In Business For Life Podcast: Recent Episodes
Christopher Mann
In Business For Life is a fellowship and a movement of business people and community leaders committed to helping end abortion by advocating for adoption. Together, we are making a winsome case for the fact that every child is a wanted child. Please join us today by making a generous tax-deductible donation to In Business For Life. Together, we are saving lives. Together, we are In Business For Life! Invest in the unborn by donating here: https://www.inbusinessforlife.org/donate.html.
Welcome to In Business For Life. This is IBFL episode 22-05 for Wednesday, August 3, 2022.
This is the In Business for Life show for Wednesday, August 3, 2022. IBFL is a weekly podcast exploring how life-minded marketplace leaders are helping men and women choose life for their babies and forge a pro-life culture.
For decades, abortion rights supporters have charged pro-lifers with being more pro-pregnancy than pro-life, and in the wake of the fall of Roe versus Wade this past June, this argument has been elevated to a shrill. Some on the right have responded with ample evidence of both word and deed to the contrary, with plenty of receipts to make the point that pro-lifers annually invest much time and treasure in being both pro-life before and after birth.
Still, is there a kernel of truth in the critique? Is the pro-life movement as pro-life as it can possibly be? Can we receive a critique without feeling vulnerable to the leftist canard that today’s lack of a detailed plan to raise a child for the next 18 years justifies aborting her today?
Juan Kigh Yay Hoss is a Guatemalan businessman and astute student of culture. Juan met IBFL’s Christopher Mann this summer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at a colloquium sponsored by the Acton Institute, a catholic-protestant Christian think tank studying how free market economics impacts human liberty. Juan was raised and educated in Guatemala and earned an MBA from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He identifies as an evangelical Christian and offers a unique perspective as a person who was raised in Guatemala and frequently speaks and consults to clients in the United States. In Guatemala, abortion was illegal for all reasons until 1973, when life of the mother was added as an exception. In 1985, the country’s constitution was rewritten to more permanently codify the pro-life position.
Today, Juan talks about how a country can become more pro-life, and how that starts with the church. Here is Chris and Juan.
Welcome to In Business For Life. This is IBFL episode 22-04 for Wednesday, July 20, 2022.
This is the In Business for Life show for Wednesday, July 20, 2022. IBFL is a weekly podcast exploring how life-minded leaders are leveraging their time, treasure and talent to save the preborn, champion adoption, and minister to men and women touched by abortion. In Business For Life rallies marketplace leaders to help men and women choose life for their babies.
Today our guest is Jason Shank, who serves as president of the Our Sunday Visitor Institute in Huntington, a small community in north central Indiana. Founded in Our Sunday Visitor is an organization that evades easy description. It’s a publishing house, university, consulting group, retail giant, grants foundation, and think tank all under one roof. The part that seems to most resemble a think tank is the Our Sunday Visitor Institute, and Jason has headed that department since 2020 when he moved his wife and family of five to northeast Indiana. Chris Mann recorded this conversation with Jason at a local restaurant, so you will have to forgive the sounds of clanging dishes and Tom Petty playing in the background, but pay attention to what Jason is getting at regarding his hope for a pro-life movement in the wake of the fall of Roe versus Wade just a month ago, which returned abortion regulation back to the fifty states. Jason hopes that the pro-life movement won’t waste time spiking the football and gloating about this legal win, but instead move into a renewed zeal for high care of our vulnerable neighbors. If you feel a bit uncomfortable by the end of this conversation about who he might be talking about, well, that’s probably his point. Jason is calling the pro-life movement to consider how to exceed some of the generous pro-family policies ironically championed among the most pro-abortion businesses and institutions like Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and more. Jason’s thinking is unconventional, but what else would you expect from the head of a think tank?
This is the In Business for Life show for Wednesday, July 6, 2022. IBFL is a weekly podcast exploring how life-minded leaders are leveraging their time, treasure and talent to save the preborn, champion adoption, and minister to men and women touched by abortion. In Business For Life rallies marketplace leaders to help men and women choose life for their babies.
Today our guest is Cathie Humbarger, a veteran pro-life leader in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She is the founder of Reprotection, a pro-life organization that helps state-level law enforcement properly enforce abortion regulations which can go unmonitored or ignored by abortion-friendly politicians and state agencies. Learn more at www.Reprotection.org. In the Hoosier state, Cathie is a unique player in the pro-life cause because she actively serves in both the ministry side of serving moms, dads, and babies, and she also crosses swords with politicians. Usually, activists gravitate toward either the hard work of mercy, patience, and service to women facing abortion decisions, or the hard work of political and legal battles.
