisodeDirect Link to MP3Embed this ONE EpisodeView Episode Stats

After the nearly constant onslaught of death threats from Orthodox Jews, and the exhaustion that comes with diving into a world of negativity and abuse, Jackie and I are exxxxxxhausted. As we launch season two of Courageous Hearts we're mixing it up! We'll continue to dive into the world of fundamentalism and explore what it takes to leave, but we also want to embrace  positivity after a year of in depth research into  the most toxic and vile communities we've ever seen.  Changing your life is always hard, and scary, and requires a depth of courage that most of us aren't sure we have until we dip into the deep reserves of our heart. This season we're going to be asking our guests one question: What's the bravest thing you've ever done? Join us as we stand in awe of the dozens of courageous hearts we'll meet this season!If you have any questions or want to share your own story in extremism, please get in touch! You can find us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartinc / @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Join us as we begin to explore the hidden life of Orthodox Jewish men who live secular lives in secret, with hidden cell phones, and girlfriends, and almost no plans to leave their communities.If you have any questions or want to share your own story in extremism, please get in touch! You can find us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartinc / @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Molly's story will knock your socks off. Like many, she grew up in a moderately evangelical family. The rules were clear, Jesus first, purity, and obedience. She was raised to be a wife, and when she was 20 that's what she became. Quickly she realized that this new life didn't afford her the freedom that she hoped. She married a man who went to Moody college and had his heart set on being a pastor. Molly was apprehensive to become a pastor's wife, but she was told that her dreams for herself no longer mattered now that she was yoked to her husband. Her life was meant only to support him. Listen to her story of courage and triumph, how she found her footing and made a new life. (The audio is a bit skippy in places. Bear with us, it's totally worth it to make it to the end of this one!!) If you have any questions or want to share your own story in extremism, please get in touch! You can find us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartinc / @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Purity culture took a dark turn in the early 2000’s with the popularity of Joshua Harris’s book, ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye.’ All across America evangelical churches preached the gospel of purity, made up by a 21 year old who’d never dated.Payton and her husband Andrew began their relationship with the book in mind, like thousands of others who followed advice given to them by trusted leaders. After they married and their life together progressed they realized how deeply flawed the church’s new adopted style of courting was. Listen to their story and the courageous way they struggled together to build a better life and a more authentic love.If you have any questions or want to share your own story in extremism, please get in touch! You can find us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!HUGE MASSIVE, THANKS to MEGAN MADE THESE (Megan Moore) for being our first podcast sponsor. Megan is a 30-something maker in Iowa and LONGTIME friend of the podcast (seriously, she’s been here since the day before the first day when I needed someone to encourage me to press ‘publish’). Her go-to projects are peg dolls, earrings, watercolor cards and prints, and home decor. She is also always up for the challenge of a custom design or custom order. but I swear, words don’t do her work justice, my kids have had a few of her peg doll figures for three years and they look brand new. Recently she launched her business and y’all, it’s booming. You can check out all of her creations on Facebook (MEGAN MADE THESE) and Instagram (@meganmadethese). For real, go there right now, tell her Callie sent you! 

Sheeeee's back, bitches!!! After a slight hiatus we welcome back my bestie, Jackie!! Home (fucking finally) from tax land. Join us as we gush over missing one another and also dip our toes into the extreme parts of Christianity beginning with the toxic purity culture that ran rampant in the late 90's and early 00's. Joshua Harris, True Love Waits, Purity balls, OH MY!!If you have any questions or want to share your own story in extremism, please get in touch! You can find us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!HUGE MASSIVE, THANKS to MEGAN MADE THESE (Megan Moore) for being our first podcast sponsor. Megan is a 30-something maker in Iowa and LONGTIME friend of the podcast (seriously, she’s been here since the day before the first day when I needed someone to encourage me to press ‘publish’). Her go-to projects are peg dolls, earrings, watercolor cards and prints, and home decor. She is also always up for the challenge of a custom design or custom order. but I swear, words don’t do her work justice, my kids have had a few of her peg doll figures for three years and they look brand new. Recently she launched her business and y’all, it’s booming. You can check out all of her creations on Facebook (MEGAN MADE THESE) and Instagram (@meganmadethese). For real, go there right now, tell her Callie sent you! 

