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Today on Up+Adam, we’re joined by Sister Monica Clare — nun, author, viral TikTok star, and living proof that sometimes your wildest detours are actually leading you home. Before she was Sister Monica Clare, she was Claudette Powell: a Southern girl with big-city dreams, an improv actor with the Groundlings, and a Hollywood professional — until a deeper calling slowly but surely rewrote the story she thought she was living. 

In her brand-new memoir, A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun, she shares the deeply human, often hilarious, and incredibly inspiring journey that led her to life at the Community of St. John Baptist. We talk faith, healing, chasing dreams, overcoming imposter syndrome, skincare secrets, and what modern sisterhood really looks like. A must-listen for anyone who's ever wondered if it's too late to change everything — or find what you were truly made for.

• Follow Sister Monica Clare on TikTok: @nunsenseforthepeople
• Order A Change of Habit here: Buy the Book on Amazon
• Learn more about the Community of St. John Baptist: csjb.org

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