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Aug. 11, 2022

MM#152--Where Property Is Insecure, Countries Will Not Flourish

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...

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Aug. 9, 2022

MM#151--(In A Whiny Voice) "I Dont Feel Like It"

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#151 we discuss what happens to all of us. Procrastination! For help, we enlist Timothy Pyschyl's Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide To Strategies For Change Key Points from the Episode: We cover the sad breaking news: The beloved American historian David McCullough passed away. We offer a quick tribute. Time to eat our own dog food and set the good example to end (or lim...

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Aug. 6, 2022

LM#5--The Seeds Of Liberty Are Being Planted

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Folks this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute is SPECIAL! We are super excited to share some exciting news with everyone! In our book of the day, we cover two of Alex Epstein's 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. Key Points from the Episode: Hillsdale's fascinating Supply Side Economic course coming August 23rd.Why ...

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Aug. 4, 2022

MM#150--Big Mo + The Origin Story = MOJO Minutes

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #150! Time to celebrate! πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³ Wow! Looking all the way back at MM#1 seems so distant these days! We will take a small victory lap πŸ’ͺ BUT more importantly we will applaud πŸ‘ YOU the listener 🎧 πŸ˜€ because you allow us to BRING you these powerful nuggets of wisdom πŸ’‘! and we LOVE ❀️ doing just that! So thank you! Now time to get back to the grind πŸ”¨πŸ’Ž for more flourishing ⚑️nuggets!! MM#150 an...

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Aug. 2, 2022

MM#149--Miracle-Gro For Your Brain

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #149 brings us one of the most powerful insights we have covered from these books. In 2008, Dr. John Ratey wrote Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Thank you Dr. Ratey for sharing these nuggets with us! It's pretty cool!! Key Points from the Episode: Recap of our earlier MM#54 on this very subject and book, Balancing of the brain is important and ...

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July 31, 2022

CC#12--Mozart of Theology

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Catholic Corner #12 features Joseph Pearce's Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith as we discuss this brilliant priest, theologian, philosopher and Pope as he approaches his 96th birthday. Key points Ratzinger's writings are breathtakingly vast, deep and wide with original thoughts throughout.His life of growing up in Nazi Germany, then Rome for the Second Vatican Council and then at the side of Saint John Paul II, foll...…

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July 30, 2022

LM#4--There Cannot Be Two Suns In The Sky

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Confucius over 2500 years ago said, "There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two emperors on the earth." Strap yourselves in for this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute as it will be quite depressing. In 2015, Michael Pillsbury had the intellectual honesty to admit as a "China expert" he was completely wrong about China's intentions and direction and so he wrote, our MOJO book of the day, The Hundred-Year Marathon: China&#…

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July 28, 2022

MM#148--Man, Im So Stressed!

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In 2015 Kelly McGonigal authored a fantastic book, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good For You and How To Get Good At It And in todays MOJO Minute, we are going to mine some excellent nuggets of wisdom out of that book Key Points from the Episode: Kelly offers us a great definition of stressThe mindset change around stressHow to use the Challenge Response to gain the upper handOther resources: Want to leave a review?...

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July 26, 2022

MM#147--Do Your Best & Forget the Rest

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message If you have ever done a Tony Horton home fitness video, then this MOJO Minute will get you excited! Reason being, we dig into Tony’s 2014 book The Big Picture: 11 laws That Will Change your Life to share this great nugget of wisdom Key Points from the Episode: The P90X craze of the 2010’s Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four AgreementsOther resources: Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star revie...

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July 24, 2022

LM#3--The Antidote To Tyranny (FREE MEMBERS PREVIEW)

In this FREE Members ONLY --Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, we learn from the great one, Mark Levin in his epic yet quite small and very readable 2009 book, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto. Key Points from the Episode: The f...

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July 21, 2022

MM#146--The Battle of Two Wolves

In this MOJO Minute, we continue with Marci Shimoff’s excellent work, Happy For No Reason in combination with fmr Navy Seal Mark Divine’s third book, Staring Down the Fear Wolf for a fabulous nugget of wisdom to ponder today....

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July 19, 2022

MM#145--The Pursuit and Practice of Happiness

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 i...

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July 17, 2022

LM#2 - Lets Get The Country Moving Again

In this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, we explore how to get the country moving again! πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ We are inspired by Larry Kudlow's and Brian Domitrovic's little known economic history book, JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of A...

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July 14, 2022

MM#144--Financial Intelligence

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 Poin...

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July 12, 2022

MM#143--Drucker's Discretionary Time

Let us, in this MOJO Minute, learn from one of the best. In Peter Drucker's modern business classic, The Effective Executive , he will teach us about time management. Key Points from the Episode: Drucker's 3 step process o...

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July 9, 2022

Liberty Minute #1--The American Majority Among Us

In this first Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, we find there is an AMERICAN majority among us. πŸ™Œ With the help of Newt Gingrich's fantastic book, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love , let us dive in. Key Points from the Episode:...

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July 7, 2022

MM#142--Deeper Flourishing

In this MOJO Minute, we revisit Martin Seligman and his book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being for some Deeper Flourishing! Key Points from the Episode: Check out MM#100 for our introducti...

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July 5, 2022

MM#141--American Dunkirk

What a truly fascinating and inspiring story, Patrick K O'Donnell shares with us in his heart-warming and extremely patroitic book on the heroics of the Massachusetts regiment from Marblehead. The Indispensables: The Divers...

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July 4, 2022

MM#140--Happy Independence Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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 o...

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July 4, 2022

MM#139--One Year Anniversary SPECIAL

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 πŸŽ‚πŸ—“ SPECIAL MOJO Minute . Come celebrate with us!! πŸ₯³πŸ™ŒπŸ˜€πŸ‘ŠπŸ‘ Key points: We have a new website ⚑️, pleas...

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June 30, 2022

MM#138--The Impending Crisis--Liberty in the Balance

Recent events has caused us to devote this weeks two episodes to topics involving Liberty in the Balance - meaning those areas in our country, where Liberty was and is threatened. In this second episode of this week, we revie...

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June 28, 2022

MM#137--Saving Nine--Liberty in the Balance

Recent events has caused us to devote this weeks two episodes to topics involving Liberty in the Balance - meaning those areas in our country, where Liberty is threatened. One such horrifically bad idea is calling the Supreme...

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June 27, 2022

CC#11--A Major Victory For Liberty

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 par...

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June 23, 2022

MM#136--Jackie and the Super 1,000

Finally, in this episode, we conclude our week of small business nuggets of wisdom with our favorite author of the week, Pat Flynn's masterful work, Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Success...

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