From Faith Crisis to Relief Society President | A How I Lead Interview with Rebecca Woolf
Leading Saints Podcast
Leading Saints
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Rebecca Woolf was raised in Provo, Utah, the daughter of John and Shawna Edwards, with four brothers. She met her husband Landon at Brigham Young University. After graduation they lived in four different states as Landon studied and trained to become a pediatric anesthesiologist, and Becca studied and trained to become a mother of four incredible boys. They have now settled in Spokane, Washington. Becca has served in the Church as a counselor in Primary, Young Women, and Relief Society, as a Sunday School teacher, and as a Relief Society and Young Women president.
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Becca vulnerably shares her experience as a Relief Society president in a new ward where the sisters embraced each other and she grew by striving to love as Jesus did.
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| 0:00.0 | Anthony Sweat has easily become one of my favorite BYU professors to interview. |
| 0:09.1 | He's been on the podcast several times and he also has a remarkable presentation about ambiguity of doctrine in our |
| 0:15.3 | questioning Saints virtual library. He discusses healthy and unhealthy ways we approach doctrine, |
| 0:20.9 | how to help others reconcile doctrine they find difficult to believe, |
| 0:24.4 | especially when we don't know much about it. |
| 0:27.2 | You can watch Professor Sweat's entire interview in the questioning Saints library by going to |
| 0:32.3 | Leading Saints.org |
| 0:33.4 | slash 14. This will give you access for 14 days at no cost to watch this |
| 0:38.2 | presentation. You'll be better prepared as a leader when you do. So my name is Kurt Frankum and I am the founder and executive director of Leading Saints and obviously the host of the |
| 1:04.7 | Leading Saints podcast. Now I started Leading Saints back in 2010. It was just a hobby |
| 1:10.2 | blog and it grew from there by the time 2014 came around we started the |
| 1:15.6 | podcast and that's really when it got some traction and took off 2016 we |
| 1:20.6 | became a 501c3 nonprofit organization and we've been growing ever since and now I get the opportunity of interviewing and talking with remarkable people all over the world. |
| 1:31.0 | Now this is a segment we do on the leading Saints |
| 1:33.6 | podcast called How I Lead and we reach out to everyday leaders. They're not |
| 1:38.2 | experts, gurus, authors, PhDs, they're just everyday leaders who've been asked to serve in a specific leadership |
| 1:44.9 | calling and we simply ask them, how is it that you lead? |
| 1:48.3 | And they go through some remarkable principles that should be in a book that should be behind |
| 1:52.0 | a PhD. |
| 1:53.1 | They're usually that good. |
| 1:54.5 | And we just talk about sharing what the other guy is doing. |
| 1:58.0 | And I remember being a leader just simply wanting to know, |
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