1046: Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young - From Fear Into Joy (Part 1) Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

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🗓️ 16 January 2019

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Join us now on Mormon Stories Podcast for part 1 of our interview with Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young. In this portion Leah and Cody will discuss their lives growing up devout LDS, getting married, Cody attending medical school, serving in the church, starting their young family and Leah starting her own business - and how all of this culminated in a Mormon faith crisis. Later, Brinley (15) will join us to discuss her family’s Mormon journey from a teen perspective.

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0:48.1	So yeah, you're living the patriarchal Mormon dream in the order. You're a little bit,
0:54.0	a little bit of an orthodox in the sense that you're working a part-time job outside the
0:58.4	home. Although I don't know that that's totally an orthodox, I think. Yeah, fitness. I mean, no, in Utah,
1:05.8	many people can't afford to live on a single income. So I knew growing up, women who had
1:12.3	daycares on the side or who sell the sold essential oils or whatever it was at the time. Yeah,
1:18.8	I don't think it's totally an orthodox. Yeah, no, I don't think so. But it's a little bit,
1:23.2	but you're living the Mormon dream that's patriarchal. How does that affect intimacy between you,
1:29.3	emotional and even physical intimacy to the extent that you think it's relevant and we're sharing?
1:36.6	Well, I think that when I don't think I would have even used the name,
1:41.3	well, I didn't even really, I couldn't have vocalized what patriarch he was until I started
1:48.7	my new business and that was about three years ago now. Okay. And that's really when things started
1:54.4	to become, I started to feel like more aware of patriarchy. And again, I don't even know if I could
2:01.2	have given it that title, but just there were some challenges with really starting my own business
2:07.0	that I don't really want to spend a whole lot of time on because there's so many good things to get
2:10.3	to. But when, yeah, I don't know if I should go into when you had your, got your calling. When I
2:24.7	started my new business, it was a really busy time for our family. My business really took off. I
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