Meet Nava, one of the wonderful women working hard behind the scenes to make our podcast and nonprofit everything it can be. Join us as we talk about religious trauma syndrome, our own journeys in and out of religion, and so much more! I can’t wait for the you to get to know the force behind our support groups, and the badass that does her best to keep me on track with social media posts!! If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

We're so honored to introduce you to Emily, a woman who courageously endured an abusive marriage while kept in a cage of religious extremism. A woman who fought to survive and built a life on the other side of abuse. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Just wait until you meet Charlotte. Raised in the midwest by parents and grandparents who were atheists, she found her own way to Christianity. As we've learned though, when your heart and mind is open, the journey rarely stops there. Listen to her story, as she took courageous steps to leave an abusive marriage and discovered who God is and what she's capable of. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

We've got a great one for you today, folks! As we start to branch out into other fundamentalist groups I sat down with Avery (my cousin!!) to talk about our journeys out of the Evangelical Christianity we were both born into. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Would you like to meet one of my favorite people?Honestly, my personal endorsement should be enough, but just in case:Allie is a badass. She’s the kind of girl who sees a problem and figures out the solution without waiting around to ask why someone hasn’t done it already. She, along with her sister Kate (the first woman we interviewed on the podcast!!) fought to save their little sisters from the abusive mother that no one was courageous enough to save them from. Surrounded by obstacles and plagued by the guilt religious leaders laid on their weary backs,  they fought. With little money and support and all the burdens of college and their own lives, fresh from the corruption of orthodoxy, they prevailed. Allie’s story is one we can all learn from. She and her sister are the very best kind of people, they were beat down and hurt and given no help, they had to claw their way into a better a life and through that, somehow, they never lost a bit of kindness or let bitterness grow within them. They’re full of grace and love like no one I’ve ever met. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

It may not be the most wonderful time of year for most of us, but it's certainly one we've needed to spend a lot of time talking about and processing with each other! Join (friend of the show) Yael and I (Callie) as we walk down memory lane remembering Passovers of years past, the things we miss, the things we don't miss....and get distracted (as usual!). We can't replace your old memories, but we can help you find a way to make new ones, and remind you that you're not alone.If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Noelle is the daughter of a Baal teshuva (a Jew who grew up non religious) father and a convert mother, when her family left modern orthodoxy and moved towards a more strict yeshivish lifestyle she struggled under the weight of what that difference meant in her daily life. When her family's rabbi decided that her mother's conversion was invalid and that she and her siblings would need to convert, it rocked her world. Noelle's courage as she worked through her issues with Judaism, a skewed view of her body due to years of religious oppression, and discovering a sexuality that she didn't even know was a possibility is nothing short of awe inspiring. Noelle is a warrior whose first victory was saving herself. She will no doubt help save countless others. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Join us as we embark on episode 1 of our sex education series! Oh yeah, we're going there. So many of us who were raised with religion weren't given the tools to safely and responsibly approach sex. Luckily I (Callie) was raised with one kick ass sister who has never once balked at a question or funny anecdote (and y'all there have been MANY). Special thanks to my fantastic older (by like, yeeeears) sister, Chelsea. Send in your questions and comments for our follow up Q&A episode. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Stamford Hill is located in a small borough of London and home to the largest Hasidic Jewish Population in Europe. The roughly 68,000 people who live there make it their life's mission to raise invisible walls that shut out the world beyond the two square miles of their community. Leah was raised there, kept hidden away because she was different, then was married off quickly with the hope that she'd fall in line. But Leah was born with an inquisitiveness that couldn't be stifled by being locked away in an attic or married to a man she didn't know. She was born into a life she didn't want, and as so many women have before her, and will after, she did her best with what she had and blazed a new path for herself and her child. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

We've told you why we left, but a question we've gotten over and over is: what does life look like now? There's a common belief in the orthodox world that anyone who leave regrets it. Listen to find out if we do. (Spoiler alert: if the answer was 'yes' then running a podcast and nonprofit to help women and men transition out would be a horrible idea!)If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

This week on Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts we're sharing Yohanan's Story. If you listened to our last featured story, you've already met his wife, Shifra. The couple left one of the most extreme ultra orthodox Jewish communities in the world, not knowing much English, much less how they would survive in a world completely alien to the cloistered one they left. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Yeah... we're going there. Buckle up for our breakdown of Haredi Judaism as we begin to explain the differences between sects of ultra Orthodoxy. For sure don't join us if you're hoping for a scholarly approach to this bullshit...I mean, have you met us?? We're not professionals. We're just shining a light on corruption and hoping it makes a small difference. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

Meet Shifra, a woman who grew up in Kiryas Tosh, a Hasidic village north of Montreal, Quebec. Once married she began to yearn for a community that was more breathable, one where she could become herself in a way that wasn't allowed in the cloistered yiddish speaking world she didn't fit into. As she took steps away with her husband, community leaders and her family tried to pull her back, and fought the young couple every inch of the way. The courage it took her to leave is astounding. As she stepped into a world she didn't know how to navigate she had to learn a new language, and adapt to new customs in a place like a foreign country to her, even though it was only 25 miles from where she lived all her life. Listen and be inspired and reminded that no matter the odds, no matter who says 'no,' the life you want is only a few hard decisions away. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

