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Leading Saints Podcast

Serving as Bishop, Daughter with Cancer | Ft. Troy Dunn

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Yeah, for sure. That's cool. What about your church leadership journey and experience?

0:05.5

I know you were a bishop in Tampa area. Is that right?

0:09.1

I served as bishop twice down in Fort Myers, Florida. And I would say that I only served twice

0:18.1

because I did such a miserable job the first time.

0:22.4

Do you really believe that?

0:24.5

I mean, I just, yeah, here, here's, I mean, here's the thing.

0:28.3

And I don't, I don't want to, yeah.

0:31.2

You know, as I get older, I'm so transparent anymore that I think I make people uncomfortable.

0:36.8

I love authentic people in transparency.

0:39.6

What's that?

0:40.4

That's why we have yon.

0:41.6

We want to be more comfortable.

0:43.5

I just think that I think that we forget that our leaders, regardless of the title,

0:51.9

and I know that this is leading saints, so the vast majority of people probably listening and watching this are in leadership positions.

0:59.0

And I think that at times if you're not in a leadership position and you're on the outside

1:03.0

watching them lead you in Relief Society, you know, elders' quorum, your ward, your stake, whatever,

1:09.0

it's easy to forget that those individuals are also on the

1:13.6

exact same path that you are. And we tend to almost take them out of that human place. And if we don't,

1:23.6

we tend to take ourselves out of it. I think that pressure of going, oh, my gosh, I'm the

1:29.7

Relief Society president. There's certain things people expect of me. Oh, my gosh, I'm the bishop. I'm

1:33.9

the elders' court president. I'm the young men's president. I'm the young, I think that we're like,

1:37.8

okay, I'm now there. And I think the adversary plays on that.

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