Episode 308: Kurt Francom, Executive Director Leading Saints, Upcoming LGBTQ Virtual Summit

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

My friend Kurt Francom joins us to talk about Leader Saints’ upcoming virtual summit for local LDS leaders be better prepared to minister to LGBT Latter-day Saints. The summit starts on September with the over 20 pre-recorded seminars released (about two per day). Some of the presenters are Spencer Thompson, Travis Steward, Ganel-Lyn Condie, Ty Mansfield, Jeff Case, Becky Borden, Blake Fisher, Ben Schilaty, Chelsea Chipman, and Becky and Scott Mackintosh. I encourage everyone to sign up for the summit. For free registration and for more details, please see https://leadingsaints.org/lgbt Thank you Kurt for all your needed work at Leaders Saints and on the Board at NorthStar.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.9	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Kurt Frankum.
0:15.1	Welcome to the podcast, Kurt.
0:17.6	Hey, Richard, thanks for having me back.
0:19.9	I enjoyed the first time we did this, and I appreciate you.
0:23.1	Give me a few minutes today.
0:25.2	Kurt is calling in over the phone, and we're going to talk about two items.
0:30.1	It'll be a shorter podcast.
0:31.2	We'll talk about what Kurt does as the founder and executive director of Leading Saints,
0:37.3	and we're also going to talk in
0:39.6	particular about his upcoming summit that is occurring starts on september 8th so kurt why don't
0:46.6	we just turn it over to you tell us about leading saints yeah and be happy to uh leading saints is
0:54.0	a non-profit organization that is dedicated
0:57.3	helping Latter Day Saints be better prepared to lead. And this was a sort of a hobby project
1:03.3	that started for me back in 2010, just started as a blog. I had a passion for for for leadership principles and I was also being called
1:14.5	the leadership callings and I thought that's worth talking about as those two worlds together and
1:20.6	so it started out as a blog and then 2014 we launched the leading it was initially called leading
1:27.0	LDS but now it's leading saints
1:29.5	but in 2014 is when we started the podcast and then 2016 we became an official 501
1:38.2	c3 nonprofit and then since then we've been growing and reaching audiences around the world speaking about leadership
1:47.3	in the context of serving as a Latter-day Saint.
1:50.5	So is that a good summary?
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