I have long been a believer that everyone has a story, and I think that's why I love this week's episode so much.

Since graduating from high school, Angie Balfour has written down the defining moments from each year of her life.

Since then, she has lived in various locations around the globe, battled cancer, and has worked for some of the biggest companies in the world.

Because of this practice of writing down her defining moments, Angie has not taken her experiences for granted, and instead has allowed them to weave, no pun intended, into a beautiful tapestry, a story worth telling.

Angie Balfour is the chief people officer for weave, a Utah-based tech company. Prior to joining weave, Angie spent over five years at Instagram and Facebook.

Most recently, she served as head events to grant human resources and director of human resources at Facebook.

Prior to that, Angie spent over a decade at Fairchild Semi-Conductor as a senior global human resources manager and human resources business partner.

This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Jones, and I am so excited to have Angie Balfour on the line with me today. Angie, welcome.

Thank you.

This is such a treat to have you on, and I have to tell listeners, we spoke a few weeks ago, and Angie shared just some of her experiences and things with me, and I think you have so many valuable things to share with people that will listen to this episode, and I just am so excited.

So first of all, I want to talk a little bit. You told me that you have this exercise of recording a defining moment of each year of your life since graduation.

Is that college graduation or high school?

No, it's a high school.

Those my senior year of high school has started.

Okay, so tell me how you came up with this idea, and then how has looking for those defining moments impacted your life?

Yeah, it started. It actually started. The thought came to me in a Sunday school class. They were talking about Alma the younger, and what they called the defining moment when the angel comes and visits him and helps him see his ways that might need to change.

I told that the defining moment in the class, and I had this just thought, and I raised my hand, and I said, you know, I'm not sure that's the defining moment.

I feel like the defining moment is what he did every day after that to stay on the path. Those are the defining moments that he chose every single day.

And so I just kind of stayed with me. And so I have been making a list of a few key things that had happened to me, and I just started writing them down and then writing them out.

And at first it was just like key word, so I'd remember the experiences, and then it was kind of providing a little more detail. And then really it changed when I have a niece, she's now 14 and all of a sudden I thought, hey, this would be really fun to give her when she turns 18 and goes off to college.

And I'll kind of give it to each of my nieces and nephews as they go off to college. I don't have any kids right now.

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