1116: Liz Layton - Millennial Post-Mormon, Former Utah Jazz Dancer, Coping with the Suicide of Loved Ones Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this Mormon Stories Podcast episode we interview Liz Layton. Liz has experienced much accomplishment and tragedy in her life as a millennial post-Mormon. This includes becoming a professional dancer for the Utah Jazz, but also includes the loss of her orthodox Mormon faith, two divorces, and the death of two of her siblings due to suicide.
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| 0:48.4 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. |
| 0:54.0 | It is May 17th, 2019. We are broadcasting to you on a rainy day live from the Mormon Stories |
| 1:02.3 | Studios podcast in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am really excited for today's interview. We, |
| 1:12.9 | this is someone that I've known for a few years, someone who I've want to interview for a few years |
| 1:18.8 | and now is the right time. I am super excited today to be interviewing Liz Layton. |
| 1:26.0 | Not sure how many of you will know of Liz, but Liz is super cool but more importantly, |
| 1:33.6 | super courageous to be willing to tell her story. Liz, as I recall, I was raised in Utah, |
| 1:41.6 | I became a professional dancer, danced for the Utah Jazz as a cheerleader for them. |
| 1:50.2 | But the reason why she wanted to come on Mormon Stories is because she has a particularly unique |
| 1:57.8 | inspiring and in some ways tragic but redeeming story as a someone who's raised Mormon, |
| 2:06.0 | raised of Adam believing but who eventually has been through a lot as a millennial. |
| 2:15.7 | Two marriages and divorces. I know the first one had to do with her face, faith crisis. We're |
| 2:21.3 | going to be talking about that. She has also lost, I believe, six people close to her to suicide |
| 2:29.8 | here in Utah, including two of her own siblings and a sister-in-law. She is really passionate |
| 2:39.2 | about suicide awareness and talking about it and helping others help and to prevent suicide but |
| 2:46.6 | also to help people cope with loved ones who have committed suicide or died by suicide is the right |
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