Drew Manning - Leaving The Mormon Church, Porn, And Getting Fit

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Talking points: Mormon religion, porn, infidelity, fitness You can tell right away Mr. Drew Manning is a kind and open man. We sat down recently to discuss talk about his journey of gaining and losing 75 pounds on purpose to better understand his clients, but it became so much more, including his departure from the religion he grew up with and how that felt, how he overcame shame, what it's like to enter the dating scene as a single dad, and much more. Health and fitness expert Drew Manning is the New York Times best-selling author of Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose and has for years been a leading voice in the burgeoning Keto Diet movement. Drew is also the creator of the A&E Show Fit to Fat to Fit and the host of The Fit2Fat2Fit Experience podcast. With over a million social media followers, Drew continues to transform people’s lives all around the world. Known for his straightforward and empathetic fitness and health coaching, Drew has been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, The View, and MSNBC, among other media outlets. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his daughters, who remind him every day not to take things too seriously. Connect with Drew -Website: https://fit2fat2fit.com/ -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fit2fat2fit/ -Twitter: https://twitter.com/fit2fat2fit -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fit2fat2fit/ This podcast is brought to you by Organifi! Plant-based nutrition that's science-backed, high quality, and something I use literally every day. Hit up the link for 20% off your next purchase here: https://www.organifi.com/mantalks Pick up my brand-new book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/ Enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they’re looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Looking to build brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Lastly, check some more free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your Relationship See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Manning Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. Join me today is Drew Manning.
0:15.8	Drew Manning gained international attention from his journey of gaining and losing 75 pounds on purpose.
0:24.2	So he decided to create an experiment for himself where he would put on this weight,
0:28.8	he would put on 75 pounds, and then he would sort of track his journey, blog about it,
0:34.4	you know, put it out into the world on the internet so that other people could sort of
0:38.6	watch his progress. And he could share his personal experience of putting on this weight and then
0:44.1	ticking it all off. It turned out to be much more challenging than he initially had expected.
0:49.3	But he wrote about it, showed his experience, and then eventually wrote in New York Times
0:53.8	bestselling book about this exact experience called Fit to Fat to Fit.
0:58.8	Now, Drew and I don't just talk about fitness.
1:01.2	We do get into weight loss, body image, body dysmorphia.
1:07.0	We do talk about how and what we can specifically do to relate to our bodies more effectively.
1:12.8	I share a little bit about my journey. But we also start off by talking about Drew's past. Drew grew up in the Mormon church and eventually left that. And so we actually start there because it's a conversation that I've wanted to have. I've noticed that a lot more
1:27.7	men have started to come to me and my organization that have pretty strict religious backgrounds
1:33.4	and are trying to find their way spiritually. And so this was just an interesting conversation to
1:38.1	get to hear what it was like for Drew to grow up within the Mormon church, what it was like to
1:44.1	have some of the sexual messages
1:46.0	that come along with that. There's a lot of sexual shame that's baked into it. And so we talk
1:51.6	about that. We talk about his battle with porn. We talk about his divorce and the infidelity.
1:57.5	And then later on in the show, we switch gears a little bit and talk about our relationship to our bodies.
2:03.2	So I hope that you enjoy this episode.
2:04.8	This might be one that you want to man it forward and share with somebody in your life, especially somebody that is going through a journey with their own body, with their own health, with their own fitness.
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