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How To Know When God Is Asking You To Quit (with Claire Swinarski)

How To Know When God Is Asking You To Quit (with Claire Swinarski)14. Sept.53 Min.

<p>Claire Swinarski&#39;s Catholic podcast was working. Big guests, real income, four years in. Then she felt God asking her to walk away from all of it, and she said yes without knowing what came next. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>This conversation is about how to discern when God is closing a door you love, why setting something down is not the same as failing, and what she found on the other side.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Get the free episode recap library at <a href="https://catholicwoman.co/episode-recaps" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://catholicwoman.co/episode-recaps</a></p><p><br></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>- What Saint John Paul II meant when he called for a new feminism in Evangelium Vitae</p><p>- Why so many Catholic women flinch at the word feminist and whether they should</p><p>- How the Catholic view of women differs from the evangelical teaching on women&#39;s roles</p><p>- What Claire says is genuinely evil about secular feminism and what she refuses to give up</p><p>- How she wrote the Fiat Girls book series about Saint Therese, Saint Rose of Lima, and Mother Teresa as nine year old girls</p><p>- What Pope Leo XIV teaches about artificial intelligence in Magnifica Humanitas and how Catholic writers should think about AI</p><p>- How to know when God is asking you to set down something successful and fruitful</p><p>- Why she walked away from a profitable Catholic podcast at its peak instead of building a Catholic media empire</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Connect with Claire Swinarski:</strong></p><p>Website: <a href="https://claireswinarski.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://claireswinarski.com</a></p><p>Substack:<a href="https://thecatholicfeminist.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> Letters from a Catholic Feminist</a></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/claireswinarski" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@claireswinarski</a></p><p>Preorder The Fiat Girls: <a href="https://ascensionpress.com/collections/fiat-girls " target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ascensionpress.com/collections/fiat-girls </a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Catholic Woman Podcast:</strong></p><p>Show notifications: <a href="https://catholicwoman.co/newsletter" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://catholicwoman.co/newsletter</a></p><p>Substack: <a href="https://substack.com/@thecatholicwoman" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://su