Episode 384: Gretchen Seamons, PhD candidate, Wants to Interview Early Release Missionaries

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

My friend Gretchen Seamons (active LDS, RM, married mother of 4 and one grandchild) is working on her PhD in Clinical Psychology and as part of her dissertation wants to interview early release missionaries who came home because of anxiety related issues. If are an early release missionary (under the age of 30) for anxiety related issues and want to explore being part of her needed research, please contact Gretchen at [email protected] Thank you Gretchen for this important work and for your efforts to better understand/solve anxiety and help our missionaries. It was great to have you and your husband Brett on the podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.4	As I've mentioned on prior podcasts, the thing that you can do to support this podcast is go to iTunes and write this podcast to leave a written review.
0:18.4	I've been reading those, and I appreciate you doing that.
0:21.5	To introduce my guests, my guests on today's podcast are my friends Gretchen and Brett
0:26.9	Siemens. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you. Thank you. We're primarily going to be talking about
0:32.8	Gretchen's work. She's working to get a PhD in psychology. She's working on her dissertation. We're going to
0:40.2	talk about her dissertation, and she's looking to recruit people to be part of her dissertation. And
0:47.0	some of you listeners may feel like that this might be a good fit for you. So that's one of the focuses
0:52.7	of this podcast. And so be listening for that.
0:56.2	Britt and Gretchen flew in from Wisconsin to do this podcast and to visit family here. And so
1:03.8	we're really glad to have them in our home here in Salt Lake City. And we just hope this podcast to be helpful. And let me just introduce
1:16.1	Gretchen a little bit. Gretchen grew up in Tacoma. They're both BYU graduates. Gretchen has a BYU
1:24.8	degree in French and then two master's degrees.
1:28.1	After that, and is working on her PhD.
1:30.2	This couple has four children and one granddaughter.
1:35.9	And Gretchen serves as the Rearles Society president.
1:41.1	And Brett serves as the...
1:43.3	Tell me your church assignment at Wisconsin. It's rather obscure. Communications
1:47.8	Director for the Coordinating Council in Wisconsin. So thanks for the work you're doing in Wisconsin
1:54.1	for our church and the work you're doing in other circles. Gretchen, will you just introduce
1:59.6	yourself, your family to our listeners?
2:02.7	Sure. So Brett and I have been married for 30 years, and we have four children. Marys 27.
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