Episode 553: Dr. Scott Baldwin, BYU Professor, Early-Release Missionary

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

My friend Scott Baldwin (BYU Professor, Clinical Psychology, Married Father of 5) shares the experience of his mission in 1997 ending after 8 days. Scott talks about the shame and sadness he felt leaving the MTC and not completing a mission. Now 25 years from that experience, Scott shares insights, principles, and perspectives to help other early-release missionaries feel hope in the moment and for their future. Scott’s wife Autumn joins us to share why she married Scott and loves this part of his journey because of the his gifts and Christlike attributes to help others. If you are an early-release missionary, this podcast will help you as Scott has the long-view of this road. And if you are a local leader, parent or friend, please listen to this podcast to help the current (or future) early-release missionaries in your circle. Thank you, Scott, for sharing your story—along with your academic and clinical insights into this space. Combining all those perspectives helps us better support early-release missionaries. Honored to have you on the podcast! References: Dr. Burden-Stelly resilience quote is at: https://twitter.com/blackleftaf/status/1539737405091110912 Dr. Scott Baldwin’s clinical practice is at: https://scott-baldwin.clientsecure.me ** Please Check Out My New Book (Listen, Learn and Love: Improving Latter-day Saint Culture; link below) which has a chapter on this subject ** Deseret Book: https://deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-love Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1462139566

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.8	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Dr. Scott Baldwin.
0:14.4	Welcome to the podcast.
0:15.7	It's good to be here.
0:16.4	Thank you.
0:18.2	Even though he's a doctor, and I'll probably refer to him as a doctor at times, I'm mostly going to call him Scott, because he's younger than me.
0:25.7	Most of the doctors in my life now are younger than me.
0:28.1	It's kind of a change for me.
0:30.5	So anyway, he is going to talk about being an early release missionary, and this occurred in 1997.
0:39.8	And I'm just so glad that he's willing to share his story for a couple reasons. One is if you're in early release missionary,
0:45.5	wondering how your life is going to work out, and if you'll ever get married and have a family
0:50.2	and have a career, I think Scott will give you hope that all those things are possible for you.
0:56.0	Because this happened 25 years ago for Scott and he's married, has five kids. He's a BYU professor.
1:03.1	He's a clinical psychologist and also practicing psychologist. Is that right?
1:10.0	That's right. Yep.
1:17.4	And he's got us obviously a PhD and a master's, did an undergraduate degree at BYU.
1:24.0	So he's kind of come full circle back to BYU, and he's been there about 16 years and is doing wonderful work.
1:28.0	I may have already mentioned this, but they've got two, um, his wife, Autumn.
1:34.5	They have twin sons, identical twin sons that are serving missions right now in Ghana, Africa and South Africa. So two sons on that continent helping people come unto Christ through a restored church.
1:40.8	Is that okay for an introduction? That sounds great and you did good job.
1:51.9	Just to comment, I wish I had some of the clinical and professional expertise that Scott has.
1:57.7	I've been drawn to people with his expertise and learning more because I think it's just,
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