Them Before Us Podcast

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Join host Jennifer Friesen, Training Director at Them Before Us, along with the TBU team, as they cover politics, current events, and policy updates affecting children's rights. Featuring top experts in politics, bioethics, law, reproductive technology, research, and culture, this podcast equips listeners to defend children's rights in debates on legislation, family, and technology. With thought-provoking discussions and expert insights, the TBU Podcast is your go-to resource for advocating a child-centric approach in today's world.

Episode Date
Them Before Us #104 | Mothers and Fathers are NOT Interchangable w/ the TBU Staff
May 08, 2026
Them Before Us #103 | Are Gen Z Men Having a "Crisis of Purpose"? | Micah Kunkle
Apr 24, 2026
Them Before Us #102 | How to Restore "What Really Matters" with Tim Goeglein
Apr 10, 2026
Them Before Us #100 | Making Fertility Fraud a Felony & Retaking the Arts
Mar 13, 2026
Them Before Us Podcast #099 | Katy Talento Talks Trump and how to Life Hack the Healthcare System
Feb 27, 2026
Them Before Us Podcast #098 | Patriotism isn't Political with Katie Broussard
Feb 21, 2026
Them Before Us Podcast #097 | #GreaterThan Launches and a NY Photographer Wins against Bullying
Jan 30, 2026
Them Before Us Bonus | Is Katy Faust Anti-Adoption?
Jan 15, 2026
Them Before Us Podcast #096 | Talking Toxic Mom Groups & Cash for Babies?
Jan 13, 2026
Them Before Us Podcast #095 | Defending Pro-Life Speech at the U.S. Supreme Court
Nov 28, 2025
Them Before Us Podcast #094 | How to Defend Young Minds
Nov 21, 2025
Them Before Us #093 | A Journey from Orphanage to Advocacy | Promoting Healthy Citizens in Indiana
Oct 07, 2025
Them Before Us #092 | How Can We Save Families Before Tragedy | Upstream Collaborative
Oct 03, 2025
Them Before Us #091 | Conceived by IVF & Sharing Pro-Life Views on Campus
Sep 19, 2025
Them Before Us #091 | “Truth Rising: Our Civilizational Moment” | John Stonestreet
Sep 04, 2025
Them Before Us #090 | Developing a Consistent Pro-Life Ethic with Stephanie Gray Connors
Aug 29, 2025
Them Before Us #089 | Born of IVF & Blinded By Birth Control | A story of Pro-Life Hope
Aug 26, 2025
Them Before Us #088 | A Powerful Personal Story of Hope in Midst of Infertility
Aug 08, 2025
Them Before Us #087 | How Can We Teach College Students to Seek Truth | Professor Robert P. George
Aug 01, 2025
Them Before Us #086 | The Org That's Saved 1,000 Babies & An Embryo Adoption Journey
Jul 25, 2025
Them Before Us #85 | Keeping Kids with Mom - Together for Good
Jul 18, 2025
Them Before Us #84 | From a Cult to Caring about Children's Rights in Spain
Jun 27, 2025
Them Before Us #082 | Civilization Depends on Dads: A Conversation with EksAyn Anderson
May 30, 2025
TBU Legal Watch | The Louisiana IVF Bill That Could Gut Pro-Life Protections
May 30, 2025
Them Before Us #081 | Marriage Forces You to Grow or Quit and Why That's GOOD | #ANDnotOR
May 09, 2025
Them Before Us #080 | Conceiving Miracles: Dr. Jennifer Mercier on Healing & Hope in Fertility Care
May 02, 2025
Them Before Us #079 | God’s Blueprint for Womanhood: A Conversation with Carrie Abbott
Apr 25, 2025
Them Before Us #078 | Which Humans Are People? A Conversation with Nancy Pearcey
Apr 18, 2025
Them Before Us #077 | Family Fragmentation Isn’t Neutral—It’s Neglect | Adam B. Coleman
Apr 11, 2025
Them Before Us #076 | How Is Your State Ranked on Marriage & Family? A Conversation with Aaron Baer
Mar 28, 2025
Them Before Us #075 | Bobby Lopez: A Child’s Journey Through Divorce, Identity, and Redemption
Mar 28, 2025
Them Before Us #074 | The Battle for your Child's Mind Starts at Home
Mar 28, 2025
Them Before Us #073 | When Fatherhood Doesn't Look Like You Expected
Mar 28, 2025
Them Before Us #072 | Human Dignity for IVF Embryos | Laura Elm with Sacred Heart Guardians
Feb 28, 2025
Them Before Us #071 | Marriage, Family, and the Battle for Truth – A Convo with Glenn T. Stanton
Feb 21, 2025
Them Before Us #070 | Mentors, Moms, and Miracles: The Church in Action
Feb 14, 2025
Them Before Us #069 | The Debt Crisis is a Kids’ Crisis | Pro-Child Politics | Phil Kerpen
Jan 31, 2025
Them Before Us #068 | Them Before Us & Our Supreme Court Brief | The Fight to Protect Kids Online
Jan 10, 2025
Them Before Us #067 | Woke Seattle Vendors and Our 2025 Dreams
Jan 03, 2025
Them Before Us #066 | Author Leila Miller | Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak
Dec 06, 2024
Them Before Us #065 | Jonathan Pageau | Retelling Fairytales for a Return to Truth & Beauty
Nov 29, 2024
Them Before Us #064 | Andrew Wood | Empowering Churches to Boldly Engage on Abortion
Nov 24, 2024
Them Before Us #063 | Seth Drayer from Created Equal | Culture Change on Abortion
Nov 15, 2024
Them Before Us #062 | Post Election Recap | What Does a Trump Presidency Mean for Children's Rights?
