Comedy
EPISODE 85PRIDE & JOY ✨?️?ELENA JOY THURSTON [Founder of the nonprofit, Pride and Joy Foundation] joins talk her coming out journey while being in the Mormon Church, how “couples therapy” turned into gay conversion “therapy,” coming out to her husband and kids, and more!We play THE INTERROGATION and 2 TRUTHS AND A LIE w/ beer!WATCH: https://youtu.be/SVkKXsYjj_8 BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/pride-and-joy=========ABOUT:✨?️? Elena Joy Thurston is an inspirational LGBTQ speaker, trainer, and founder of the nonprofit Pride and Joy Foundation. A Mormon mom of four who lost her marriage, her church, and her community when she came out as a lesbian, Elena’s viral TEDx talk on surviving conversion therapy has been viewed 40,000+ times and landed her media and speaking opportunities with ABC, CBS, FOX, Boston’s First Event, and Seacoast Wellness Series. Elena Joy recently joined the publishing world with Pride and Joy Publishing, the only LGBTQ+ publisher of solely LGBTQ+ empowerment and business books.@pridejoyfoundationbit.ly/2NzjhLoSHOW NOTES: 0:00 Show Intro1:30 Elena Joy Thurston Intro3:27 Meet Elena Joy Thurston5:00 Pride Night / Dyke BeerLos Angeles Dodgers Pride Night Arizona Diamondbacks Pride NightPhoenix Mercury Pride Night 6:30 Diana Taurasi - Phoenix Mercury8:07 Drink of Choice: “Sangria” & Beer8:30 Drinking Game: THE INTERROGATION Do you believe in God?Would you eat a decomposing rodent if it saved a loved ones life?Would you chew food and feed your significant other if they needed it?10:00 Religion for many people 14:09 Auditory gross out 15:10 Being a Mormon mom that started having unsettling thoughts and what happened next19:13 Mormon undergarments 21:20 How she started fly fishing 22:20 Falling in love with her best friend 23:50 When her husband found the text messages between she and her best friend 24:34 Couples Counseling / Couples Therapy28:45 First time she thought about suicide after talking to counselor 29:50 Elena was about that Mormon Life 33:40 Learning about “the guy in town” that ended up being Gay Conversion Therapy 35:58 Different types of Gay Conversion Therapy sessions 38:20 Her sessions of conversion therapy 43:00 Feeling suicidal after conversion therapy45:30 How it felt to finally go to a licensed professional therapist47:00 New Chapter of life47:30 Raising kids in the mormon church49:00 Coming out to the kids50:50 How her kids responded to coming out to them52:06 What else held her back from wanting to come out (other than her marriage)55:00 DRINKING GAME: 2 Truths & a Lie1:03:12 Gay Conversion Therapists - Dave Matheson and many others that have come out as gay1:07:05 Realized tides were going to conversion therapy. Religion Loopholes for conversion therapy 1.17:00 Trying to ban conversion therapy will be hard to get on the ballot.72:00 Germany has banned conversion therapy, but other countries 73:22 Googling and finding conversion therapy place walking distance from an interviewers house that said it was mainly a problem in the US. She was in London.75:40 Pride & Joy Foundation78:17 What the Elena now would say to the 15-16 year old Elena79:39 Words of Wisdom82:35 Contact Elena