101: Ben Decker on The Temptations of Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll on Modern Spirituality

The Light Watkins Show

Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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So this week I'm speaking with author, speaker and meditation thought leader, Mr. Ben Decker. Ben grew up as a member of the Church of the Latter-day Saints. He also began meditating and traveling the world on spiritual pilgrimages and mission trips. And then he decided to enter the priesthood as a teenager. But a battle with addiction and depression caused him to change his mind and search for a different type of career. He ended up doing a 180 by going to Los Angeles and becoming a publicis...

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0:00.0	One day I was with a friend and I was like something's changing. I can feel something really intense changing and she and I was
0:12.0	and I were smoking weed in the middle of a sunny summer day in
0:15.2	LA and we were in her backyard of the house that she inherited from her
0:19.5	grandparents and it was so overgrown and there's like decades of junk in the backyard and
0:24.7	we're clearing out the backyard and I'm like being of service helping my friend and my
0:29.5	phone rings and I look at my phone and I have this sense of dread just dropping my stomach and I have all my intuition
0:37.8	volume turned way up and I was like something really bad is happening right now and I looked at my friend and I said I don't want to
0:44.7	answer this phone call. And she's standing there with two glasses of lemonade in her
0:48.6	hand that she had just made for us and she was like her eyes filled with tears and she said something bad just happened
0:55.3	didn't it and I said yeah and she said you need to answer that call and I answered the call and it was on
1:01.2	speakerphone I said hey and it was on speakerphone and I said,
1:02.5	hey, and it was one of my clients.
1:05.8	And she was this model and she said,
1:09.5	something bad happened, Ben, something really, really bad happened. I have to give you some really really bad news.
1:15.0	Hey there it's Light Watkins.
1:20.0	Welcome back to the Light Watkins show.
1:23.2	If you are new to this podcast, I interview individuals who have gone above and beyond to be the
1:28.1	change that they want to see in the world.
1:30.6	They share their story behind the story, and what becomes clear is how they've always been on their path
1:36.8	And it's important to hear these types of stories as often as possible because it reminds us that we are also on our path whether we realize it or not
1:45.1	and just knowing that makes life a little easier to navigate. It allows us to live
1:50.0	with a little more intention and purpose and it reminds us of what's most important
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