Ep. 58 - Shawn Stevens - Actor, Teen Idol, Latter Day Saint

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

As a young man, Shawn Stevens became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He quickly also became a famous actor with roles on hit 70's and 80's shows such as Eight is Enough, Chips, Buck Rogers, and the Facts of Life. He starred in the ABC family drama The Mackenzies of Paradise Cove. He also had long running parts in daytime dramas Search For Tomorrow and Days Of Our Lives. He starred in the iconic church video Our Heavenly Father's Plan. He then put acting on the back burner to focus on family and church. Shawn went through some tough years but found joy working behind the scenes in the film industry. He now does both with a rejuvenated acting career and on set catering business. Shawn's story is one of faith, trials and ultimately peace in the gospel that will inspire us all.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:07.8	Day Saints.
0:08.9	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:13.1	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:23.8	Hello, friends.
0:24.7	Welcome to another episode of the Latter Day Lives podcast.
0:27.9	My name is Sean Rappier.
0:28.9	I am your host.
0:30.3	And boy, are we doing something different this week?
0:32.9	And actually a little bit uncomfortable for me.
0:35.9	I'm outside my comfort zone because not only are we
0:38.9	recording the audio this week for the podcast and it's available everywhere you normally get the show,
0:45.1	but we're also doing video. You can go to our YouTube channel, just search for Latter-day Lives
0:49.8	and we've recorded the conversation with our guests this week. And I'm recording this on video now.
0:55.3	And again, a little bit outside my comfort zone. But we've had requests to put this on YouTube.
1:00.7	I don't know that we'll do it every week, but we're going to try it this week at least.
1:04.6	And what a great show to try it for. My guest this week, Sean Stevens, is such an amazing actor.
1:11.0	And in fact, when he left, my wife was like, wow, I've never seen you so starstruck.
1:15.9	And there's a reason.
1:17.1	Sean in the late 70s, early 80s was on every show that I absolutely loved.
1:23.6	I mean, it was just, he just named show after show that he was on and he's incredible.
1:28.1	And we've actually got some exciting news to announce about Sean Stevens.
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