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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Liberty Minute 🗽, shines a bright light on the indoctrination of America's youth in K-12 education and the 16,000 hour war that Pete Hegseth's book highlights for us.  The title of Pete's book is Battle for the American Mind:  Uprooting A Century of Miseducation stay tuned for Part 2 coming Monday Key Points...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Everybody loves a simple list. In todays MOJO Minute, we believe we have found that list for starting you on the road to creating a Flourishing Life. our lightening bolt of inspiration came to us while reading, Robin Sharma's insightful book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto:  Activate your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message How productive are you? Do you miss many ideas throughout the day?  Perhaps those lightening bolts of wisdom that would or could have propelled you to new heights in life or your relationships or just in productivity? In todays MOJO Minute, we look deeper into Getting Things Done, the methodology behind the GTD productivity system with...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute 🗽, we explore the question--has America passed it's so called "Rubicon moment?"   Historians and political commentators increasingly are asking this question, so we thought we would some research with these two books, Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm:  The Beginning of the End of the R...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Events in the UK, under their new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, caused us to look again to those folks across the pond and her new economic plan. So we in this MM, we look back at Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady as she was known at the height of her popularity, and her greatness at Prime Minister from 1979--1990 with Claire Berlinkski in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, we celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth II, she certainly lived a flourishing life. Key Points from the Episode: Her life of devotion to her family Her life of faith to her God and her life of service to her country and its people. Other resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want to leave a review?...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message For decades we have watched our major iconic cities throughout the U.S. fall apart into shambles.   Why is that?   Why do progressive political policies ruin cities? Let’s answer that question from an unlikely source, Michael Shellenberger in his latest book, San Fransicko:  Why Progressives Ruin Cities. Key Points from the Episode: Inc...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message How you start your mornings matter!   In todays MOJO Minute, we read from Steven Pressfields great little book, The War of Art and how to overcome resistance   Key Points from the Episode: What is resistance? Steven Pressfield's morning routine Why mornings matter! Other resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations lis...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recently the President & CEO of McDonalds, Chris Kempczinski, spoke to the Economic Club of Chicago, our ears perked up when he mentioned crime as one of large concerns with the crisis happening in the city of Chicago Key Points from the Episode: Why are more large corporations leaving Chicago this month than last month, why more co...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute 🗽, we ask the question, why is violent crime on the rise? To answer that question, we look to Matt Palumbo's excellent work, The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros Key Points from the Episode: Is the best contribution that George Soro's can make to the common good and to t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Continuing on with our nuggets of wisdom surrounding our work and our notion of human work, in this MM, we turn to Timothy Keller in his very insightful book, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work Key Points from the Episode: Why is doing our work well a form of co-operating with God in his creative work? Why is t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Do you have passion for your work?   Do you love what you do for a living? If not, why not?  Perhaps, your passion is misplaced.   In this MM, we ponder that reflection on a "Gospel of Work" Key Points from the Episode: Do we need to have a job that we are passionate about to work with passion? How do we work with more effecti...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute 🗽, we examine Big Tech with Senator Josh Hawley and his new book, The Tyranny of Big Tech Key Points from the Episode: Are the robber barons of the Golden Age of America just like todays, Big Tech Firms of Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter? Should these Big Tech giants be broken apart? The time is ripe to addr...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Whoa, what a title for this MM...Building our second brain In this MM, we look at Getting Things Done by David Allen but then we zoom ahead to what our future looks like within the productivity domain with Tiago Forte's new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potenti...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recently, I was asked how do I jot notes in my physical books that Im reading from? In this MM, we answer that listener question as well as we found a fantastic nugget of wisdom in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which we use one of our most recommended books, Aristotle's great classic work, Ni...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We live in a crazy world and often that confusion causes many Catholics to lose hope. Todays book--in our Catholic Corner--should restore hope that we can make sense out of this confusion with Father Gerald Murray's Calming The Storm:  Navigating The Crises Facing The Catholic Church and Society. Key points Fr. Murray shows us the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message For two and half years, the COVID19 pandemic has ravaged the United States and the world.   In this Liberty Minute 🗽, we look to Scott Atlas on what should have been our National public health response, who broke that trust and who is to blame in his book, A Plague Upon Our House:  My Fight At The Trump White House To Stop COVID From D...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The power of example is often underestimated.   Not so, in todays MM, where we watch a little league baseball player hug another competitor in an incredible show of compassion and sportsmanship. Key Points from the Episode: Kids are often our best teachers because of their purity of heart Be sure to get the tissues ready Other resources...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO Minute, we will talk about how to conquer our day from its first beginnings  and how to make it hard to have a bad day! To do so, we will enlist our help from Brian Tracy's great book,  Eat that Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time Key Points from the Episode: Develop a habit of...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message With millions of kids going back to school in the past couple weeks, let us in this Liberty 🗽 Minute, examine Critical Race Theory and the harm it is doing to our kids, parents, schools, educators and our nation as a whole. And to do so, let us turn to our book of the day, A Parent's Guide to Critical Race Theory: Fighting CRT in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's MM it is  all about practicality! Checklists are often under utilized, but our book of the day is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande will teach us why checklists should & ought to be used more often! Key Points from the Episode: My travel checklist over the last five years How to avoid comm...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message To celebrate the release of the Hillsdale Supply-Side FREE economics course and to keep our theme going from our Liberty Minute over the weekend, lets talk some economic wisdom today! You might ask, what is Supply-Side economics? here's a quote from the Gipper, "There were always those who told us that taxes couldn't be c...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty 🗽 Minute, let's examine money and inflation. And to do so, let us turn to our book of the day, Inflation:  What It is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It by Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis and Elizabeth Ames. Key Points from the Episode: Why are we poorer in the last 50 years? Sound money requires a sound measuring in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The 1952 Summer Olympic games were not a disappointment for Roger Bannister, why? In Joe Manganiello's book Evolution:  The Cutting-Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You Have Always Wanted .  we learn from Joe, how Roger Bannister trained mentally and physically to break the 4 minute mile! Key Points fr...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Sleep is one of the most biological functions of the human body.   In MM#153, we consult with Matthew Walker, the author of Why We Sleep:  Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Key Points from the Episode: What is baseline resetting in Sleep? Did you know almost every animal species sleeps? What's the likelihood you will have the...