Virtue EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#204 brings us to the center of things and how we understand Willpower. Our guide will be Roy Baumeister and John Tierney and their vaunted 2011 book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength Key Points from the Episode: Why is Willpower at the center of things?How to gain Willpower?How to fuel Willpower and get more of it?Other resources: More goodness Get our top book recommendations list Want to leav...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special episode, we share the unexpected and tragic news of the passing of two warriors for the Catholic faith in the past two weeks, Cardinal George Pell and journalist George Neumayr. Both of these men fought the good fight with courage and were barometers for the truth, so let us remember their lives and their example. May they both Rest in the Peace of Christ Key Points from the Episode: American friend ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Our Nations Capital is broken! It is beyond broken! Both political parties have an ADDICTION! In Today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we will discuss this deep spending addiction by our country's legislators and whether they can break their own ADDICTION and be responsible with the people's money. Our guide will be Senator Mike Lee's The Freedom Agenda: Why a Balanced Budget Amendment is Necessary to Restore Constitutional Gov...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In MM#199, we challenge you with this question, how do you change your life if you are not able to challenge yourself? To challenge ourselves we enlist, Tony Horton and David Goggins as our guides and chief motivators, Tony with his wisdom from his book The Big Picture and David with his strong motivation from his book, Cant Hurt Me with his nugget on the accountability mirror. Key Points from the Episode: MM#147--Do Y...

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 this episode, we finalize the introduction in the fundamentals in flourishing, which by developing a good mindset. We do so by drilling down on the second virtue in gaining mastery in this fundamental namely, charity. We stay with our guide who will be familiar to us, Jocko Willink and his book, co-wrote by Dave Berke and Sara Armstrong, The Code. the Evaluation. the Protocols: Striving to Become an Eminently Quali...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this episode, we continue the introduction in the fundamentals in flourishing, which is developing a good mindset. We do so by drilling down on the second virtue in gaining mastery in this fundamental namely, humility. Our guide will be familiar to us, Jocko Willink in his book, co-wrote by Dave Berke and Sara Armstrong, The Code. the Evaluation. the Protocols: Striving to Become an Eminently Qualified Human Key ...

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...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special episode, we share the sad news of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, one of the greatest minds and thinkers in the vast history of the Catholic Church. I speak about three elements that struck me during his life. Key Points from the Episode: His book the introduction of Christianity is a modern classic in the treatment of the Christian faith.His first speech after the passing...

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 Merry Christmas Everyone! The Dominican Proclamation of The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Other resources: MM#75--Merry Christmas 2021 What Child is this? by Josh Groban Music credits: “O Come All Ye Faithful”, performed by 407 Music "Angels Heard from on High" performed by FranceMedia1 "Joy to the World" performed by 407 Music (all songs found on audio jungle) Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we e...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week's MOJO Minutes, we will explore the Christmas traditions and stories that have brought us to this point in time. Todays episode is the true story of Saint Nicholas and perhaps part of his story that you didnt know. Our guide will be William Bennett's The True Story of Saint Nicholas: Why He Matters to Christmas Key Points from the Episode: Every good story starts with a mothers prayers Saint...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In today's Liberty Minute 🗽 we mourn the downfall of Hong Kong, one of the four Asian economic tigers in the world. We explore, what happened, how it happened and who is responsible with the book, Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom by Mark Clifford Key Points from the Episode: Margaret Thatcher's grave mistake in 1984Hong Kong's incredible democratic principles i...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we revisit Carol Dweck and her masterful book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Successand we ask the question, do you have CEO disease? Key Points from the Episode: For some backstory and context on Dweck's book check out MM#117Lee Iacocca during his time at Chrysler's head gives us an example of what CEO disease looks like.Jack Welch from his time at General Electric, give us an example of how to a...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, lets talk PM's rituals. Do you go to bed at the same time every night or are you all over the place? Do you have a PM routine? If not, why not? Let us tap into our book of the day for our nugget of wisdom, which is Sleep Smarter by Shawn Stevenson. He outlines for us 21 proven tips to sleep your way to a better body, better health and bigger success. Key points: Develop a routineRitual is derived from t...

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 ...

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We continue our deep dive into 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson and today we close out the other rules we wanted to talk about from last week.

Key points:
Rule #6 "Set Your House in Perfect Order Before you Criticize the World"

The notion of natural law

Study history

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We continue our deep dive into 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson and today we clean up those other rules we wanted to talk about from last week.

Key points:
Rule #1 "Stand Up Straight with your Shoulders back"

Why our posture matters

The importance of sleep and our fundamental routines

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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The Universal Call to Holiness is an idea that has come to fruition over the last sixty years since the 2nd Vatican Council. In todays, Catholic Corner, let's dig into this concept to find those nuggets of wisdom to help us along our faith journey. Our guide along this journey will be Mary Ann Budnik's fantastic book, You Can Become A Saint. Key points A quick summary of the top five ecumenical councils since ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Following up on last weeks MM#181--we continue to unpack 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson to help us to prevent chaos in our lives. Today we tackle Rule #8, the most important rule from our reading of Jordan's book. Key points: Rule #8 says "Tell the Truth. Or At Least, don't lie."The corruption of untruthsHow natural law helps us to understand what is true and what is false.Want to leave a review? Click here and i...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MM, we review one of life's best teaching lessons most likely brought down through the generations by our mothers and to provide such as example we look to Ian O'Conner's book, Coach K which shares an embarrasing story for us to learn from. Key points: One of the best teaching lessons in lifeDont ASSUME because it makes an "A-S-S out of U and M-E"How to make a good apology much like a good confession.Want to leave a r...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this special Thanksgiving Episode, we take a trip back in our history to our first US President, George Washington and his Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 Key Points from the Episode: Please check out last years MM#65 celebrating our country as the Land of HopeFor further research, please read Robert Tracy McKenzie's The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning From HistoryOn...

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When we live properly, we will find these 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson to help us to prevent chaos in our lives.

Key points:
Human beings thrive under some sort of order

A listing of the 12 rules

Here's a simple how-to set of rules to live a flourishing life

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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message No matter the election results from this week, todays MM reminds us of the most important things to human flourishing which is the right order of priorities. The Didache Bible from Ignatius Press helps us along the path. Key points: Our reading is from The Holy Gospel according to Matthew 22:15-22Civil society is good but not the end all-be-allThe nation's power in our American constitutional republic derives for itself fr...