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Equipped for Life Podcast
The discussion podcast of Equal Rights Institute, a national organization that trains pro-life advocates think clearly, reason honestly, and argue persuasively. If you're looking for clear pro-life thinking, cutting-edge apologetics, and a fresh approach to abortion dialogue, you've come to the right place.
Episodes
Equipped for Life Podcast#61: A Sidewalk Counselor's Run-Ins with Police and an Overzealous Security Guard - Part 2
Josh Brahm and Jacob Nels, ERI's Sidewalk Counseling Trainer, finish reacting to videos sent in by Rebekah Dyer while sidewalk counseling. If you haven't seen…
Equipped for Life Podcast#60: A Sidewalk Counselor's Run-Ins with Police and an Overzealous Security Guard - Part 1
Josh Brahm brings Jacob Nels, ERI's Sidewalk Counseling Trainer, to react to videos sent in by Rebekah Dyer while sidewalk counseling. Rebekah works with…
Equipped for Life Podcast#59: How One Club Changed Their Campus (Extended Interview with Emily Albrecht)
We bring you the extended interview of Emily Albrecht (our newest team member!) from the recent ERI Pajama Gala. Emily explains how she got involved in the…
Equipped for Life Podcast#58: NARAL Promotes the Weirdest Pro-Choice Conspiracy Theory We've Ever Heard (with Jordan Warfel)
Jordan Warfel is our guest today because he discovered a conspiracy theory that NARAL promoted in a recent virtual conference. The theory is based on a book by…
Equipped for Life Podcast#57: An Analysis of HBO's "Unpregnant" Film (with Emily Albrecht)
It's our first podcast with Emily Albrecht, the co-president of St. Olaf Students for Life and our next speaker/writer/coach! Josh and Emily discuss the recent…
Equipped for Life Podcast#56: Become an Effective Lobbyist Using These Practical Tips (with Ali Rak)
Josh Brahm interviews Ali Rak, an incredibly effective community organizer and activist in Maryland, to explain the nuts and bolts of how she gets people…
Equipped for Life Podcast#55: 4 Steps to Taking Your Empathy to the Next Level (with Julie Dodson)
*Republishing with the correct spelling of Julie's last name.* Josh interviews Family Therapist Julie Dodson to discuss the "Showing Understanding Skill"…
Equipped for Life Podcast#54: How Men Can Serve Fathers in Pregnancy Centers (with Care Net's Gary Freeman)
Josh interviews Gary Freeman from Care Net. They talk about how Gary went from being a preacher's kid to serving fathers in pregnancy centers, including the…
Equipped for Life Podcast#53: The Immorality of Harming an Unaware Victim
Content warning: This conversation necessarily includes some thought experiments that relate to sexual abuse, as well as the real-world example of Jeffrey…
Equipped for Life Podcast#52: Is Consent to Sex Consent to Pregnancy?
Josh and Rachel discuss the common pro-choice phrase, "consent to sex is not consent to pregnancy" in greater detail than we covered in our recent video on the…
Equipped for Life Podcast#51: Why Do They Always Ask About Rape?
Josh and Rachel share several observations they've recently made about what is REALLY going on when pro-choice advocates bring up the topic of rape, they may…
Equipped for Life Podcast#50: Responding to "Back-Alley" Abortion Arguments [FIXED AUDIO]
***Reposting this podcast with fixed audio. We had a glitch when we rendered this one in Premiere Pro where it sounded fine in the program, but the rendered…
Equipped for Life Podcast#49: Defining the Word "Abortion" Will Change Your Dialogues (with Dank Pro-Life Memes)
Josh, Rachel, and Elijah Thompson from Dank Pro-Life Memes discuss the various ways pro-life advocates tend to define the word "abortion," and how this can be…
Equipped for Life Podcast#48: Refuting "Abortion as Self-Defense"
This audio comes from a training video available on the Equal Rights Institute YouTube channel. Sources: Sophie Lewis Interview…
Equipped for Life Podcast#47: Should Pro-Lifers be Snarky? (with Dank Pro-Life Memes)
Josh and Rachel interview Elijah Thompson from Dank Pro-Life Memes to compare and contrast his messaging with ERI's. Topics include the potential value of…
Equipped for Life Podcast#46: Scientism and Abortion
This is the audio from a 3-part video series we recently released on scientism. Read the article versions: Part 1: Scientism: the Self-Refuting Argument that…
Equipped for Life Podcast#45: Our Take on the "AKA Jane Roe" Documentary
After the entire ERI staff watched the "AKA Jane Roe" documentary, we processed our thoughts together and in this nearly unedited discussion, Josh and Rachel…
Equipped for Life Podcast#44: One Easy Step to Avoiding Confirmation Bias: Interview with Tangle Founder Isaac Saul
Josh Brahm interviews Isaac Saul, political journalist and founder of Tangle, an independent, ad-free, non-partisan politics newsletter that offers both sides…
Equipped for Life Podcast#43: Why Sidewalk Counselors Should Not Recommend Adoption
Rachel Crawford interviews Jacob Nels from ERI's Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass. Topics include: - Should sidewalk counselors talk about adoption with…
Equipped for Life Podcast#42: How College Students Responded to Questions About 3rd-Trimester Abortions
Josh and Rachel discuss a new outreach table question that the ERI team tested during a college visit in South Carolina. Visit the blog to read the article and…
Equipped for Life Podcast#41: The Minimise Project on the Pro-Life Movement in Ireland
During Josh's speaking trip in Ireland he sat down with Ben Conroy and Muireann Lynch from The Minimise Project, an awesome young pro-life organization. They…
Equipped for Life Podcast#40: What New Research Tells Us About Persuasion
Josh and Rachel look at a research article published by the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in 2019, Perspective Taking and Self-Persuasion: Why…
