Replacing Worry with Pondering | An Interview with Dan Duckworth

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in May 2020. Dan Duckworth is a disciple, family man, and changemaker. As a teacher and coach, he guides elite leaders to the top of their game. He’s the author of Stop Asking Why: Your Purpose is Self-Evident, and president of the Leading Saints Board of Directors. Highlights 05:39: Dan discusses the life cycle of a crisis and creating a “new normal” for Home Church 11:51: Statistics of geographic areas and types of leaders that responded to survey 15:20: Bishops in a transactional mindset 18:13: All about hypothetical worries 21:14: Feeling like you need to be doing something 23:32: The Youth Program and God’s plans for 2020 27:33: Taking a break from worrying to ponder 30:40: Comparing yourself and your ward to others’ 35:18: D&C 1, Hyrum Smith, and disciplined reflection 42:28: Creating connections in ministering and knowing what God wants us to do as leaders 51:02: Knowing the why behind actions you take and transactional mindset vs transformation mindset 55:45: Reintegrating into regular church life 58:32: The number one leadership tool Links DanDuckworth.net Subscribe to the Leading Saints Newsletter The One Thing Bishops Worry Most About During Church-at-Home, and Why They Should Stop Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library The Leading Saints Podcast gets over 300,000 listens each month and has nearly 10 million total downloads as part of nonprofit Leading Saints' mission to help latter-day saints be better prepared to lead. Learn more and listen to any of the past episodes for free at LeadingSaints.org. Past guests include Emily Belle Freeman, David Butler, Hank Smith, John Bytheway, Liz Wiseman, Stephen M. R. Covey, Julie Beck, Brad Wilcox, Jody Moore, Tony Overbay, John H. Groberg, Elaine Dalton, Tad R. Callister, J. Devn Cornish, Dennis B. Neuenschwander, Anthony Sweat, John Hilton III, Barbara Morgan Gardner, Blair Hodges, Ryan Gottfredson, Greg McKeown, DeAnna Murphy, Michael Goodman, Richard Ostler and many more in over 700 episodes. Discover podcasts, articles, virtual conferences, and live events related to callings such as the bishopric, Relief Society, elders quorum, Primary, youth leadership, stake leadership, ward mission, ward council, young adults, ministering, and teaching.

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0:00.0	In modern times, one of the most difficult issues leaders are faced with is helping those who struggle with mental health.
0:11.0	No longer can we simply encourage a good measure of
0:14.2	scripture study and prayer and expect everyone's life to stabilize. This is why
0:19.2	leading Saints felt it was so important to organize the Mentally Healthy Saints Library.
0:25.0	There one can find 25 plus presentations all about ministering to those who struggle with
0:29.9	mental health.
0:31.1	We cover topics like depression, anxiety, scrupulous or OCD. We even cover
0:36.0	how to effectively refer individuals to professional therapists and make sure they are getting the help
0:41.2	they need. This and so much more. If you'd like to review
0:44.8	all of these sessions, we would love to have you do so at no cost. You can visit
0:49.6	leading Saints.org.14 and get access to the full library for 14 days.
0:55.4	He'll also receive access to all our virtual libraries where we cover additional leadership
0:59.6	related topics.
1:01.1	So click the link in the show notes or simply visit leading Saints.org
1:04.8	slash 14. The following episode is a throwback episode, one that was published
1:10.2	previously and was extremely popular.
1:12.8	To see the details of when this was originally published, see the show notes.
1:16.7	Enjoy this throwback episode. Hey everyone this is the leading Saints
1:27.9	my name is Kurt Frankham this is a podcast where we discuss all things
1:31.5	leadership in the context of being a
1:33.7	Latter-day Saints because we are a nonprofit organization dedicated helping
1:37.8	Latter-day Saints be better prepared to lead. Okay that sounded redundant but
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