Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeremy Goff.
Hi Jeremy, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My story really picks up in 2014, I had just returned home from serving a two-year mission for my Church and was going through the motions of life. Dating was almost non-existent, and so I threw myself into work. My seasonal job allowed me to throw 70-90 hours during the summer, but come the fall of 2014, I found myself with an abundance of free time. So I turned to video games. I still remember logging into Steam and being asked, “You played 40 hours of this video game in the last week, would you recommend it to a friend?” To my horror and shock, I looked at the various games I played, 200, hours, 600 hours, and 500 hours.
I had become a video game addict. Right next to my computer I kept my old mission journals and In that movement of realizing my addiction to video games, I decided to look into my old journals. As I read the stories of the miracles I experienced and the lessons I learned during my mission I realized I was wasting my life and that I needed to do something to help people. Realizing that the miracles and faith-promoting stories from the journals lifted me, I decided to write them up and post them on Facebook.
The more I posted the more people responded positively to my posts and I felt a sense of helping people. After I finished sharing my faith-promoting stories/miracles I started to share insights from my scripture studies. I took my old mission blog (that would share letters home with my family and friends) and started to post insights from my mission. Things I wish I had been told, and things I learned from being a missionary. I created a Facebook page and started to share my articles and insights there so as to not spam my friends on Facebook. And it went viral. From 2015 (when my page was created) to now it has grown at a pace of more than 10k followers a year! Now at over 70,0000!
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
Besides the struggles that led me to do what I do, the most significant struggle has been the hate from those who disliked what I wrote. I touch on controversial topics. It really shocked me when I wrote articles about how we are Children of God and that is our true Identity and that is what should define us and not our sexual orientation. I got SOOO much hate mail from those in the LGBTQ community harassing me because of my face looking ugly to my eyebrows, to even harassing me and saying I was a closet gay. But to be fair, it is not just the LGBTQ community that has sent hate mail, it has been everyone. I am trying to pull back culture from the extremes and so everyone is going to hate what I do at some point.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I run a network of social media pages and a blog, but unlike most people in the community, it is just a side gig, I work full-time at a Fortune 500 company, and I am also a family of a growing family (newest baby girl will be joining us just before thanksgiving 2022). I specialize in trying to help organically reach people and deliver a message. I was contracted for a period to do consulting work with Dry Bar Comedy and I also helped out with advertising for the hit series The Chosen, helping it to go Viral. I have written about whatever I am experiencing in life.
When I was dating, I wrote a lot about dating, when I got engaged and then married I started to write about being engaged and married. I’ve written about hiking, travel, cooking, and even inflation, and how to help our neighbors during the COVID food shortages. But I am most proud of my efforts to help draw back culture from the extremes that leave our communities fractured. I believe that regardless of your race, your sexual orientation, or your political party we all have unifying traits that if focused on, and taught will heal the divide we face.
What do you like best about our city? What do you like least?
I have loved living in American Fork, I moved there a month before I got married, three years ago. I love the fact that it is so central to everything in Utah County, but also it feels removed enough that the hustle and bustle of everyday life do not infringe on it. My biggest dislike is the traffic, but that is all of Utah!
Contact Info:
- Website: http://mylifebygogogoff.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gogogoff0/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyLifeByGogoGoff
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/gogogoff0
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JeremyGoff2015
Image Credits
Kary Ann Hoopes Photography
