Megan Phelps-Roper on Radicalization and Redemption

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to former Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Phelps-Roper about her experiences growing up in the church, the problem of radicalization in society and modern institutions, considering the individual perspectives of the people who we disagree with, and more.

Megan Phelps-Roper is an American political activist who was formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church. Phelps-Roper left the church in 2012 after she was unable to reconcile her doubts with her beliefs. She travels around the world to speak about her experience in the church and advocates dialogue between groups with conflicting views. In 2019, she released a memoir, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.4	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage
0:23.5	Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.5	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview
0:31.9	Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging
0:41.6	Issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:48.0	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.6	Hey, it's Ryan Holliday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:06.8	As you know before I started the Daily Stoic I had another life before I wrote really any of my books
1:13.1	I had another life. I was in marketing and I worked for a number of controversial companies and businesses and people from American apparel the Tucker Max and
1:22.6	You know if you read Trust Me on mine, which is my first book
1:26.1	Then you can trust it with what we talk about here what I talk about in stillness is the key what I talk about in
1:32.5	In the obstacles way or you go to the enemy it can feel very different
1:36.8	And it was different. I actually say in Trust Man lying, you know, there's this word
1:43.7	Disintegrated which means we think means falling apart coming at pieces
1:48.0	But if you think about it more as disintegrated what it means is not integrated and so my journey to Stoicism begins very early on
1:55.6	right? I think
1:56.8	Maybe 1819 years old before I had this marketing career before I'd you know worked on any of these controversial campaigns and
2:04.9	Did the stuff that I talk about in that book and so how do I reconcile those two things?
2:10.7	Well the truth is for a long time
2:12.0	I didn't reconcile them because I kept them separate. They were not integrated the philosophy that I was learning about and studying on
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