Episode 618: HXP (Humanitarian XP)

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

I asked my friends at HXP (formerly HEFY) to come on the podcast and introduce this non-profit providing Latter-day Saint youth trips around the world. We joined by: Amy Antonelli: CEO Kelsi Christensen: Chief Innovations Officer Hannes Du Randt: Program Designer/Trip Leader The HXP teams introduces HXP, its worldwide trips (288 scheduled for the Summer of 2023; almost all full), the needs for parent builders, its goals and hopes. The team goes on to talk about the hopes to positively impact youth (95% are Latter-day Saint Youth and all Trip Leaders are active Latter-day Saints) to feel God’s love for them and other people around the world—as the engage in sustainable and impactful humanitarian projects. They talk about sign up for 2024 trips (enrollment opens in early November 2023). Each HXP members share some of their story including Amy finding worth/value/perspective as a single Latter-day Saints, Kelsi serving a mission in Brazil, a people she loved, and connecting with the Japanese people she hoped to serve, and Hannes (a dear family friend) his conversion story (that happened in the same room we record podcasts). If you are an LDS parent looking for a uniquely positive experience for your youth (ages 14-16 for domestic trips; 16-19 for international trips), please check out this podcast and HXP. And if you are looking to build your faith by hearing others experiences, Amy, Kelsi and Hannes will inspire you. Thank you, Amy, Kelsi, Hannes and everyone at HXP for your much needed work in our world. Links mentioned: HXP: https://www.humanitarianxp.org/ Hannes’ Conversation Story (Episode 7): https://soundcloud.com/user-818501778/episode-7-hannes-du-randt-mormon-conversation-story

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.1	We're going to do a completely different podcast.
0:11.7	After 600 episodes, we are taking on a new subject here that I felt impressed to reach
0:18.8	out to my friends at HXP
0:21.7	to talk about the tours that they're doing for Latter-day Saint Youth around the world.
0:28.3	And so this will be a podcast where you learn about an organization,
0:31.5	a nonprofit organization that takes LDS kids in their late teens around the world.
0:40.3	And I have three people here that represent that organization. Amy Antonelli, who is the CEO. Welcome to the podcast, Amy. Thank you so much.
0:48.0	And Kelsey Christensen is the chief innovations officer. Thank you. And Honest Durant, who is our family friend, who is a trip leader,
0:57.5	and you have a new assignment there. And a program designer as well. And a program designer.
1:03.9	You may be aware, and I want to kind of have this be a question and answer, you may be aware of
1:08.8	H-E-F-Y, and that's an organization's existed for about
1:13.1	25 years, but in the last couple years, it rebranded itself as H-X-P, and Amy can probably talk
1:19.5	about that. They have about 60 employees. In 2023, they'll do about 288 trips, and that involves 6,000 participants or builders to go worldwide.
1:35.0	We've had a couple of our kids go on what was 8GFY at the time and just had tremendous experiences.
1:41.6	And we love this organization from our family perspective and the things that it's taught
1:45.7	our kids. And I just wanted you, our listeners, to be aware of HXP. And I thought the best way to do
1:51.8	that would to bring the leaders, some of the leaders. So Amy Antonelli received a master's degree
1:58.2	from Harvard University.
2:04.6	She's worked with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to develop a global self-reliance mentoring strategy.
2:08.6	She's the executive director of Rising Star Outreach,
2:12.2	where she spent seven years of her life.
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