Personal Finance EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Remember waving your favorite team's flag high (or the Steelers Terrible Towel in this case), feeling the thrill of victory as they clinch the big game? That's the kind of passion and excitement we're tapping into today. As we embark on another NFL season, I thought we would bring you some NFL wisdom from a Pro Football Hall of Famer. We're traveling back to my childhood days as an ardent fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers,...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Join us as we journey back in time to honor the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in our nation's history. In todays Special Liberty Minute 🗽, we continue with our 160th anniversary commemoration with the final part, Part 3. Our guide today will include Stephen Sears and his wonderful one volume book on Gettysburg plus, we have a unique book we will be reading from, Pickett's Charge At Gettysbu...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Join us on a captivating journey back to an era that defined the course of American history - the Battle of Gettysburg. Picture a sleepy Pennsylvania town, now echoing with the march of armies and the thunder of cannons. In todays Special Liberty Minute 🗽, we continue with our 160th anniversary commemoration of the battle of Gettysburg, part 2 Our guide today is Stephen Sears and very well written one volume book on ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Join us on a captivating journey back to an era that defined the course of American history - the Battle of Gettysburg. Picture a sleepy Pennsylvania town, now echoing with the march of armies and the thunder of cannons. In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we'll share with you from Allen Guelzo's wonderful book, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion This series is a tribute to our dear friend and listener, Ed Gallagher, whose love f...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What's the secret to achieving the American dream and living a flourishing life? Discover how essential virtues hold the key to happiness and why there is a war on virtue in this thought-provoking episode! Our guide in todays MM's is Bill Donahue and his excellent book, The War on Virtue. Key Points from the Episode: We dive into Aristotle's idea of virtue through self-controlled acts and explore the critical virtues that propel...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Has trust by political parties with the American people been shattered with the recent debt deal passed by both houses of Congress? In todays Liberty Minute 🗽 , we're here to dissect the votes, where more Democrats supported the bills than Republicans, and the implications of this broken trust. Join us as we investigate the true nature of the debt deal, challenge the narrative spun by media outlets, and explore the potential con...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message What's stopping you from achieving success? It's often the mere act of starting! Join us in today's Mojo Minute as we explore the power of taking that first step and embracing a 1% better intention. We'll share insights from Brian Cain's One Percent Better: A Story About How to Close the Gap from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be plus, we will pull some good stuff from Darren Hardy's "The Compound Effect," emp...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message On todays show, we stay with putting theory into action and keeping it super practical. Today's book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs by Kevin Kruse helps us clarify how to use our time wisely! Key Points from the Episode: Identifying your MIT (Most Important Task) each and every day.One of the sad...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we dig into the John Durham report released this past Monday. We get some excellent help from the Washington Examiner and their reporting. Here's a link to all reporting on this important subject. Key Points from the Episode: New Media is offering a host of wonderful interviews especially Patrick Bet David & the folks at Valuetainment. Here's the link to the Tulsi Gabbard interview.&n...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays episode, we stay in pre-war Europe of the 1930’s with our book The Pope Last Crusade: How An American Jesuit helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler by Peter Eisner. We will discuss what three things 1930’s Germany can teach us today. Key Points from the Episode: Our Nation’s report card with very poor marks for our young ones in civics and historyWe dive into pre-war history at the French and G...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Happy Mother's Day 2023 Inspired by Paul Harvey's 1978 'So God Made a Farmer Speech' - Dodge Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial in 2013. originally written and played on Mothers Day 2022 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 care what you think about what we think and our website, ple...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's episode we take a break from philosophy and divert our attention to The American Masterpiece. America's number one written novel. Much like Russia has War and Peace as that great classic treasure of world literature so too must America have her own masterpiece. Today we share that American masterpiece as the Winds of War, the great historical fiction novel written my Herman Wouk. Its sweeping narrative ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Todays show, we will look back at a fascinating epoch in our US history and specifically at the election of 1844 with the help of the great David Walker Howe and his excellent tome, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 Key Points from the Episode: The candidates themselves The importance of the pivotal election of 1844 and the many shenanigans in New York and Michigan with 3rd party votes Th...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week, we will take a break from Philosophy 101 with a question I often get, "where does your love for books come from?" To help answer that question will be today's book of the day, Sundays at Eight with Brian Lamb Key Points from the Episode: What are the characteristics of a great interview?My impromptu meeting with Mr. Brian LambGreatness hidden and disguised.Still looking for those nuggets of wisdom!Other resources:...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we will look back at the Worst. President. Ever! We will do so with our guide and author, Robert Strauss and his work Worst. President. Ever! on our 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan. Key Points from the Episode: In fact, comparing, JB the 15th President of the United States with JB, the 47th President of the United States, the res...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The last 48 hours has witnessed America's Descent into Tyranny and the Democrat's obsession with empty prizes. In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we discuss both. Key Points from the Episode: LM#3---the Antidote to TyrannyLM#22--Do what you said you would doLM#17--Justice Corrupted Other resources: WSJ editorial More Goodness: Academy Review membership program Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We will continue our conversation on movement in todays MOJO Minute. Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success by Rory Vaden will be our resident expert on today's show. Key Points from the Episode: Discipline = Freedom and the standard is the standard are phrases we have adopted in the MOJO Academy on how we measure ourselves. check out MM#175 & MM#176 for more goodness a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Let's talk movement on todays MM. Our guide for todays nugget of wisdom is Frank Ring the author of Walking for Health and Fitness: The Easiest Way to Get in Shape and Stay in Shape. Key Points from the Episode: Did you know the Amish walk roughly 18,000 steps per day?Did you know our ancestors walked anywhere between 6-9 miles per day?Walking just a mile a day can help to reduce many chronic health issuesOther resour...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message America is a mess these days and the only place of sanity has come from the sunshine state and from Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis leadership. In todays Liberty Minute 🗽, we review Governor DeSantis latest book, The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival Key Points from the Episode: the gap between the GOP leadership in Washington DC and its base throughout the country is monumental.The Florida blue...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In last weeks MM on the C.S. Lewis classic, The Screwtape Letters, we discussed a newer and updated version of this genre of books and a popular book written by Steve Deace titled A Nefarious Plot which inspired an new and upcoming movie being released on April 14th called Nefarious. In today's long MOJO Minute episode, we explore some key takeaways from A Nefarious Plot and then listen to some high praise about the movie, ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In today's MM, we continue to seek the truth where it leads us and we continue on with Michael Moss and his excellent book, Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. Key Points from the Episode: How the word--addiction--evolved through history to have many different meanings and why that is important.The very fine line between a compulsive behavior and a habit. One has a bad traject...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Several weeks ago, I was in Atlanta, GA for a business conference and at that conference I asked one our speakers, an economist a simple yet difficult question. In today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we will discuss her wrong answer and examine the correct answer to that question with our expert, economist Stephen Moore and his excellent work, GovZilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy - And...

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 Key Points from the Episode: Everyone has a codeNot everyone follows the pathWhy following the p...

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 of another fundamental in flourishing, positive mindset.Three virtues help to create a positive...