Nov 07, 2024
Them Before Us #061 | Pro-Child Politics Author Delano Squires | The Lies About "Race" Hurting Kids
Nov 01, 2024
Them Before Us #060 | 10 Words to Heal our Broken World | Scott David Allen
Oct 31, 2024
Them Before Us #059 | Your Children Belong to You, Not the Government | Tiffany Justice
Oct 18, 2024
Them Before Us #058 | Do We "Only Care about Unborn Children"? | Love Life's Daniel Parks
Oct 16, 2024
Them Before Us #057 | Book "Silent Sorrows" on the Ethics of IVF and more | Katherine Breckenridge
Oct 11, 2024
Them Before Us #056 | "Walking In Unity" | A Resource for Christian Parents Regarding Race & Racism
Oct 04, 2024
Them Before Us #055 | The VP Debate | Is There A Pro-Life Party?
Oct 03, 2024
Them Before Us #054 | Embodied Childhood: Rescuing Kids from Screens with Maria Baer
Sep 27, 2024
Them Before Us #053 | Building Cathedrals: Art That Lasts with Christian Watson
Sep 20, 2024
Them Before Us #052 | The Case for Pro-Child Conservation | Chris Barnard
Sep 13, 2024
Them Before Us #051 | Who Won the Presidential Debate?
Sep 11, 2024
Them Before Us #050 | Pro-Child Means Pro-Life | Pro-Child Politics Author Abby Johnson
Sep 06, 2024
Them Before Us #049 | Illegal Immigration Harms Children | Pro-Child Politics Author Lora Ries
Aug 30, 2024
Them Before Us #048 | The Porn Industry Hurts Kids | Pro-Child Politics Author Jon Schweppe
Aug 23, 2024
Them Before Us #047 | Foreign Policy Matters for Children | Pro-Child Politics Author Dan Caldwell
Aug 16, 2024
Them Before Us #046 | TBU's Josh Wood & Our New Book * Pro Child Politics *
Aug 09, 2024
Them Before Us #045 | Swedish Perspective on Views of Parenting: Is the Nordic model all it's cracked up to be in the USA?
Jul 26, 2024
Them Before Us #044 | Why You Don't Need to Have Credentials or A Big Following to Defend the Rights of Children
Jul 05, 2024
#ANDnotOR | Father's Day Edition | Why Every Child Deserves His/Her Mom AND Dad
May 08, 2024
#ANDnotOR | Mother's Day Edition | Why Every Child Deserves His/Her Mom AND Dad
May 07, 2024
Them Before Us #043 | New TBU Book Coming Soon, Christianity Today Article Response, and Q&A
May 03, 2024
Them Before Us #042 | Lori Kuykendall & IdentityProject.TV, a new resource on sex, gender, identity, marriage and more
Apr 26, 2024
Them Before Us #041 | What About the "Primal Wound?" Junk Science or Meaningful for our Cause?
