1449: Navigating a Mixed-Faith Mormon Family - Linda and Savannah Clyde Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re premiering part one of our epic interview with an awesome mother and daughter duo, Linda and Savannah Clyde. Growing up in a mixed-faith Mormon home, Linda worked through the resentment she felt towards her father’s lack of belief in the church with beautiful results. Linda’s talents as a writer eventually landed her a job at LDS church headquarters in the marketing department where she was instrumental in assisting the church soften it’s tone and messaging. Hearing her talk about the inner workings of the church is fascinating stuff to say the least! Once an extremely faithful teenager, Linda’s daughter Savannah’s curious spirit led her to dig deeper into the narrative of the church and become a new kind of pioneer for her Mormon family.

Listen along as they describe their journey to understanding one another, their non-Mormon loved ones, and the beauty that can come from embracing non-conformity as a family in Utah county.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John Delin
0:04.8	We are recording here at the Mormon Stories Podcast Studios in holiday Utah
0:08.8	And I could not be more excited for my guests today my guests are Linda and Savannah Clyde hey guys
0:17.4	Hey, I welcome. Thanks so much for joining us good to be here
0:21.2	I don't expect that a ton of you will know who Linda and Savannah Clyde are I
0:25.5	Learned about Linda first a month or two ago when I learned that Linda had worked for five years for the Church of Jesus Christ of
0:32.8	Letters States
0:33.8	LDS dot org Mormon dot org as a copywriter in I think what she describes as their marketing department
0:40.2	But it's really writing headlines and title and copy for LDS dot org Mormon dot org and many other
0:47.8	Internet assets and other things that we'll learn about today
0:51.2	But it's interesting to think about it sometimes you can look at the church through a corporate lens kind of like it's a corporation and
0:58.5	Sometimes you can look at its different business units as units of the business and and if you look at it that way and I think Linda
1:05.9	Characterizes it that way she worked for the marketing arm of the LDS church
1:09.2	So she has a lot of insider perspective and information about how they think about the messages that they share with members in the world
1:17.8	the headlines search engine optimization
1:20.5	And just how they get the message out to the world and market the product market the church of Jesus Christ of
1:26.1	Letters States, but that's not the only reason we're interviewing Linda
1:29.2	I stumbled also on her someone recommended her tiktok channel to me
1:33.6	She has a tiktok channel where she has been sharing her experiences as a Mormon and her experiences working with the church and it's just a it's a lovely
1:43.2	thoughtful and fun tiktok channel and of course
1:46.7	Mormon stories podcast is working to become involved on all the platforms where we can help get the message out and
1:55.0	fulfill the mission of the open stories foundation which is to help provide informed consent for current
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