A post-Mormon friend of mine, who I’ll call Eliza R. Snowden, is an avid podcast listener. She was instrumental in helping me put together this quick-start guide to useful podcast episodes for transitioning Mormons. She isn’t ready to put her real name on a post-Mormon website, but I want her to have full credit for her work. Thank you, Eliza!
Of course, this is not meant to be a comprehensive list of amazing podcast content. It’s meant to give new podcast listeners a place to start and long-time podcast listeners a few new ideas.
These episodes are not ranked in any particular order. They’re a mix of church history, science, philosophy, psychology, and what Eliza calls “just-for funsies.” We found every episode on this list useful in some way.
Note: A few episodes may contain swearing.
63 Favorite Podcast Episodes
- Infants on Thrones #182 Lowry Nelson VS George Albert Smith
- Mormon Discussion #227 Warning Signs of an Unsafe Group
- Mormon Discussion #288 Lucy Walker and Spiritual Experiences
- Cognitive Dissidents #8 Testimony Gained in the Bearing of It
- Cognitive Dissidents #9 Doubt and the Internet
- Cognitive Dissidents #11 Gaslighting [Bill Reel reads and responds to this article.]
- Radio Free Mormon #3 Hiding Church History
- Radio Free Mormon #5 Make Way for Milk Strippings
- Radio Free Mormon #18 Faith Not To Be Healed
- Radio Free Mormon #33: Selling your soul for apologetics
- Year of Polygamy #10 Polygamy in Nauvoo
- Year of Polygamy #43 Violent 1850’s Utah
- Year of Polygamy #48 Southern Utah Polygamy…Cedar City and Violence
- ExMormon Conference 2007 Steven Hassan Releasing the Bonds
- ExMormon Conference 2012 Grant Palmer My Aha Moments
- ExMormon Conference 2013 Micah McAllister Exit Strategy…with Your Integrity Intact
- No Man Knows My HerStory #34 A Secular Come-to-Jesus-Meeting for White Ex-Mormons…
- No Man Knows My HerStory #30 Substance Abuse 101
- Mormon Happy Hour #21 Yo Mama’s So Mormon She Thinks…
- Mormon Happy Hour #59 What We’d Love to Hear from Believers
- Naked Mormonism CC – The Book of Mormon [found between SpEdEp #13 and SpEdEp #14]
- Naked Mormonism #59-60 Smith Entheogen Theory Sunstone Presentation
- Naked Mormonism #105-106 Book of Abraham Logical
- A Thoughtful Faith #159 Lindsay Hansen Park: Critiquing Progressive Mormonism
- A Thoughtful Faith #178-179 The Truth About Marital Intimacy: A Critique…
- A Thoughtful Faith #258 Taking the Mormons to Court…
- Mormon Mental Health #65 Recommendations from Two Mormon Sex Therapists
- Mormon Mental Health #130 Why the Church Holds the Positions it Does on Gay Marriage
- Mormon Mental Health #141 A Story of a Transgender Woman in the Church
- Ask An Ex-Mormon Therapist 3 Secrets to Having Happy Healthy Relationships…
- The Thinking Atheist Religious Trauma Syndrome [Learn more about RTS here.]
- NPR’s Hidden Brain I’m Right, You’re Wrong
- NPR’s Hidden Brain The Ostrich Effect
- The Liturgist #5 Spiral Dynamics
- Secular Buddhism #29 What Happens When We Die
- Secular Buddhism # 69 Sitting with Sadness
- 99% Invisible #240 Plat of Zion
- You Are Not So Smart #122 Tribal Psychology
- All in the Mind (ABC Radio) The Creation of Emotions
- The Jordan Harbinger Show #16: Unpacking the Science of the Influential Mind
- The Jordan Harbinger Show #18 Four Tendencies: The Framework for a Better Life
- The Jordan Harbinger Show #28 How to Spot a Psychopath
- The Joe Rogan Experience #974 Megan Phelps-Roper (Former Member of the Westboro Baptist Church)
- Oh No Ross and Carrie Go Mormon (Part 1 and 2) from July 2011
- The Art of Charm #675: Rotten Psychology
- TED Radio Hour: A Better You
- Mormon Stories #209-213 Dr. William Bradshaw: A Life of Science, Service, and Compassion
- Mormon Stories #313-316 John and Brooke Mclay (From CES to Ex-Mormons)
- Mormon Stories #317-318 BYU Professor Charles Harrell and the Evolution of Mormon Doctrine
- Mormon Stories #430-434 Hans Mattsson- Former LDS Area Authority Seventy (Sweden)
- Mormon Stories #472-475 Sandra (and Jerald) Tanner
- Mormon Stories #483-486 Christine Jeppsen Clark, Daughter of a General Authority
- Mormon Stories #493-494 Brent Metcalfe (Early Years, Mark Hofmann and the Bombings)
- Mormon Stories #535-539 Tom Phillips, the Second Anointing, and …Jeffrey R. Holland
- Mormon Stories #616-617 Thirteen Years of Silence
- Mormon Stories #650-652 One Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Mormon Transition
- Mormon Stories #671-672 Amy McPhie Allebest, author of “Dear Mormon Man…”
- Mormon Stories #688 How to Communicate with Orthodox/Believing Mormons
- Mormon Stories #744 “Broken Open” by Margi Dehlin
- Mormon Stories #759 The Courage of Savannah
- Mormon Stories #762-764 Natasha Helfer Parker- Mormon Sex Therapist
- Mormon Stories #785-786 Jon Ogden – Author of “When Mormons Doubt”
- Mormon Stories #913-915 Shawn McCraney Interviews John Dehlin
Bonus Episodes Especially for Women 40 and Over
Mormon Stories #701-704 Kim Sandberg Turner, Founder of WOCA
Mormon Stories #706 Women of a Certain Age (WOCA)
[You may also be interested in How to Tell Your LDS Friends and Family You No Longer Believe.]
