Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogelsang. We have an amazing show today.

Our guest is Al Carraway. Al Carraway is a multi-award winning public speaker who spent the last seven years traveling

the countryside, inspiring the world with her story of conversion, redemption, and finding faith.

As a popular blogger, author of the best-selling book More than the Tattooed Mormon,

which we'll be discussing today, and the recently released Cheers to Eternity.

Her messages have reached millions.

She's a native New Yorker who now lives in Utah with her sweetheart Ben and her two kids. We are in for a special treat as

Al has also agreed to read a passage from her book today. So please join me in

welcoming to the not old better show author and speaker Al Carraway. Well Al Carraway

thanks so much for joining the show today. Thanks so much for having me. I'm

excited to talk to you. I love the book. The name of the book of course is

more it's it's it's I think it's your first book but it is titled more than

the tattooed Mormon but as you look at the cover and and we'll put up a picture of the cover on the website

but it clearly emphasizes the tattooed Mormon part of the title but after reading the book you probably know where I'm going you

know after I read the book and and you and when you properly say the title you know more

than the tattooed Mormon you're not wild about being known as the tattooed Mormon. You're not wild about being known as the tattooed Mormon

exclusively are you? No no I hate that nickname it is just the worst and so I

actually had a completely different title in general for my book and I thought really hard

back and forth for about two months with my publishers because they just they wanted tattooed Mormon in there.

And so my title that it is now more than the tattooed Mormon was our compromise.

But to me, I was already labeled with this name

it was it's sort of implying that I'm more than this nickname and I'm more than

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