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Episode 811: Jake and Joe Sharp, Lost Brother Sam to Suicide, Solving Porn Use, Remove Shame

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8839 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

My friends Jake and Joe Sharp (identical twins, age 24, from Mesa Arizona, RMs) join us to talk about their life work to help others choose to stay, turn to positive coping behaviors, finding hope and the role of the Atonement of Jesus Christ to heal from pain. Jake and Joe start with the story of losing their younger brother Sam to suicide at age 16 while they were on their missions. They talk about the goodness of Sam—as well as the difficult mental health challenges (OCD, toxic perfection, etc) that Sam faced, and all their family was doing to help him find hope. They talk about the heartbreaking pain, anger, and guilt they faced—and how Christ and therapy has helped them heal. They talk about unhealthy coping behaviors to deal with the pain (pornography use and overeating) and how they learned better tools/behaviors helping to be in a better place. They talk about shame and how that is Satan’s greatest tool to separate us from the love of our Heavenly Parents and the Savior—and how shame has no place in the gospel of Jesus Christ. They talk about the importance of vulnerability, therapy, fitness, doing a “forgive fast” for ourselves, we are not broken, and our Savior to give hope/peace. If you are suicidal, Jake and Joe’s story will help you. We all invite you to stay. If you are working through grief of losing someone to suicide, their story will help you. If you are working to solve porn use (or better tools to help others), their story will help you. Thank you, Jake and Joe, for being on the podcast. I learned so much from you. Thank you for your courage to talk about these subjects to give others hope. You are good men doing many hope/healing in our community. Honored to have you on the podcast. Links: Jake and Joe’s Instagram and TikTok: @jdoufit Their Mom’s Podcast (Pam Sharp): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fight-hard-love-much/id1615231547

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0:00.0

Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.

0:09.0

My guests on today's podcast joining me from somewhere in Arizona, they'll probably tell us where our brothers, Jake and Joe Sharp.

0:16.7

Welcome to the podcast.

0:18.4

Thank you for having us.

0:19.9

Yeah, thank you so much. We're here in Mesa, Arizona. Okay, I having us. Yeah, thank you so much.

0:21.0

We're here in Mesa, Arizona.

0:22.7

Okay, I thought so.

0:24.4

Let me tell you a little bit about Jake and Joe.

0:26.3

I was on Instagram, which I spent too much time there, especially at my age.

0:30.8

And you can see accounts you don't follow pull up.

0:35.2

And here were Jake and Joe talking about their brother, Sam, who died by suicide,

0:39.9

why they were both full-time missionaries.

0:42.8

And they're doing great work talking about really tender subjects.

0:48.4

And so they will talk about, I'll give a little bit of bio.

0:52.4

Jake and Joe are identical twins.

0:55.1

They're 24.

0:56.2

They both submissions.

0:57.9

Jake and Tijuana and Joe and Pueblo, that's part of Mexico.

1:02.8

And when they were out, just a few months, they learned this crushing news.

1:06.6

Their younger brother, Sam, Keith Sharp, died of suicide, died on the 13th of March 2020 at age 16,

1:15.6

a rugby player from what I could pick up on social media and just a terrific young man.

1:21.4

And this is kind of the worst nightmare that any family could have coming to reality.

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