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Finding Unity
by Valerie Payne
Finding unity through seeking understanding, connection, healing, and love.
Episodes
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Childhood Trauma and Unity in Marriage - Mike and Maureen Payne
This episode features my parents who celebrate their 47th wedding anniversary this past weekend. They discuss how they have navigated and found unity in their marriage despite some negative events from their childhood.
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Unleash the Fighter Within - Michael Nascimento
Michael Nascimento broke his back after he was in a car accident as a teenager. He was told that there were many things he would not be able to do with a broken back, including playing football. Michael discusses how he accomplished his goals despite all odds and was able to play on the BYU...
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Growing Up as a Child Actor - Cory Danziger and Molly Orr
Cory Danziger ( The Burbs/ Beauty and the Beast) and Molly Orr (Drake & Josh/ The Amanda Sow) talk about their experience growing up as child actors. They share how they navigated the film industry and how they found unity as they worked in the industry as children.
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Navigating Health Challenges in Marriage - Jacqueline and Dr. Paul Barattiero
Jacqueline and Dr. Paul discuss Jacqueline’s health challenges. They discuss hydrogen water, emotional impacts of health concerns, and how they navigate and find unity in marriage.
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Dating and Marriage Advice - Bryce Dunford
Bryce Dunford discusses pitfalls of dating and marriage within a religious community and his perspective on how to overcome them and find unity.
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Navigating OCD and Mental Health - Ryan Wells
Ryan opens up about his journey of navigating life with OCD and Mental Health challenges. He discusses treatments and interventions that he has used and how he looks for and finds unity.
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Growing Up in the Foster Care System - Celeste Edmunds
Trigger Warning: In this episode, Celeste shares personal experiences, including topics of sexual abuse, which may be triggering for some listeners. Celeste shares her experience of being placed in foster care and the unhealthy adoption she was placed in. She shares how she found unity through...
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The Journey from Cleaning Porta-potties to Becoming a YouTuber - Stuart Edge
Stuart talks about his journey from cleaning Porta-potties to becoming a successful YouTuber. He shares how he found unity as faced discouragement prior to his success and how he continues to find unity through his creativity.
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Life, Repentance, and Grief - Harper Anderson
Harper discusses life as a male who is not married in a family based church and how he dealt with grief after the loss of his father.. He also discusses his experience with a disciplinary council,repentance, and facing setbacks. Harper discusses how his life experiences have helped him to find...
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Placing a Child for Adoption - Kristen Cummings
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault, which some listeners may find upsetting or triggering. Kristen opens up about her experience with sexual abuse, giving birth without realizing she was pregnant, and placing her daughter for adoption. She shares her journey of...
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Pornography and AI: Insights from Recent Research - Dr. Brian Willoughby
Dr. Brian Willoughby discusses research on pornography within religious communities, along with recent findings on AI. He explores the impacts of pornography, how to navigate conversations in dating, and offers suggestions to help those affected by it. Dr. Willoughby is a professor in the School…
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Healing Autoimmune and Lyme Disease - Nicole Jensen
Nicole has navigated AS, Lyme Disease, a TBI and other health struggles. She discusses her healing journey and how she found unity in times of extreme pain, loneliness, and despair.
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My Heart Transplant - Debbie Knotts
Welcome back to Season 5 of Finding Unity! I kicked off this season by inviting my aunt to join me. She shares her journey of undergoing a heart transplant and how she found unity through healing, connection, seeking understanding, and love throughout the process.
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Chronic Illness - Annie Packer
Annie discusses being bed bound for a year due to her chronic illness. She shares how she has found unity through connection, healing, seeking understanding and love during this isolating and difficult journey.
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Hope After Divorce - Brittany Thompson
Brittany shares how she found healing after the pain and heartache of divorce. She shares how service and connection, “saved,” her and her family. ***Trigger warning*** Domestic Abuse and drug use are discussed in this episode.
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The Special Olympics - Blaine Shelton
Blaine talks about how he has been able to embrace running, biking, and the athletic world as a person who experiences blindness. He shares how he was able to find a sense of connection as a coach within the Special Olympics after he was no longer able to compete.
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My Adoption Story - Beth LeBaron
Beth shares what it was like for her to be an adoptee, finding her birth parents, and how she has found unity through this process in seeking understanding, healing, connection, and love.
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The Power of Your Ancestry - Carolyn Carter
Carolyn shares benefits of discovering learning about your ancestors based on research and her own personal experience. She shares how one can find unity healing and understanding from the past regardless of the history.
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OCD Scrupulosity - Michael White
Michael White shares his personal experiences living with religious OCD (Scrupulosity). He shares how he has been able to find healing and tools that have helped him manage his OCD. He also shares his perspective on what clergy, family, and friends can do to support a loved one with OCD.
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Dating and Marriage - Dr. Lili Anderson
Dr. Lili Anderson shares her thoughts on the fears and concerns that prevent individuals of faith from dating, marrying, and/or staying married. She shares thoughts and experiences from her life and from years of experience in providing therapy to people of faith. She shares ideas in how to...
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Postpartum - Emily Silva
Emily Silva is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in Perinatal Mood Disorders. She talks about what tools are helpful to parents who struggle with postpartum and how to find healing and unity when individuals or their loved ones experience postpartum. Emily uses a wide range of...
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Nondenominational Christianity - Brigitte Kaninda
Brigitte shares her beliefs as a Nondenominational Christian and how her faith has brought unity. We discuss how we have been able to maintain our friendship and build unity despite our faith differences.
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Fertility - Moriah Mason Quenneville
Moriah discusses her struggles with fertility and how she has found unity, healing, connection, understanding, and love throughout the process.
