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February 2025 marked the fifth anniversary of the announcement that LDS Business College would become Ensign College. The name change to the 139-year-old educational institution came with expanded educational offerings and symbolic and historical significance. The name change helped reaffirm the full name of the institution’s ownership, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the scriptural use of the word “ensign,” meaning a new covenant, a symbol of peace and a standard to the nations. Of the change, Ensign College President Bruce C. Kusch said, “As we embrace a new name, I invite each of us to think more carefully about that light and being a standard of righteousness.” On this episode of the Church News podcast, President Kusch and his wife, Sister Alynda Kusch, talk about their journey of faith, the academic changes the school is making and the power of aligning one’s life to the Lord’s mission and timing. The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Hosts Jon Ryan Jensen, editor of the Church News, and Church News reporter Mary Richards share unique views of the stories, events, and people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen.

Kayla Shields works as a Certified Personal trainer and Nutrition Coach. She earned an associate's degree from LDS Business College and is now headed back to Ensign College to finish a Finance degree. Her church callings have included Primary teacher, Activity Days leader, Relief Society counselor, and Relief Society president. She recently accepted the best calling in the Church: Primary music leader. Despite Kurt and Kayla's recommendation, we did not title this episode "When Salmonella Forms Friendships". You're welcome. Links “The Atonement Works for Me”: One Couple's Recovery from Sexual Addiction Unashamed/Unafraid When Being Released Hurts There is already a discussion started about this podcast. Share your thoughts here. Transcript coming soon Get 14-day access to the Core Leader Library Highlights Coming soon The Leading Saints Podcast is one of the top independent Latter-day Saints podcasts 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, Reyna and Elena Aburto, Liz Wiseman, Stephen M. R. Covey, Julie Beck, Brad Wilcox, Jody Moore, Tony Overbay, John H. Groberg, Elaine Dalton, Tad R. Callister, Lynn G. Robbins, J. Devn Cornish, Bonnie Oscarson, Dennis B. Neuenschwander, Anthony Sweat, John Hilton III, Barbara Morgan Gardner, Blair Hodges, Whitney Johnson, Ryan Gottfredson, Greg McKeown, Ganel-Lyn Condie, Michael Goodman, Wendy Ulrich, 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.

Summit Home Loans, Kaysville Utah...Good News!  Yes this is a great time to buy a home and invest in real estate. Listen in to Learn  WHY this path to Wealth is within your REACH! Dillan Lewis CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT, AND PRINCIPAL BROKER Dillan is an expert in the world of real estate and mortgage financing. With extensive sales and management experience along with having managed thousands of mortgage transactions, Dillan is the hands on CEO that you want when it comes to your mortgage. Having studied business and management at Weber State and LDS Business College, Dillan's vision for Summit Home Loans is to combine millennial innovation with the kind of business dealings and integrity that have withstood the test of time. When Dillan isn't hard at work taking care of all Summit Home Loans clients, you'll find him spending time with his family or playing in the mountains on his snowboard or mountain bike. Dillan will always make himself available to help any client, big or small. He truly believes that happy employees equal happy customers. Reach out to Dillan today to find out what it is that makes Summit Home Loans special. https://summithomeloans.com/about-us/   Who We Are https://summithomeloans.com/about-us/   Linkedin Facebook Instagram Twitter Summit Home Loans was founded on June 1, 2018 by Dillan Lewis and Kyle Koller. We are a residential mortgage brokerage that strives to provide the very best home financing experience in the industry. Our two main priorities are service and price, which we believe go hand in hand rather than trading one for the other. By providing a competitive and fun working environment we believe that our company and employees will emulate those advantages through the ease of each transaction. We realize that mortgage financing can be a difficult process but we truly believe that our expertise and experience in conjunction with our extremely competitive rates make us the best in the industry for each of our clients. Our vision for Summit Home Loans is to offer mortgage loans at a revolutionary wholesale price while delivering a streamlined and pain-free process. We strive to make Summit Home Loans the company that you think of first when it comes to getting a loan in Utah.        

