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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We are fired up to bring you another Liberty 🗽 Minute! In our last episode, we covered Alex Epstein's two books, first The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels and second, Fossil Future:  Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal and Natural Gas--Not Less. This episode is part two of covering Epstein powerful books! Key Points f...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Rodney Stark has written a sweeping and tour de force with his work The Victory of Reason:  How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism and Western Success and so we had to cover him especially with this nugget of wisdom today. Enjoy! Key Points from the Episode: Northern China should have had an industrial revolution in the 11th centur...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#151 we discuss what happens to all of us. Procrastination!   For help, we enlist Timothy Pyschyl's Solving the Procrastination Puzzle:  A Concise Guide To Strategies For Change  Key Points from the Episode: We cover the sad breaking news:   The beloved American historian David McCullough passed away.   We offer a quick tribute....

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Folks this Liberty 🗽 Minute is SPECIAL !    We are super excited to share some exciting news with everyone! In our book of the day, we cover two of Alex Epstein's books, first The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels and second, Fossil Future:  Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal and Natural Gas--Not Less. Key Points from...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #150!   Time to celebrate! 🎉🥳 Wow!   Looking all the way back at MM#1 seems so distant these days!  We will take  a small victory lap 💪 BUT more importantly we will applaud 👏 YOU the listener 🎧 😀 because you allow us to BRING you these powerful nuggets of wisdom 💡! and we LOVE ❤️ doing just that!  So thank you! Now ti...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #149 brings us one of the most powerful insights we have covered from these books.    In 2008, Dr. John Ratey wrote Spark:  The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain .   Thank you Dr.  Ratey for sharing these nuggets with us! It's pretty cool!! Key Points from the Episode: Recap of our earlier MM#54  on th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Catholic Corner #12 features Joseph Pearce's Benedict XVI:   Defender of the Faith as we discuss this brilliant priest, theologian, philosopher and Pope as  he approaches his 96th birthday. Key points Ratzinger's writings are breathtakingly vast, deep and wide with original thoughts throughout. His life of growing up in Nazi G...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Confucius over 2500 years ago said, "There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two emperors on the earth." Strap yourselves in for this Liberty 🗽 Minute as it will be quite depressing.    In 2015, Michael Pillsbury had the intellectual honesty to admit as a "China expert" he was completely wrong about China's in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In 2015 Kelly McGonigal authored a fantastic book, The Upside of Stress:  Why Stress is Good For You and How To Get Good At It And in todays MOJO Minute, we are going to mine some excellent nuggets of wisdom out of that book Key Points from the Episode: Kelly offers us a great definition of stress The mindset change around stress How to...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message If you have ever done a Tony Horton home fitness video, then this MOJO Minute will get you excited!  Reason being, we dig into Tony’s 2014 book The Big Picture:  11 laws That Will Change your Life   to share this great nugget of wisdom Key Points from the Episode: The P90X craze of the 2010’s  Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements Other res...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this FREE Members ONLY --Liberty 🗽 Minute, we learn from the great one, Mark Levin in his epic yet quite small and very readable 2009 book, Liberty and Tyranny:  A Conservative Manifesto. Key Points from the Episode: The founders principles of our country are conservative principles Representative republics require an educated citiz...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we continue with Marci Shimoff’s excellent work, Happy For No Reason in combination with fmr Navy Seal Mark Divine’s third book,  Staring Down the Fear Wolf   for a fabulous nugget of wisdom to ponder today.    Key Points from the Episode: A fascinating Cherokee elder story shared by two great authors  How do you  t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#145, we read from Happy For No Reason by Marci Shimoff and her nugget of wisdom from one of our founding documents.    Key Points from the Episode: Occasionally when you read a book a second time it makes a much stronger impression on you How to achieve happiness >>> good habits  Aristotle provides us the roadmap on how t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty 🗽 Minute, we explore how to get the country moving again! 🏃‍♂️ We are inspired by Larry Kudlow's and Brian Domitrovic's little known economic history book, JFK and the Reagan Revolution:  A Secret History of American Prosperity. Key Points from the Episode: In the last 100 years only four presidents had the c...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Again, in this MOJO Minute, let us learn from one of the best in the personal finance domain.      Robert Kiyosaki's modern  classic, Rich Dad, Poor Dad , will offer us some great nuggets of wisdom.  Lets go to work! Key Points from the Episode: Our financial education is important How you spend your money is NOT the key idea but h...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Let us, in this MOJO Minute, learn from one of the best.    In Peter Drucker's modern business classic, The Effective Executive , he will teach us about time management. Key Points from the Episode: Drucker's 3 step process on time management Time chunking much like Deep Work's nuggets of wisdom (MM's 81, 82, and 83)...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this first Liberty 🗽 Minute, we find there is an AMERICAN majority among us.  🙌 With the help of Newt Gingrich's fantastic book, Beyond Biden:  Rebuilding the America  We Love , let us dive in.    Key Points from the Episode: A top ten list of statements -  a SUPER majority of Americans agree on Don't let the media or Was...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we revisit Martin Seligman and his book, Flourish:   A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being   for some Deeper Flourishing! Key Points from the Episode: Check out MM#100 for our introduction to Seligman and his monumental work And, Geoff Colvin in MM's 33 & 72 Also, Angela Duckworth's...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What a truly fascinating and inspiring story, Patrick K O'Donnell shares with us in his heart-warming and extremely patroitic book on the heroics of the Massachusetts regiment from Marblehead.    The Indispensables:   The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware   ma...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we celebrate our National birthday.  Happy Independence Day America.  Our book is the Collected works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 4, "Lincoln Fragment of the Constitution and Union"  Key points: Lincolns metaphor of using Proverbs 25:11 His use of "the apple of Gold" being the Declaration of Independence...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message So one year ago TODAY, July 4th, I told my family and friends that I launched a podcast and today is our One Year Anniversary 🎂🗓    SPECIAL MOJO Minute .   Come celebrate with us!! 🥳🙌😀👊👏   Key points: We have a new website ⚡️, please check out www.teammojoacademy.com   We have TONS of new features at our new home so be sure look...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recent events has caused us to devote this weeks two episodes to topics involving Liberty in the Balance - meaning those areas in our country, where Liberty was and is threatened.   In this second episode of this week, we review the key points leading up to the Civil War with David Potter’s excellent work, The Impending Crisis:   Americ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recent events has caused us to devote this weeks two episodes to topics involving Liberty in the Balance - meaning those areas in our country, where Liberty is threatened. One such horrifically bad idea is calling the Supreme Court "illegitimate" and calling for the "packing of the court." To help us shine a bright l...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Catholic Corner we give thanks to God for a major victory for liberty with the overturning of Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood. We highlight Justice Samual Alito's exceptionally written opinion in several paragraphs in this Catholic Corner segment. You can read the full opinion  here . Key points Ending of Roe and...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Finally, in this episode, we conclude our week of small business nuggets of wisdom with our favorite author of the week, Pat Flynn's masterful work, Superfans:   The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business   Key points: Jackie and her superfan journey Kevin Kelly and the 1000 True fans Wired Article...