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This season's finale is a follow-up episode of season 3’s finale “Confronting the Culture of Shame”, the most listened to episode of my podcast to date. In this episode, Crystal takes us through the aftermath of that first episode, and what has happened since. We are also joined by a special guest who shares insights from a powerful perspective.

Crystal McDonald grew up in Hawthorne, CA a suburb of Los Angeles. Attending Catholic School in Elementary and Middle School, she converted to the Catholic faith practice when she was 10 years old. Crystal found the support and love in her Catholic School that she didn’t feel in her childhood home. After moving to Olympia in the Summer of 2000 she met and Married her husband and together are raising three beautiful children. The recent COVID-19 pandemic and civil unrest of our nation has Crystal facing conflict between her personal faith in Jesus and the teachings of the Catholic Church. This conflict paired with old cultural beliefs, brought Crystal to a reckoning, and today she faces these traumas and dysfunctions by shedding light on a system of shame and taboo that has failed and continues to fail so many on all sides of the conversation.