Ep. 216 - Carrie Yost - A Songwriter Called To Stand

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.7 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Carrie Yost found songwriting at a tender time in her life. She discovered that God has a great work for her through music. In the episode we talk about her life growing up in Idaho, being a track star in college, meeting her husband, moving to a farm, major health challenges, discovering songwriting, touching lives through music, and how being a member of the church affects it all. Carrie is brilliant and so open. You will love her story!

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:10.6	Day Saints.
0:11.6	Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and guests
0:15.9	and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:24.9	Thank you. specific organization unless otherwise stated. Hello, friends, and welcome to episode 216 of the Latter-day Lives podcast.
0:30.8	I'm your host, Sean Rappere.
0:32.2	Thank you so much for joining us again this week.
0:35.5	Wow, do we have a show for you.
0:37.3	Carrie Yost is an incredible
0:39.1	songwriter, and her story just blew me away. Her candor and her openness, and just her
0:45.7	journey she's been on is incredible. You are going to absolutely love this conversation.
0:53.2	And coming up this week in my L day life, building and cleaning the kingdom.
0:59.1	It's all coming up.
1:00.9	So sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's conversation.
1:04.9	Music And today here on the Letter Day Lives podcast, it is my absolute pleasure to have a remarkably talented songwriter.
1:24.1	Carrie Yost, welcome to the show.
1:26.3	Thank you so much for having me, Sean. All right. So I'm
1:29.6	scrolling through Instagram, and I'll just say up front, you know, as I'm scrolling through
1:35.4	stories and whatnot, all the sudden there are these children singing with these angelic voices,
1:42.2	and I watched it probably seven times in a row, crying all the way through it.
1:48.6	And that touched my soul so much. I thought, who is behind this? And that is how we ended up connecting.
1:57.0	And I have so many questions about that. But first, we're going to get to know you. So tell us a
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