1432: Fit2Fat2Fit - Drew Manning's Mormon Story Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Today I am honored to share the story of Drew Manning - author, TV star, and founder of the viral brand, "Fit2Fat2Fit." Join us as we continue with Part 2 of Drew's Mormon story, which will cover:
- Healing after a divorce
- Discovering meditation
- Finding new wisdom outside of the church
- Spirituality through psychedelics
- Fit2Fat2Fit and the identity crisis that followed
- Drew’s beliefs around God and an afterlife as a post Mormon
Show Notes:
- Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:03.9 | Delin. It is May 17th, 2021. And today we are super excited to have back in our studio for part two |
| 0:11.9 | Drew Manning. Hey Drew. Hey John, thanks for having me back. Thanks for coming back. My pleasure. |
| 0:17.1 | So for those who haven't checked out part one yet, go check it out. If you did, then you know |
| 0:22.3 | that Drew Manning is best known across the world as the founder of Fit to Fat to Fit. It's an |
| 0:28.8 | exercise social media platform website. There's a podcast. There's all sorts of sorts of cool stuff. |
| 0:34.3 | But we spent several hours with Drew a few days ago just talking about his Mormon story, his Mormon |
| 0:40.6 | journey. Super powerful, really vulnerable. But we didn't get enough from Drew and how could you |
| 0:46.4 | get enough from Drew? And so we have him back to talk a little bit more in the previous episode. |
| 0:53.0 | We talked about his his Mormon story, his Mormon journey. A lot of the shame that he experienced |
| 0:58.4 | as a youth growing up in a very large family. We talked about his mission, his becoming a faithful |
| 1:04.4 | Mormon, serving a mission, getting married in the temple and his Mormon marriage. And we also |
| 1:10.0 | talked about the the shame that he experienced as a Mormon boy and a Mormon youth sort of bled into |
| 1:16.0 | his marriage. And a lot of one of the most powerful things for me in the story was just hearing about |
| 1:21.8 | how shame around pornography and masturbation affected him and his marriage ended up doing a lot |
| 1:28.2 | of the typical 12-step addiction recovery stuff. But long story short, this whole shame stuff |
| 1:36.5 | was a contributing factor to the end of his marriage. He also talked a lot about his faith crisis. |
| 1:42.0 | And the way that we ended last episode was sort of with his faith crisis, him and his ex-wife, |
| 1:48.6 | leaving the church and the marriage ending. And we have so much that we wanted to cover, |
| 1:53.3 | including him rebuilding a life of healing and growth and positivity and connection. We'll talk a |
| 2:00.4 | little bit about his experimentation with psychedelics and ayahuasca, how that was formative on his |
| 2:06.8 | journey. And we also want to talk about fit-to-fat defeat. So there's a lot we want to talk about. |
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