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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we discuss what our first fundamental of flourishing should be and we do so with the help of our guide, Donald Miller is in his excellent book, Hero on a Mission:  A Path to a Meaningful Life Key Points from the Episode: Do we want to lose our story plot of our own story? The first fundamental of flourishing is crea...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Merry Christmas Everyone! The Dominican Proclamation of The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Other resources: MM#75--Merry Christmas 2021 What Child is this?  by Josh Groban Music credits:  “O Come All Ye Faithful”, performed by 407 Music "Angels Heard from on High" performed by FranceMedia1 "Joy to the World" perfo...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays episode, we continue with our Christmas theme and explore the Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 poem T'was the Night Before Christmas. Again,  our marvelous guide will be William Bennett's The True Story of Saint Nicholas:  Why He Matters to Christmas Key Points from the Episode: MM#73 from 2021--Its the most wonderfu...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week's MOJO Minutes, we will explore the Christmas traditions and stories that have brought us to this point in time.    Todays episode is the true story of Saint Nicholas and perhaps part of his story that you didnt know.  Our guide will be William Bennett's The True Story of Saint Nicholas:  Why He Matters to Christmas...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we mourn the downfall of Hong Kong, one of the four Asian economic tigers in the world.  We explore, what happened, how it happened and who is responsible with the book, Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom by Mark Clifford Key Points fr...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we revisit Carol Dweck and her masterful book,  Mindset:  The New Psychology of Success and we ask the question, do you have CEO disease? Key Points from the Episode: For some backstory and context on Dweck's book check out MM#117 Lee Iacocca during his time at Chrysler's head gives us an example of what C...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, lets talk PM's rituals. Do you go to bed at the same time every night or are you all over the place? Do you have a PM routine?  If not, why not? Let us tap into our book of the day for our nugget of wisdom, which is Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson.   He outlines for us 21 proven tips to sleep your way to a better body,...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message To continue on our faith journey, in this Catholic Corner,  we will dive into part 2 of The Universal Call to Holiness which is an idea that has come to fruition over the last sixty years since the 2nd Vatican Council. Our guide for  this part of the journey will be George Weigel's newly released book, To Sanctify the World: The Vi...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We continue our deep dive into 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson and today we close out the other rules we wanted to talk about from last week. Key points: Rule #6  "Set Your House in Perfect Order Before you Criticize the World" The notion of natural law Study history Want to leave a review? Click here and if we earned a f...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We continue our deep dive into 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson and today we clean up those other rules we wanted to talk about from last week. Key points: Rule #1 "Stand Up Straight with your Shoulders back" Why our posture matters The importance of sleep and our fundamental routines Want to leave a review? Click here and...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The Universal Call to Holiness is an idea that has come to fruition over the last sixty years since the 2nd Vatican Council.   In todays, Catholic Corner, let's dig into this concept to find those nuggets of wisdom to help us along our faith journey.    Our guide along this journey will be Mary Ann Budnik's fantastic book, You...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Following up on last weeks MM#181 --we continue to unpack 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson to help us to prevent chaos in our lives.  Today we tackle Rule #8, the most important rule from our reading of Jordan's book. Key points: Rule #8 says "Tell the Truth.   Or At Least, don't lie." The corruption of untruths...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, we review one of life's best teaching lessons most likely brought down through the generations by our mothers and to provide such as example we look to Ian O'Conner's book, Coach K which shares an embarrasing story for us to learn from.  Key points: One of the best teaching lessons in life Dont ASSUME because...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Thanksgiving Episode, we take a trip back in our history to our first US President, George Washington and his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 Key Points from the Episode: Please check out last years MM#65 celebrating our country as  the Land of Hope For further research, please read Robert Tracy McKenzie's The Fir...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message When we live properly, we will find these 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson to help us to prevent chaos in our lives. Key points: Human beings thrive under some sort of order A listing of the 12 rules Here's a simple how-to set of rules to live a flourishing life Want to leave a review? Click here and if we earned a five star re...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Getting back to our fundamentals in leading a flourishing life, we tackle movement in this MOJO Minute.    To help us along the journey, we enlist Kelly McGonigal and her book The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage to chart our path. Key points: Check out MM#149--Miracle-Gro For Your Bra...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message One of the most requested books for us to review in the last six months  has been Wim Hoff's,  The Wim Hoff Method:  Activate Your Full Human Potential Key points: Start with just 15 seconds of a cold shower after a warm shower An improvement in your vascular system Using your mind to control your body's reaction to a cold sho...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Liberty Minute 🗽 tries to make sense out of the craziness of the last week by explaining the Tammany Hall two-step and what the GOP can do in the future to preserve the republic. Key Points from the Episode: Revolver's great in-depth column from 2020 WSJ editorial from Nov 11, 2022 Salena Zito's great column  Oth...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message No matter the election results from this week, todays MM reminds us of the most important things to human flourishing which is the right order of priorities. The Didache Bible from Ignatius Press helps us along the path.  Key points: Our reading is from The Holy Gospel according to Matthew 22:15-22 Civil society is good but not the end...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today is election day in this Constitutional Republic so be sure to exercise your citizens great responsibility to vote. In this MM, we look back at another 'critical juncture' in the nations history. With the help of William Bennett's and John T.E. Cribb's wonderful reminder of  150 Great American Events: Essence of...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this last Liberty Minute 🗽 before Tuesday’s mid-term elections, we review all of our past Liberty Minutes that began in July 2022!   By doing so, we hope to give you a holistic view of all the issues in their depth affecting our country.  So be sure to check out any of those in-depth podcasts that focused on a certain issue where yo...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute 🗽 we take a long look at American Marxism in our culture.   To do this, we look to the Great One, Mark Levin in his latest masterpiece, American Marxism. Key Points from the Episode: What's the appeal of Marxism? Was Karl Marx right about anything?  Did any of his political theories from the Communist Manife...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In our last MM, we shared Jocko Willinks fantastic new book,    Discipline Equals Freedom:  A Field Manual   so let's pull another nugget of wisdom out of this great book. Key points: Is it effective for us to just act like librarians and collect these nuggets of wisdom? Theory 2 Action is the name of the podcast which indicates Ac...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message If we have acquired the habit of discipline, then we have acquired a wonderful habit. Lets talk about it on todays MM! To do so, we will call in our guide to help with discipline,  Discipline Equals Freedom:  A Field Manual by Jocko Willink Key points: Discipline is Destiny -- Ryan Holiday Discipline = Freedom -- Jocko Willink Living a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Catholic Corner episode, we continue to Part 2 of this great gift!  🎁 Thank you for this great gift brought to us by Ave Maria Press in this wonderful book, Teachings for an Unbelieving World:  Newly Discovered Reflections on Paul's Sermon at the Areopagus by John Paul II Key points In this 4th of the newly discovered...