1808: Niece of 8 Passengers' Mormon "Therapist" Jodi Hildebrandt Speaks Out - Jessi Hildebrandt
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 197 minutes
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Summary
Mormon therapist Jodi Hildebrandt is in jail along with "8 Passengers" mother Ruby Franke under allegations of child abuse. Jodi Hildebrandt is the founder of ConneXions Classroom - a program created to help Mormon couples, parents, and families "transform your mental health and relationships."
Jessi Hildebrandt (they/them) is Jodi Hildebrandt's niece and outlines a deeply disturbing history with their aunt Jodi Hildebrandt.
Please join us for Jessi's story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:04.2 | Delin. It is September 7th, 2023. And today we are need deep in coverage of the eight passengers, |
| 0:13.8 | Frankie family, Jody Hilderbrand connections scandal to do a 20 second summary Mormon influencer |
| 0:22.6 | family, Frankie family, who had a wildly successful YouTube channel called eight passengers. |
| 0:29.9 | We're super popular and also concerning to many viewers who felt like Ruby Frankie in particular, |
| 0:38.2 | the mom in the family was potentially mistreating and or abusing her children as a part of her YouTube |
| 0:46.1 | channel. She later teams with Mormon therapist approved church supported Mormon therapist Jody Hilderbrand |
| 0:57.2 | and eventually Ruby Frankie shuts down her eight passengers YouTube channel teams with Jody Hilderbrand |
| 1:04.5 | of connections fame, a therapist that was long has long been recommended by the Mormon church and |
| 1:10.8 | by Mormon bishops to treat mental health issues, marital issues, parenting issues and most |
| 1:16.4 | importantly porn and masturbation issues as defined by the church. And when Ruby Frankie and Jody Hilderbrand |
| 1:26.0 | they created a channel called I believe moms of truth and started holding workshops and retreats |
| 1:32.9 | and creating videos to help Mormons throughout the world improve their relationships and have |
| 1:38.6 | better mental health and to get Mormon men specifically to stop looking at porn and masturbating. |
| 1:44.9 | And then finally just recently to a Ruby Frankie's children were found in Jody Hilderbrand's |
| 1:52.7 | basement basically being held starved and tortured. And so now Ruby Frankie and Jody Hilderbrand |
| 2:02.6 | are in prison. And for a long long time I'd say for at least four years I have personally known |
| 2:10.2 | victims of Jody Hilderbrand. They have come to me and told me that Jody Hilderbrand wrecked their |
| 2:15.8 | marriage, wrecked their family, did a lot of damage. But I you know the few times that people |
| 2:22.2 | reached out to me to tell me about Jody Hilderbrand, no one was willing to come on the air and talk |
| 2:29.0 | about it. And so there was really no way that I could cover Jody Hilderbrand without risking |
| 2:36.1 | you know defamation or whatever. So now that Jody Hilderbrand is in jail a few courageous people |
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