Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It is August 23rd

2021 and I am so incredibly excited for today's Mormon Stories podcast episode. Today we have

Mormon music EFY royalty in the studio. We have the Jesse Funk. Hey Jesse Funk. Hi

Thanks for joining us. I'm so happy to be here. So

some of you, many of you will know who Jesse Funk is. I have a couple close friends who actually took music

at least one who took music lessons from Jesse way back when but long story short, Jesse Funk worked in kind of the Mormon

slash EFY slash music entertainment industry for many many years and she's also kind of sung on the Broadway level.

I know she was in the touring company Fuluse and she's got several albums. She's published several books. She's led nonprofits.

She is a mental health professional like Jesse Funk is super cool on so many levels and

she just recently led a really incredible event sort of an EFY especially for youth for post Mormon children in

in Bear Lake that I was able to attend and Jesus cool for so many reasons. Jesse Funk tell us just quickly kind of your background just to have a sense for all the things you've done over the years professionally.

I think you covered it John. That was an amazing introduction. So yeah, I mean just really started out wanting to be a singer and and I

were going to talk about it. I signed a record deal and I was 15 like wanted to be a pop star but that was

too materialistic you know so many people accused me of being worldly and so kind of the shame of that led me to going into LDS music and

yeah did three LDS albums and then a few what were they called or some of them first one was Klan his hands second one was better than I the third one was called everything speaks his name.

Okay, these like on Spotify right now I'm not sure that's an excellent question and Deseret book never liked me would always try to not have my music available but sometimes they're available there.

And did you perform any FY CDs? I did five EFY albums. You did five EFY albums. Are there songs that you remember that people might know that you sang?

I'm not sure. I think that was one year where that was like the theme so I got to do the theme song.

That's a big deal. Yeah. You need the number one. So you sang on five EFY albums. That's amazing. Yeah, it was super fun. I'm very grateful for all those experiences taught me a lot.

And you've written books too. Yeah. What are some of your books? They're kind of self help books for teenagers. Teenagers are just my thing. So I've been working with teenagers for 18 years and I'm a therapist now.

But I've been a life coach for about 16 years and and yeah, decided to get a degree in it. So yeah.

And today we're going to be hearing Jesse Funk's Mormon story and I'm super excited about that. But before we begin, I just wanted to do a quick public service announcement because you are holding an event for post Mormon women this week and there's still a few registration spots open. Let me just be clear.

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