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Career Shift: A Guide for Moms Reentering the Workforce Nov 06, 2025

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How do you include raising a family and managing a home on a resume? What’s the business term for “stay-at-home mom”? When Heather Nemelka faced a sudden divorce and had to find a job after years of dedicating herself to her kids, she had to tackle these questions head-on.

Now, as the founder of Elavare, a company that supports women who are re-entering the workforce, Nemelka joins Y Magazine podcast host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) in an empowering conversation about how women—whether young mothers, or empty nesters—can seek education, develop their talents, and apply homemaking skills toward employment opportunities.

This episode accompanies an article about Heather Nemelka in the Fall 2025 issue of Y Magazine.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like “BYU’s Pioneers in Chaplaincy,” an episode about the first women in BYU’s chaplaincy program, and “Cake by Courtney: Baking, Business, and Faith,” an episode about another alumni entrepreneur. You might also enjoy “In Good Company: Students Build Real Businesses in Two Semesters.”

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Faith, Journalism, and Grief with The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins Oct 09, 2025

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When journalist and BYU alum McKay Coppins received news of the tragic attack on a Latter-day Saint chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan, he’d already been planning an article for The Atlantic in memory of President Russell M. Nelson, who had died the day before. Now Coppins wondered, “How would [President Nelson] have responded to the horrific violence in Michigan if he’d lived one more day?”

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks with Coppins about the interplay between his faith and his journalism career—and how that relationship was shaped in part by advice from President Nelson himself.

The episode is based on a feature article in the upcoming Fall 2025 issue of Y Magazine. Check out Coppins’s articles discussed in the episode: “A Prophet’s Diagnosis” (2025) and “The Most American Religion” (2020).

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like “Write It Down: Advice from the New Deseret News Editor on Recording Your Life,” a conversation with Deseret News editor Sarah Jane Weaver (BA ’94). You can learn more about talking politics peacefully by listening to “Disagree Without Disaster: How to Talk Politics with Family.”

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Prepare to Care: Navigating Loved Ones’ Later Years Sep 04, 2025

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Caring for an aging loved one can be challenging—it makes demands on time and resources that can strain relationships. Despite the challenge, it can also be an “angelic and special time,” says BYU family life professor Jeremy B. Yorgason (BS ’97).

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks with Yorgason about both the blessings and the burdens of being a caregiver for aging loved ones.

This episode is based on the article “Prepare to Care” by Tyler Stahle in the Winter 2024 issue of Y Magazine.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may enjoy other episodes about having difficult conversations, like “Disagree Without Disaster: How to Talk Politics with Family” and “Making Peace: How to Mediate Conflict in Our Families.”

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Are the Cougars in Their Golden Era? Looking Back on BYU Sports History Aug 07, 2025

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Whether you prefer the energy of football in LaVell Edwards Stadium, the roar of the Marriott Center during a basketball game, or the thrill of a women’s volleyball match in the Smith Fieldhouse, one thing’s for sure: it’s an exciting time to be a BYU fan.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks all things BYU athletics with BYU Sports Nation hosts Jarom T. Jordan (BA ’09) and Spencer K. Linton (BA ’07).

This episode accompanies the Summer 2025 issue of Y Magazine, an issue entirely dedicated to 150 years of BYU history in honor of the university’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like our episode with retired BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe, “A Vic’try Story” and our conversation with Olympians Conner Mantz and Clayton Young in “Fast Friends.” You may also enjoy the episode “BYU Joins the Big 12” with coaches Jennifer Rockwood, Diljeet Taylor, and Mark Pope.

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Disagree Without Disaster: How to Talk Politics with Family Jul 03, 2025

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How do you handle political disagreement in your family? In a world rife with political division, it can feel difficult to share your opinion without feeling attacked or misunderstood—or thinking everyone else is wrong.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) discusses the art of disagreement with Marianne Holt Viray (BA ’96), executive director of the nonprofit organization Disagree Better. Disagreement, Viray says, isn’t bad—nor are political conversations. What matters is how those conversations are held.