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Childhood Cancer and Blindness - Kate Loveless
Kate Loveless talks to us about having cancer as a child and ultimately loosing her sight. She shares how she finds unity through the healing she finds in her faith, nature, and building connections with others.
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Thoughts on Season Three
Thank you so much for each person who has taken the time to share their story with me. Thank you so much for taking the time to find unity with me. I hope we continue to find unity through seeking understanding, connection, healing, and love.
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Codependency and Finding Unity - Nick Galieti and Jennifer Roach
Nick Galieti shares his personal experience with codependency along with mental health professional Jennifer Roach. They discuss how codependency can manifest in church, work, and other relationships. They discuss how unity can be found when working through codependency through seeking...
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Connection and Service
Finding unity and healing through connection and service.
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Anxiety and Finding Unity - Emily Romrell
Emily has struggled with anxiety for most of her life. She talks about the tools that she uses to work through her anxiety and the reason she started her podcast, The Vibrant Life. She talks about how she has found unity through healing, connection, understanding and love.
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ED and Recovery - Coralee Choules
Coralee talks about her experience with an Eating Disorder and how she has found recovery. She talks about how the Eating Disorder impacted relationships with others and how she found recovery and unity through seeking healing, connection, understanding, and love.
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Not Married in a Family Centered Church - Shelly Scofield
Shelly and I talk about our experiences as non married members off a church that places a high emphasis on families. We discuss our struggles and how we have found unity through healing, connection, seeking understanding, and love.
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Leadership and Finding Unity - Bonnie Olson
Bonnie Olson is the former owner of a successful hospice agency. She talks about how she was able to foster unity and a positive culture while running a successful hospice agency. I have learned so much from her leadership style and am grateful that she was willing to be on and share her thoughts...
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Inclusion and Finding Unity - Tracy Browning
Tracy Browning is a mother, wife, works for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Publishing Services Department, and serves on the general Relief Society general advisory council. She shares her experiences as she has worked to build inclusion and unity within the church,...
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Same-Sex Attraction, Bereavement, and Marriage - Tanya and Jeff Benion
Tanya’s first husband died from cancer and her second husband, Jeff, experiences same-sex attraction. Jeff and Tanya talk about how they knew that their marriage was right for them despite their unique circumstances. They discuss the faith, hope, and unity that they have found in marriage.
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Finding Healing When Parents Divorce - Sharlene Miner
Sharlene’s parents divorced when she was 18. She talks about the impact of the divorce and how she was able to find healing, connection, understanding and love.
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Trauma, Mental Health, and Addiction - Carla Hansen
Carla shares her expertise as a clinician who works with individuals who struggle with addiction, past trauma, and other mental health concerns. Additionally, she shares how vulnerability allows us to find unity.
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A Life Changing Accident - Rod Porter
Rod Porter was in a tragic accident in which he drove off of a 100 foot cliff. He talks about what recovery looked like for him after the accident and how his perspective has changed since then. He discusses life lessons and how he has found unity through healing, seeking understanding…
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Love After Loss - Diane Buxton
Diane Buxton’s first husband passed away unexpectedly in an accident. She shares her experience with bereavement and how she found healing, connection, understanding, and love through this experience. She shares how she was able to start dating and ultimately find love again.
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Physical and Mental Health Challenges - Lisa Marie Allred
Lisa Marie Allred shares what it was like growing up with health and mental health challenges. She shares how she has found unity and connection with others through her experiences.
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Self-Esteem and Finding Unity
Welcome back to Season 3! In this episode I give some insights regarding my readings on self-esteem. How can we foster greater self esteem in our children? How can we foster greater self esteem ourselves.
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Thoughts on Season Two
We are wrapping up another season of Finding Unity. Thank you for your support and desire to come on this journey of finding unity with me. In this final episode of season two I share what I have learned from the amazing guests that I have had on.
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Losing a Mother and Holiday Grief - Amanda Johnson
Amanda lost her mother to cancer at the age of 16. She shares how she has found peace in bereavement. She shares how her faith has helped her to find unity and healing.
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Kids and Gratitude
In the season of Thanksgiving I interview kids and ask what they are thankful for. Great wisdom can come from the mouth of a child. Our lives all look different but I hope that this season we can give thanks for the blessings we have.
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Standing Together - Reverend Gregory Johnson
Reverend Greg Johnson co-authored the book, Bridging The Divide, with Dr. Robert L. Millet. He discusses how Evangelicals and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints can bridge gaps and find unity.
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Life with Dyslexia - Christie Huff
Christie Huff talks about living life with dyslexia and how she has found healing and unity.
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Election Day and Finding Unity
Many have shared how they have lost friends over politics? How can we find unity during such polarizing times? How can we focus on finding unity this Election Day?
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Addiction, Recovery, and Finding Purpose - John Williams
John Williams talks about his addiction to prescription drugs, experiencing homelessness, and how he has found purpose on the road to recovery.
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Resilience Tips Part 1
Some tips to help our lives more resilient, happy, unified, and whole.
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The Baha’i Faith - Rolando Maddela
Rolando talks about the Baha’i Faith and the core teachings of unity within the faith.
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How to Listen, Learn, and Love LGBTQ Individuals - Richard Ostler
Richard Ostler is the host of the podcast Listen, Learn, and Love and the author of the book Listen, Learn, and Love: Embracing Latter-day Saints. He shares ways he has found love, connection, understanding and unity with individuals and himself as he has worked with LGBTQ individuals.
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Struggling with Motherhood - Christina Westover
Christina discusses her Postpartum, depression, and struggling with motherhood. She shares some tips that help her as she continues in the journey of motherhood.
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Finding unity through seeking understanding, connection, healing, and love.
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Valerie Payne
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