Setting Boundaries Without Burning Bridges (with Michael Soto)

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week in our IN the Scriptures episode, Michael Soto joins Clare Dalton to discuss Doctrine & Covenants 109-123. Together they explore the importance of names, boundaries, and chosen families.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Charlie here. Welcome back to All Out in the Open. This week we have an In the
0:03.9	Scriptures episode where Claire Dalton takes us through the gathering curriculum, and we're studying
0:07.6	sections 109 through 123 of the Doctrine Covenants. She was joined by Michael Soto and had an
0:12.5	amazing conversation about setting boundaries, chosen family, and God's unconditional love,
0:17.2	and we hope it brings you some peace this week.
0:31.3	All right, welcome back to another week of All Out in the Open, and this is the In The Scriptures episode with Claire Dalton, and I am here today in the studio with Michael Soto.
0:35.8	Hi, Claire.
0:36.6	How are you doing, Michael?
0:37.4	I'll do great.
0:38.4	I think we have, I think we've got everything set.
0:41.1	We're ready to go.
0:41.9	I think we are. I just made a joke about forgetting my name and the title of the podcast and everything. And so I think I got it. Yeah. Happens every time. Okay. You think that sometimes I'd get like relaxed, but you know, here we go.
0:53.6	Well, we're so excited to be here today and to have this chat.
0:57.1	I love every conversation. that sometimes I'd get like relaxed but you know here we go well we're so excited to be here today
0:55.6	and to have this chat I love every conversation that I have with you I feel the same way it's just
1:00.7	so fun so I feel like the podcast is literally sometimes just my like lineup of people that I want to
1:05.7	have conversations with yeah but that's kind of what a podcast should be right like yeah and every week
1:09.6	or every month I'm like ooh I get talked to this person, ooh, we could have the conversation we just had, but record. Right. Right. Wait, stop talking. We have to do that in the studio. Yeah. So, Michael, would you introduce yourself for those who maybe only listen to the first week of this podcast and never make it all the way to my week.
1:28.1	They may not know who, you know, we both are together in the same room.
1:32.0	Fair.
1:32.0	So here we go.
1:32.8	Well, my name is Michael Soto, and I am one of the co-hosts of the All Out in the Open
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