Conference Conversations

KSL Newsradio's JayMcFarland hosts a special hour during General Conference and talks to Kim Myers, a suicide prevention coordinator with the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, about suicide in our young people. Suicide is one of the biggest causes of death for young people in our nation. Jay also reflects on his personal experiences with suicide. 

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KSL Newsradio's host of The JayMac News Show, Jay McFarland, talks about parenting in today's world with massive amounts of technology, substances and more. The Program Manager for the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Susannah Burt about how to make connections with your child to prevent potential problems like substance abuse, mental health issues and more.

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KSL Newsradio's Jay McFarland from The JayMac News Show talks to Susannah Burt, the program manager at the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental health, about how you can deal with children who become addicted to substances. They also talk about how to prevent substance abuse in your child from the very beginning. He also spoke with Barbra Inslee Crouch, the executive director for the Utah Poison Control Center, about how drugs affect your child's bodies and brains. 

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Thomas McConkie, the host of Mindfulness+ on the KSL Newsradio app and website, grew up a devout Mormon. He shares his faith journey, and how mindfulness practice informed and transformed his beliefs. He describes how a childhood illness and a blessing from his grandfather put him on the path to spiritual growth in the LDS Church, even with a period of questioning and doubt in his teens. He wanted to know why members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints could be so imperfect - and looking for the answer to that question led him to learn more about adult development, meditation, and mindfulness. 

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Amanda Dickson sits down with a young couple to ask them their story. They are brave and generous in sharing what they experienced with infertility - what they went through and what they worried about.

This episode is part of KSL NewsRadio's "Conference Conversations" podcast. This content originally aired in April 2017 as part of KSL NewsRadio's coverage of LDS General Conference.

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Dr. Russell Foulk of Utah Fertility Center discusses infertility, from simple solutions to the latest technology including egg freezing.   He stresses the importance of identifying the cause(s) of infertility and shares hope that virtually all causes can be overcome.  Tyler and  Kalli talk about their personal experience and encourage others to seek a specialist to help them get back on their path to parenthood.

This episode is part of KSL NewsRadio's "Conference Conversations" podcast. This content originally aired in April 2017 as part of KSL NewsRadio's coverage of LDS General Conference.

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Dr. Russell Foulk from Utah Fertility Center talks to Amanda Dickson about what causes infertility, how to keep "your plumbing" healthy, as he says. If a woman is not ovulating, and the doctor can help to get her ovulating again, that can help her get pregnant. It can be something as simple as that. He goes on to review other treatments from there. There are many reasons to have hope.

This episode is part of KSL NewsRadio's "Conference Conversations" podcast. This content originally aired in April 2017 as part of KSL NewsRadio's coverage of LDS General Conference.

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Amanda Dickson sits down with Dr. Russell Foulk, who is the medical director of the Utah Fertility Center, and discusses a topic which is, for some people, a topic that is hard to talk about - infertility. They talk about waiting to get pregnant, miscarriages, what the factors are - age, gender. We always talk about the woman - but fertility affects both genders.

This episode is part of KSL NewsRadio's "Conference Conversations" podcast. This content originally aired in April 2017 as part of KSL NewsRadio's coverage of LDS General Conference.

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Hosts of the Sacred Skeptics podcast, Pastor Rick Henderson and Mike Bell, present a special edition of their show just for KSL Newsradio on LDS Church General Conference weekend. Their mission is to pursue truth with complete abandon, even if it proves them wrong - describing themselves as a mashup of Jon Stewart and C.S. Lewis. 

In this special program, Bell and Henderson hold up the lens of religion to the needs of the modern family. Can faith help Christians keep their children in the flock? What can Mormons do to make sure their families stay together through good times and bad? How do we love our kids, accept them for who they are, and encourage them to be people of faith all at the same time? 

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KSL NewsRadio personality Maria Shilaos talks with experts about the struggle women face each day for perfectionism. They explore issues related to confidence building, body image and what can be done to reverse feelings of inadequacy. 

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