Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host,

John DeLin. It is November 28th, 2022. And we are in the middle of a two-part epic interview

with Kelsey Edwards. Hey, Kelsey. Hi. How's it going? Good. For those who didn't join us for part

one, please pause this episode. Go back to part one and watch it. Kelsey Edwards is an actor,

a singer, a songwriter. She's known as Internet Big Sis. What is Internet Big Sis? Really quickly.

I make advice videos for teen girls. That's kind of the idea. Like I help them with like mental

health. We talk about anxiety and eating disorders, body image. Just advice videos to be the big sister

for them that I wish I had had when I was a teenager. Yeah. Yeah. Love that. Love that.

And Marty's joining us. Hey, Marty. Hey. Thanks for being here. Yes. We're back.

And just as a recap, we spent the first two and a half hours with Kelsey learning about her

Orthodox Mormon upbringing, her being raised faithfully in the church in San Antonio and eventually

in LA. And also with mom and two brothers where they were all trying to be kind of child actors,

child artists or stars. And so we talked a lot about her acting career in Los Angeles and all the

people she got to know. And that sort of thing and what it's like to be a devout Mormon who's

also trying to make it in LA in TV and movie land and dance land, etc. So just to also finish that

recap, we talked about her family kind of falling apart in her teen years, her dad leaving the Mormon

church, having an opiate addiction. And then her family, her mom trying to do the single mom thing

after getting a divorce with the Mormonism and kind of how that through their family kind of

in a poverty. And they end up in Provo where she starts dancing and competing and eventually goes

and serves a devout full time Mormon mission in Alabama loves it comes home and returns to BYU.

And starts to pursue marketing, but then decides that she wants to continue being an artist,

an actor, a musician, a dancer. So as we left off last episode, you had gotten a prestigious

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