This week Jackie and Callie talk about the Jewish High Holidays with the standard irreverence and profanity that you've come to know and love...or at least tolerate. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

This week we're so honored to share Judy's story with you. Judy is a young woman who was adopted by a Chassidish family as an infant and never felt that she fit into a world of long skirts and bowed heads. As so many before her she was married off at a young age, and only then realized that she couldn't pretend any longer. Listen and hear her story of overcoming a life that was never hers, and addiction that she used to cope. There are so many that won't get the chance to leave, who aren't sure if the risks are worth freedom from the chains that bind them. Judy stared down a dark road and took one step after another, and found the light.If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! If you like what we do and want to contribute to our efforts in supporting those who leave fundamentalism, you can find CourageousHeartsPodcast on Patreon and by becoming a contributor will have access to additional weekly content!Thanks for listening!

This week we're so happy to feature Raena's story. She's a woman that both Jackie and I (Callie) were honored to know and we so enjoyed getting the chance to sit down with her and catch up. Enjoy!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Thanks for listening!

You guys know how we love a good rant? Well, lately we've heard a lot of complaints from Orthodox Jews who say that there aren't really marriage expectations put on young women and men. Gaslighting like that can really hit those who leave hard, it makes them question if what they experienced was real or if maybe those who are still wrapped up in fundamentalism are right. So for this episode I interviewed 25 people who are at various points in their observance and Jackie and I discuss why the claim that there are realistic expectations put on women and men is absolute bullshit. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we get the chance to share one of our earliest interviews with you and share Margaret's story. She's a woman of immense perseverance who grew up in an ultra orthodox home and finding that it didn't sit right with her soul, stepped away and chartered her own course. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we talk about what it means to keep Shabbos, the 25 hour Jewish day of rest that culminates the week. We get into where it came from, the laws prohibiting work, and how much preparation goes into cooking several meals. The 39 Melachot (forms of work that are prohibited) we mentioned in the episode are: SowingPlowingReapingGathering and BindingThreshingWinnowingSelectingGrindingSiftingKneadingBakingShearing WoolCleaningCombingDyeingSpinningStretching the ThreadsMaking LoopsWeaving ThreadsSeparating the ThreadsTying a KnotUntying a KnotSewingTearingTrappingSlaughteringSkinningTanningSmoothingRuling LinesCuttingWritingErasingBuildingBreaking DownExtinguishing a FireKindling a FireStriking the Final Hammer BlowCarryingThanks for listening!!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!The holidays can be hard, no? Just me? So we thought that you could use a bonus episode! This week we sit down with our first male interview! Nathan seemed like a great choice, as my ex husband, and because he's stuck at my house today while the turkey finishes cooking! Listen in as he talks about how I pulled him away from Judaism and off the derech. Tune in for our regularly scheduled Tuesday episode next week when Jackie and I talk all things Shabbos (the Sabbath), and I change the intro to include men...which I would have done today if I'd had any forethought ;) If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we are thrilled to chat with Danielle, one of the strongest women we've met who walks us through her journey in Orthodox Judaism. Danielle is an Israel based mom of four, family therapist and Krav Maga Instructor. With over 15 years of experience strengthening and empowering her clients, she has pioneered a modern day therapy infusing talk therapy with boxing. Boxing therapy as she calls it, is hugely successful for emotional expression, healing, trauma, the sky is the limit! Currently she helps teenagers and those suffering from abuse or trauma through boxing therapy in her office in modiin and worldwide on zoom.You can contact Danielle to see if Boxing therapy is right for you at 972 58 725-2372And ladies, you can join her morning kickboxing classes, which offer 40 minutes of high powered working out and positivity!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!If you're interested in bitching at us because we missed something and you think we sound irreverent... you may have sorely misunderstood the point of this podcast. (I'd write more, but there's bacon grease all over my fingers and I don't want it to ruin my keyboard.) If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we're breaking down what it means to keep kosher. The point of these 'topic' episodes are twofold. On one hand, we've found that it's really great for those of us who left Ultra Orthodoxy to be able to talk out some of the bigger themes that once made up our lives. It helps us to feel connected, it helps validate experiences that sometimes felt so extreme that in retrospect we wonder if anyone else felt what we did. Also, since starting this podcast we've been amazed at the number of people who come to it without prior knowledge of Judaism. We are SO glad you're tuning in and we want to make sure that you're listening to the 'story' episodes withers much background information as we can give you! If there are any topics that you would like covered, let us know!Now, before you click download please remember that our goal isn't to teach you exactly how you'd keep kosher, or to cover all the finer points. If you're interested in learning about it further, get in touch and we'll forward you some great resources! If you're interested in bitching at us because we missed something and you think we sound irreverent... you may have sorely misunderstood the point of this podcast. (I'd write more, but there's bacon grease all over my fingers and I don't want it to ruin my keyboard.) If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available THIS WEEK!! Are you pumped?! You should be pumped!!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we are thrilled to introduce you to an anonymous brave heart who asked to share her story with you. We call her Avigayil, a pseudonym, but her name isn't what's most important about the triumphant tale she tells, what matters most is her courage and perseverance to live a better life. ***Please be aware that she walks us through hard topics, and goes into some detail about sexual abuse. We urge you to skip this episode if you don't feel 100% prepared for it or if you're not in a completely healthy mental state (we've all been there. There are times when we're not in the right frame of mind to hear certain things)***If after hearing Avigayil's story you need to talk, reach out, that's why we're here. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please get in touch on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Keep an eye out for us on Patreon, we'll be launching bonus content and extra weekly episodes available soon!!Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