Ammon Fife is the Group director of data science and analytics at Bonneville Communications. He has worked on social and digital campaigns in the Consumer (Hersheys, General Mills), Hi-tech (Intel, HP, Rackspace), Pharma (Pfizer, Sanofi, Amgen), and Non-profit (Mormon.org, Huntsman Cancer Institute, UN Foundation.) spaces. He also bounces between teaching Social Media Analytics and Micro-Economics at LDS Business College and BYU-Idaho.Check out upcoming DigiMarCon Digital Marketing, Media, and Advertising Conferences & Exhibitions Worldwide at https://digimarcon.com/events/

This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Ensign College was established in 1886 in Salt Lake City by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is led today by President Bruce Kusch who shares “the rest of the story.” BRUCE KUSCH: It's been an exciting time since our name was changed two years ago from LDS Business College to Ensign College. Today we offer bachelor's degrees in Business Management, Communications, Information Technology, and more. Each year we welcome nearly 3,000 students to our campus and, through our partnership with the online BYU-Pathway program, we serve over 5,000 students globally. We're confident that number will continue to grow because our skills-based curriculum prepares students with the training employers demand. Speaking of employers, we recently created the Ensign Center for Employer Connections—a hub for students and companies to work on projects and internships. The center is also a business incubator for student entrepreneurs where they can develop their ideas under the guidance of successful professionals. At Ensign College we speak of days never to be forgotten and we look forward to many more. Check out our website ensign.edu for more. DEREK MILLER: LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson is an alumni of Ensign College, a place where he learned to write in shorthand, a skill that he still uses daily today as the leader of that global faith. I'm Derek Miller with the Salt Lake Chamber, Speaking on Business. Aired: August 22, 2022.

Spencer Taggart, a LONG time friend of ours, has a strong background in social media and marketing. Prior to accepting a full-time teaching position at BYU Hawaii, he was the director of Strategy and New Business for Boncom and a Social Media professor at LDS Business College. Before diving into academia, Spencer was the Global Marketing Manager for Blendtec, one of the most successful companies to use social media as a marketing tool today. Spencer received his BA in Communication from the University of Utah and his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Spencer and his wife, Katie, have 4 amazing children and they live on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Spencer and Katie bought an investment property in 2020 after God told them that it would be a place of healing and gathering. They hold womens retreats where Spence and his team help people discover their infinite worth and truest purpose in life, which is what we're going to talk all about today. Spence is going to teach us about getting out of the box, leaving behind the pressures and expectations of the world and embracing an intentional life of focusing on the potential God sees in you. Time Stamps: [01:13] - Spencer Taggart is a LONG time friend. How do Corrine and Neil know Spencer? [02:55] - Spencer shares how he came up with the idea for strategic framework sessions. [05:19] - What is a vision video? [07:38] - If you design your dream life, what would it look like? What would it feel like? [10:29] - Spencer says that all of us are born with confidence. [12:34] - Spencer talks everyone through a powerful box analogy for fear, limits, and progress. [15:04] - Here is a secret about how the “box” was created. [17:19] - Real failure is part of life and helps us learn. [20:09] - Living authentically can inspire others to do the same. [22:32] - Don't get stuck in the box. [25:20] - How many times have you allowed fear to win? [27:49] - Everyone wins when you do this. What is it? [29:44] - When you move with love, you are courageous. [31:53] - Spencer encourages being more present with yourself.  [34:44] - Follow along with this meditation guided by Spencer: PART 1. [36:26] - Follow along with this meditation guided by Spencer: PART 2. [39:00] - Live everyday on purpose. [41:55] - Truth leads to freedom and love. [44:08] - Spencer encourages you to get out of the box. [45:55] - Change your life and start truly living. [48:14] - What is Spencer's gift? [51:10] - Tune into Spencer's morning walk show!   Supporting Resources: Learn more about the September 2022 Her Infinite Worth Retreat with Spencer and Corrine at herinfiniteworth.org *Sign up and join us for the retreat at mintarrow.com/retreat  Spencer's Instagram/morning walk show @sptaggart Follow along with the women's retreats on Instagram @herinfiniteworth

This week's guest is my radiantly talented friend, Julie Dumas Rose. Or friendship origins started in Salt Lake City, Utah at LDS Business College. She's since moved to New York to pursue her dreams but we were able to catch up and record an episode while she was here in LA. We talk about chocolate, creativity, ideas, manifesting, and more.... at least we did in one of our two episodes lololYeeeehawww! 

