Astrid Tuminez: Embracing Divine Identity to Unleash Your Full Potential

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Join us on a journey with Astrid Tuminez, President of Utah Valley University, as she shares the two pivotal moments that transformed her life as a little girl growing up in a disadvantaged neighborhood in the Philippines. First, an opportunity to enroll in a school run by Catholic nuns allowed Astrid to read and write. Second, a chance to be taught by missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about her divine identity as a daughter of God. This powerful combination of secular and spiritual knowledge opened up a whole new world of possibilities for young Astrid. Today, President Tuminez leads Utah Valley University with the belief that education has the power to transform lives.

Show Notes

2:28- A Life That Began in the Slums of the Philippines

7:54- An Power of Education

14:00- When Someone Who Sees Your Potential

18:41- Finding the Gospel of Jesus Christ

21:58- Something Divine

25:18- Coming to America

31:32- The Importance of Who You Marry

35:55- When a Job Isn't Your Strength

38:12- Coming to UVU

44:27- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Links & References

All In Conference Special

Every Needful Thing book

Wrestling Super Fan article

Church News profile on President Tuminez

Astrid S. Tuminez: The Power of Dreaming, the Power of Doing video

Lecture at BYU

Disrupt Yourself interview with President Tuminez

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0:32.9	exciting upcoming events, with other beloved all-in guests like Barbara Morgan Gardner,
0:39.1	Raina Bertow, Adam Miller, Steve Young, and Richard Turley. Again, that's DeseretBookPresent.com-speaker-series.
0:50.9	I don't get to do many interviews and person these days, so I relish the opportunity to sit down
0:57.0	with Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez. Immediately upon walking into her office,
1:03.2	you get a sense of President Tuminez personality. And I knew we'd get along just fine when I saw
1:09.3	the Dolly Parton sticker on the back of her computer monitor. She walks in and immediately commands
1:15.2	a room despite being just four foot 11 inches tall. I learned following our interview that since
1:21.5	arriving at UVU, President Tuminez has become a die-hard UVU wrestling fan, a fixture at almost
1:28.8	all of the school's wrestling matches. She knows all the wrestlers' names, GPAs, and their stories,
1:34.9	and they know hers. As one senior on the wrestling team put it, a lot of times it whoever wants it more.
1:41.6	President Tuminez is an example of someone who wants it more, and we try to follow her example.
1:47.8	She's a fighter. She's worked her whole life to be where she is. End quote. That is the story you
1:53.9	are going to hear today. Dr. Astrid Tuminez was appointed the seventh president of Utah Valley
2:00.3	University in 2018. Born in a farming village in the Philippines, she moved with her parents in
2:06.6	siblings to the slums when she was two years old. Her parents seeking better educational opportunities
2:12.8	for their children. Her pursuit of education eventually took her to the United States where she
2:18.0	graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations and Russian literature from Brigham
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