Culture EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Continuing on with our nuggets of wisdom surrounding our work and our notion of human work, in this MM, we turn to Timothy Keller in his very insightful book, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work Key Points from the Episode: Why is doing our work well a form of co-operating with God in his creative work?Why is there a dignity in all forms of good human work?Should manual labor be more appreciated vs knowledge, in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Do you have passion for your work? Do you love what you do for a living? If not, why not? Perhaps, your passion is misplaced. In this MM, we ponder that reflection on a "Gospel of Work" Key Points from the Episode: Do we need to have a job that we are passionate about to work with passion?How do we work with more effectiveness, with more care, with more clarity to insist the work is well done?How do we lead be...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The power of example is often underestimated. Not so, in todays MM, where we watch a little league baseball player hug another competitor in an incredible show of compassion and sportsmanship. Key Points from the Episode: Kids are often our best teachers because of their purity of heartBe sure to get the tissues readyOther resources: Video of the Little League Hug More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want...

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 how you THINK about your money is the key idea.

Fantastic quick five-point checklist of how to NOT improve our personal financial education. Again, DON'T do these things.

O...

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 Casey

The Democratic process begins again after being paused in 1973

Immense gratitude for the millions of millions of Americans who marched, peacefully protested, ...

In this post-Christian country we live in these days, the quest for Happiness has taken many people in different directions. In MM#131, we look into this question with a fascinating book from Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Key points:
Introduction of the How of Happiness

Happiness vs not flourishing

We are not victims

Other resources

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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 are your fundamental value and beliefs?

Find out where you are at so you know where you want to go!

Other resources:

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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:
Digital Detox and why it is good

How over ten years ago, I was a digital social media junkie and now that has slowed to a crawl and you can do it too.

Why a digital fa...

In todays MOJO Minute as we enter, this first full week of Lent for Christians, we examine--the Arabic word Jihad--and perhaps its universal concepts across many religions and great traditions.

Key Points from the Episode:
Two meanings of the word Jihad

The universal concepts across great traditions

What is the better Jihad

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Todays MM will be different as we are trying a longer type format and a deeper dive into an important book, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic.
Key Points from the Episode:
You will be uncomfortable

It will be tough to listen too

You can't believe this is happening in the United States

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Because we car...

Staying with our history theme, in this MOJO Minute, we follow Cal Thomas's unique exploration of Sir John Glubb's thought-provoking article which turned into a book, America's Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers...and the Future of the United States.
Key Points from the Episode:
Does America have an expiration date of July 4, 2026?

Much like a individual patient has health markers indicating trend lines for their health, What are America's health markers--for the whole country...

In striving to live a flourishing life--whether as a person or a country--it requires answering the hard questions in truth. In MOJO Minute #90, we ask those hard questions of modern day China and why they have been allowed to host the 2022 Olympic games.

Key Points from the Episode:
2008's China is vastly different than 2022's China.

Four difficult questions that should have required answers before allowing China to continue to host these games.

Is the 2020 China Games a repeat of the 1936 N...

In this special Thanksgiving Episode, we read from two cannons in American Journalism over the last fifty years to appreciate our Land of Hope with more reverence!

Key Points from the Episode:
The Desolate Wilderness (WSJ editorial annually appearing since 1961)

And the Fair Land (WSJ editorial annually appearing since 1961)

On behalf of the MOJO Academy and this podcast, we wish--you and yours--a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday!

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In this episode, we check out Calvin Coolidge's, our 30th President of the United States, most famous quote from his presidency which Amity Shales in her biography of Coolidge helps us to unpack.

Key Points from the Episode:
Why determination and persistence lead Coolidge all of his life?

There are many educated derelicts in the world

To live a focus and flourishing life no matter what the future brings

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In this longer MOJO minute, David details the greatest social problem in America in 2021.
Inspired by Are Fathers Necessary?
Key Points from the Episode:
Why doesn't anyone talk about this?

Heart-breaking statistics around absent Fathers.

How can we help Fathers to stay and remain engaged in their children's lives? If you say another government program, you're wrong!

Other resources:
National Fatherhood Initiative
October 2021 video--This is Why Fathers Are Necessary?
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Today, we celebrate MOJO minute #50 and we do so with fanfare and great analysis by Victor Davis Hanson on America's ailments in the 21st century in his latest book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying The Idea of America.
Key Points from the Episode:
Celebrating #50. Thank you for your listenership! We greatly appreciate you!

Victor Davis Hanson provides incisive analysis on where our country has come from and where it is headed

President Ron...

In this episode, we are inspired to save our country from the cultural suicide in which we are headed. In saving our country, Peter Kreeft's latest book, How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss, helps us too unpack what exactly is going on in our culture.

Key Points from the Episode:
we discuss Europe's suicide taking place for the last twenty years

a great listing of the virtues of Western Civilizations virtues

a call to action to read the great history bo...

In this MOJO Minute, we review, Cal Newport's fantastic book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (affiliate link).

Key points:
How do you end your workday? What is your routine?

Or does work continue on for you into the evening and late night distracting you from your family, friends and other loved ones.

Cal's shares with us his routine for ending his workday.

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