Apr 12, 2024
Them Before Us #040 | Professor Brad Wilcox Talks New Book "Get Married", the Benefits of Marriage & Family on Happiness and Wellbeing
Apr 05, 2024
Them Before Us #039 | Selective Reduction in IVF, Michigan Endorsing Surrogacy for Pay, and Surrogacy Baby Shower Protocol
Mar 29, 2024
Them Before Us #038 | Delano Squires shares the "Four Houses" to get in order to save the Black family in America
Mar 22, 2024
Them Before Us #037 | "The Boy Crisis" Author Warren Farrell On The Problems Facing Men, Boys, and Society
Mar 15, 2024
Them Before Us #036 | Dating A Half Brother, Fertility Fraud, Ireland Erasing Women, & Pro-Life Hypocrisy
Mar 08, 2024
Them Before Us #035 | Alabama's IVF Ruling and other burning questions
Mar 07, 2024
Them Before Us #034 | Jenn interviews Lezlee Liljenberg | Not-Parent Expected: When you Learn Your Dad is not Your Dad
Feb 23, 2024
Them Before Us #033 | Interview with Stephanie Blessing, who learned she was concieved via sperm "donor"
Feb 16, 2024
Them Before Us #032 | Interview with Restored's Joey Pontarelli on the impact of divorce on children and what we can do about it
Feb 08, 2024
Them Before Us #031 | Can Surrogacy Enable Child Abuse & the Career/Children Balance for Women
Feb 02, 2024
Them Before Us #030 | March for Life weekend update, job-related father absence, and what RNs can do to resist children's rights violating technologies
Jan 26, 2024
Them Before Us #029 | The Pope's comments on surrogacy & the new movement warning men away from marriage
Jan 12, 2024
Them Before Us #028 | Q&A: Embyro Adoption, the morality of having nine kids, & freezing your eggs
Jan 05, 2024
Them Before Us #027 | Interview with researcher Emma Waters on what we know and don't know about surrogacy's harms to children
Dec 29, 2023
Them Before Us #26 | Is Them Before Us anti-foster care & adoption? A great big holiday Q & A episode.
Dec 22, 2023
Them Before Us #025 | Surrogacy & Gay Dads: Is opposition to surrogacy anti-LGBT?
Dec 15, 2023
Them Before Us #24 | Gay Dads Are the Best Kind of Parents According to New Study
Dec 01, 2023
Them Before Us #023 | Jenn and Katy with a Them Before Us 2024 project update and cover the Q & A from the Virtual Gala
Nov 18, 2023
Them Before Us #022 | The Big ARC Wrap UP: Katy and Jenn back from London
Nov 09, 2023
Them Before Us #21 | Interview with Professor Melissa Moschella on natural law, children's rights, and human flourishing
Nov 03, 2023
Them Before Us #020 | Hot Topics: Mike Johnson's Covenant Marriage & "Two Parent Privilege"
Oct 27, 2023
Them Before Us #019 - What's "Natural Law" and Why It Matters to Children | Professor Robert P. George
Oct 20, 2023
Them Before Us #018 - Hot Topics | Single Mom by Choice & A New Way to Talk about Surrogacy
Oct 13, 2023
Them Before Us #017 | What is Gray Divorce? A conversation with TBU's Katie Breckenridge
Oct 06, 2023
Them Before Us #016 - The Big Fall Update: All our recent podcasts, interviews, networking, and our projects
Sep 22, 2023
Them Before Us #015 - How You Can Become an Important part of The Global Children's Rights Movement
Sep 15, 2023
Them Before Us #014 - Adoption vs. Third Party Reproduction: Making the Child the Client Not a Product
Sep 08, 2023
Hot Topics #013 - Sperm donor road trip and the immorality of wanting biological children
Sep 06, 2023
Them Before Us #012 - The Rending of a Woman into Thirds: Why Surrogacy is Always Unethical
Sep 01, 2023
Them Before Us #011 - What's So Bad About Sperm and Egg Donation?
Aug 25, 2023
Them Before Us #010 - Same-Sex Parenting: Debunking the Myth of “No Difference” Between Same-Sex and Duel-Sex Parenting
Aug 18, 2023
Them Before Us #009 | Q& A: Why did Katy start TBU, interracial and same-sex adoption, and how can we sustain marriage in society
Aug 17, 2023
Them Before Us #008 - Divorce
Aug 11, 2023
Them Before Us #007 - The devolution of marriage and why it matters.
Aug 05, 2023
Them Before Us #006 - Does gender matter or is it a social construct?
Jul 28, 2023
Them Before Us #005 - TBU Hot Topics: "Finding a good sperm donor" and reciprocal IVF
Jul 26, 2023
Them Before Us #004 - Does Biology Matter to Kids?
Jul 21, 2023
Them Before Us #003 - What Does "Children Have Rights" Mean & Surrogacy Breaking News
Jul 14, 2023
Them Before Us #002 - Katy & Jenn chat about Jenn's background and the distinct angle she brings to the fight for children’s rights.
Jul 06, 2023
Them Before Us - #001 - Katy Faust & Jennifer Friesen talk the Them Before Us origin story
Jun 26, 2023