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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!! 🥳🙌😀👊👏

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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?

Other resources

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

Other resources

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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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In this post-Christian country we live in these days, the quest for Happiness has taken many people in different directions. In MM#131, we look into this question with a fascinating book from Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Key points:
Introduction of the How of Happiness

Happiness vs not flourishing

We are not victims

Other resources

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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 nine days of June 1979, the course of human history pivoted and we will examine those nine days in this double episode of the Catholic Corner.

In fact, we will double dip today with two Catholic Corner's separated by the "Chapter 2" tab to help you navigate easier between each of todays deep nuggets of wisdom.

To help with both our nuggets today, is George Weigel's book The End and The Beginning: Pope John Paul II--The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy which is the second volum...

In this 3rd episode of our Liberty Week celebration-- we peel the layers of the metaphorical onion on one of the most harmful and truly disingenuous US History books ever written, The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

To shine a light and expose this fraud of work we get a great deal of help from Mary Grabar in her excellent work, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against American.
Key points:
Howard Zinns complete falsehoods in writin...

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
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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 ...

In this part 2 episode of the Hero's Journey, we continue with our dive deep in Rev Robert Sirico & Jeff Sandefer's compelling book, A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey
Key Points from the Episode:
Rev Robert Sirico's story that he "is not a true socialist"

Horrific nature of tyrannical regimes often associated with aggressive Communistic, Marxist, and Socialist dictatorships

Asking those three vital questions of ourselves to kick off our own Hero's journey

Other resources:

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In this episode, we dive deep in Joseph's Campbell popularizing of "A Hero's Journey" concept, and we enlist the help of authors Rev Robert Sirico & Jeff Sandefer in their compelling book, A Field Guide for the Hero's Journey

Key Points from the Episode:
Intro to Joseph Campbell's 'monomyth'

Asking the important questions

Realizing NOT every answer to the important questions is a final solution or the final puzzle piece needed in a life full of meaning

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Since we are in the month of May, let us turn to the Mary, the Mother of God for some great wisdom and to do so--we will feature--Edward Sri's fantastic book, Praying the Rosary Like Never Before: Encounter the Wonder of Heaven and Earth
Key points:
What is the Rosary Prayer

What are the origins of the Rosary

To say the Rosary is to enter into the ecstatic praise of heaven and earth of God sending his only son into time and space.

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In episode #124, we conclude our brief review of Stephen Covey's modern classic, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by finishing on an upbeat message.

Key Points from the Episode:
How would you define 'response-ability?'

Do you consider yourself proactive?

Do you keep your commitments to others and most especially to yourself?

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In episode #123, we continue the review of Stephen Covey's modern classic, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and we offering one of our more intense and morbid MOJO Minutes.

Just prepare yourself!

I would recommend NOT listening with children around or in the car.

Key Points from the Episode:
What is a Eulogy?

What are your fundamental value and beliefs?

Find out where you are at so you know where you want to go!

Other resources:

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In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we comment on the bad news of Cardinal Joseph Zen's arrest in Hong Kong and the Vatican's four-year foreign policy stumble in China.

Key points:
Worldwide outrage at the Cardinal's arrest

The horrific 2018 China - Vatican agreement and its reaffirmation in 2020

The lost of Hong Kong and China's now eyeing of Taiwan.

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Todays MOJO Minute is perhaps the most powerful nugget of wisdom we have ever shared!

In it, we discover through Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People & relating the story of Viktor Frankl's--The Last of the Human Freedoms!

Key Points from the Episode:
Frankl's incredible life

Frankl's self awareness between stimulus and response

Despite all the horror and tragedy that Frankl lived through, his gift to the world was his founding science of Logotherapy.

Other reso...