Personal Finance EPISODES

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, chapter 4, teaches us about "living water"If you took my recommendation and watched the greates...

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 Vital Legacy of Vatican II Key points Our mission field, according to Saint John Paul II, is ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today is election day in this Constitutional Republic so be sure to exercise your citizens great responsibility to vote. In this MM, we look back at another 'critical juncture' in the nations history. With the help of William Bennett's and John T.E. Cribb's wonderful reminder of 150 Great American Events: Essence of American History. Key points: The Liberty Bell's wonderful inscription, "Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this last Liberty Minute 🗽 before Tuesday’s mid-term elections, we review all of our past Liberty Minutes that began in July 2022! By doing so, we hope to give you a holistic view of all the issues in their depth affecting our country. So be sure to check out any of those in-depth podcasts that focused on a certain issue where you might have an interest. We know crime, inflation, education and corruption high...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute 🗽 we take a long look at American Marxism in our culture. To do this, we look to the Great One, Mark Levin in his latest masterpiece, American Marxism. Key Points from the Episode: What's the appeal of Marxism?Was Karl Marx right about anything? Did any of his political theories from the Communist Manifesto turn out to be correct?Now the counter-revolution to the American Revolution is here, aliv...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we see how justice is corrupted. Our guide will be the new book from the great senator from Texas, Ted Cruz and his book is Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System Key Points from the Episode: Who were the election deniers?Will we ever hold those accountable that have meddled in elections?Will we have a free, a fair and a safe election in 2022?Other resources: Want to leave a review? C...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today’s MOJO Minute, we look back to some previous MM’s to ensure we are not forgetting our fundamentals. But we are staying with our author in our previous MM, Daniel Coyle and his superb book, The Talent Code: Greatness isnt born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. Key points: Fundamental #1—action. Put theory INTO ACTION!Mindset fundamental—default actionOur next superpower = Discipline Want to leave a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's Liberty Minute 🗽 is a celebration 🥳👏🎊 of sorts!! A celebration of Saint John Paul II and his life and extraordinary teachings, most especially because today is his feast day, October 22! Also, in this episode we will ponder his speech at the United Nations in 1995. Along with George Weigel for some commentary and context in his papal biography, Witness to Hope. Tomorrow, we will further reflect on a great gift Sain...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Everybody loves a simple list. In todays MOJO Minute, we believe we have found that list for starting you on the road to creating a Flourishing Life. our lightening bolt of inspiration came to us while reading, Robin Sharma's insightful book, The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World Key Points from the Episode: Keep the list simpleUse your inner system of navigatio...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty Minute 🗽, we explore the question--has America passed it's so called "Rubicon moment?" Historians and political commentators increasingly are asking this question, so we thought we would some research with these two books, Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic and Walter Signorelli's Rome and America: The Great Republics: What the ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Whoa, what a title for this MM...Building our second brain In this MM, we look at Getting Things Done by David Allen but then we zoom ahead to what our future looks like within the productivity domain with Tiago Forte's new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential Key Points from the Episode: Can we, with technology, find a reliable system that helps us s...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recently, I was asked how do I jot notes in my physical books that Im reading from? In this MM, we answer that listener question as well as we found a fantastic nugget of wisdom in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which we use one of our most recommended books, Aristotle's great classic work, Nicomachean Ethics to expand that on answer in our quest for more great ideas. Key Points ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We live in a crazy world and often that confusion causes many Catholics to lose hope. Todays book--in our Catholic Corner--should restore hope that we can make sense out of this confusion with Father Gerald Murray's Calming The Storm: Navigating The Crises Facing The Catholic Church and Society. Key points Fr. Murray shows us the way, with Christ, and how to navigate these modern day crises in the Catholic faith.His theolog...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Sleep is one of the most biological functions of the human body. In MM#153, we consult with Matthew Walker, the author of Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Key Points from the Episode: What is baseline resetting in Sleep?Did you know almost every animal species sleeps?What's the likelihood you will have the rare gene to allow you to sleep less than 7 hours a day and have a full baseline resetting...

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 from the Episode: Why Fossil Fuels are our FutureTo be against Fossil Fuels is frankly to be anti-...

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 century but didnt!Who stopped it?Why was the fall of the Roman Empire good for progress?Four of...

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 time to get back to the grind 🔨💎 for more flourishing ⚡️nuggets!! MM#150 an...

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 to achieve good habits

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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 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

And "the picture of Silver" to illustrate and describe the Constitution and its relationship to the Declaration.

Declaration of Independence

Constitution of the United States
Othe...

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:
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MOJO Minute 130 takes us to work to help us find out how to remove drudgery from our worklife and work with more purpose & concentration and less distraction! To help us in this MM, we turn to Bruce Daisley and his book, Eat Sleep Work Repeat: 30 Hacks for Bringing Joy to your Work
Key points:
Multi-tasking myth upheld

David's own personal "monk morning mode"

How to integrate Deep Work into your worklife!

CORRECTION: towards the end of the podcast, I mistakenly switched from calling the autho...

In this 2nd episode of Liberty Week here at the MOJO Academy-- we explore and take a dive deep into the New York Times Newspaper and their many distortions & fabrications over the last 100 years. To help us, we turn to Ashley Rindsberg and his book, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Key points:
The New York Times lies covering up for Nazi Germany in the led up to WWII.

Walter Durante lies while covering for the Sovi...

In this episode--we kick off Liberty Week here at the MOJO Academy--and so we thank all those who gave their lives defending our country. As a fitting tribute, we cover an excellent book written by Sean Parnell titled, Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Key points:
1/2 of a FULL book review of Outlaw PlatoonThe Outlaws

Greesons Grit

The Brotherhood and a 'Good Dude'

Heartfelt thanks & gratitude for the members of the armed services who have ...