• Summary

  • "Deconstructing religious baggage with laughter and love! Changing the conversation on love and inclusion." Susan Cottrell is the Mom of two LGBTQ children; the founder of FreedHearts; an international speaker with a viral TEDx talk; a pastor and theologian; an acclaimed author; and a fierce advocate and ally. In her unique tender, relatable style, Susan is a prominent voice of unconditional love and lavish inclusion. Powerful, authentic, and relevant in today’s society, Susan has a lot to say. The Advocate calls her their “Favorite Affirming Matriarch.” OutSmart magazine calls her "The Mother of all MamaBears!" Reverend Ashley Harness from Auburn Seminary says, “Susan has this fierce, loving, don’t mess with me, Mom vibe.” If you have been excluded, or if someone close to you has been excluded because of who they are or who they love - or maybe you have been the one doing the excluding - the FreedHearts podcast is for you. Join Susan, along with her husband Rob, on the journey. You are not alone. Welcome home!

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Episodes
  • Contempt for Our Free Will & For Our Children
    Apr 24 2024

    Today, we talk about how the church teaches us to have contempt for our own free will.

    And, in particular, how we have contempt for, interact with, and treat our children.

    This may sound harsh, but, based on their teachings and beliefs, it’s the truth: The religious, rules-based, behavior-focused, conservative church hates its children!

    One of the biggest brainwashing con jobs from the church is that our children are sinful and we need to break their will.

    Beloved... bullshit!

    Let’s break free from that teaching of contempt for our free will, and contempt for our children.

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    33 mins
  • Contempt for God's Love, Joy, Freedom
    Apr 17 2024

    We have started to ask the question: Who is God?

    It’s certainly NOT the old white man in the sky, with all the feminine aspects ripped out.

    Something has been stolen from us. Our sacred interior has been ransacked and we have lost the understanding of God who loves us, delights in us.

    This is vital because when we know God feels this way about us — we are free to feel this way about ourselves — and we were meant to feel this way about ourselves!

    Religion has stolen that God and replaced it with a god who is volatile, masculine, transactional, and abusive.

    Whatever bristling feeling you may have when you think about God is because you have been robbed of this full-on love fest!

    Beloved, it’s time to fix that.

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    34 mins
  • How Gender Plays Out in Real Life
    Apr 10 2024

    Today, we talk all about an example of how gender plays out in real life. How masculinity and femininity are perceived and received, and the impact it has.

    When you reduce the feminine, you reduce all the feminine traits: of caring, healing, listening, loving—which are indispensable as a balance to the masculine.

    What happens when you do that is toxic masculinity—when masculinity is not balanced by the feminine, and so it runs amok.

    Beloved, in this episode we talk about how important it is that we embrace both.

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    22 mins

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