Join Lauren Johnson Matthias (@HiddenTrueCrime ) Megan Conner (@Third_Verse ) Mindy Caldwell, and John Dehlin as they react to Shari Franke's new book "The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom" by Shari Franke, Ruby Franke's oldest daughter.
Show Notes: https://www.mormonstories.org/mormons-react-to-shari-frankes-memoir/
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:15 Trigger warning for the book
00:14:30 Questions that will be covered in this episode involving Jodi, Ruby, Kevin, and the Mormon church
00:19:32 Ruby and Kevin’s formation of their relationship and early family life
00:28:30 Was Ruby Franke set up with a disadvantage by Mormon gender roels?
00:35:18 Personality dynamics in the Franke family and Ruby’s profile as a mom and how much room the children had for their emotions
00:39:42 Childhood emotional neglect with Ruby Franke and her children
00:43:25 The pajama story and Ruby telling Shari she’d been friends after she had a baby=
00:57:38 Mormonism and Vlogging
01:05:20 Consent and ethics in family vlogging
01:12:00 Shari Franke’s mental health - thinking that her tummy aches are demonic possession
01:29:03 Ruby removed Shari from therapy after Shari wanted to quit piano
01:40:50 Shari starts her own YouTube channel, while Ruby did not help her grow it she demand some of the proceeds of the account
01:43:46 Chad’s involvement in Shari’s story
01:52:30 Why Ruby reached out to Jodi was because of Chad
02:13:30 Meeting with Jodi as their therapist and showing her business structure as a cult
02:21:10 Truth and Distortion became the bane of Shari’s existence
02:34:50 Jodi’s tactics around isolation
02:41:18 How Jodi saw sex everywhere and how she and Ruby were queer
02:49:23 Visions of Glory and how it ties in with Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt
02:56:34 Shari Franke compared Lori Vallow to Ruby Franke
03:00:30 Thom Harrison and his influence over these cult leaders within the Mormon church
03:11:35 The darkest part of the book was about Derek and Shari’s sexual assault
03:31:14 Church disciplinary part of Shari’s story involving what happened with Derek
03:41:55 Shari is familyless for a while, running into her dad on the BYU campus and he was afraid to talk to her
04:04:05 Who is the main villain in this story? Is it Jodi or Ruby?
04:12:24 Shari drawing connections in the Mormon church
04:27:15 Shari’s final comments at the end of the book about her mother being narcissistic
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