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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast.

I'm your host John D'Alene.

It is November 16th, 2019.

It's Thrive Eve.

We are here this weekend for our first annual Thrive Day celebration, which is tomorrow

November 17th here in Salt Lake City.

We now have 1,600 people registered for our first Thrive Day event.

We've never done this before but we created an all day event focused on healing and growth

for people who are no longer either Orthodox Mormons or who have left the Mormon Church.

But what's different about it, what's exciting about it is Thrive Day is 100% dedicated

to healing and growth and community and it's kind of answering the question of what

next after Mormon Orthodoxy or after Mormonism.

So we have an amazing array of speakers.

Plan for tomorrow as many of you know, it's key noted by Wayne Sermon, the lead guitarist

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