Layla Taylor

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571 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Layla Taylor EXCLUSIVE: The Truth She's Finally Ready To Share · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

because I just didn't have the support system around me that I wish, you know, as a child that I did have.

Yeah.

So I converted to the church when I was 16.

I feel like I kind of went through like a, I don't even know, just like a phase that I was kind of rebelling a little bit from like probably like 14 to like right before I converted.

And I don't know, it just kind of set me back on track for like a second, but I was still kind of doing, I was still like sleeping with my boyfriends in high school and stuff like that.

But it almost just kind of gave me a little bit of like a moral compass that I feel like I didn't necessarily have before.

I think for me, one of my biggest things, just having a very messy childhood where I didn't have that family consistency that like a lot of families did have in the Mormon church.

I feel like I spent a lot of times at my friend's houses kind of avoiding what was going on at home.

And I feel like a common theme I would notice between all of them was how strong their families seemed together.

So I think just being 16 and being young and kind of

optimistic about the world I was like hey like I'm missing that one thing that would make me have a happy family one day and that's being Mormon so I just it was everyone around me is Mormon I think 98% of my school was enrolled in seminary which is like an hour block in your schedule that you can go and like learn more about the church so everyone around me is Mormon just like all that I knew and I just thought that that was that was the way that you're supposed to live life

I honestly, I feel like I didn't really take a lot away from my experience being Mormon.

I think I would go to sacrament meetings and I would try my best to like attend, but I just feel like my heart was never fully in it.

I was really only just there to fit in and to just have one less thing that people would notice was different than my peers.

you know, like already being black and like, you know, having these thoughts in the back of my head of like liking girls, but not wanting to admit it.

It was just like one more thing.

And I was like, hey, if I check this box off, I'll fit in a little bit more with everyone around me.

So I honestly, I don't feel like I really took a lot out of going to church.

I truly would just show up to say that I was there.

And

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