< Just a block west of the imposing Oquirrh Mountain Temple set against the backdrop of the Wasatch Mountains is a neat little cottage facing a tree-lined park in the Daybreak development of South Jordan, Utah.. On any weekday morning, a cheery young woman can be seen kissing her teenage girls goodbye as they leave for Herriman High School or college. It seems ordinary enough, this cozy setting taken right off the cover of a family magazine. But, the lady of this house wasn't raised in a comfortable suburban American home. She wasn't even raised in a home. Her earliest memories are of the Shkola Internat #3 Orphanage in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she stayed until a decision to take an English class taught by two young college-age American women changed her life. She is a long way from her roots, but that doesn't mean she has forgotten them. In fact, she is busier than ever doing her best to help family, friends and fellow Ukrainians cope with the tragedy that has befallen her beloved homeland. Her name is Yuliya Anatoliivna Pernyatina Aukschun. And how she got from THERE to HERE is the story of this Latter Day Radio podcast. Her bubbly, happy personality is infectious. Maybe that's because her personal experience of remembering where she came from and where she is today gives her context and appreciation for God's blessings in her life. That first life-changing event occurred in 1993 when she jumped at the chance to learn from two young sister missionaries, Sister Jackson and Sister Fairbanks; she recalls that they “were not supposed to preach about their religion,” but that did not stop Yuliya from wanting to hear more of their message; within a week or so, she had taken all the discussions and had entered into the waters of baptism. After that, she experienced a number of life-changing events. She began attending branch activities in Kyiv, including socials, dances and the like. Then, about a year later, an American judge, who had been traveling to Ukraine on and off to help the newly emerging democracy learn about American jurisprudence, had met Yuliya and then inquired at the orphanage about the teen-age convert. He offered to adopt her and take her to the United States; she jumped at the chance, and sometime later, found herself in a suburb of Seattle, Washington, enrolled in high school, walking the halls after her ESL classes with an English-Russian pocket dictionary in her hand. Then, another member offered to pay her tuition to LDS Business College in Salt Lake City. She accepted that offer as well. At the college, she had been befriended by her Religion professor, Linda Aukschun, who told her son, Brad, about the young Ukrainian student, and when Yuliya dropped in to see her teacher, Brad was sitting at his mother's desk working on her computer. Then, Professor Aukschun walked in, and after Yuliya left, Linda Aukschun asked Brad, “Did you get her number?” He shook his head and his mother retrieved Yulija, and unlike the storyline from “Fiddler on the Roof,” this time the parent's desire was realized: 22 years later, the Cinderella story is being played out in South Jordan, Utah. Linda and Yuliya Aukschun have been close ever since, and in fact, a few years ago, they were able to attend a session at the Kviv Temple, this time with Yuliya helping with the translation. The most recent events have also been remarkable, with Brad and Yuliya Aukschun working tirelessly to help her younger sister and a childhood friend from the orphanage escape their war-torn country. With Brad's round-the-clock effort and with the help of Google Translate, they managed to help the two women and their children catch flights to Brussels and find refuge in Belgium. In fact, today (March 28th), Yuliya's friend's six-year-old daughter starts school in Belgium. Yes, amidst all the tragedy of war with millions of refugees seeking safety, miracles still happen…in this case, miracles that began when a girl enrolled an English class in Ukraine.

We have our first guest on Cowgirl in LA—Jill Onofrietti. We talk all about going to LDS Business College for our social media marketing degrees, being roommates and shoveling snow in Salt Lake City, and being "Type A"  eldest daughters and Mormon Missionaries and low-key enjoying the responsibility. Of course, we talk about our cats, Fitz and Luna and all about how we're obsessed cat moms. What does being in our 30's look like? Do we want to be working moms (of both cats and humans)? Join in for a fun fun chat with Jill—enjoy! New episodes every Sunday.Follow along on Instagram at @cowgirl_inla to participate in the weekly question and discussion.

