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In this MOJO Minute, we recap a Pittsburgh Steeler's Pro Football Hall of Fame speech and offer a unique observation about our culture, ultimately concluding with Steven Pressfield's wisdom in Do The Work (affiliate link)

Correction: In the podcast, I said six Pittsburgh Steelers were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Just five Steelers went into the Hall this past weekend. Troy Polamlau, Bill Cowher, Donnie Shell in the 2020 class and the 2021 class included Alan Faneca and Bill Nun...

In this new segment episode titled the Catholic Corner, we touch on Saint Dominic and his integrated way of life.

This new book, The Way of Life: A Path to Knowing and Loving God (affiliate link) by Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP and Jacob Bertrand Janczyk, OP, helps to unpack this richness of wisdom.

Key points:
Can our faith be regulated to the corner of our lives?

Saint Dominic's way of life

How can we serve our neighbor and society and better ourselves each and every day?

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Sai...

In this episode, we explore Tony's Hortons great book of wisdom The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life (affiliate link).

Key points:
How do we deal with failure?

Do we react positively to it? Do we learn from our failures?

Do we embrace failure to achieve success?

Other resources:
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In part 2 of the exploring our feelings episode, we dig deep into one of the most powerful concepts I have uncovered in any of my readings. It comes to us from Eric Greitens’s Resilience (affiliate link) so be sure to listen to this incredible MOJO minute.

Key points:
The relationship from actions to feelings

To ask yourself, the important question of “who do I want to be?”

Get the order right between feelings, indentity, action to live a flourishing life.

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In this episode, we explore our feelings and how they correlate to our decisions and choices. Along the way, we check out quotes from Eat that Frog and Learned Optimism finally concluding with Man's Search for Meaning (affiliate links)

Key points:
Brian Tracy explains why we need a personal cheerleader

Martin Seligman helps to understand the choice we have in choosing our feelings

Victor Frankl distills all this knowledge into a powerful nugget of wisdom--No matter how bad our circumstances--...

In this SPECIAL episode, we launch our first ever, Author Spotlight!

Key Points:

We open with the preface from Brad's latest novel, Black Ice!

Check out our Author spotlight dedicated page
Brad Thor's biography and his prolific writing record

Why Brad was chosen as our first ever featured Author spotlight

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In this MOJO Minute, we examine the state of friendship and its importance in our culture ending with Aesops Fable, the Bear and The Travelers.

Key points:
Results from the Survey Center on American Life
C.S. Lewis and Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

The importance parent's place on their children's friends as a bellwether of their children trending upward or downward.

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In this episode, we pivot to understand better our financial fitness in Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover (affiliate link).


Key points:

Whats the typical millionaire’s buying habits


Those who are practicing financial fitness the best, what are their priorities?


How to gain financial fitness!



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In this episode, we discuss starting a weight loss project or any project and how sometimes those project never seem to happen. Then, Joe DeSena provides to us some great nuggets of wisdom in Spartan Fit (affiliate link) to help us “get to our starting lines.”

Key points:
how to reach your innate potential and commit to grit?

whats the first step in any long project?

whats the first step in our morning routine to kick off the day correctly?

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In this episode, we unpack Stephen Guise's fantastic book, How to be an Imperfectionist (affiliate link).

Key points:
We name the top five areas of perfectionism

Take a dive into each of the five and provide solutions. Thank you Mr. Guise for such wisdom

David shares his biggest area of perfectionism and how to address this short-coming.

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In this episode, we ask the ultimate question for everyone trying to tackle their nutrition and better their health, do you hate eating salads too? lol (seriously)

Thank you Dr. Joel Fuhrman from The End of Dieting (affiliate link) for this gem of super goodness and health.

In this fun episode, we provide the ultimate solution if you do hate eating your salad!?!

Key points:
Why salads are super good for you!

The Eat Your Greens recipe

My own Vita-mix blender (affiliate link) that I use.

Ot...

In this episode, we go back in the day--not really--but it feels like to the movie Karate Kid from the 1980's and we meet Danielson and Mr. Miyagi and explore the Art of Mental Training (affiliate link) by DC Gonzalez.

Key points:
Art of Mental Training Academy Review

Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine

4 step process to rock our negative mental chatter

Other resources:

Karate Kid 1984 movie "wax on, wax off"

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In this episode, we hear the ancient sages reminds us that humility is required for a grateful heart and dive deeper in Gratitudes Works (affiliate link) by Robert Emmons.

Key points:
From Seneca on down we learn the chief obstacle to receiving gratitude.

What is the entitlement attitude

and the one requirement needed to obtain gratitude.

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In this episode, we celebrate our National birthday. Happy Independence Day America.

Key points:
John Kennedy at Independence Hall in 1962

Lincoln on the Verge review
William F. Buckleys stirring words in 1979 about the nations founding.

Declaration of Independence

Constitution of the United States
Other resources:
Ray Charles sings America the Beautiful
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In this episode, we hear an inspiring story from William McRaven's book, Make your Bed (affiliate link) about Moki Martin.

Key points:
The wonderful power in resiliency in the face of a trajedy.

How to truely look at the world through the right frame of reference.

The incredible and touching example of Lieutenant Martin and how to live a deeply flourishing life in spite of his tragic accident.

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In this episode, we dig into the value of little things ending with a great lesson from William McRaven's book, Make your Bed: Little Things That Can Change your Life...and Maybe the World (affiliate link)

Key points:
The poor widows contribution to the Jewish Temple

Navy Seals candidates having to first learn how to make their bed

Little things done with great love touch God's heart.

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In this episode, we uncover this remarkable nugget of wisdom in making things stupid small from Stephen Guise's book Mini Habits (affiliate link)

Key points:
How to breakdown any habit into doable practical solutions.

Uncover why previous strategies were ineffective.

How to make every habit into "too small to fail"

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In this episode, we stay on the exercise theme and find out why exercise is super-important in the book, Move your DNA by Katy Bowman. (affiliate link)

Key points:
15 to 70 trillion cells in our bodies

All of our cells are tied and vitally connected to our movement

No matter how great your nutrition, your sleep and how clean you keep your house, if you are not moving, your body is not at an optimal level.

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In this episode, we come back to the book, Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (affiliate link)

Key points:
what's your Keystone habit

Why exercise influences everything else in our life

how to create widespread change in your life

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In this episode, we learn from the grandfather of the personal development movement, Jim Rohn and his modern classic work, Leading an Inspired Life (affiliate link)

Key points:
what's easy to do is easy NOT to do

what's the difference between success and failure, between daydreams and ambitions.

The slight edge by Jeff Olson

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In this episode, we check into Darren Hardy's The Compound Effect (affiliate link)

Key points:
How to improve immediately

why measuring works

The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

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In this episode, Stephen Guise's How to be an Imperfectionist (affiliate link) helps us greatly on Thinking vs Doing

Key points:
Why action beats thinking every time.

why Theory 2 Action is our podcast name

what's the tinest thing you can do today to get moving on your next big project. don't think about it. Do something moving towards it.

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In this episode, we check out Urban Meyer's Above the Line (affiliate link) and some of its powerful points.

Key points:
E + R = O Events + Response = Outcome. How the response is most important.

Excuses are meaningless when we dig deep down

Living Above the Line is not easy but it can be done

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In this episode, we explore David Emerald's The Power of Ted (affiliate link)

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Key points:
Don't be a Victim, be a Creator

perfect reframing of our lives.

To live Above the Line
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