Did you notice that we didn't release an episode last week?! You're not the only one!! In this mini, my ex husband Nathan introduces himself and tells you how angry he is that I talk about him week by week by week. ;) Interested in hearing more men give us their stories? Let us know!! If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we got the chance to sit down with Joy Wagner, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Wisconsin and talk about the benefits of therapy and how to find the right therapist.To get in touch with Joy at Healing Relationships call 920-234-8080 or contact her through her website at www.healingrelationshipswi.comIf you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we get the chance to chat with Julia in Israel, an amazingly brilliant woman who was born into modern orthodoxy and became ultra orthodox as a teenager then found her place in religious Judaism after a painful divorce. Julia is a self-defense instructor in Israel and online worldwide, teaching Taekwondo, Krav Maga in both fitness and therapeutic settings. She is available for group instruction as well as paired or one-on-one sessions. To find out more, contact her at: https://www.facebook.com/selfdefensesayyestolife/?modal=admin_todo_tourApologies for the audio blips, and thanks for your patience as we get all the kinks worked out! If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

Well, we knew it was going to happen...everyone doesn't love us (shocking, I know)! Unfortunately the line between disagreement and harassment has been blurred so this week we wanted to take some time away from our regularly scheduled episode to reiterate exactly what we're doing with this platform, and how you can (and can't) respectfully disagree with us!If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week, Callie and Jackie talk about shidduch dating and marriage in the Ultra Orthodox Jewish world. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week we're sitting down with Yael, a woman who left her community and forged a new life and relationship with Judaism on her own terms. Apologies for the audio quality on Callie's mic for this one! Thanks for your patience as we get all the kinks worked out! If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

This week, we're talking about Jewish Family Purity Laws (Taharat HaMishpacha)! Jewish law prohibits contact of any kind between a man and wife while she is menstruating (yes, really) as you can imagine this complicates life immensely and we're here to tell you all about it! This is the second episode in our 'chat' series where we delve into the often misunderstood laws of Ultra Orthodox Judaism. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

**Please be aware that this episode touches on abuse and topics that may be upsetting for some to hear. We hope that you will consider skipping it if you don't feel emotionally equipped to handle someone else's trauma. We've all been there.** In our fifth episode we get the opportunity to sit down with Kate, a twenty two year old Engineering student who fought her way out of the Ultra Orthodox Jewish Community she was put into with grace and grit, and led the way for her sisters to lead healthier and happier lives.If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks again for listening, we hope to talk to you soon!

This week, Callie and Jackie talk all things Tznius (Modesty)! Nothing is more all encompassing in an Orthodox Jewish woman's life than the strive to fit in to her community's standard of modesty. We thought this would be the perfect place to begin our 'chat' series where we delve into the often misunderstood laws of Ultra Orthodox Judaism. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks for listening!

Welcome!! We're so excited that you're here. In our third episode Callie tells her story of finding and leaving the Ultra Orthodox Community. If you have any questions or want to share your own story, please reach out to us on: Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks again for listening, we hope to talk to you soon!**Please be aware that this episode touches on abuse and topics that may be upsetting for some to hear. We hope that you will consider skipping it if you don't feel emotionally equipped to handle someone else's trauma. We've all been there.**

Welcome!! We're so excited that you're here. In our second episode Jackie tells her story of finding and leaving the Ultra Orthodox Community. Please feel free to reach out on Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks again for listening, we hope to talk to you soon!

Welcome!! We're so excited that you're here. In our first episode we lay out our goals for the podcast as two friends who left the same fundamentalist community. Please feel free to reach out on Email: Courageousheartspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @Courageousheartspodcast twitter: @Calliewriting Patreon: CourageousHeartsPodcast or join our private Facebook group The Untold Stories of Courageous Hearts Podcast to get in on the conversation! Edited with the patience and wizardry of Jon Coder!Thanks again for listening, we hope to talk to you soon!