Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.

My guest is my friend Corey. How do we say your last name, Corey?

It's Coontz, K-O-O-N-T-Z.

All right, Corey Coonts. We didn't even talk about that before we went live.

So I'm grateful to have you on the podcast. Corey is joining us via Zoom from his home in West Jordan. And I'll give you a little background on Corey and then what he's going to talk about. He is 60 years old, recently turned 60. He's married as five kids. He is bisexual. He will talk a little bit

about that. He kind of is a multi-faceted career. We may not get into that, but we talked a little

bit about before we went live. But the things Corey will talk about, and I'm not sure this will be

the right order, will be the fact that he, will be, um, the fact that he's

gone through a divorce, the fact that he has bipolar too. And with that comes suicidal thoughts, um,

the fact that he is bisexual, um, the fact that he has unique talents. And he'll also talk about

his love of the temple and his faith and how that gives him a firm foundation.

But our hope for our listeners and the prayer that we shared is that some of the things Corey shares will be helpful for you.

As you're walking unique roads, some of you that may feel suicidal or some of you that are just walking complex issues that Corey at age 60s been on a lot of

these roads for quite a while and can give you gospel principles and perspective that will help

you. In advance, I like to thank Corey for being brave. I'm going to talk about these things.

This is vulnerable and takes courage, but this is the right platform for that,

as other guests have done the same thing. So with that, Corey, I'll kind of turn it over to you

to start wherever you want to start. Okay. Well, thanks, Richard. What I'd like to do is just

share a little bit about my background. I grew up in Southern California, and my biggest fear growing up is that

that I was going to be gay. I mean, I was teased as a child. I was called names. I was, I was

reduced by my own father. He used to call me cissy and queer and all these little things,

just when I was younger, and he used to beat the cissy and queer and all these little things just when I was

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