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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 ...

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...

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 🗽 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'...

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?...

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...

In this FREE Members ONLY--Liberty 🗽 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...

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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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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In this Liberty 🗽 Minute, we explore how to get the country moving again! 🏃‍♂️

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...

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...

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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In this first Liberty 🗽 Minute, we find there is an AMERICAN majority among us. 🙌

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! 🇺🇸

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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! ❤️🤗🙏🙌🤜

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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 Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware makes for gripping reading and should be part of the American curriculum for all time!

Key points:
The Diversity of the Soldier-Mariners would not be replicated for another 17...

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:
We have a new website ⚡️, please check out www.teammojoacademy.com

We have TONS of new features at our new home so be sure look around and most importantly sign up for notification of NEW episode releases with your email. 📬 Easy peasy!

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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 review the key points leading up to the Civil War with David Potter’s excellent work, The Impending Crisis: America before the Civil War 1848 - 1861.

Key points:
The National political parties changing into sectional factions in the years leading up to the Civil War and virtual...

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 Court "illegitimate" and calling for the "packing of the court."

To help us shine a bright light on this extremely bad idea of Court packing, is Utah's GOP Senator Mike Lee's newest book, Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court a...

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 paragraphs in this Catholic Corner segment.

You can read the full opinion here.

Key points
Ending of Roe and Casey

The Democratic process begins again after being paused in 1973

Immense gratitude for the millions of millions of Americans who marched, peacefully protested, ...

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 Successful Business
Key points:
Jackie and her superfan journey

Kevin Kelly and the 1000 True fans Wired Article

$10K or the value of $10k could do for you?

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Kevin Kelly Wired Article
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In this episode, we kick off a week of small business nuggets of wisdom. First with Pat Flynn's excellent work, Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money
Key points:
Notice the great analogy from an airplane to launching a successful business idea

Broadcast your idea to everyone to refine your idea, then execute, execute, execute

How I stumbled onto this idea

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Happy Fathers Day
We shared Meg Meekers great points on being a Hero Dad in her excellent work, Hero: Being The Strong Father Your Children Need
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In MM#133, we tackle the final piece of the How of Happiness with Sonja Lyubomirksy's book by the same name, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Key points:
What is happiness work and why it matter

The 12 happiness activities

Learn and put into practice the Big 3 habits of happiness

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In MM#132, we check back in with Sonja Lyubomirksy's fascinating book The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Wantand learn about the Happiness set point.

Key points:
Why be happy?

Why your happiness set point matters but what you can do about it

Major takeaway, "There's no happiness without action."
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