1119: Liz Layton - Millennial Post-Mormon, Former Utah Jazz Dancer, Coping with the Suicide of Loved Ones Pt. 4

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 59 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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0:35.1	Okay so back to your story. So let's talk about your brother. Again very serious big
0:57.9	gear shift change. Did that happen while you were a jazz dancer? Yeah I found out while I was at a
1:04.0	game. So let's just talk about talk about your brother anything about his bio and his history. So my
1:09.5	brother Brian he is the oldest of all of us ten. He's the oldest. And he grew up in Utah, went to
1:18.7	alto high school, played football, very athletic, went to snow college and I can't remember if he
1:28.0	went to the University of Utah at one point. He was 20. I want to say he was 22. I know he was
1:34.2	home from his mission and married when I was born. So I missed all of that. But yeah I was at a
1:45.5	at a game and I have his daughter is very close and aged to me. She's actually more like a sister
1:52.1	to me than she is a niece and she tried calling me while we were getting ready to go out to greet
1:56.8	and that was kind of weird because she'd usually just text me. And so I reced I declined the call
2:03.2	and said hey I'm at a game what's up and she was typing and I don't really know how to explain
2:08.2	this but I kind of knew what she was going to tell me. Oh. Oh. And I was Brian was going through a
2:14.2	lot in his personal life at the time of his death and so that's so yeah what can you say about
2:21.0	what his life is like before you got the news. He was under immense pressure and I don't want to
2:29.2	go into detail but he was in a really really really hard dark space in his life and I had last
2:37.1	seen him in at the end of December at our family Christmas party and I remember feeling like I'd
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