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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John D'Alene.

It is November 4th, 2015 and I'm very excited to have with me some really special guests.

Today we're going to be interviewing Steve and Chris Holbrook and it is going to be exciting.

Now, Steve and Chris Holbrook are just really delightful individuals on their own right and so we will be talking a bit about their journeys.

This is going to be a Mormon Stories episode but also this is going to be a Mormon Transitions Podcast episode.

It is sort of a dual release and those of you listening to Mormon Stories may or may not know about Mormon Transitions.

It is simply a more practical podcast to help people support them in their transition away from LDS Orthodoxy either into more unorthodox active Mormonism or inactive repression.

That is what Mormon Transitions is about. It is about helping people through that transition.

This is a dual release because we are also going to be covering the topic of community as a transitioning or post Mormon.

That is one of the main reasons we brought.

Stephen Chris weren't the founders of the Utah Valley Post Mormon community but they are amongst the leadership right now in the community.

This is significant because the Utah Valley Post Mo group has over a thousand members.

Currently, they have weekly activities from support groups to coffee meetups on Sundays.

They do karaoke, they do fun activities and it is a really important support community for transitioning and post Mormons in Utah Valley.

We believe that Mormon Transitions that community is absolutely one of the top five most critical elements to work through and to cultivate as you are trying to figure out what to do after losing your life.

This is probably the most successful post Mormon community out there that I am aware of.

Although there are some other great ones, we are going to be interviewing some folks from the Phoenix group soon and we are going to have some other surprises as well.

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