Establishing a Culture of Service in Relief Society | A How I Lead Interview with Kathy Santiago Allen

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Kathy Santiago Allen grew up in Provo and received a degree in nursing from Brigham Young University. She loved working in women's health and in the medical spa industry in Southern California before shifting her focus to raising five kids. Her husband's educational pursuits took them to San Diego and Los Angeles, then to St Louis, before they settled in North Phoenix. This past June they relocated to Mapleton, Utah. Kathy has loved serving in Primary presidencies, Relief Society presidencies, as Relief Society president, and most recently as a stake Relief Society president. She currently loves serving as a Young Women advisor, and her favorite calling will always be as a ministering sister.

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard of scrupulosity?
0:08.1	This is a mental health concern that is impacting more Latter-day Saints than you think.
0:12.9	Scrupulosity is religious, obsessive, compulsive disorder, where individuals are hyper-obsessed
0:18.8	about their worthiness and repentance.
0:21.2	Sam Baxter, a former bishop, sat down with me to talk about his lifelong struggle with
0:26.1	scrupulosity and how he got treatment.
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0:39.8	scrupulosity and 25 plus other interviews about ministering to those who struggle with mental
0:45.6	health. The content is priceless for leaders. So visit leadingsaints.org slash 14 for free access.
1:02.9	So my name is Kurt Frankum, and I am the founder and executive director of leading Saints and obviously the host of the Leading Saints podcast.
1:06.4	Now, I started Leading Saints back in 2010.
1:10.1	It was just a hobby blog, and it grew from there by the time 2014 came around.
1:15.7	We started the podcast, and that's really when it got some traction and took off 2016.
1:20.9	We became a 501C3 nonprofit organization, and we've been growing ever since.
1:26.3	And now I get the opportunity of interviewing
1:28.4	and talking with remarkable people all over the world. Now, this is a segment we do on the Leading
1:33.9	Saints podcast called How I Lead. And we reach out to everyday leaders. They're not experts,
1:39.6	gurus, authors, PhDs. They're just everyday leaders who've been asked to serve in a specific leadership
1:45.4	calling. And we simply ask them, how is it that you lead? And they go through some remarkable
1:49.8	principles that should be in a book that should be behind a PhD. They're usually that good.
1:55.1	And we just talk about sharing what the other guy is doing. And I remember being a leader just
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