Brad Mann, Founder - LIVIN' THE DREAM
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Episode 438
Brad Mann is the founder of Livin’ The Dream, an organization that aims to positively influence people through the game of basketball. Comprising of youth teams, camps, clinics and leagues, LTD uses the game “to develop goodwill in order to lead people to God and to help them discover their God-given dreams.”
Mann played at various levels of basketball. He was a McDonald’s All-American nominee at Riverton High, as he set school records in points, rebounds, and blocks, and still remains the Kansas high school all-time leader in career rebounds.
He went on to play Division I basketball at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for three years, transferring after his junior season to Missouri Southern State University. He helped lead that team to the NCAA Division II Final Four and the best record in D-II.
After college, Mann toured internationally with Athletes In Action to play against top-level professionals, and he later signed a contract to play professionally for the Fargo Beez and the Salina Rattlers of the International Basketball Association (IBA).
Now, Mann is a USA Certified Youth Basketball Coach. He is also an ordained minister that holds a degree in communications and oversees the day-to-day operations of Livin’ The Dream.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Mann about starting Livin’ The Dream, intersecting his love for basketball with his love for God, overcoming cancer twice, and how sports ministry has changed over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romanoano. Welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.3 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.6 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | Great to have you joining us here on the program today. |
| 0:28.9 | Happy New Year 2020 is here. |
| 0:32.4 | Brand new year. |
| 0:33.3 | Lots of great things going to be happening this year. |
| 0:36.3 | I believe God is already orchestrating some amazing things for both you and for our ministry |
| 0:42.7 | here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:44.4 | Today on the podcast, we bring you Brad Mann. |
| 0:47.6 | And this is one of the things that we want to do more of, I think, in 2020, is highlight |
| 0:52.4 | some of the ministries, the sports ministries that are really doing great |
| 0:55.9 | work around the country in different places. |
| 0:59.3 | We've done this on our website in the past. |
| 1:01.3 | I think we want to start doing this on the podcast as well. |
| 1:04.9 | And Brad Mann kind of kicks that off for us today. |
| 1:07.5 | He is the founder of Living the Dream. |
| 1:09.8 | It's an organization geared towards the positive |
| 1:12.1 | influence of all people through the game of basketball. And what they do is they use the game |
| 1:17.6 | of basketball to develop goodwill in order to lead people to God and to help them discover their |
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