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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today, we revisit the Code and the Path--Back from MM#197 --to ensure we are building a solid foundation of which to launch towards living a flourishing life.   Our guide will be Thibaut Meurisse and his vital little book, Upgrade Yourself:  simple strategies to transform your mindset, improve your habits, and change your life. Key Poin...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special episode, we share the unexpected and tragic news of the passing of two warriors for the Catholic faith in the past two weeks, Cardinal George Pell and journalist George Neumayr.  Both of these men fought the good fight with courage  and were barometers for the truth, so let us remember their lives and their example. May...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Our quest marches on to understand habit change, especially with this MM, and our guide today is Charles Duhigg and his awesome book, the Power of Habit:   why we do what we do in life and business. Key Points from the Episode: We can choose our habits once we know how The most addicted alcoholics and the most dysfunctional companies ca...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Wow!  Holy Smokes we made to MOJO Minute #200! ⚡️ In this look back MM, we ask you to celebrate 👏🎊🎉 with us as we reflect on 200 episodes of pure nuggets of wisdom.  Sit back and enjoy this one! Key Points from the Episode: We give some behind-the-scenes stats over the past year. We count down the top all time most popular episodes...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Our Nations Capital is broken! It is beyond broken!   Both political parties have an ADDICTION! In Today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we will discuss this deep spending addiction by our country's legislators and whether they can break their own ADDICTION and be responsible with the people's money. Our guide will be Senator Mike Le...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#199, we challenge you with this question, how do you change your life if you are not able to challenge yourself? To challenge ourselves we enlist,  Tony Horton and David Goggins as our guides and chief motivators, Tony with his wisdom from his book The Big Picture and David with his strong motivation from his book, Cant Hurt Me  ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#198 provides for us the science behind why working the 3 fundies is important.   When we tackle the 3 fundamentals of Eating Better, Moving More and increasing our Sleep quality all at the same time we have a far greater chance of success then when we do not.    Tom Rath shares this science with us from his book, Eat Move Sleep. Key...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In Today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we examine the public fight for Speaker of the House just a week ago and we do so from a guy who has been in the thick of many Washington's fights over the last 15 years, Ohio's own, Jim Jordan and his book, Do What You Said You Would Do:  Fighting for Freedom In The Swamp Key Points from the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MM, we zoom up to 50,000 feet to see the forest from the trees so to speak. We hear from our guide, Jocko Willink over these last 3 episodes about the importance of a code and a path and so we unveil, the Code and the Path from his book The Code. the Evaluation. the Protocols: Striving to Become an Eminently Qualified Human Ke...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode,  we finalize the introduction in the fundamentals in flourishing, which by developing a good mindset.   We do so by drilling down on the second virtue in gaining mastery in this fundamental namely, charity. We stay with our guide who will be familiar to us, Jocko Willink and his book, co-wrote by Dave Berke and Sara Arm...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode,  we continue the introduction in the fundamentals in flourishing, which is developing a good mindset.   We do so by drilling down on the second virtue in gaining mastery in this fundamental namely, humility. Our guide will be familiar to us, Jocko Willink in his book, co-wrote by Dave Berke and Sara Armstrong, The Code....

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In today's show, we introduce another fundamental in flourishing, Mindset. To be our guide in drilling down on this notion of a positive mindset and more specifically Gratitude, we turn to Michael Hyatt in his book Your Best Year Ever:  A 5 Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals Key Points from the Episode: Introduction...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special episode, we share the sad news of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, one of the greatest minds and thinkers in the vast history of the Catholic Church. I speak about three elements that struck me during his life.    Key Points from the Episode: His book the introduction of Christianity is a mode...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's show, we chat about another fundamental in flourishing, prayer. To help us with our nugget of wisdom on prayer, we enlist Matthew Leonard from the website www.scienceofsainthood.com and the author of Prayer Works:  Getting a Grip on Catholic Spirituality Key Points from the Episode: The Holy Gospel according to John, chapte...

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...