On the episode you're about to hear, we will talk about a sports analogy that I think is powerful and profound.

With someone who knows a lot about sports.

Tomorrow, on Instagram, join us on allin.podcast to hear from someone else who knows a lot about sports and what they teach us about life.

I am so excited to be joined by my friend, Mr. Scott O'Neill, the CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers.

So join us tomorrow, Thursday, at 315 Mountain Time for an Instagram Live that you do not want to miss.

In basketball, there is a phrase used to describe the physical and psychological benefits that a player experiences when competing in his or her own arena.

You know the feeling when your favorite team is playing in front of a crowd full of its own fans and the arena is just absolutely rocking.

Ironically, as I record the intros for this episode, my voice is a little bit shot as a result of cheering super loud last night at a Utah Jazz Playoff game.

I am a huge basketball fan so it likely comes as no shock that I was immediately obsessed with an analogy recently shared by Liz Darger and a BYU devotional that we can create this home court advantage for the people in our lives.

I'm excited to dig into this concept with Liz on today's episode.

Liz Darger is a member of the Young Women General Advisory Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Professionally, she is the Senior Associate Athletic Director at BYU.

She also serves on the West Coast Conference Executive Council and is a member of the NCAA Common Ground Leadership Team.

This is All-In, an LDS Living Podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean to be All-In, the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

I'm Morgan Jones and I am honored to have Liz Darger with me today. Liz, welcome.

Thank you. I am honored to be here. I'm a huge fan of yours. Thanks for all the good work that you're doing to bless the world.

Thank you. Well, you are doing incredible work to bless the world and to bless the church. I want to start. You just gave a BYU devotional just recently.

You talked about this concept of home court advantage. I'm a sports junkie. I know you are as well. I want to first have you tell us what you mean when you talk about home court advantage and what it means to you personally.

Excellent. Thank you. So growing up, my parents, we were the type of family that have family home evening. We had family prayer, family scripture study.

My parents were very intentional parents. Lots of moments of learning. And I remember a particular family home evening lesson that my mom talked about how we could create a home court advantage for everyone in our family.

And my siblings and I all really enjoyed sports. My parents actually weren't really into sports. And so it was even more meaningful that she found something that was important to her children to teach to teach an important gospel principle.

And that was how can we create an atmosphere in our home where every member of our family feels like they have the advantage of being a place that's familiar.

That's comfortable where people are there cheering them on where people are forgiving of their mistakes. A place that we can feel peace and feel celebrated.

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