Being Heard & Hearing Others in Council Meetings | A How I Lead Interview with Sara Payne & Dale Williams
Sara Payne is currently serving as the stake Relief Society president in Billings, Montana, and previously served as a branch Relief Society president in rural Maine. She loves Relief Society and considers it one of her purposes to help women in the Church understand...
Mixed Faith Friendship – Finding True Connection
Caren McLane has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Community Health Education from BYU. She met her husband, Todd, her freshman year while at BYU. They are the parents of 5 children and live on a 4-acre “hobby farm” with chickens, cows, and dogs. She volunteers at...
Ministering to Those Who Don’t Hear God Anymore | An Interview with Emily Robison Adams
Emily Robison Adams is married with three children and is a practicing appellate attorney. She received her undergraduate degree in linguistics from Brigham Young University and her JD from the University of Minnesota Law School. She worked for judges on the Minnesota...
The “Gotta-do-Something” Reflex
There is a natural reflex that leaders feel when an issues arises. I call it the “gotta-do-something” reflex. This dynamic happens when something breaks in the organization or in the lives of those in the organization. Someone is preaching “false doctrine”. The leader...
How I Lead Without a Title | An Interview with Judy Clemans
In this How I Lead podcast, Kurt speaks with Judy Clemens, who felt inspired to go to her stake president with some ideas, and was called to lead quarterly stake devotionals that have been very successful. Highlights 02:30 Introduction to Judy Clemans 04:30 Kurt reads...
Leaning Into the Storms of Life – Help From the Herd
I recently heard a speaker talk about how bison and cows respond differently to a storm. Bison actually run into a storm. Yet their cow cousins turn and run from a storm. Think about the impact of their direction and possibly their emotions. As a cow runs from the...
Being a Judge in Israel | An Interview with Jeffery Nance
Jeff Nance is originally from Charleston, South Carolina, served in the Sydney Australia Mission, and graduated from Brigham Young University in Political Science as an ROTC scholarship student, and from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. He served in the 101st...
Calling the “unworthy” to lead
When it comes to calling leaders, we hope this is done in a revelatory process — but that process includes many minor decisions. We don’t give much thought to these decisions most of the time. From my experience, many of these decisions happen quickly in a simple...
Ministering to the Doubter | An Interview With Terryl Givens
This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in January 2018. Terryl L. Givens, PhD, did graduate work in Intellectual History at Cornell and studied Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill. He taught courses in Romanticism, nineteenth century cultural studies,...
From Worldly to Holy – Embracing Temple Covenants
Dack Van Orden was born and raised in Idaho Falls, ID. He currently lives in the Houston Texas area where he and his wife are the parents of three daughters and one bonus daughter. He has served in a variety of callings within the Church, most of which have been in...
