Kerri, the second of seven children, grew up in Sandy, Utah. Kerri and her husband, Bob, met at Brigham Young University. After Kerri graduated with a BA in design and a minor in business, they moved to the Seattle area where their three children were born. The Brown family later moved back to the Wasatch Front where Kerri has enjoyed volunteering at her children’s school and extracurricular activities.

Kristin Candland Simmons is from Mesa, Arizona, where she lives with her husband and 12 and 14-year-old daughters. She served a full-time mission (Spanish speaking) in Fresno, California, which is where she met Tammy Uzelac Hall the last two months of her mission. They loved being companions so much that they decided to be roommates while finishing their degrees at BYU. She earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish in 1996 and worked, wandered, and traveled as much as possible before discovering that she wanted to become a speech pathologist. She earned her Masters of Arts in Communication Disorders with a bilingual emphasis from CSU, Los Angeles, in 2001 and has worked as a Speech-Language Pathologist ever since. She was honored, intimidated and basically frozen with fear when Tammy asked her to be a guest on the podcast with her sister-in-law, Jill Candland, but her love of these two women and the gospel gave her the strength to take the challenge.

Eleah Boyd is wife to her best friend and mom to their five fabulous children (plus one in heaven). She is a daughter, sister, aunt, friend, and a soon-to-be grandma! She and her husband have worked together in business for their entire 28-year marriage and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She enjoys helping others achieve their goals and follow their dreams. Eleah loves the gospel of Jesus Christ. She counts it as one of her great privileges to be an ordinance worker in the Houston Temple, where she gets to see the power of temple blessings working in people’s lives. She recently received her bachelor’s degree in Marriage and Family Studies from BYU-Idaho. Currently, she is working on letting God prevail in her life, facing each day with optimism, and not biting her fingernails. She would like her headstone to read simply, “She gave great hugs!”

Robin McCulloch grew up as military brat living around the world. He was born in France, although he was too young to remember much about it. His family eventually retired to Texas were he attended High School and College. As a regional manager for Yamaha Motor Corporation he moved to New Jersey were he met and married Carol. They have 3 sons and consequently Carol has been out numbered for the last 32 years! The McCulloch's are big boaters, mountain bikers and they love motorcycles. Robin served a mission to Scotland and has served in various Ward and Stake callings, he is currently serving in a YSA Bishopric.

Allison Grant Dayton designed jewelry for the TV series Grey’s Anatomy and for companies like Athleta, Sundance Catalog, and Deseret Book. In 2015, she followed spiritual promptings to stay home and help her boys through the perils of high school. During these last precious years, Allison’s oldest brother, who was gay, took his own life. At the same time, her oldest son was starting his own process of coming out. Having watched her brother’s painful life and wanting much more for her amazing son, Allison started Lift and Love, an Instagram account, to reframe how we see our LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. In the two years since, Lift and Love has become a foundation supporting hundreds of LGBTQ Latter-day Saint Families, like her own. Allison and her husband, Kenn, have a daughter, two sons, and one son-in-law. They live in Salt Lake at the base of Mount Olympus with their dog, eight chickens, and open doors for friends and their large extended families.

Karl Ricks Anderson is affectionately known as “Mr. Kirtland” throughout the Church because of his love, research and writings on Kirtland Ohio area church history. Although he grew up in Utah, he has lived near Kirtland, Ohio for over 50 years. He is a popular author and entertaining speaker. Karl has worked with historians and prophets, written books, including Joseph Smith’s Kirtland and The Savior in Kirtland, helped acquire Kirtland properties and has done much to put Kirtland on the Church history map. He received a bachelor’s and MBA degree from University of Utah and had a career in the corporate world for over 20 years. He then taught and supervised seminaries and institutes for the Church in Northern Ohio.

Kristen Walker Smith is a co-host of the One Minute Scripture Study podcast, a Deseret Book masterclass teacher, BYU Education Week speaker, EFY teacher, and bestselling author. Kristen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University where she met her darling husband of almost 20 years; they are the parents of three wonderful, rascally children. When Kristen isn’t teaching the gospel you can usually find her rock climbing, listening to Elder Holland talks, or eating peanut butter—frequently all at the same time.

Emy was born in Utah but spent most of her childhood in Arizona. She returned to Utah to attend BYU before transferring up to Salt Lake Community College to earn a degree in occupational therapy. It was while working as an occupational therapy assistant at the Utah State Hospital that she met her husband, Greg. They became good friends at work and even went on a couple group dates together (but not with each other). After about two years of friendship, Emy realized that Greg was the one she wanted to be with and invited him over for dinner and Simpsons where she took the plunge and told him how she felt. Luckily, he agreed and they were engaged a couple months later. They just celebrated the 21st anniversary of the day their family began and look forward to many more years together. Emy and Greg have two kids, a son that is getting ready for his first year in college and a daughter looking forward to her senior year of high school. Emy chose to be a full-time mom for most of her kids’ childhood. She recently returned to working, but this time as an elementary school librarian which she loved doing for the past four years. Emy is still at the same school but is now in the office as the assistant secretary. Working with young children has been such a joy and having a school schedule allows enough free time for her favorite things: cooking for her family, evening walks with her husband, girls nights, reading, and traveling.