HeyJaredCary 1st Ward's Podcast
Catch engaging conversations, heartfelt stories, and faith-filled insights from your Cary 1st Ward neighbors. Every episode, we’ll dive into topics that strengthen our spiritual bonds and foster connection beyond the chapel.
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Susie Youd (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Cary First Ward podcast, we sit down with Sister Susie Youd to talk about faith, family, service, revelation, and learning to move forward when the answers aren’t always clear. Susie shares her journey from growing up in Maine and attending BYU to building a career in workplace experience, meeting her husband Nate in Manhattan, and raising a growing family. She reflects on how her understanding of revelation has evolved as life has become more complicated—and what it means
Stephanie Nielsen (opens the original)
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Today we're talking with Stephanie Nielsen. She is a marketing pro by day, aspiring cookie shop owner by nap break, and the woman responsible for renaming the Holy Ghost "the Holy Chicken" in her house (ask a Primary kid, it'll make sense). She's also the one who once rewrote the entire "Under the Sea" as an out-of-office reply and bribed coworkers with cookies to sing it. ...But laughs aside, Stephanie gets real too: on losing her dad young, weekly temple trips that save her sanity, and why sho
Justin Fawson (opens the original)
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Today we're sitting down with Justin Fawson. He's currently serving as Elders Quorum president... for the third time! He's a former Utah state legislator, former church security guy, and current business strategist who somehow also picked up German, Italian, Spanish, and Arabic along the way. Listen in to learn how his mission call to Italy came as no surprise to his dad, who'd dreamed it months earlier. Justin gets real about the fear of talking faith with people who don't share it, and offers
James Butler (opens the original)
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Meet James Butler, a Palmyra-adjacent New Yorker turned Missouri farm kid turned BYU microbiologist who somehow ended up writing 23 books and building a career in franchise development. Listen on to get to know James a little better.
Marcel Kinard (opens the original)
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What happens when a simple prompting leads to a powerful reminder of how God is watching over us? In this episode, we sit down with Marcel Kinard—a longtime member of our congregation whose journey has taken him from a new convert discovering the Church to a lifetime of service, growth, and meaningful experiences. Marcel shares stories of unexpected opportunities, including a moment when following a quiet prompting may have prevented a serious injury, and how those small spiritual nudges have sh
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