Inviting the Youth Into the Battle | A How I Lead Interview with Brooke Petersen and Thomas Sitterud
Leading Saints Podcast
Leading Saints
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🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Brooke Petersen lives in Cleveland, Utah, a rural town south of Price. Her husband, Hans, commutes to West Valley City, Utah, where he practices pediatric dentistry. Brooke and Hans have five children, and Brooke enjoys working in the yard. She currently serves in the Church as the stake Young Women president of the Huntington Utah Stake. Thomas Sitterud also lives in Cleveland with his wife and three children. He served a mission to Vladivostok, Russia, and then studied Russian at Brigham Young University. He graduated from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and specializes in estate planning. Thomas currently serves as stake Young Men president and stake high councilor. His previous service includes bishopric counselor and elders quorum president.
Highlights
03:10 Introduction to Brooke and Thomas and their stake callings 07:20 Stake activities for the youth that they are preparing for 08:20 Stake young women president is Brooke’s first leadership calling. Even though she was intimidated she has been able to have lots of support and shares a fresh perspective. 12:10 Brooke shares the dynamic between her and the ward young women presidencies and how she works with them. 15:20 Thomas shares his perspective on working with the wards as stake young men president. 17:50 Focus on the what. Trying to get to know each girl better by attending youth sporting events and things they are involved with and sending out birthday cards to every girl in the stake. 24:00 Thomas shares what they do as stake leaders to help connect with the one. 27:20 Feeling supported by local leaders. Don’t tell people how important they are to you but show them how important they are to you by your actions and giving them your time. 29:40 Let the youth lead. Let them be a support to the ward just like the youth in Helaman’s army. 32:20 Brooke shares ways that they invite the youth to participate and lead. Giving the youth opportunities to speak with the high council on the third Sunday. 36:30 Getting youth involved at younger ages. Sometimes they have more enthusiasm for leadership roles. 39:30 Final thoughts on leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | Does a youth leader ever feel like they haven't figured out? This hasn't been my experience. However, I couldn't be an effective youth leader today without |
| 0:16.1 | Dan Duckworth's presentation about going from youth worker to youth mentor. Mentorship is a key concept to understand when leading youth. In his presentation |
| 0:24.9 | Dan talks about ways to really turn the traditional approach to leading youth on its |
| 0:29.8 | head. How can you better know your purpose? How can you find out their life goals? How can you better know your purpose? How can you find out their life goals? |
| 0:34.0 | How can you build a relationship that is transformational rather than simply filling time |
| 0:39.0 | during the weekly youth activity? You can watch Dan's presentation in the Young Saints Virtual Library by going to |
| 0:45.8 | leading Saints.org. 14. You'll get free access for 14 days and that will give you plenty |
| 0:51.1 | of time to watch Dan's presentation a few times. |
| 0:54.0 | Let's give youth the leadership they deserve. Oh, So my name is Kurt Frankham and I am the founder and executive director of |
| 1:30.0 | Leading Saints and obviously the host of the Leading Saints podcast. |
| 1:33.9 | Now I started Leading Saints back in 2010. |
| 1:37.6 | It was just a hobby blog and it grew from there by the time 2014 came around we started the podcast and that's really |
| 1:44.8 | when it got some attraction and took off 2016 we became a 501c3 nonprofit |
| 1:51.2 | organization and we've been growing ever since and now I get the |
| 1:54.4 | opportunity of interviewing and talking with remarkable people all over the |
| 1:58.8 | world. Now this is a segment we do on the leading Saints podcast called How I Lead. |
| 2:04.0 | And we reach out to everyday leaders. They're not experts, |
| 2:07.0 | gurus, authors, PhDs, they're just everyday leaders who've been asked to serve |
| 2:11.8 | in a specific leadership calling and we simply |
| 2:13.9 | ask them how is it that you lead and they go through some remarkable principles |
| 2:17.9 | that should be in a book that should be behind a PhD they're usually that good and |
| 2:22.4 | we just talk about sharing what the other guy is doing and I remember being a leader just simply wanting to know okay I know what I'm trying to do but what's the other guy doing what working for him? And so that's why every Wednesday or so, |
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