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Aug. 28, 2022

LM#8--Critical Race Theory vs Liberty

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message With millions of kids going back to school in the past couple weeks, let us in this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, examine Critical Race Theory and the harm it is doing to our kids, parents, schools, educators and our nation as a whole. And to do so, let us turn to our book of the day, A Parent's Guide to Critical Race Theory: Fighting CRT in Your Child's School by Christopher Paslay Key Points from the Episode: What is Critical Race Theory an...
Aug. 25, 2022

MM#156--The Freedom Of A Checklist

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's MM it is all about practicality! Checklists are often under utilized, but our book of the day is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande will teach us why checklists should & ought to be used more often! Key Points from the Episode: My travel checklist over the last five yearsHow to avoid common place and repeated failuresKeep it simple. Use a checklistOther resources: More good...
Aug. 23, 2022

MM#155--The Massachusetts Miracle

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message To celebrate the release of the Hillsdale Supply-Side FREE economics course and to keep our theme going from our Liberty Minute over the weekend, lets talk some economic wisdom today! You might ask, what is Supply-Side economics? here's a quote from the Gipper, "There were always those who told us that taxes couldn't be cut until spending was reduced. Well, you know, we can lecture our children about extravagance until we run out...
Aug. 20, 2022

LM#7--The Golden Yardstick

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, let's examine money and inflation. And to do so, let us turn to our book of the day, Inflation: What It is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It by Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis and Elizabeth Ames. Key Points from the Episode: Why are we poorer in the last 50 years?Sound money requires a sound measuring instrument, like a ruler, a scale or yardstick.A return to the gold standard would conquer inflation and ...
Aug. 18, 2022

MM#154--Hard To Do But Not Impossible

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The 1952 Summer Olympic games were not a disappointment for Roger Bannister, why? In Joe Manganiello's book Evolution: The Cutting-Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You Have Always Wanted. we learn from Joe, how Roger Bannister trained mentally and physically to break the 4 minute mile! Key Points from the Episode: Bannister's training regimeHow do you break down your impossible goal?Put t...
Aug. 16, 2022

MM#153--Sweet Dreams

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...
Aug. 13, 2022

LM#6--Fossil Fuels = Human Flourishing

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We are fired up to bring you another Liberty πŸ—½ 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-...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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'...
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?...
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...
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 founders principles of our country are conservative principles

Representative republics require an educated citizenry stepped in the learning of its country's values, traditions and knowledge of its history

Our 40th president, Ronald Reagan said in 1961, "Freedom is never mor...
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.

Key Points from the Episode:
A fascinating Cherokee elder story shared by two great authors

How do you think about your own thinking?

What wolf are you feeding?

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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 impression on you

How to achieve happiness >>> good habits

Aristotle provides us the roadmap on how to achieve good habits

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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 American Prosperity.
Key Points from the Episode:
In the last 100 years only four presidents had the courage to choose supply side economics as a policy mix YET it is successful each time it has been tried

JFK and The Reagan models are the economic roadmaps to get the countr...
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 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...
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 on time management

Time chunking much like Deep Work's nuggets of wisdom (MM's 81, 82, and 83)

Time is our most precious resource

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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:
A top ten list of statements - a SUPER majority of Americans agree on

Don't let the media or Washington elites tell you otherwise

Let us create and build the America we love with ALL Americans who share our good will & common interests! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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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 introduction to Seligman and his monumental work

And, Geoff Colvin in MM's 33 & 72

Also, Angela Duckworth's Grit in MM's 60 & 61

On behalf of Team MOJO, we offer you a *heartfelt thank you* for supporting the show and listening! β€οΈπŸ€—πŸ™πŸ™ŒπŸ€œ

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