How the CliftonStrengths Assessment can help you identify your God-given talents and learn how to apply them to your vocation (and all areas of your life) to more fully reach your potential.MEET ARNIE ALLREDWhile working in career services for then LDS Business College (now named Ensign College), Arnie Allred and his colleges were looking for a tool they could use to help students excel in job interviews. They selected the CliftonStrengths Assessment because they saw that the test results gave students a vocabulary they could use in everyday conversations (e.g. "I have a talent for building relationships"), validation for their strengths, and guidance on how to aim those strengths towards the goals they want to achieve.If that sounds too aspirational, listen to this interview as Arnie shares stories about the power of combining your individual strengths with others as well as coupling your own strengths together through something called "theme dynamics." The results are remarkable, but admittedly, hard to believe until you go through the process yourself.When I first took the Strengths assessment, I first tossed the results aside thinking they were just too obvious. But that's the point.As Arnie says, "Everybody is incredibly talented. The sad thing is that lots of people don't see just how much value they can bring to the table. People don't recognize it because they say, 'That's just me.' They don't see the things they naturally do well as a talent."So let that sink in and listen to this interview to learn more about how important it is to KNOW what you're good at so you can "name it, claim it, and aim it" towards the things you want to achieve in this life.TAKE THE CLIFTONSTRENGTHS ASSESSMENTIf you want to take the CliftonStrengths Assessment so you too can get the vocabulary and validation you need to achieve your career goals, sign up for strengths coaching here at Faithful Career Moves. If you're at BYU, then go see Arnie and his team instead. He's been doing this longer than me. :)What You'll Learn in this EpisodeWhat the CliftonStrengths Assessment isHow your Strengths results can be utilized and compensated forA leap of faith Arnie had to take in his careerA blessing he could not see for himself in taking this journeyMost Importantly: How he has seen the Lord's hand in his careerMentioned in this InterviewBrigham Young University (BYU) Career ServicesThe CliftonStrengths AssessmentEnsign College (formerly LDS Business College)~~~~~Visit FaithfulCareerMoves.com and learn the secret to finding the career you were born to do.  Here's how it works:Identify Your StrengthsGet a Career PlanFind Your Calling in LifeFollow us:Instagram @FaithfulCareerMovesFacebook @FaithfulCareerMoves

Kristy is a Salt Lake Community College graduate who now works as an occupational therapy assistant for the Alpine School District. Her previous experience includes working for St. Marks Hospital, Whittier Elementary School, Work Activities Center and Salt Lake Community College. She also holds an associate's degree in accounting from then LDS Business College. In this episode Kristy shares her unique CODA career journey and how she learns from challenges!

Leslie has been with the University of Utah for over 25 years and currently works as an Employment Engagement Specialist where she serves as the liaison between employer opportunities and eager students looking for experience. She earned her associate's degree from then LDS Business College in Business Administration and began her career as a staff support. She has and continues to take many opportunities to grow her skillsets and knowledge by participating in national and regional organization boards, and memberships that have broadened her network. In this episode, Leslie shares how she found a career in higher education, that originally started with a simple desire to provide for her family.

Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy, I'm Amy McPhie Allebest.  Have you ever been to a beautiful city somewhere where there are cafes and shops and businesses built along narrow streets… and you learn that the foundations of the streets were laid thousands of years ago? They've been inhabited continuously, with people living their lives, tearing down old structures and building up new ones, over and over again upon that same grid, those same streets, generation after generation. Have you ever wondered, Who decided on this street layout? When? Why? Somebody made it up at some point. Is this city  grid still serving the needs of the people who are building their lives on these streets now?  Today we will be discussing a book that examines the foundations of patriarchy - the cultural, psychological, and political system upon which humans have been building their societies and their religions and their personal lives for thousands of years. The book is called The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner. Written in 1986, it answers the who, when, how, and why of these foundations. But before we start, I'd like to introduce my guest, Sherrie Crawford! Hi Sherrie! Sherrie: Hi, Amy! Amy: Sherrie and I met in Cairo, Egypt, when we were both college students on a semester abroad in Jerusalem. We were in a writing group together, and then later ended up reconnecting as young moms and forming a Joy School together. We've been friends all this time, even though we've lived far apart, and Sherrie I'm so grateful to have you onboard this project and excited to have you here today! Sherrie: So happy to be here! Amy: Let's start out with an introduction - can you tell us a bit about yourself? Where you're from, and what makes you you?  Sherrie: Sure! I'm Sherrie Crawford. I'm the 5th of 6 children, born into a low socioeconomic status Mormon family. I was born in Utah, and grew up in Arizona, and while my grandparents had money and provided nice Christmases and trips to Disneyland for us, I think of my growing up as being “everyday poor.”  Education wasn't encouraged in my family - some of my family members didn't finish high school, and I didn't have college aspirations for myself. I kind of “accidentally” went to college, because my seminary teacher Brother Burkhart signed me up for LDS Business College, and I went. Later my friend Tami told me about the BYU Jerusalem study abroad program, and I signed up. The cost was $8,000, which felt like a million dollars at the time! My grammy and grandpa helped a little and my parents helped a little, I received a scholarship, but I sold my Bronco and earned most of that money myself.  After Jerusalem I went to BYU Provo, and then I did the next Mormon thing, which was to get married and make babies! I put my studies on hold so that my husband could finish his degree, and we had our first baby right away. My husband stayed in school for 13 years until he eventually earned a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Utah, and got a job in Idaho Falls, ID, where we live today. We had four kids along the way, and when my youngest was in kindergarten I knew I needed to change something about my life. Being at home full-time without children wasn't satisfying for me. I searched deep inside and decided to finish my education. I had never planned to finish school and only had envisioned being a stay at home mom for my life. This decision led to a full blown panic attack. I didn't know what it was at the time - I thought I was having a heart attack - but when I went in to the doctor I learned my heart was just fine. So I went back to school! I attended BYU-Idaho, so I went to almost all of the Mormon schools. Some of my highlights include studying U.S. women's history with Dr. Andrea Radke-Moss and religion with Dr. Janiece Johnson. With Dr. Johnson I was able to explore the notion of the divine feminine and incorporate more of

