454: Josh Hanagarne on Tourette Syndrome, Faith, Family, and being the World's Strongest Librarian

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Josh Hanagarne is a father, husband, avid reader, librarian, weight lifter extraordinaire, and the author of the amazing book The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family. In this podcast, Heather Olson Beal and John Dehlin interview Josh about his childhood and adolescence, his Tourette’s diagnosis and treatment, his LDS mission experience, his marriage and family, his educational and work experiences, his body building experiences, and his faith/spirituality. Josh is open, honest, and frank about all of the above. The book is delightful and thought-provoking and full of humanity and beauty. We can’t rave about it enough.

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0:00.0	One, two, three.
0:02.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of
0:31.5	Mormon Stories Book Club. This is Heather Beale and I'm happy to be here
0:36.4	tonight with another really cool book and with John DeLin who you all know
0:41.6	and love. Want to say hi John? Hey Heather. I'm just trying to pretend that
0:46.6	you're like a guest on your own podcast. That's awesome. I'm a guest. Yeah that's
0:51.1	right. I'm honored to be here with you today Heather. And we're here with Josh
0:54.8	Hannah Garnie. Did I get it Josh? You got it. First time anybody's nailed it. Good
1:00.0	work. Yay. And Josh is the author of the World Strongest Librarian, a
1:04.6	member of Tourette's Faith, Strength and the Power of Family. And I just
1:11.3	I'll say it many times I guess I just finished the book last week and I loved
1:15.1	it so much that I could probably like embarrass myself on this podcast by
1:19.2	like just oooing and owing. Yeah I just loved it and I've been telling
1:25.2	everybody I just read the coolest book that just has everything it talks about
1:31.1	religion it talks about being Mormon but I think it appeals to a much wider
1:34.3	audience than just Mormons it talks about a mission Tourette Syndrome,
1:39.2	marriage, faith crisis, fertility problems, post-secondary education, weight
1:46.0	lifting. I mean yeah it's just it's an amazing book so I love it and I'm
1:50.7	excited to be here tonight and get to know a little bit more about you Josh.
1:54.3	Okay my pleasure and if you want to embarrass yourself going on and on about it
1:59.2	feel free. Okay I will for real. I put a comment on a couple of Facebook groups a
2:07.4	couple hours ago and said hey John and I are getting ready to do this podcast
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