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🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 165 minutes
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We continue delving into the challenges faced by sisters JoCee and Rylee Porter, daughters of an Advisor to Ensign Peak, the controversial Mormon investment company. JoCee’s story takes center-stage in this episode as she recalls feeling the need to be her family’s “Nephi”, (golden child) as both a reaction to the turmoil caused by Rylee’s perceived rebelliousness and an intense desire to feel her father’s love and attention. However, the more she achieves, the more she feels the constriction of Mormon gender roles. JoCee describes her journey into feminism, self-determination, self-discovery, and reconciliation with her sister Rylee just as the whistleblower leaks about Ensign Peak were coming to light…
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Warmest Stories podcast. I'm your host John D'Alene. It is June 5th, |
0:07.0 | 2023 and we are here in part two of our interview with Riley and Josie Porter. Hi guys. Hello. |
0:15.8 | We just finished lunch. Riley and Josie Porter reached out to me after David Mielsen's 60 minutes interview |
0:23.4 | because the topic de jour of the past month or two has been and signed peak. |
0:29.8 | The Mormon Church is 150 plus billion dollar aggregation of assets |
0:35.3 | under the N. Sin Peak and the Secureting Exchange Commission's recent ruling, |
0:39.9 | declaring that the Mormon Church has been intentionally |
0:43.2 | deceitful in its filings of documents related to its holdings |
0:49.0 | with the Church now acknowledging that it was afraid that if the members knew how rich the |
0:54.2 | Mormon Church was, then they might stop paying tithing, which is all problematic. Anyway, |
0:59.4 | David Mielsen goes on 60 minutes, tells his story as the unsigned peak whistleblower and then |
1:05.4 | Riley and Josie Porter reach out to me and say, hey, we grew up connected to kind of Wall Street, |
1:11.9 | White collar, Mormon stockbroker elites in New Jersey and by the way, our dad, Jeff Porter, |
1:19.9 | works for Ensign Peak and has for a long time and we would love to share our perspective. So |
1:25.2 | we spent part one speaking mostly to Riley about her experience as sort of the black sheep |
1:32.9 | and I use that term in air quotes, sort of feeling like she was the black sheep in her Mormon family |
1:39.0 | that spent a lot of time in New Jersey and traveling around the US but moving to Utah |
1:45.9 | in kind of during her high school years in North Ogden and we ended part one with Riley talking |
1:54.3 | about her eventual departure from the Mormon Church and just how that affected her relationship |
2:00.9 | with the parents and just her own life and I felt like it was really beautiful ending where we kind |
2:09.2 | rehabilitated this narrative that she was a black sheep and instead in many ways she was a pioneer |
2:16.0 | and in many ways she was heroic standing up for courage. Josie grew up feeling like she was kind of |
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