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Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Mental Health

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! In this episode Valerie introduces you to Mark Crego, fellow Latter-day Saint seeker, whose own many-decades-long faith journey led him to create a not-for-profit organization to help those in faith crisis in the LDS church get the resources they need. In the episode Mark's passion to help others is fueled by the memory of being a young man with questions and nowhere to take them and no community to normalize (or even celebrate) his growth. Those who do...

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0:48.9	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie, and I am excited to have a guest on our show today.
0:57.3	Hello, Mark Frigo.
0:59.6	How are you, my friend?
1:01.1	I'm wonderful today.
1:02.3	It's great to be here with you.
1:04.2	It is really exciting to be here with you all.
1:06.6	I want to share a little bit with you all about Mark as we sort of set this conversation up.
1:11.9	He is someone who is just, I think, I'm going to go ahead and just be very cheesy here to get us going.
1:17.9	Answer to a prayer for me.
1:20.4	When we started the Latter Day Struggles platform and podcast in 2022, it was really, it was a side project. It wasn't something that I ever intended to
1:30.3	so significantly change my life and the life of my family. And just in time, as this unfolded
1:39.7	in the years, you know, changed things for us. Mark came onto the scene and has been just very,
1:47.3	very instrumental in helping the Latter Day Struggles podcast and platform and me and Nathan.
1:54.3	He's just been such a support because of a passion project that he has.
1:58.5	And that's why I have invited him onto the show today
2:02.6	so that you can better understand who he is
2:05.0	and what his passion project is.
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