Episode 662: Ashly Stone, Solved Drug Addictions, Host of “Come Back Podcast”

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

My friend Ashly Stone (married mother of two) joins us to share her remarkable journey of battling additions (which included heroin and jail time) and her journey to recovery. It is a remarkable story of courage, faith and “surrendering”. A key part of Ashly’s recover was her path to reconnect with the Church and access the healing power and hope of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Ashly shares powerful concepts like “I decided to create the person I wanted to be”, and “let your past empower you”. Ashly’s personal story is powerful and give others hope that they can pull out of very difficult and sometimes near hopeless situations. For more on Ashly’s story, check out the first episode on her podcast and also her episode on the All-In podcast. Ashly then talks about the podcast she hosts and founded called “Come Back Podcast” which is stories of people who have returned to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (we production help from her friend Lauren Rose). This remarkable podcast, which is gaining significant traction in our community, has powerful and vulnerable stories of people who have returned. Thank you, Ashly, for being on the podcast and sharing your story. You and your husband Jesse are doing much good in our community. I encourage everyone to hear your story and connect with your podcast. Links: Come Back Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/come-back-podcast/id1641798510 Ashly Stone e-mail: [email protected] Ashly’s episode on All-In Podcast: https://www.ldsliving.com/all-in/ashly-stone-the-power-of-the-comeback

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.3	My guest on today's podcast joining me from her home, obviously via Zoom is my friend Ashley Stone.
0:18.0	Welcome to the podcast.
0:20.2	Thank you so much. I am so happy to be on your podcast. I am
0:24.8	the biggest fan. I love this podcast so much. So thank you for having me. I reached out to Ashley
0:32.5	because she runs a podcast and tell us the name of your podcast. Come Back Podcast. Is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Come back podcast.
0:42.6	And it's just a terrific podcast. So I became aware of it. We've traded some messages. And I thought
0:49.0	I would really like Ashley to be on the podcast to share her story of not being in the church and
0:55.2	returning to the church, but then she's got 58 episodes in a year of people who have not
1:01.5	been active in the church and return to the church. And I love these stories. And so I just
1:07.9	wanted to connect you listeners with her podcast.
1:13.5	I'm not trying to be the podcast guy.
1:20.0	I like seeing new podcasts come online and new people take a focus like Ashley's done.
1:24.5	I don't know if you're a natural marketer, but I'm a marketer. So when I see that you've just decided to keep this really targeted, Ashley,
1:28.8	that made a lot of sense to me. Yeah, I don't know if I have like, I don't know what it was.
1:37.1	I kind of feel like Heavenly Father wanted it to happen and all of these stars aligned.
1:44.5	Lauren, who I do the podcast with, she also has a comeback story.
1:48.0	She's episode seven, I believe, on the podcast.
1:51.6	But how we reconnected, we were childhood, knew each other from childhood.
1:57.4	I was friends with her sister.
1:58.7	But we just totally ran into each other at the store and
2:02.8	started talking and like all of these stars aligned and she has edited every single episode. She
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