But Cathie Humbarger does both and therefore offers a unique perspective on what we may face as a pro-life movement in the wake of the fall of Roe versus Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that created a right to legal abortion on demand. The ruling was overturned last week, and now returns the question of legality to the states. An estimated 26 states will likely have pro-life laws on the books that will protect all or most babies from conception until natural death, while the balance of the 24 states will protect legal abortion to varying degrees.
IBFL’s Christopher Mann recorded this interview with Cathie by way of online video.
Timeline * 00:01:56 – How should the pro-life movement talk about Roe’s fall with pro-abortion neighbors? * 00:05:51 – How should pregnancy resource centers and churches respond to the prospect of violence or vandalism? * 00:08:50 – How do you see the work of pro-life activists in both the pregnancy resource centers and the halls of legal and political advocacy changing in the wake of Roe’s fall? * 00:11:47 – How does it mean that our fight for the unborn is not fought with weapons of men, but by the Spirit? * 00:17:01 – How do men get involved in the pro-life cause? * 00:21:08 – How does Indiana become a pro-life state? * 00:33:05 – How will pro-life chapters score candidates now that the fight for abortion laws is on the shoulders of our state representatives, senators, and governor, not our federal officials as before? And now that some county prosecutors are declaring that they will not prosecute abortion crimes of Indiana makes abortion illegal, how should state pro-life organizations react?
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Welcome to In Business For Life. This is IBFL episode 22-22 for Wednesday, June 22, 2022.
How will Europe react if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Roe versus Wade, the 1973 ruling that created a right to legal abortion on demand in America? Rev. George Hargreaves is a pastor and pro-life activist in London and gives us an English and European perspective on what may happen if Roe falls.
Welcome to In Business For Life. This is IBFL episode 22-01 for Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
Vince DiCaro is a communications veteran who helped grow the profile of the National Fatherhood Initiative into a nationally recognized movement helping men return to their roles as husbands, fathers, and providers to their homes.
Today, he is at CareNetto spearhead something similar, where men "return" to the both the birth and raising decisions for his child--a decision too often left for a scared woman to face alone. In March, CareNet sponsored the Called and Missioned conference to inspire men to lead their churches to form and support pro-life ministries at the local level.
What side of the abortion story are you on? Today Brad talks about the importance of being on the Life side of history. IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Where do you dance like nobody’s looking? Maybe 2020 has cost you a step or two – or more – in your dance. David “The joy of the Lord is my strength” and today Brad talks about the importance of keep your dancing shoes on. IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
How would you define courage? For one soldier, it meant honoring his fallen brothers by going into battle to save a next generation of soldiers. Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Imagining a perspective is nothing like actually having it. That's what Brad learned some years ago when he met a humble man who knew what it's like to be on top of the world.
Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Patience...who's got time for that? Today on the In Business for Life podcast, Brad Lindemann reflects on the importance of patience in the development of his business and ministry skills. Today's message is entitled, "Hold Up Long Enough to Know What You're Running Toward, or Away From." Listen on your favorite podcast platform or online each Wednesday morning at www.InBusinessForLife.org. Follow on Facebook and Twitter. Please remember to rate this podcast with 5 stars, and subscribe to the IBFL newsletter at www.InBusinessForLife.org. Produced by ReSermon.
Today on the In Business for Life podcast, Brad Lindemann talks about How to Create a Transcendent Culture. Listen on your favorite podcast platform or online each Wednesday morning at www.InBusinessForLife.org. Follow on Facebook and Twitter. Please remember to rate this podcast with 5 stars, and subscribe to the IBFL newsletter at www.InBusinessForLife.org. Produced by ReSermon.
Can you pinpoint the single-most important lesson you've ever learned in your life? For Brad Lindemann, it's easy - learning about God's valuation of life itself. His life, others' lives, everybody's lives.
Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Does a business succeed simply because it has an idea that a market wants? Or, is there something more fundamental involved? Brad Lindemann believes corporate culture is key. Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
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Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Today, IBFL continues a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
Today, IBFL begins a 12-part series of stories and excerpts from Brad's 2017 book, "In Business For Life: What Being In Business For Life Has Taught Me About the Business of Life." These are funny, painful, reflective and, above all, redemptive moments chronicling Brad's professional and personal peaks and valleys. For more information about Brad or In Business For Life, visit www.InBusinessForLife.org.
"Our culture basically says, 'as long as your're not hurting me, you can do anything you want.' Basically, that is one step away from anarchy." -- Brian Fisher.
Today, Brian Fisher of the Human Coalition joins Brad Lindemann for the In Business for Life podcast.
Business leader, author, and speaker Brian Fisher co-founded Human Coalition in 2009 after years serving in executive management in the for-profit and nonprofit arenas. Brian is the author of four books and has been published in FoxNews.com, The Washington Post, Independent Journal Review, and CBN.com. He hosts The Human Element Show, a weekly pro-life worldview podcast and radio show. Brian and his wife, Jessica, have two sons. @BrianEFisher, @HumanCoalition. This podcast is produced by In Business For Life, www.InBusinessForLife.org.
