About Our Guest
Drew Young is a native of the East Coast, growing up in Connecticut, and now resides in Utah with his wife and daughter. He studied at Brigham Young University where he helped in teaching and developing curriculum for various student development courses. He’s been sharing his story with numerous audiences around Salt Lake County for the past five years and has been featured in LDS Living YouTube series and magazine.
He serves as the publicity manager at FranklinCovey, where he assists in managing best-selling book launches, and social media campaigns, as well as booking high-profile thought leaders, storytellers, and celebrities for On Leadership, the fastest-growing and largest leadership development online newsletter in the world.
Check out his books:
The Meaning of Your Mission: Lessons and Principles to Know You Are Enough
Stand Guard at the Door of Your Mind
Wonderful Counselor: A God Who Will Help Us Through Our Darkest Times
Interview Timestamps:
0:00- Early life and preparing to serve a mission; Experience at the MTC
24:31- Returning home from the MTC and dealing with the stigma of not going on a mission
30:01- Family’s response to returning from MTC; finding direction in life
40:55- The Meaning of Your Mission
44:53- Dating at BYU and the stigma of returning early from a mission; meeting his wife
51:15- Ending Questions
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