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This is Derek Miller Speaking on Business. Like all higher education institutions, the LDS Business College had to quickly adapt to providing remote learning for its students. Through innovation, the College continues to maintain a first-class learning experience, and President Bruce Kusch is here to tell us more. BRUCE KUSCH With only a few days' notice, we went from being a vibrant downtown campus to teaching and learning remotely. Students and employees responded well, and we've learned essential lessons about rising to meet the unexpected, improving collaboration, and making rapid change under difficult circumstances. We're grateful to announce a careful return to campus for the fall semester and will take every precaution to assure health and safety, using remote technology for instruction as needed. It's important to us to maximize the immersive, hands-on instructional opportunities that are a core tenant of our institution during this challenging time, and the College continues to explore innovative ways to do so. These adaptations have all come as we are also preparing to implement significant institutional changes. On September 1st LDS Business College will become Ensign College, and in the fall of 2021 we will begin offering several bachelor's degrees. DEREK MILLER The LDS Business College offers a diverse, but affordable, educational experience for its students and continues to lead the way with teaching strategies that provide real-world experience and prepares students and Utah for the future. I'm Derek Miller with the Salt Lake Chamber, and this is Speaking on Business. Originally Aired: June 23, 2020.

Camila Guth Schick, Jr., Student at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on May 19, 2020.

Jared Tobler, Jr., Student at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on May 19, 2020.

Tsirison Rakotoniaina, Jr., Student at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on May 19, 2020.

President Bruce C. Kusch, President of LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on April 21, 2020.

President Bruce C. Kusch, President of LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on March 17, 2020.

Elder Paul V. Johnson, General Authority Seventy and Commissioner of the Church Educational System, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on February 25, 2020.

President Bruce C. Kusch, President of LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on February 25, 2020.

Kelly Shepherd, Institute Instructor at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on February 18, 2020.

President Bruce C. Kusch, President of LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on January 14, 2020.

Jeff Rowland, Institute of Religion Director at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on December 10, 2019.

Troy Beynon, Chair of the Faculty Development Committee at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on December 3, 2019.

Melanie Conover, Manager of Financial Aid at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on October 29, 2019.

Dean Garner, Institute Instructor at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on October 22, 2019.

President Bruce C. Kusch, President of LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on September 24, 2019.

In this Building Utah podcast, we sit down with LDS Business College President Bruce Kusch to discuss the college's latest approach to deep learning through what's being called, "Subject Matter Immersion." “This campus-wide initiative helps students to discover how to learn more deeply,” said President Kusch in an article for LDS Business College. “One pattern for deep learning, called subject matter immersion (SMI), creates an environment in which the student is immersed, covered and surrounded by the course content rather than merely being presented with it by the instructor. Assignments revolve around real-life challenges, including tasks they will face in the workplace. Students are responsible for defining how they demonstrate subject mastery, thus improving their leadership and problem-solving capabilities.”

Craig Bell, Academic Vice President at LDS Business College, spoke at the LDS Business College Devotional on April 2, 2019.

Jonathan Browning is a Institute of Religion instructor at LDS Business College. He was invited to share remarks about the Savior during the LDS Business College Christmas devotional on Dec. 11, 2018.

Proceedings of the 131st Commencement at LDS Business College on April 13, 2018, in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. Commencement was conducted by President Bruce C. Kusch with remarks by Elder Kim B. Clark, commissioner of the Church Educational System and General Authority Seventy, and Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Ricardo Rosas, LDS Business College director of marketing and communications, spoke at Devotional on March 6, 2018.

