Mormons Explain Ballerina Farm, Hannah Neeleman, and the Trad Wife Movement | Ep. 1926

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 196 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Join us as a panel of Mormon women come together to discuss the controversies surrounding Hannah Neeleman, a ballerina who embraced the "tradwife" lifestyle. Critics argue that this lifestyle limits women's choices and reinforces patriarchal norms. Our panelists share their personal stories and reflections, addressing the challenges and regrets associated with the trad wife ideal in Mormonism.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host
0:05.2	John Delinn. Today is August 7th, 2024 and today we are going to be addressing the topic of Mormons
0:15.4	respond to Ballarina Farm.
0:18.4	And we have four amazing panelists
0:21.3	to be talking about it today, but before we jump in, I want to give everyone a chance to reintroduce themselves to our audience because, you know, some of you may be joining us new so we have three people in studio two
0:35.0	people joining us remote and let's begin with Alyssa Alexander welcome back alyssa
0:41.0	hello thank you my name, Alyssa. Hello, thank you. My name is Alyssa. I talk about Mormonism. I am a woman. So these things are relevant to why I am here. I publish a few essays talking about the way that women and Mormonism interact and so I find
0:56.8	this story particularly interesting.
0:58.8	Well it's so good to have you back, Alyssa.
1:00.8	Thanks.
1:02.0	We also have back joining us in studio, someone who I fondly call Sammy.
1:06.3	It's Samantha Shelley.
1:07.3	Hey Sam.
1:08.3	Hello, John.
1:09.3	Is it Sam or Sammy, which is it?
1:11.2	It's whatever you're feeling.
1:12.3	Okay, all right. Tell us who you are,
1:15.0	Samantha and what you do and why you're so awesome.
1:18.0	Yeah, so I am one half of Self on the Shelf on the Shelf on YouTube,
1:22.4	Instagram, Tik-Tock.
1:24.0	And I also took a ballet 101 class at BYU Idaho.
1:27.4	So I'm feeling pretty ready to talk about this topic
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. John Dehlin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. John Dehlin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.