1506: Cody Alan’s Mormon Story
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
Mormon Stories is honored to sit down with Cody Alan, host and producer of CMT Radio in Nashville, TN. In this fun and heartfelt interview, we discuss Cody's conversion to the LDS church as well as his suppression and acceptance of his gay identity. Cody shares so much wisdom with us and we hear some fun stories about his life in country radio and the musical artists who have supported him through this long and hard journey to come out. We hope you enjoy our interview with Cody and support him by purchasing a copy of his new book, "Hear's the Thing: Lessons on Listening, Life, and Love".
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:05.0 | Dr. John Dillin. It's November 19th, 2021, and we are so incredibly excited for today's |
| 0:12.6 | guest. Today we have in studio a real kind of legend. I think his name is for those of |
| 0:20.0 | you for the three of you who don't know his name is Cody Allen. Hey, Cody. Hello. Welcome |
| 0:24.6 | to Mormon Stories podcast. John is so good to be here. Thank you for having me. This |
| 0:28.0 | is like years in the making that I would have the chance to be on Mormon Stories and share |
| 0:33.7 | my story. And so I'm thrilled to be here. I'm a fan first of all. I want you to know that. |
| 0:38.7 | Like I love what you do. I love the podcast. And right after I came out, people should know |
| 0:44.4 | you called and said, hey, don't you want to come in? I was like, oh, God, I really want |
| 0:47.8 | to, John. But I, and that was 2017. And I'm like, I need to like get myself right first. |
| 0:54.1 | It was such an overwhelming moment. And I wanted to make sure I could tell the story in full |
| 0:59.6 | and feel good about it. And so I had, I wrote a book which made me feel much better about |
| 1:05.0 | it. And, uh, and about talking more about my faith, struggle, and about my journey, about |
| 1:11.9 | my family. And so the culmination of all those things has sort of led me now to this moment |
| 1:17.0 | where we can get together and have this chat finally. So thank you again for having me. |
| 1:20.9 | That pleasure. We have a mutual friend, Jeremy, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Shout out to Jeremy. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah. And we are here. I just finished this morning an amazing new book. You've been |
| 1:31.0 | going around the country kind of promoting this book. I think you're even on Good Morning |
| 1:34.8 | America, right? Yeah. We did New York and did the day show and today show. Yeah. The Hoda |
| 1:40.1 | and I love Gail King. We met up. She's become a friend of mine over the years. And had |
| 1:48.0 | dinner with Gail and she's reading the book. And I got everybody reading the book. So |
| 1:51.9 | which is a good thing. So the book is here's the thing, uh, lessons on listening life and |
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