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Hello, friends. Welcome to episode number 88 of the Latter Day Lives podcast.

I'm Sean Rupier. I am the host of the show, and thank you so much for stopping in again this week.

I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend.

What a great time of year it is between conference and Easter and the changing season,

and it's getting warmer and flowers outside and everything else. Springtime just makes me happy,

and I hope it was a wonderful time for you to reflect on the Savior. And you just had a terrific weekend. This week on the show, my guest is Kylie Shields. And you will

absolutely love Kylie. I so thoroughly enjoyed sitting down with her, hearing her great life

story and about her book. And she just, I get the feeling

that everywhere she goes, she just makes the world a brighter and better place. You will

absolutely love her. And this week in my latter-day life, I'll tell you a little bit about

the importance of being cheered on. It's all coming up. So sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's conversation.

And it is a privilege today to have here in the Latter Day Live Studios, an author.

And I don't know that much more about you, but a therapist, an author, and someone I'm so excited to get to know, she came highly recommended.

Kylie Shields, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

I'm excited to be here.

Oh, I am so excited to have you on.

And I have to give a quick, big shout out to Nicoletti of Latter-day Saint

Mission Cast who introduced us. Yeah. And he's talked to you before. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're

friends. Reconnected. We, we, I did a podcast with him like six years ago. Oh, yeah. And we've kind of

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