Elder David Stouder is a full-time missionary at LDS Business College - from Kingwood, Texas - assigned to the Institute of Religion. He was invited by President Bruce C. Kusch to share remarks about the Savior during the LDS Business College Christmas devotional on Dec. 5, 2017.

Elder Scott D. Whiting, an LDS Church General Authority Seventy, spoke at LDS Business College devotional on Nov. 7, 2017.

Elder Salinas, an Area Seventy The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke at the LDS Business College devotional on Oct. 31, 2017.

The inauguration of Dr. Bruce C. Kusch as 13th president of LDS Business College on Oct. 24, 2017 in the historic Assembly Hall on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Kim B. Clark, along with other members of the LDS Business College Board of Trustees, participated in the inaugural ceremony.

Tracey Anderson, director of student development at LDS Business College, spoke at LDS Business College devotional on Oct. 17, 2017.

Sister Reyna I. Aburto, second counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, spoke at the LDS Business College devotional on Oct. 10, 2017.

This week we are excited to bring you a special three-part episode. We call it our social media tool box. Podcasters Stephanie Sorenson and Nick Galieti sat down with Michelle Linford, DeNae Handy, and Greg Trimble, each experts in social media, to discuss how to maximize our interactions in the age of instant communication. Michelle Linford Michelle Linford is the Executive Director of EPIK Deliberate Digital, a collaborative nonprofit focused on changing conversations and culture around issues related to kids and technology. The vision of this international-reaching collaboration is to encourage a mindset where adults and children/youth work together to deliberately use technology for good. Like many parents in the digital age, Michelle has felt the heavy responsibility of helping her children stay safe and healthy in a digital world. She has volunteered for years in the pornography prevention space, so she is keenly aware of the very real dangers and concerns parents have. But she is grateful that her work at EPIK has also helped her understand that, just as prophets have said for decades, technology is a gift from God. It's how and why we use it that matters. Michelle shares what she is learning as she collaborates with people who are trying to create a #UseTech4Good culture. DeNae Handy is currently an instructor of social media marketing and personal branding at LDS Business College. She also has a background in music performance and music DeNae Handy education. She is a public speaker about writing, publishing, social media and blogging, the creative process, and also loves to teach about the gospel — especially the Old Testament.  A prolific blogger and essayist, DeNae has been a columnist for Meridian Magazine and published essays in book compilations. Ms. Handy speaks to how our online presence reflects on our personal brand. Online forums are not insular; what we say and how we interact in one venue will bleed through to how we are seen through different digital eyes. Professor Handy gives practical suggestions for implementing good branding practices in every digital communication in order to maintain a consistent online presence. Greg Trimble Greg Trimble is an entrepreneur, member missionary, father, blogger, and digital marketer. He founded an internet marketing agency in Southern California. He is also a featured contributor to LDS Living, Deseret News, FamilyShare, and other online publications. He's been interviewed about his blog's success by Fox 13 News in Salt Lake City, KSL, and BYU. Greg has spoken at various firesides and conferences in Southern California, Utah, Australia, and Massachusetts. He and his family live in Riverside, California. He shares his experience jumping head-first into the deep-end of the blogosphere. March 10, 2014, he sat down, built a blog, and put out his first post. Since that time, he has had over 7 million page views. Greg shares practical tools for those wanting to maximize their impact as a digital missionary and the reach of their personal blogs. Whether you are a listener concerned about raising a digital native or one wishing to maximize your online presence, this episode is sure to provide you with some practical tools. Feature Image from:  "Digital Natives and How They Will Change the World" by Clara Kim, February 10, 2014, http://www.sccl.org/About/Staff-Posts/February-2014/Digital-Natives-How-They-ll-Change-the-World The Challenges of Raising a Digital Native The Virtual Missionary: the Power of Your Digital Testimony

Nathan Mitchell, co-executive director for the Anasazi Foundation and an actor known for his portrayal of Joseph Smith, was the LDS Business College devotional speaker on Oct. 3, 2017.

Cory H. Maxwell, director of scriptures coordination for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke at the LDS Business College devotional on Sept. 26, 2017.

Elder Alin Spannaus, from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Fifth Quorum of the Seventy, spoke at the LDS Business College devotional on Sept. 19, 2017 on "The Doctrine of Forgiveness."