Episode 505: Smith Alley, Age 18, Solving Porn, Finding Hope and Purpose

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

My friend Smith Alley braving shares his 5-year experience with pornography—why it started, why he didn’t tell anyone, and what finally helped him stop, and why he is sharing this story. Smith also helps us understand the role of our Savior and His atonement, his parents, why we need to see ourselves as enough now. Smith talks to those who are suicidal to give them hope and perspective. Please stay my friends. Smith talks about deciding to talk about his pornography use which has led to speaking to 1000s and 1000s across the United States and to start a non-profit (https://www.livelifebigger.org/) and a company called PROTECHT (https://www.protechtstrong.com/) with a goal to kids all over the world. You can connect with Smith on IG at @live.life.bigger and @protechtstrong Thank you, Smith for being on the podcast and your life-saving work. I was deeply moved hearing your story. You are doing great work to bring hope, healing and better tools and understanding to help others. ** Please check out my new book that has a chapter about solving pornography: deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-love or amazon.com/dp/1462139566**

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.5	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Smith Alley.
0:13.6	Welcome to the podcast, Smith.
0:15.0	Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here.
0:17.8	We're going to talk, and really Smith is going to bravely talk about his
0:21.7	pornography use. He is currently 18 years old. He's a senior at Bountiful High School.
0:28.2	And he, like many wonderful people in our community, started to use porn for about five
0:36.4	years and then ended porn and then felt at a really young
0:39.8	age to talk about it, which is very courageous on his part. But if you're working to solve
0:47.2	porn or working to help others solve porn or parents trying to better manage this in your home,
0:52.7	this podcast will help you.
0:55.0	I listened to Smith Alley's podcast this morning on my friend Todd Sylvester's platform,
1:01.4	and I sometimes go walking really early in the morning around 4.30,
1:06.0	and several times I just stopped and pulled out my phone and wrote down notes of the things that he said.
1:15.4	And this guy is 18 years old, but he has a pretty mature perspective.
1:20.8	He's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people around the country on this topic.
1:24.3	He also talks about helping to prevent suicide.
1:29.0	And if you're feeling suicidal or you're trying to help others that are suicidal or wondering if someone's suicidal, Smith will have ideas for you. We'll also talk about his
1:34.6	non-profit and his for-profit that he's set up. But anyway, I just encourage you to act on the
1:41.3	impressions you feel as you listen to this podcast. Is that okay for an introduction? Yeah, that's great. So I just encourage you to act on the impressions you feel as you listen to this podcast.
1:45.6	Is that okay for an introduction?
1:47.0	Yeah, that's great.
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