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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In episode #123, we continue the review of  Stephen Covey's modern classic, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and we offering one of our more intense and morbid MOJO Minutes. Just prepare yourself!    I would recommend NOT listening with children around or in the car.    Key Points from the Episode: What is a Eulogy? What...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we comment on the bad news of Cardinal Joseph Zen's arrest in Hong Kong and the Vatican's four-year  foreign policy stumble in China.     Key points: Worldwide outrage at the Cardinal's arrest The horrific 2018 China - Vatican agreement and its reaffirmation in 2020...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Todays MOJO Minute is perhaps the most powerful nugget of wisdom we have ever shared! In it, we discover through Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People   & relating the story of Viktor Frankl's-- The Last of the Human Freedoms ! Key Points from the Episode: Frankl's incredible life Frankl&ap...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO minute, we explore why fear paralyzes us at almost every turn? To answer this question, we turn to David Schwartz in his Uber popular book, The Magic Of Thinking Big:  Acquire the Secrets of Success...Achieve Everything You Have Always Wanted Key Points from the Episode: Need to make a big decision?   but paralyzed into f...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Happy Mother's Day Inspired by Paul Harvey's 1978 'So God Made a Farmer Speech' - Dodge Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial in 2013. Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much! Because we...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this follow up episode to our last MM, we continue our discussion on our smart phone digital health and some best practices.   Our MOJO book of the day carries over too from our last MM and Catherine Price's remarkable book, How to Break Up with Your Phone:  The 30 - Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. Key Points from the Episode:...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#118, lets chat about our smart phone use with the help of Catherine Price's remarkable book, How to Break Up with Your Phone:  The 30 - Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. Key Points from the Episode: Are we Americans addicted to our smartphones similar to intravenous drugs? How do you compare to the national average in checking...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, Carol Dweck helps us to understand our mindset!   In 2006, she wrote a fantastic book, Mindset:  The New Psychology of Success and we will unpack one of the important nuggets of wisdom from that book.    Key Points from the Episode: Recap of prior MOJO Minutes surrounding mindset, specifically MM's 33, 72 &...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we share how small businesses can change and clarifying their marketing to help tell their story and in the process of doing so, we discover that each of us is on our own hero's journey. A huge thank you to Donald Miller for writing this enthralling book, Building A Storybrand:  Clarify Your Message So Customers Wi...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Just seven months after the end of the US Civil War,  one of the United Kingdom's most recognized poets, Rudyard Kipling was born, over 8200 miles away in Bombay, India.    In this MOJO minute, we hear a reading of one of most admired poems titled "If". Many thanks for poems.org for Kiplings transcript. Key Points from th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The US Civil War was America's worst national nightmare.   In this MOJO minute, we explore the holy week of 1865 with Allen Guelzo's remarkable new biography of Robert E Lee:  A Life Key Points from the Episode: The events from Palm Sunday to Good Friday 1865 were a roller-coaster of emotion that sent American morale to its de...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we share more special excerpts from Fulton J Sheen's incredible book, The Life of Christ   Key points: Christ's fingers, hands and nails Doubting Thomas and God's special grace. Thomas's testimony and his ultimate martyrdom in southern India. He is arisen!  Alle...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Happy Holy Week, in this Catholic Corner segment, we explore Scott Hahn's The Fourth Cup:  Unveiling The Mystery of the Last Supper and The Cross Key Points from the Episode: The Passover Seder & 4 cups The Missing 4th Cup The Bread of Life Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-star revie...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Happy Holy Week, in this MOJO Minute, we explore America's meaning of Freedom.   To help us, we pull George Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic Key Points from the Episode: A Roman Catholic view of Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address How should we live? What is authentic Freedom? Other resources: Want to leave a rev...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message On April 23, 1910, former US President Teddy Roosevelt gave the speech entitled "Citizenship in a Republic" at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. We pull the most famous passage from that speech in this MOJO Minute! Thank you to the TR center for this transcript of the speech. Key Points from the Episode: Do critics cou...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What is, perhaps, the most vital law in business?  Especially business planning? We will discover this vital law, from Jocko Willink's and Leif Babins companion workbook to their super popular book Extreme Ownership in this MOJO Minute.    This workbooks title is The Official Companion Workbook to Extreme Ownership by Echelon Front...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is our final March Madness SPECIAL  (Im sure some of you are sad 😢) so lets discuss the most iconic ballad in all of sports, One Shining Moment and the accompanying video montage for the NCAA mens basketball championship game. Key Points from the Episode: Originally aired after the 1987 championship game Great endorsements My pers...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we check in with Elizabeth Scalia's , Little Sins Mean A Lot:  Kicking Our Bad Habits Before They Kick Us Key points: Difference between two different types of sins, moral and venial Find a great confessor this Lent How our diminished perspective broadens our self-permissivene...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Here's a SPECIAL episode--March Madness MOJO Minute--Final Four Edition! As this NCAA tourney comes to a close with the Final Four games tonite and the championship game on Monday, I thought we would explore the most intriguing storyline remaining in this tournament--Coach Mike Krzyzewski's swan song. To do so, we use former D...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this short MM, we have fun with the Pareto Principle while gaining some wisdom! Key Points from the Episode: Vilfredo Pareto created the principle in Italy about 20th century English wealth 20% of beer drinkers drink 80% of the worlds beer 20% of our actions should be producing 80% of the results.   lets do more of them Other resourc...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What is an essential leadership question to ask ourselves?   We explore that question in this MM#107 with Jocko Willink's excellent book, Leadership Strategy and Tactics:  Field Manual Key Points from the Episode: Quick review of Leadership week MM's #34-40, be sure to check them out Leaders are NOT actually superior to those...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Offering up another SPECIAL MOJO Minute--March Madness style--we appreciate GRIT and these two unique storylines playing out in this years NCAA college basketball tourney. Our MOJO book of the day GRIT:  The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth helps us to see the metaphor of the sport of basketball in the game of life....

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Continuing our SPECIAL MOJO Minutes--March Madness style--we dig deep in The Anatomy of the NCAA upset.    Our MOJO book of the day, Spartan UP:  A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance   by Joe DeSena helps us to understand the psychology of winning telephone pole by telephone pole! Key Points f...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we continue our study with small businesses and with our MOJO book the day,  The 1-Page Marketing Plan:  Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd   by Allan Dib. Key Points from the Episode: Why are marketing plans important What is the 64/4 leverage principle and how does it apply in our liv...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO Minute, we study the #1 reason why small business don't grow!   To help us, we dig in with our MOJO book of the day, The 1-Page Marketing Plan:  Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd   by Allan Dib. Key Points from the Episode: Why are business systems important What is the poster child for...