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Welcome to The After Dinner Mint, the podcast for Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner
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Introducing the After Dinner Mint, the podcast for Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner, launching in March 2025. We bring Christian women in Western Australia together through honest stories. These are the stories we pass to you, along with the bread and the wine, not to make us look good, but to remind ourselves of His goodness.
Sign up to our free newsletter and Wednesdays from March - November, Stories I’d Tell You at Dinner will land in your inbox. One week, you get essays and poetry from our team of local Christian women. The alternate week, you get the latest podcast episode. We alternate interviews with local Christian women about what they have learned about God through suffering, with chatty episodes with hosts Bec, Britt, Rach, and Maddy about what we are learning about faith, hope, and the right pair of jeans.
Sign up to the Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner newsletter to get honest stories and encouragement from local women in your inbox on Wednesdays.
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Transcript
Introduction to 'The After Dinner Mint' Podcast
00:00:01
Rebecca Fergie
Hey friends, I'm Bec Fergie and welcome to the After Dinner Mint, the podcast of Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner We are Christian women in Western Australia sharing honest stories with other women. These are the stories we would tell you at dinner. These are the stories we pass to you with the bread and the wine, not to make us look good, but to remind ourselves of His goodness. We're sharing our stories first to encourage you to be brave with your friends, your church and your God.
Core Values: Vulnerability, Boundaries, and Grace
00:00:34
Rebecca Fergie
Stories I'd Tell You at Dinner is not a sermon, advice, think pieces or self-help, but sharing stories that are honest. We value vulnerability, not trauma porn Healthy boundaries are important. We share honestly, not to shame or cancel others, but with grace for the other people in our stories.
00:00:52
Rebecca Fergie
Beautiful. God made everything. He is beautiful and the source of all beauty. Scripture tells us to think about things that are true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent and praiseworthy. Hospitable. Like a dinner with friends, sometimes conversations about faith and sometimes it's about other things.
Inclusivity and Community Engagement
00:01:11
Rebecca Fergie
But our friends who don't believe yet are welcome to join us at the table. Encouraging. We want to encourage you to establish and persevere in hope faith and deep connection with the people in your real life. We love the messy imperfect local church. We love messy imperfect people. We are messy imperfect women and we need each other. So once a week from March from November, stories I'd tell you at dinner will land in your inbox on a Wednesday. One Wednesday you'll get essays, photography and poetry from our team of local Christian women.
00:01:47
Rebecca Fergie
The other Wednesday you'll get a podcast episode. The essays and poetry explore singleness, marriage, motherhood, fatality, grief, loss, caring responsibilities, like for older adults, foster kids, people with disabilities, or a sick spouse.
00:02:03
Rebecca Fergie
female friendship, mental relationships and deep connection, establishing and maintaining community, everyday hospitality and food, disability, sickness, vocation, career, rest, ministry and sustainable sacrifice and living well with technology.
00:02:22
Rebecca Fergie
So think of our podcast, The After Dinner Mint, as a conversation you have with your friends after you've had a drink, dessert and paid for your dinner. Holding your after dinner mint you spill out from the restaurant which is finally close for the night, but you stand on the sidewalk laughing with your friends and sharing more honest stories than you did at the table.
Content and Structure: Essays and Interviews
00:02:43
Rebecca Fergie
One fortnight we have an interview with a local Christian woman about what she's learned about God through suffering that she wouldn't have learned otherwise. And on the alternate fortnight we have chatty fun episodes with hosts Britt, Rach, Maddie and Bec about what we're learning.
00:02:58
Rebecca Fergie
Our team includes Amy Stopher Jill TenilleNeda Khaiah Thomson Mariah Hlatywayo Bethany Smith, Pearl Roycroft, Maddie Richards, Rachel Carter and Sarah Burt.
00:03:14
Rebecca Fergie
and our team for the After Dinner in in Mint includes Bec Fergie, Britt, Rach Steadman and Maddy Rhodes.
Supporting Local Independent Media
00:03:23
Rebecca Fergie
And if you want to know how you can support the fun, there's no media. Like magazines or online specifically for Christian women in Western Australia. This is for us. We, the writers, and you, the readers, get to grow local independent media for women together.
00:03:39
Rebecca Fergie
But to make this happen, we need your help. So you can become a free subscriber to our newsletter. We'll send you an email once a week So reply to our emails, chat to us in the comments. We'll create together. You could hit up the group chat. So like an essay, a poem or a podcast episode resonates with you, if you're encouraged or challenged,
00:04:03
Rebecca Fergie
Please chuck it in your group chat. Text it to a friend. Tell your local Facebook group. Share it on socials. Forward it to your church admin and ask for it to go in the church newsletter. If you refer one friend, your name goes in the newsletter. So maybe a subscription isn't on the cards for you. But if you read something you love, you can tip us here at Buy Me a Coffee.
00:04:24
Rebecca Fergie
or you could become a monthly paid subscriber. So for a price of a coffee a month, you can support media made with love for Christian women in Western Australia. This would help us with our startup costs like podcast recording, editing, transcribing, website hosting, website emails, all of that.
00:04:41
Rebecca Fergie
My dream is that we are able to pay all our contributors, writers, photographers, and podcast hosts. So if you become a monthly paid subscriber, I'll send you a handwritten thank you letter and a free stories I'd tell you at dinner vinyl sticker for your water bottle, laptop, or phone.
Membership and Launch Details
00:04:57
Rebecca Fergie
Or you could become a founding member where you support our mission, you get a phone call and sticker, your name on the website, and in the newsletter as a founder.
00:05:07
Rebecca Fergie
I'm really looking forward to you joining us friends. We're launching in March 2025 and we really hope that you join us.