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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast and today is a special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast because we are recording today from sunny Las Vegas, Nevada.

It is September 20th 2019 and we are so incredibly excited. This is an interview I've been waiting for for many many years, probably four years.

We are here to interview Wayne Cerman. Wayne is the lead guitarist for Imagine Dragons, he's a musician, accomplished musician, accomplished musician.

And we're here to interview Alexandra Hall who is married to Wayne and she in her own right is an accomplished dancer, Ballerina, and Mother of Three, which again is its own accomplishment in many epic ways.

And mostly I'm just delighted to be interviewing some wonderful humans and that's always what I care about most is sharing the stories of thoughtful caring people.

And so that's what we're doing today. You don't know that John. We'll find out. It's a premature.

It's a premature. We'll find out.

Thank you for that.

Really quickly part of what I'm excited about this interview, a very small part, but an important part is that many of you who are paying attention or are on social media will know that we are planning a thrive conference in November, November 17th in Salt Lake City, Utah.

This is a conference that's really important. There's a lot of, you know, when people are struggling with the church or leave the church, there can be a lot of negativity or frustration. We explore that in Mormon stories.

Thrive is all about helping people who are not Orthodox Mormon who are struggling or who have left just find healing and joy in community.

And so we're having a full day November 17th where we're going to have the some of the best speakers we can find, including Wayne sermon, just talk about different perspectives on on how to heal and grow and find community and thrive.

You know, after you leave Mormon orthodoxy and or the church and so Wayne's going to be speaking or keynoting at that event along with Amber Scora, who is the author of the book leaving the witness, X Jov's witness, amazing human from New York.

And we're going to have a lot of a fantastic lineup of other speakers again, all positive, all dedicated towards healing and growth. And so you can go to thrive beyond Mormonism.com to register.

We're operating it as a loss. There's no money that's going to be made here as far as we know. We're charging 15 bucks for the entire day. And there's probably no chance we're going to make our money back.

Just the facilities and the screen and the projector is going to cost to 20 or 30 grand. So anyway, check out thrive beyond Mormonism.com and we'd love to have you. And we're just so excited.

That Wayne, you're coming on Mormon stories along with Alex and that you're willing to share your story. So thanks guys.

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