Equipped for Life Podcast#39: One Thing Every Pastor Can Do to Prevent Abortions in Their Congregation
Josh Brahm was invited to address a group of future clergy as well as some of those who train clergy at a Lutheran Seminary during his last speaking tour in…
Equipped for Life Podcast#38: Reddit Responds to Tim's Bodily Rights Article
Josh stumbled upon a pro-choice Reddit thread reacting to Tim's Autumn in the Sovereign Zone article and decided to get Tim and Rachel's spontaneous responses…
Equipped for Life Podcast#37: Response to Pro-Choice Propaganda
Josh, Tim, and Rachel respond to a pro-choice video on illegal abortions in El Salvador. Click here to watch the pro-choice video we're responding to. The show…
Equipped for Life Podcast#36: Evaluating Don Marquis' Future of Value Argument
Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer more questions from Ian McGinniss, the president of Dukes for Life at James Madison University. Questions: 01:02: What do you guys…
Equipped for Life Podcast#35: Responding to "You Want to Force Women to Stay Pregnant"
Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer more questions from Ian McGinniss, the president of Dukes for Life at James Madison University. Questions: 00:00: Is A Quiet Place…
Equipped for Life Podcast#34: How to Respond to Extreme Skeptics
Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer questions from Ian McGinniss, the president of Dukes for Life at James Madison University. This episode includes an intro to…
Equipped for Life Podcast#33: ERI Staff Discuss Their Most Common Dialogue Mistakes - Part 2
Josh, Tim, Rachel, and Jacob conclude their discussion about their most common dialogue mistakes. Email us your most common dialogue mistakes so that we can…
Equipped for Life Podcast#32: ERI Staff Discuss Their Most Common Dialogue Mistakes - Part 1
Josh, Tim, Rachel, and Jacob discuss their most common dialogue mistakes in this two-part series. Related Links: Equipped for Life Podcast Episode 29: How Josh…
Equipped for Life Podcast#31: Listener Mail - Overpopulation, Reincarnation, Sarcasm, and More
Rachel shares what happened on her recent speaking and outreach tour in Oregon and Pennsylvania, which leads into a quick impromptu discussion on which people…
Equipped for Life Podcast#30: Practical Tips for Talking with Post-Abortive Women
Rachel interviews Lori Navrodtzke, a PRC counselor and Justice For All volunteer, about how to dialogue with people about abortion if they've already had one…
Equipped for Life Podcast#29: How Josh Should Have Dealt with a Hostile Audience in Canada
Josh shares what happened when he gave a pro-life speech at a high school in Canada last month where three angry pro-choice girls sat in the front row and…
Equipped for Life Podcast#28: Social Media Dialogue - Part 6: 7 Final Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges
Josh, Tim, and Rachel finish their multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. Here are the tips covered in this episode…
Equipped for Life Podcast#27: Social Media Dialogue - Part 5: 9 More Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges
Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode they continue a series of 35…
Equipped for Life Podcast#26: Social Media Dialogue - Part 4: 12 More Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges
Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode they continue a series of 35…
Equipped for Life Podcast#25: Social Media Dialogue - Part 3: 7 Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges
Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode they begin a series of 35…
Equipped for Life Podcast#24: Social Media Dialogue - Part 2: How to Think About Virtue-Signaling
Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode Tim discusses virtue-signaling…
Equipped for Life Podcast#23: Social Media Dialogue - Part 1: The Obstacles
Josh, Tim, and Rachel begin a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They begin the series by talking about some of the…
Equipped for Life Podcast#22: Listener Mail, Freakonomics & Utilitarianism
Josh, Tim, and Rachel talk about how to respond to the Freakonomics argument that abortion has resulted in a drop in crime rates, as well as a new technique…
Equipped for Life Podcast#21: How Can the Pro-Life Movement Win Against Viral Pro-Choice Tweets?
Josh, Tim, and Rachel respond to a bunch of listener mail questions related to the burning IVF lab thought experiment, particularly the concern that it's too…
Equipped for Life Podcast#20: Dealing with Discouragement at Outreach
Josh, Tim, and Rachel talk about their recent outreach at Davidson College, which was a particularly difficult outreach for Tim and Rachel. They discuss what…
Equipped for Life Podcast#19: Responding to Free Speech Violations on Campus
Josh, Tim, and Rachel interview Casey Mattox on how students should deal with free speech violations, and responding to common arguments from typically…
Equipped for Life Podcast#18: Listener Mail - Fetus Tunnel Vision, Insta-Correcting Views, and What to Do If They Say "Let's Just Agree to Disagree"
Josh, Tim, and Jacob sit down to respond to more listener mail questions. Topics include pro-choice Fetus Tunnel Vision, whether or not we should allow people…
Equipped for Life Podcast#17: That James Franco Video
Josh, Tim, and Rachel sit down to discuss the James Franco/Liz Harman video about abortion that was mocked mercilessly by pro-life organizations and advocates…
Equipped for Life Podcast#16: Listener Mail - Labels, Encouraging LGBT Pro-Life Involvement, and More!
Josh, Tim, and Rachel answer your questions! Questions: This question from Ellen on the forum prompts a larger discussion of labels that pro-life and…