Ep 1159 | Nicole Shanahan on Christianity, Vaccines & the Lies of Leftism

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

Blaze Podcast Network

News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

4.6 • 19.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Today, we're excited to sit down with Nicole Shanahan, lawyer, philanthropist, founder of the Bia-Echo Foundation, and RFK Jr.'s former running mate, to discuss her faith journey and conversion to Christianity after the loss of her unborn child to miscarriage. She tells us about her journey on the campaign trail and how she lost friends and supporters over her political stance. We also talk about some "right-wing" vaccine conspiracy theories and how some of them might not be as far-fetched as they might seem. Nicole tells us about the "tech wife mafia" in Silicon Valley and how these women and Hollywood have changed progressive culture for the worse. And Nicole shares what she's doing to help the beautiful state of California. Share the Arrows 2025 is on October 11 in Dallas, Texas! Go to sharethearrows.com for tickets now! Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (01:17) Nicole’s miscarriage (09:10) Nicole’s conversion and baptism (23:48) Experiences on the campaign trail (27:43) COVID vaccine conspiracy theories (32:02) Pro-life perspective (41:09) Women’s fertility longevity and IVF (52:15) Progressives being used to make enemies (55:19) Nicole’s daughter’s autism diagnosis (01:08:18) Do vaccines cause autism? (01:12:08) “Tech wife mafia” and the Great Reset (01:24:46) Helping California --- Today's Sponsors: We Heart Nutrition — Get 20% off women's vitamins with We Heart Nutrition, and get your first bottle of their new supplement, Wholesome Balance; use code ALLIE at https://www.WeHeartNutrition.com. CrowdHealth — get your first 3 months for just $99/month. Use promo code 'ALLIE' when you sign up at JoinCrowdHealth.com. Pre-Born — Will you help rescue babies' lives? Donate by calling #250 & say keyword 'BABY' or go to Preborn.com/ALLIE. Hillsdale College — Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 free online courses they offer on History, Economics, Politics, Philosophy, and more, including their free course, "Introduction to Aristotle’s Ethics: How to Lead a Good Life," all available for FREE. Go to https://hillsdale.edu/relatable to enroll. --- Related Episodes: Ep 902 | Kat Von D on Becoming a Christian https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-902-kat-von-d-on-becoming-a-christian/id1359249098?i=1000633896154 Ep 1102 | Did Trump Just Stop the Great Reset? | Guest: Justin Haskins https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1102-did-trump-just-stop-the-great-reset-guest/id1359249098?i=1000677374601 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nicole Shanahan was RFK Jr's running mate, and she is here today to tell me about her journey
0:08.1	to faith in Christ.
0:10.3	We will talk about her baptism, but also her political evolution.
0:15.0	She went from being in thick of what she calls the tech wife mafia, that very progressive world, to a place of questioning
0:24.8	progressive ideology altogether.
0:26.7	This was a fascinating, very wide-ranging, very personal, it's sometimes emotional conversation,
0:34.4	and you guys are going to get so much out of it.
0:36.6	So without further ado,
0:37.7	here is Nicole. Nicole, Nicole, thanks so much for taking the time to join me.
0:51.1	So it's not my usual backdrop. I love it. It's so beautiful. Well, I've been so excited
0:56.5	to talk to you and really kind of what seal the deal for me. I was like I've got to talk to her
1:02.4	was when you posted the video of your baptism, of your testimony, and we won't get into all of that
1:08.9	right now. We'll build up to it. But can you tell me
1:11.9	what it was like leading up to that moment before you decided to share it publicly?
1:16.6	Oh, yeah. Well, first of all, it's a pleasure for me to be here with you. I've read your book,
1:21.1	Toxic Empathy. Thank you. It's an incredible book that I'd recommend to, I am recommending
1:26.2	to all of my friends, Progressive or conservative,
1:30.0	most of my friends are progressive. But I think it's such a good read for progressives as well.
1:35.5	But yeah, to answer your question about my baptism and then I actually wrote an essay about it
1:43.5	and posted some pictures.
1:47.0	The lead up to it was I wanted, I'm in this constant pursuit of trying to share some very big lessons that I think many people can relate to, lessons from being a lifelong
2:03.5	Democrat, leaving the party, realizing that this is bigger than politics, that we've got
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