Part 1: Leading Saints in 2024
Leading Saints Podcast
Leading Saints
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Let’s look back at 2023, look forward to 2024, and answer some commonly-asked questions about Leading Saints and its future. This is Part 1 of a two-part podcast. Listen to Part 2 here.
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Highlights
- 3:30 The story behind Leading Saints and how it started. Kurt’s first leading experience as an elders quorum president in his singles ward.
- 5:50 Kurt poured himself into his calling and did some good things but also made a lot of mistakes. He gave the typical guilt trip lesson about doing home teaching and got no results.
- 8:30 After getting married, Kurt moved into a ward and was called to be a counselor in the bishopric and then as high priest group leader. He started looking around at all the leadership books to find ways to improve and understand leadership better.
- 10:20 May 26, 2010 is the birthday of Leading Saints. It started as a hobby blog where Kurt would read a leadership book and try to apply it to leadership in the church. After four years he turned it into a podcast and did interviews.
- 12:30 The process of starting Leading Saints and taking it full time. Kurt really had to hustle and do a lot of side jobs when starting Leading Saints but he really had a vision of what it could be.
- 14:30 What can we expect from Leading Saints in 2024? New website and creating more community within Leading Saints
- 16:30 Leading Saints hack: Where to find the most downloaded episodes and where to start if you are a new listener Listen to Part 2 here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. This is Kurt Frankham. We're jumping into this live stream to record |
| 0:05.9 | Leading Saints in 2024 or what is Leading Saints in 2024 and we are going to |
| 0:16.0 | publish this via the podcast as well. Every year I record this type of an episode, sort of a state of the podcast, state of the organization |
| 0:22.4 | type of content right so give you an idea |
| 0:26.5 | of what we're going to cover here is I've got a series of questions that I've |
| 0:30.5 | collected from the audience that are people people are dying to know right and |
| 0:36.6 | we're gonna talk about the history of leading saints because a lot of people come across |
| 0:41.1 | leading saints and they're not quite sure what this is, |
| 0:44.2 | what we're about, if we're shady or not. |
| 0:47.8 | And so I'd love to just tell the story |
| 0:49.9 | because I get that question a lot, |
| 0:50.8 | like, how did Leading Saints start? start like where did this come from for you |
| 0:54.7 | all right so let's gather around find a place on the carpet here is as if we're in a |
| 1:00.8 | kindergarten class I'm gonna tell you a story of leading Saints and I've told it before. I'll tell it again, but it's important for people coming to cross leading Saints or maybe you've been listening to leading Saints for a long time, |
| 1:13.6 | you're wondering where, when and where leading Saints started. And this goes back really, |
| 1:18.4 | I guess the beginning of leading Saints really starts in 2005, maybe 2004, 2005, where I, there's a few years after my |
| 1:29.8 | mission, I moved into a student ward as we called them. |
| 1:33.4 | Today we would call them a YSA ward. |
| 1:36.2 | And in the student ward, this is a student ward |
| 1:39.3 | where I met my wife, so I'm so grateful I felt led |
| 1:42.0 | to join that ward. I was living at home in West Valley City and we attended this church. I attended this ward at the Salt Lake Community College Institute building and it was a |
| 1:52.8 | ginormous ward I think it got split once when I was I was there and I was |
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