287: Took a DNA Test, Turns Out I’m 100% Mormon | Shelise Ann Sola
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Shelise Ann Sola was born and raised in Utah with a long ancestry in Mormonism. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was the only way to the highest level of heaven and she eagerly accepted the challenge.
An unfortunate turn of events led her to feeling worthless, small, dirty and unloved. It was in those moments of desperate solitude, she finally asked herself if this is what God REALLY wanted for her.
Desperate to find the truth, she uncovered pages and pages of LDS church history that shocked her, shaking her faith in a way she had never imagined. She realized the church that she held so dear to her heart had been lying to her, her whole life.
Ten years later, she felt called to write her story in a memoir and decided to look further into the LDS history so she could accurately portray it in her book. With more and more shocking evidence unfolding, she became an ex-Mormon creator.
Determined to expose the dark underbelly of these cults, with the help of her husband Jonathan, she amplifies the voices of other survivors of high control groups on Cults to Consciousness.
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 0:20.4 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective of the survivors. |
| 0:26.8 | Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 0:29.8 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 0:34.4 | Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 0:38.7 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast. Today's guest is the host of |
| 0:43.6 | the Colts to Consciousness podcast, Shalise, Ann Sola. I was actually just recently on |
| 0:49.4 | Shalise's podcast. You can tune into that episode right now. Just visit the link in the show |
| 0:53.9 | notes of this episode, and you can go check it out right now. Just visit the link in the show notes of this |
| 0:54.8 | episode, and you can go check it out. It's a great introduction to their podcast and all the |
| 0:59.5 | amazing work that Chalice is doing over there. I wanted to bring Chalise on my show, |
| 1:05.0 | Preacher Boys, to talk about her upbringing as a Mormon. Now, I know the focus of the show |
| 1:10.4 | is primarily independent Fundamental Baptist, but I'm realizing Now, I know the focus of the show is primarily independent fundamental |
| 1:12.3 | Baptist, but I'm realizing the longer I do the show that religious fundamentalism, while the coats |
| 1:17.5 | of paint on the exterior may look different, the core teachings and beliefs and pressures and |
| 1:23.3 | mechanisms that make various religious organizations operate are largely the same. And so there's things |
| 1:29.3 | that we can learn from guests, whether it's Chalice from the Mormon church, whether it's Alice |
| 1:33.2 | Gretchen from the Pentecostal background, or whether it's cults that are completely non-religious, |
| 1:38.2 | like Nexium, which I've also covered on the show before. On this episode with |
| 1:42.4 | Chalise, I really wanted to talk about something that |
| 1:45.0 | affects many people who've grown up within religious fundamentalism. And that's the fact that |
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