1430: Redefining Masculinity - Lance Allred
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 184 minutes
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Summary
Join me today for this truly inspiring interview with Lance Allred, the grandson of Rulon C. Allred - the prophet of a fundamentalist polygamous sect called the “Apostolic United Brethren." In addition to this, Lance is the first legally-deaf player in NBA history, an inspirational speaker (including a highly successful TedX presentation, "What is Your Polygamy?"), and celebrated author of six books, including his most recent publication, “The New Alpha Male: How to Win the Game When the Rules are Changing.”
Join along as we discuss the concepts of misogyny, toxic masculinity, how they function within religions, and how we can begin to combat and "unlearn" these unhealthy habits.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:03.8 | Delin. It is April 26th, 2021. And today I am super excited to have back on Mormon Stories |
| 0:11.2 | podcast, a familiar face to me and hopefully to some of you to Dan bringing back none other |
| 0:17.0 | than Lance already. Hey Lance. It's good to be back, John. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:20.8 | So great to have you. So those of you who have been long time Mormon Stories podcast fans |
| 0:25.8 | will remember Lance. I had him on several years ago. Lance came from a fundamentalist Mormon background |
| 0:32.6 | as the grandson of the founder of the Rulan Allred of the Allred group, which is one of the main |
| 0:39.6 | fundamentalist offshoots. He was raised in Montana. He was born deaf, super tall. And eventually |
| 0:47.6 | he became a college basketball player played at the University of Utah under Rick Majeris. |
| 0:53.8 | And then he had a goal of becoming a professional basketball player. He played for both the Cleveland |
| 0:59.6 | Cavaliers with LeBron James and for the Indiana Pacers. But he also had like a 10 year professional |
| 1:05.3 | basketball career playing all around the world. Yeah. Lots of fun places. And that's just |
| 1:10.5 | the beginning because he also is the author of four or five books. Some of the books include |
| 1:16.7 | Longshot, The Adventures of a Deaf Fundamentalist Mormon kid and his journey to the NBA basketball |
| 1:22.7 | gods, the transformation of the Enlightened Jock. And recently a couple years ago, he gave |
| 1:28.8 | a TEDx talk at Salt Lake City or University of Utah TEDx. It's got between three and four |
| 1:34.6 | million views now. Yeah. Received really well. It's one of the best, I think most viewed TED |
| 1:40.4 | talks ever come out of kind of Mormonism or fundamentalist Mormonism called What Is Your |
| 1:44.9 | Polygamy? And then he went on to write a book called How to Give the Million View TEDx |
| 1:50.8 | Talk. What Is Your Polygamy? So he's a mover to Shaker. He's also a public speaker. He |
| 1:56.4 | travels around the country and I'm guessing world as a paid motivational speaker. And the |
| 2:02.3 | reason why we brought him on more massage podcasts today is because right before COVID, he came |
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