Part 1: What Sexual Addiction Recovery Actually Looks Like | An Interview with Steven Croshaw and Chris Raleigh
Steven Croshaw is the co-founder and President of SA Lifeline Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to providing hope, education and resources related to sexual addiction and betrayal trauma recovery. He was instrumental in the production of Understanding...
Are you succeeding as a leader?
A bishop recently sent me the following question: How do you measure your success? I struggle trying to figure out if I am doing a good job. Even on my mission, we had numbers that we kept track and unfortunately, many missionaries based their overall feeling on...
Part 1: The Research Behind Becoming Christlike | An Interview with Ryan Gottfredson
This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in September 2021. Listen to the follow-up conversation here: Part 2: The Research Behind Becoming Christlike. Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D., is a cutting-edge leadership development author, researcher, and consultant. He...
Helping the Rising Generation Rise – True Empathy
When we are faced with a challenge to overcome, we often seek counsel from those we trust, love, and who are wise in their advice. Those collaborators may include a spouse, parent, sibling, friend, co-worker, religious leader and, most importantly, Heavenly Father....
When the Gospel Seems Unjust to the Rising Generation | An Interview with Tyler Johnson
Dr. Tyler Johnson is is a medical oncologist, author, and a clinical assistant professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as a leader of the Stanford inpatient oncology services, including supervising the oncology housestaff service. Tyler...
The trap of trying to please everyone
Leadership roles can cause us to be more influenced to say YES, to as many things as possible, instead of saying NO. Mainly because as a leader we don’t want to disappoint anyone we lead. If we disappoint someone we lead they can be dissatisfied with us as a leader,...
Taking the Guilt Out of Family History Work | A How I Lead Interview with Rick Bennett
Rick Bennett currently serves as family history leader in his ward and as a temple worker at the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple for the past ten years. He has served previously as ward mission leader, elders quorum counselor, membership clerk, Gospel Doctrine teacher,...
A New Beginning – Engaging New Move Ins
Many of us have experienced the impact of moving into a new ward or branch. It is often bittersweet leaving our previous congregation, especially if it was one where we felt loved, needed, and understood. If it was a ward we had lived in a long time, or one that was...
Leading with Authority & Equality | An Interview with Brooke Rasmussen
Brooke Rasmussen is completing her masters in Marriage and Family Therapy at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington and is an intern at Partners with Families and Children, a social safety net for families facing neglect and abuse. Brooke is passionate about...
We all know the bishop isn’t a therapist
You’ve probably heard this one before: “The bishop isn’t a therapist!” Typically, this is stated in a way that is somewhat critical of the spiritual counseling model we have in our faith tradition in relation to bishops or other leaders we see as having authority....
