Work in Progress: Mayci Neeley
Drama Queens
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 23.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
"The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" fan favorite Mayci Neeley gets brutally honest about love, loss, and survival —stories she lays bare in her new memoir "Told You So." Her journey from heartbreak and abuse to resilience and rebuilding takes on new dimension as she reflects on life lessons only learned in hindsight.
Brace for some fun shockers, too, as Mayci also spills the tea on "Mormon Wives" season 3 and reveals why she's not losing sleep over some of the show's wilder revelations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, everyone, it's Sophia. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:18.6 | Hi, Whipsmarties. |
| 0:20.4 | Today we are joined by a guest who has made some serious waves in reality TV. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm just so excited to talk to her. Her life has been wild. And from an exterior that could look very shiny and perfect to sharing experiences and an interior |
| 0:40.2 | that has been anything but I really admire the way she's chosen to be so upfront about her life. |
| 0:46.7 | Today's guest, you might know, is Macy Neely from Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. |
| 0:54.1 | The show has clearly taken the world by storm, but in the beginning in particular, barely |
| 0:59.0 | scratched the surface of Macy's personal story. |
| 1:02.0 | She became a mom at 20. |
| 1:03.4 | She lost her son's father in a tragic car accident. |
| 1:06.0 | She went back to college as a single mother. |
| 1:08.4 | She's given glimpses of these challenging things that she's been |
| 1:12.8 | through that eventually led to the show she works on with her friends. But now she's telling us |
| 1:18.1 | everything in a memoir that honestly surprised me with how both inspiring and darkly funny it is. |
| 1:26.6 | She really lifts the veil on what growing up |
| 1:30.8 | in her culture with strict standards, |
| 1:33.9 | with athletic prowess, and then frankly, |
| 1:37.6 | blowing it all up looked like. |
| 1:40.1 | She talks about temptation and an abusive relationship |
| 1:43.7 | and dealing with pretty dark and dangerous things. |
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