This episode is based on “Doing Disagreement Better” by Julia K. Nebeker (BA ’24) and Anna E. Sneddon (’27), found in the Spring 2025 issue of Y Magazine.

If you enjoyed this episode, you may be interested in Disagree Better’s free online courses and the Dignity Index. Visit disagreebetter.us to learn more.

You may also like the episodes “Making Peace: How to Mediate Conflict in Our Families” and “How to Be a Good Citizen with the American Moms.” If you’re interested in how to have faith-related conversations, you may like “Building Bridges: How to Enrich Interfaith Relationships.”

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Three Skills for Money-Smart Kids Jun 05, 2025

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One of the most important lessons parents can teach their children is how to manage money.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks with Ashley LeBaron-Black (BS ’16, MS ’18) to discuss the best ways to teach kids about finances. LeBaron-Black is a BYU family life professor who researches financial socialization in families.

This episode is based on “For Love and Money” by Tyler S. Stahle, found in the Spring 2022 issue of Y Magazine.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like other episodes about parenting: “Artful Parenting: How to Make Creativity Part of Your Family Culture,” “Making Peace: How to Mediate Conflict in Our Families,” and “How to Help Kids Love Reading with BYU Professor Paul Ricks.”

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Stressing Perfection: How Religion Affects Perfectionism—and Vice Versa May 01, 2025

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What is the difference between perfectionism and scrupulosity? Do religious people experience more or less toxic perfectionism that non-religious people? What can we do to minimize toxic perfectionism?

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) chats with BYU religion professor Michael Goodman (PHD ’04), one of several professors conducting a long-term study about the relationship between perfectionism and religion.

This episode is based on the article “The Perfect Problem” by Brooklyn Hughes Roemer (BA ’22), in the Spring 2025 issue of Y Magazine.

Read the issue of BYU Studies devoted to Latter-day Saints and Perfectionism here.

For some great general conference talks about perfectionism, check out “Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually” and “Perfection Pending.”

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A Vict’ry Story: Tom Holmoe on Two Decades Leading BYU Athletics Apr 03, 2025

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For the past two decades, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe (BS ’83, MS ’95) has been calling the shots.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) sits down with Holmoe to discuss what brought him to BYU, what made him keep coming back, and the remarkable people he’s worked with along the way.

If you liked this episode, you might also enjoy these sports-related episodes: “BYU Joins the Big 12” and “Fast Friends: Olympians Conner Mantz and Clayton Young.”

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High on a Mountain Top: Rescue Training in the Himalayas Mar 06, 2025

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Forget house calls—try mountain calls at 13,000 feet.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) chats with Craig Nuttall (MS ’11), the BYU nursing professor and emergency nurse practitioner who founded the Mountain People Project. Nuttall talks about his experience bringing critical healthcare to people traveling through the Garhwal Himalayas.

This episode is based on the article “Healing in High Places,” by Abi Falin Horspool (’24), in the Winter 2025 issue of Y Magazine.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like other episodes about international service: “Saving Days: Ending Period Poverty with Days for Girls” and “Life and Breath: BYU Students Improve Public Health in Nepal.” And you can hear Archibald’s story of her rock-climbing fall in “Spiritual Lessons and a 30-Foot Fall.”

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Pop Goes the Question: Proposal Stories from BYU Alumni Feb 06, 2025

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Love stories abound at BYU, and in this Valentine’s Day special of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks to three BYU alumni couples about their proposal stories.

High school sweethearts Stephanie Smith Eliason (BA ’91, MA ’95) and Eric Eliason (BA ’92) tell their story of flat tires and reconnection, Matthew Scott (BM ’06) and Heather Brown Scott (BA ’06) recount a chance encounter at the BYU Creamery and a showstopping proposal during a concert, and Kim Thornock (BA ’91) and Kareen Hursman Thornock (BA ’92) talk about their dancing dates.

This episode was based on the article “Popping the Question” from the Summer 2021 issue of Y Magazine.

If you liked this episode, you might enjoy another episode with alumni stories, “True Blue Friendship,” about friendships forged at BYU, and one about alumni service: “Going Forth—It’s What We Do: How BYU Grads are Making a Difference.”

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