Episode 544: Koji Aoki, Solving Pornography

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

My friend Koji Aoki (Age 27, RM, Married, Grad School) joins us to talk about his 10+ year journey to understand and then solve his porn use. Koji (who is a long-time family friend) talks about how his porn use started, how it became a habit and then how he stopped using porn to serve a mission (Lima, Peru North). Yes, Koji got clean for his mission but lacked the tools to see and solve the root of his porn use. Koji talks about life after his mission and how porn came back into his life as a copying mechanism which led to immense feelings of shame. Those feelings a shame and depression led to an attempted suicide that allowed Koji to fully open up to his parents and get more help. It also led to direct revelation in a powerful moment of “you are enough”. Koji (who has completed two full iron man triathlons including Kona, HI) talks about connecting with Sara Brewer (https://www.sarabrewer.com/) and the added tools and insights that allowed Koji to end porn use. Koji also talks how he is grateful for this whole journey because of the added Christlike attribute to help others. Koji, married in September 2021, talks about opening up to his now wife Kenley on the second date about his porn use and how they navigated that road together. This is one of the finest podcasts we’ve done to end porn use. If you are working to end porn use, looking to avoid it in the first place, or looking for better tools to help others—please listen to this podcast. Thank you, my friend Koji, for being on the podcast. Respect. Thanks for bringing light and hope too so many! You can reach Koji at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Koji Aoki. Welcome to the podcast, Koji.
0:16.8	Hello. How you doing?
0:20.3	I'm doing good and it's good to have you.
0:22.9	Listeners, we're going to talk about Koji's journey with pornography.
0:27.6	He's one of these brave people that step forward and I'm willing to share their story to help others.
0:33.9	And so our joint prayer and we offer a prayer before we recorded, is that what Koji shares
0:38.1	will help you if you're walking this road, trying to end pornography use, or if you're a parent
0:43.5	or a local leader or a coach or in any other role, the things that Koji shares will help you
0:49.4	help others.
0:51.3	I've known Koji for quite a while.
0:54.9	In fact, just how we connected, well, I'll tell you recently we reconnected because one of my guests who talked about his journey ending pornography use, one of the comments was talking about Sarah Brewer coaching.
1:16.4	And how helpful that had been to some comment on some Instagram or Facebook post.
1:26.8	And so then I went to Sarah Brewer's website, and one of the testimonials on the website is Koji Aoki, who is a young man, not a young man anymore.
1:30.1	He's 27, who grew up in the same high school and has been friends with our family for a long time. So in fact, when I message Koji on
1:36.0	Facebook and Messenger, the prior message was from 2013, nine years earlier talking about
1:43.1	mission prep. And so a lot's happened in those nine years earlier, talking about mission prep.
1:46.7	And so a lot's happened in those nine years.
1:49.9	Koji did serve a mission in Lima, Peru, North.
1:54.1	He got married last September of 2021.
1:56.8	He graduated from the University of Utah.
1:59.2	Tell our listeners what you graduated in Koji.
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