Episode 297: Patrick Risk, Gay Latter-day Saint, LDS Church Employee

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

My friend Patrick Risk, who was on episode 172, joins us to update our listeners on his life story. As always, Patrick is honest and vulnerable with his life story with includes a sexual abuse, anorexia, a divorce and being gay. Patrick feels (and I agree) that we heal and help each other when we are vulnerable, open and honest with our stories. Because Patrick is open, hundreds have reached out to Patrick feeling safe which allows Patrick to help them. Patrick started a Facebook Group called https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrightnessOfHope/ Which I encourage everyone to join. Thank you for being on the podcast Patrick. You have so many insights to help everyone feel welcome, loved and accepted in our congregations. You are an incredible human being with a unique life mission to bring hope and healing to others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learned Love, hosted by Richard Osler. My guest is a returning guest on the podcast, a dear friend, Patrick Risk. Welcome to the podcast, Patrick.
0:16.8	Thank you, Richard. Patrick was on episode 172.
0:21.3	This will be episode close to 300, so that's a lot of episodes between times we talk,
0:27.3	but it hasn't been that long of a time.
0:30.2	I've just friends with Patrick on Facebook.
0:33.0	He is talking a lot about hope on Facebook, about his journeys in LGBTQ, Latter-day Saint.
0:41.2	Patrick is active in the church, works for the church, and it's just this message of hope
0:46.3	and love on social media, and I just wanted to have him back on the podcast to kind of update our
0:52.0	listeners on his life and the things that have occurred since our last
0:55.8	podcast.
0:57.4	Will you start by introducing what you do your church, what you do professionally for the church?
1:02.7	Yeah.
1:02.8	So I actually just recently a couple months ago accepted a new position at the church.
1:08.8	So I'm actually now a management consultant,
1:11.5	which is a new kind of functioning role at the church,
1:15.6	rather than bringing in kind of outside consultants from, you know,
1:18.9	like McKinsley or Bain or that type of thing.
1:22.0	They're creating kind of their own,
1:24.2	a lot of the people in that role are from those types of firms, but really my role
1:30.1	is just working with leadership to determine what the kind of strategic priorities are.
1:35.3	And then basically our mantra, which is from Bishop Kosei, is find a better way.
1:40.6	And basically we're just trying to improve operations and do things more effectively.
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