How Catholic Business Owners Can Celebrate America 250 (Saintly CEO)
Contemplating the state of America on our 250th birthday, and the role we as Catholic business owners must play in re-establishing the family as the core focus in society.
Hey folks! Hope you read this one even tho this week is the big 250 for America! If I had the ability, I’d be taking the whole week off, honestly. For those of you reading, we have something special today, specifically for America 250.
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On America 250: Our Role to Play as Catholic Business Owners
This week is the 250th birthday of America! 🇺🇸 Just think about that. You and me get to be alive to see America turn 250 years old. Many of us will be around to see her turn 300. Well… maybe. Assuming we do our part to keep this experiment going.
As we celebrate 250 years of our country, it’s good to look at our accomplishments and the good we stand for. Taking time to recognize those things has the benefit of making us aware that they are good.
But here’s the thing. Good things don’t stay good. We need to maintain them. Positive force must be exerted to avoid atrophy. As the saying goes, if you’re not growing, you’re dying. This is certainly true of a country.
Atrophy is Winning
Unfortunately, atrophy has been winning in a lot of ways in our lifetime. America has a lot of problems. All of which could be solved by filling the God-shaped hole with… God.
Declining birth rates, increased suicide rates. Fewer marriages, more depravity. Lack of faith, over consumption.
On top of all this, we have AI ushering a huge wave of uncertainty. It’s not to say it’s all bad or good, just the uncertainty is really visceral.
Maybe this decay is here because our parents and grandparents stood idle as it happened. Blaming boomers is a favorite pastime of Gen Z, but maybe some of this decay is actually because of our own inaction?
So, how do we fix the situation? How do we ensure this country lasts another 250 years?
Most of the time, people look to someone else to solve their problems. Or rather, in the modern era, that’s what happens. The type of people who built America and held the line on her values are the type of people who didn’t look for a hero. They were the heroes.
Not one person here and there, but many people choosing to stand up for what’s right.
If we want to reverse the decay, each of us needs to do our role. We all need to be the heroes of our time.
The place to start is the family.
Society is made up of families. Period. The family is the base unit of civilization. If the family unit fails, the country fails. It’s that simple. If we want society to flourish, our guiding light must be doing what it takes to ensure traditional families can flourish.
Deep down, even the most misled people have a transcendental desire for truth, goodness, beauty, and unity. Meaning, when they see a beautiful family, living out the true calling of marriage, unified for good, they will be drawn to it.
This is the armor-piercing weapon that we have at our disposal. And we, as business owners, can make more of these armor-piercing weapons by enabling the creation and flourishing of those transcendental families. First by example in our own lives, and then by creating work environments where family is always first.
This is the core challenge of our time, and it’s no accident that you were born for this fight, in America specifically.
You were not born during the American Revolution or the Civil War. God didn’t have you born in Nigeria or Ecuador. He explicitly chose to put you here, in this exact geography, at this precise, chaotic moment in history.
On top of that, he gave you the skills to be an entrepreneur. As well as the ability to fight against the decay. You can enable family flourishing for your own family and the families who work for you.
You were put here for this exact role. Lean into it. God brought you to this society to lead. We aren’t running businesses to get rich. We are fighting to prevent the atrophy of civilization itself.
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Building a Civilization of Love
A secular worldview is what got us here. Therefore, the only way to counter this is with a spiritual lens. The same spiritual lens that upholds humans over technology and families over profit.
Here’s how we do it.
Put family first. Yours first because you set the example. Then your employees will do the same. Back up that behavior with pro-family policies. Employee has a baseball game, go. Work will be there when you get back; that moment won’t.
Uphold Christian virtue. Even if your employees are not all Christians, pray throughout the day and don’t tolerate vulgar behavior in your workplace.
Take political action. Give time off on voting day. Use your business to host pro-family candidates. Fund campaigns. Run if necessary. Show up at city hall to protest anti-family policies.
Pay a living wage. Make a family-first life possible by paying a wage that covers your employee’s family needs. This is likely not ‘market rate.’
Pray. Take your kids to daily mass, and encourage your employees to do the same. Pray together as a family. Putting God at the center of your life will bear fruit.
Culture build. Host block parties for the neighborhood on public holidays to encourage national pride. Welcome families to company events. Have a picnic for your friends, employees, and all their families.
Spend well. Ensure your money is spent with pro-family companies. With your extra profit, fund the local parish, schools, and pregnancy resource centers. Or build a new one if needed.
Ensure product alignment. Do your products benefit families or hurt them in any way? You know the right thing to do, because you have your own family.
Benefit the community. Reinvest in the community. Make your space beautiful. Hire locally when you can. Source locally. Support local projects. Volunteer.
We have a calling. Let’s be an example to the secular companies that no longer have a moral compass. All they have is ‘maximize shareholder value.’
If we want to save the country, we first need to save the family. We do this on the absolute smallest level possible first, our own, and those on our payroll.
If you love this experiment called America, resolve today to rise to the occasion, to use your business to uphold the family as the basis of society. Then determine what it is you must do in order to live that out. This is how we ensure America lasts another 250 years.
Here’s to America! May the next 250 years be better than the first!
~Silas Mähner
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🏦 Matthew Gaddis leads Tridfi, a company based near Cincinnati, Ohio, that provides banking consultancy services to optimize financial operations for small businesses. The firm also utilizes residual income to fund a charitable program that assists families with mortgage grants.
💻 Garren DiPasquale leads Artifact, a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that empowers non-technical domain experts to build and maintain internal software tools using intent documents rather than traditional code. This approach bridges the translation gap between business strategy and development to facilitate stable production.
📨 Adam Minihan is the founder of M6 Marketing, a Tulsa-based digital agency providing high-level email, paid advertising, and consulting services to scaling entrepreneurs. His team helps many biz types (including e-commerce, service firms, and real estate investors) optimize their marketing strategies for growth.
🫂 Luke Johanni operates a private mental health practice in Southern Maryland that integrates Christian virtue into clinical therapy for men and couples. He is also building a professional hub to connect vetted Catholic therapists with those in need of faith-integrated care.
🤝 Andrew Whiskeyman is the founder and CEO of Quo Vadis LLC. A firm that does human-centric tech-savvy strategy work (exactly what we need more of). If you were like me and think with a last name like that, he might be in the wrong line of work; I’m sure you wouldn’t be the only one.
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