How Mormon Moms Came to Dominate American Media, Culture and Commerce - Bridget Read of New York Mag | Ep. 2130
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Join us to speak with Bridget Read about her new article in New York Magazine entitled "Under the Mormon Influence: How the Women of Utah Blogged and Posted Their Way Into American Hearts and Wallets."
Bridget Read has been a writer at New York Magazine since 2019 and is the author of "Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Dare I say, a special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Dr. John DeLinn. |
| 0:08.7 | It's March 27th, 2026. |
| 0:11.6 | And I am over the moon. |
| 0:13.7 | Bananas excited to have with us a feature writer for New York Magazine. |
| 0:20.3 | Her name is Bridget Reed, |
| 0:21.6 | and she recently came out along New York Magazine |
| 0:26.6 | with an article entitled, |
| 0:28.6 | Under the Mormon Influence, |
| 0:31.6 | How the Women of Utah Blogged and Posted |
| 0:34.6 | Their Way into American Hearts and Wallets. It's an article that deals with |
| 0:41.4 | the Mormon mom influencer movement that has swept the nation and the world. And, you know, |
| 0:49.3 | this week is a particularly intense week in this regard in that Taylor Frankie Paul, her season of The Bachelor was just set to release, and it was scuttled last minute because somehow the video of her throwing chairs at her husband Dakota and also potentially a child being hit or hurt in that video |
| 1:13.4 | sort of caused the potential undoing of the secret lies of Mormon-wise franchise and now |
| 1:19.4 | the Secret Lives of Mormon-Wise franchise is potentially on pause. Other competitive series |
| 1:24.9 | are potentially in development. The Mormon mom talk world is coming |
| 1:29.3 | and glued. |
| 1:30.9 | And I'm not sure there's a better person to bring on to talk about that other than Bridget. |
| 1:36.1 | And one other thing I'll say as an intro before we introduce our guests and guests is I've got an ambivalent audience. |
| 1:44.2 | Some of my audience, Bridget, I'll just say before I even introduce you, |
| 1:49.1 | some of my audience really values the type of content. |
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