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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What's stopping you from achieving success? It's often the mere act of starting! Join us in today's Mojo Minute as we explore the power of taking that first step and embracing a 1% better intention. We'll share insights from Brian Cain's One Percent Better: A Story About How to Close the Gap from Where You Are t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's MOJO Minute episode is super-quick but super-good! We feature Brian Cain's book, One Percent Better: A Story About How to Close the Gap from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Key Points from the Episode: How to use your time wisely to get juiced Do you invest 1% of your time each day to getting intentionally better...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Special Memorial Day episode, we salute all those who gave their last full measure of devotion to our country by giving their lives.   We REMEMBER THEM TODAY!  As a fitting tribute, we will cover an excellent book written by Dick Winters,  Beyond the Band of Brothers:  The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters Key points: A British...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message On todays show, we stay with putting theory into action and keeping it super practical. Today's book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse helps us clarify how to use our time wisely! Key...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Occasionally I come across a book that I  get fired up about and todays is one such book.    Manage Your Day-to-Day edited by Jocelyn Glei brings to us by "highlighting the best practices for making ideas happen." On todays show, we will talk about executing on those ideas and putting theory into action.   Key Points from the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we dig into the John Durham report released this past Monday. We get some excellent help from the Washington Examiner and their reporting.   Here's a link to all reporting on this important subject. Key Points from the Episode: New Media is offering a host of wonderful interviews especially Patrick Bet...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today we chat about the greatest WW2 historical documentary ever produced, The World At War and why we--the living--should never forget and always REMEMBER! Key Points from the Episode: The massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane  The 26-Hour long episodes with incredible footage and interviews  The music and narration helps to tell this vital st...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays episode, we stay in pre-war Europe of the 1930’s with our book The Pope Last Crusade:   How An American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler by Peter Eisner.    We will discuss what three things 1930’s Germany can teach us today. Key Points from the Episode: Our Nation’s report card with very poor marks for our...

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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's episode we take a break from philosophy and divert our attention to The American Masterpiece.   America's number one written novel.   Much like Russia has War and Peace as that great classic treasure of world literature so too must America have her own masterpiece. Today we share that American masterpiece as the Winds...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week we are continuing our Philosophy 101 mini-course with Aristotle.  Again, our guide and mentor is Peter Kreeft and his excellent and fascinating four-volume series, Socrates Children .    Todays show is quite heady and stuffed with some big nuggets of wisdom.   If you like that stuff, by all means ENJOY.  If you don't, han...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we review cable journalism's major earthquake that happened two weeks ago---the firing of Tucker Carlson by Fox News. To gain some insight, we review Tuckers speech at the 50th anniversary of the Heritage foundation the weekend before his firing and we review his latest book published in 2021, The Long...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Continuing in our Philosophy 101 mini-course with Plato, Socrates pupil. Again, our guide and mentor is Peter Kreeft and his excellent and fascinating four-volume series, Socrates Children .    So don't be intimidated by the nature of the reading,  Kreeft helps us navigate through the thick intellectual brush of Plato to see the be...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week we jump back into the deep end of the pool (figuratively!) with our resumption of Philosophy 101--Socrates. Don't be intimidated though, we have an excellent guide and mentor on this trip though, Peter Kreeft and his excellent and fascinating four-volume series, Socrates Children . Key Points from the Episode: Why is Socr...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Todays show, we will look back at a fascinating epoch in our US history and specifically at the election of 1844 with the help of the great David Walker Howe and his excellent tome, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 Key Points from the Episode: The candidates themselves  The importance of the pivotal elec...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week, we will take a break from Philosophy 101 with a question I often get, "where does your love for books come from?" To help answer that question will be today's book of the day, Sundays at Eight   with Brian Lamb Key Points from the Episode: What are the characteristics of a great interview? My impromptu meeting...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we will look back at the Worst.  President.  Ever! We will do so with our guide and author, Robert Strauss and his work Worst.  President.  Ever!  on our 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan.    Key Points from the Episode: In fact, comparing,  JB the 15th President of the United States with J...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Continuing our series in this week of MOJO Minutes which is all about philosophy, we will keep learning from our mentor and guide on this trip, Peter Kreeft and his excellent and fascinating four-volume series, Socrates Children Key Points from the Episode: Why this book?    The Great Conversation The Big Nine Philosophers The battle of...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week's MOJO Minutes will be all about philosophy and our guide will be the esteemed professor, Peter Kreeft and his top 100 hundred philosophers in his fascinating four-volume series, Socrates Children Key Points from the Episode: Pretty cool that we get the top 100 philosophers Philosophy is only good if you remember the big...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Catholic Corner,  we will be tackling the second part of this daunting task which to conveyto you, what is--I think--the second greatest story ever told. Today is part two:  Now is the time of My Mercy.    Yesterday was part one.   So be sure you start with part one if you missed it. We will do so with our expert guide and aut...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Catholic Corner,  we will be tackling a daunting task, conveying to you, what is arguably--the second greatest story ever told. Today will be part one.  Tomorrow will be part two. We will do so with our expert guide and author, Fr. Michael Gaitley and his book, The Second Greatest Story Ever Told:  Now Is The Time of Mercy Key...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Let's continue our walk through history and make a stop in the year 800 on Christmas Day in this MM! Our guide will be Tom Holland and his book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World   and what was the flood-tide of Christ that washed over the European continent.    Key Points from the Episode: Charlemagne and his...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MM, lets go back in history and hang out with the Great Augustine of Hippo in the year 430 A.D. To help us with our trip, our guide and author for today will be Thomas Cahill and his excellent book, How the Irish Saved Civilization Key Points from the Episode: Who is this people called the Irish? The importance of Irish Monast...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message CORRECTED the audio issues from an earlier upload.  My apologies!    In this special Easter holiday episode, we share more special excerpts--in our holiday tradition-- from Fulton J Sheen's incredible book, The Life of Christ   Key points: Christ's appearance on Easter Morning to Mary Magdalene. His recognizable voice of notic...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MM/CC, we continue our exploration in faith "poco a poco" and since it is Holy week--the most important week on the Christian Calendar--we will continue our journey with our guide and author this week, Fr. Mark-Mary Ames and his book, Habits for Holiness: Small Steps for Making Big Spiritual Progress . Key Points fro...