" Many of our church partners look at us as a mission field. But the mission field just happens to be here in Marion county, Boone County, Hamilton county." -- Tom Shevlot.
Today on In Business for Life, Tom Shevlot joins Brad Lindemann for a journey into the ministry of Life Centers of Central Indiana, where women facing an unplanned pregnancy find refuge in the hope of Jesus Christ.
Tom Shevlot is the Executive Director of Life Centers of Central Indiana. Prior to Life Centers, Tom spent 25 years with AT&T and Comcast in the wireless and cable TV divisions. Tom also serves in public office as a member of the Lawrence City Council. A graduate of Taylor University, Tom has been married to his wife Elizabeth for 34 years and they have two grown children and one grandchild. Tom and Elizabeth attend East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis.
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Thank you, Pastor John Piper. We are In Business for Life, and that's all life, including Black Life.
#BlackLivesMatter.
For more information about the ministry of John Piper visit https://www.desiringgod.org/.
"When God heals your heart, the enemy doesn't want you healed." -- Machelle Montgomery, who aborted her baby at 15 and went on to experience forgiveness through Jesus Christ and a full family.
Today on In Business for Life, Machelle Montgomery joins Brad Lindemann for a journey into the mindset of a young woman facing an unplanned pregnancy.
About Machelle Montgomery
Machelle Montgomery serves as the Center Director for Life Centers of Indianapolis, a ministry serving babies, mother and fathers facing an unexpected pregnancy. She has spoken at the local, state, national and international levels as an advocate for women recovering from abortion. She is married to her husband Steve for 32 years and they have two children and six grandchildren.
“Christians don’t look at the pro-life issue as a discipleship issue. It’s not core to the ministry of their church. Our first thought should be, ‘This mom, this child, this father needs to become a disciple of Jesus Christ.’” – Warren Roland, President and CEO of Care-Net.
Today, IBFL host Brad Lindemann interview Roland Warren, President and CEO of CareNet, the nation’s largest network of pro-life pregnancy resource centers. A graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Roland is an inspirational servant leader with a heart for Christ and a mind for business. After 20 years in the corporate world (with IBM, Pepsi, and Goldman Sachs), Roland spent 11 years as president of National Fatherhood Initiative before joining Care Net in 2012 as president and CEO.
"A woman doesn't make a decision for an abortion because she is actively choosing that. She does it out of desperation." Jor-El Godsey.
Today on the In Business For Life podcast, Brad Lindemann interviews Jor-El Godsey, President of Heartbeat International. Jor-El leads a global movement dedicated to equipping, empowering, and encouraging the thousands of leaders and developing leaders of Heartbeat’s affiliated pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and adoption services, in the U.S. and on every inhabited continent. Jor-El met his wife, Karen currently make their home in Columbus, Ohio, with their three children.
About IBFL In Business For Life is a fellowship and a movement of business people and community leaders committed to helping end abortion by advocating for adoption. Together, we are making a winsome case for the fact that every child is a wanted child. Please join us today by making a generous tax-deductible donation to In Business For Life. Together, we are saving lives. Together, we are In Business For Life!
"It's a horrible thing for a man to pay somebody to kill his child."
Abortion doesn't just kill children and injure mothers. Many fathers leave an abortion experience grieving over pressuring a girlfriend or wife to kill her preborn baby.
Today IBFL host Brad Lindemann interviews Bernie Lacy, the vice president of family-owned Litho Press in Indianapolis. Bernie found forgiveness in Jesus Christ after having abortions with two different girls while in his 20s. Bernie is now involved in post-abortive ministry to men and women grieving over decisions to abort their children. Bernie and his wife, Julie, have a son in college and are leveraging their time, treasure and talent to help end abortion by advocating for parents to choose life.
As a scared eighteen-year-old in 1992 determined to get an abortion, Nelly Roach felt a sudden urgency to leave her local Planned Parenthood clinic with a new resolve to keep her son. 28 years later, Rob Roach is now married and raising his own family and Nelly has founded one of the country’s premiere pro-life marketing firms, Choose Life Marketing. Today, Nelly is In Business For Life. For more information visit https://www.chooselifemarketing.com/who-we-are/our-team/nelly-roach/.
In today's debut episode of the In Business For Life podcast, Brad Lindemann interviews Deidra Bekele of "My Baby's Family," a new and innovative adoption education ministry based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
About In Business For Life (IBFL): IBFL takes a winsomely positive stand in the marketplace for the sanctity of life. The cornerstone of such a stand is this self-evident truth: As adoptions become common and abortions rare, America becomes more free...more brave...and more blessed. Listen to the IBFL show on your favorite podcast platform or at www.InBusinessForLife.org.