1433: ExMo Lex - Lexi McDonald
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 250 minutes
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Summary
Despite a happy facade, Lexi struggled with anxiety and perfectionism as many young LDS people do. Subjected to the lessons specifically directed towards LDS teen girls hyper-focusing on modesty and sexual purity along with the belief that LDS men who serve missions were always trustworthy, Lexi blames herself when she is assaulted as a teen by a returned missionary. This turns into hyper-vigilance as a newlywed and mother, even going as far as to use a marker to “censor” cleavage on cartoon characters on a family board game!
Things started to unravel for Lexi when a trusted Bishop is arrested for sexually assaulting minors in her ward and when a close friend starts questioning the Church. Hoping to help her friend and shore up her own shaken testimony, Lexi starts researching LDS Church history and truth claims with devastating results. An early conversation with her father during this time wakes Lexi up to the harm silence causes and gives her the courage to start speaking out and speaking up.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:03.8 | John DeLin. It is May 21st, 2021. And we are recording here in the Mormon Stories Podcast |
| 0:09.8 | Studios in Holiday Utah. And I am super over the moon excited to have our guest today. |
| 0:16.1 | Our guest is the X-Molex or Lexi McDonnell. Welcome Lexi. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi, thanks for having me. So good to have you. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you. I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:24.3 | Yeah. For those of you who don't know, for the three of you who don't know, X-Molex |
| 0:28.6 | is a YouTube sensation and now a TikTok sensation. But she probably is the leader. |
| 0:35.5 | I mean, Mormon Stories does okay. Self on the shelf is amazing. There are other ones coming up, |
| 0:40.4 | up in comers. Of course, Jimmy Snow is amazing. But X-Molex kind of, you kind of dominate |
| 0:46.7 | the X Mormon YouTube world. Is that fair to say or not? |
| 0:49.3 | I don't think so. I don't think so. But one thing is for sure is Lexi's super love. |
| 0:55.5 | Like at some point you mentioned that you might come on Mormon Stories. And I got a barrage |
| 0:59.5 | of messages from her followers saying, you got to interview Lexi McDonnell. So welcome to |
| 1:04.6 | Mormon Stories. |
| 1:05.6 | Thank you. It's happy to be here. Super exciting. This was kind of where my X-Mormon journey |
| 1:11.1 | started. So it's really surreal being here to be interviewed. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah. And we're going to just be doing the traditional faith journey. So that's what |
| 1:19.0 | we're in for Lexi McDonnell's faith journey. She's a powerhouse on social media. But she's |
| 1:25.2 | got, like all of us, a really cool story behind it. And if that weren't enough, we also |
| 1:32.6 | have Cara Burrell back in studio, nuance ho on TikTok and on YouTube. |
| 1:37.9 | Yeah, I just started my YouTube channel. So with Samantha Shelley. It's called my new, |
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