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Aug. 24, 2021
MM#41--AM & PM Bookends
We are back to the regular programming this week.
In this MOJO Minute, we explore The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy (affiliate link) and his practical wisdom of blocking off the beginning and ending of your daily schedule so you can build a routine.
Key points:
How to build a world class routine
How a great routine is the building block to a flourishing day, week, month, and year.
David shares his simple morning routine and helps outline 4 sm...
In this MOJO Minute, we explore The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy (affiliate link) and his practical wisdom of blocking off the beginning and ending of your daily schedule so you can build a routine.
Key points:
How to build a world class routine
How a great routine is the building block to a flourishing day, week, month, and year.
David shares his simple morning routine and helps outline 4 sm...
Aug. 23, 2021
MM#40--Bonus episode #2--We Salute The Rank Not The Man
In this special final BONUS MOJO leadership minute, we laugh at the scene of Major Richard "Dick" Winters pulling rank on Captain Herbert Sobel from Stephen Ambrose's famous book, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (affiliate link)
Key points:
Talk about the great TV mini series Band of Brothers created after the book was released.
Reflect on great leadership requires respect even for those above us in rank for the common good. C...
Key points:
Talk about the great TV mini series Band of Brothers created after the book was released.
Reflect on great leadership requires respect even for those above us in rank for the common good. C...
Aug. 22, 2021
MM#39--Bonus Episode--Leaders Eat Last
In this special BONUS MOJO leadership minute, we discuss how corporate culture can affect character and we dig into two stories from Simon Sinek's great book, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't (affiliate link)
Key points:
How corporate culture can affect your own personal character
We share two stories from the book, Goldman Sachs and their downfall in the 1990s and The Taj Mahal Place Hotel of 2008.
We reflect on the quote, "so goes the culture, so goes the peop...
Key points:
How corporate culture can affect your own personal character
We share two stories from the book, Goldman Sachs and their downfall in the 1990s and The Taj Mahal Place Hotel of 2008.
We reflect on the quote, "so goes the culture, so goes the peop...
Aug. 20, 2021
MM#38--Leadership week #5--Whats The Most Challenging Aspect Of Leadership?
In this final special, MOJO leadership minute, we capture the balance required of leadership in The Dichotomy of Leadership (affiliate link)
Key points:
Recaps of the past four days of leadership week
We unpack and define the many dichotomies of leadership from the book.
It's one of the best leadership books in the last twenty years to come out.
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Key points:
Recaps of the past four days of leadership week
We unpack and define the many dichotomies of leadership from the book.
It's one of the best leadership books in the last twenty years to come out.
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Aug. 19, 2021
MM#37--Leadership week #4--What Does Right Look Like?
In this special, MOJO leadership minute, we read from a quote from 7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day: Lessons from the Longest Day--June 6, 1944. (affiliate link)
Key points:
Recaps of Day’s 1, 2 and 3 of Leadership week
To be a good leader you have to be a good follower
David shares a personal story of how he learned what right looks like and how we, as leaders, have to share the concept of what right looks like with our teams.
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Key points:
Recaps of Day’s 1, 2 and 3 of Leadership week
To be a good leader you have to be a good follower
David shares a personal story of how he learned what right looks like and how we, as leaders, have to share the concept of what right looks like with our teams.
Other resources:
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Aug. 18, 2021
MM#36--Leadership week #3--The Law of Connection
In another special, MOJO leadership minute, we take a look at John Maxwell and his Law of Connection from John’s great book, the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (affiliate link)
Key points:
Recaps of Day’s 1 and 2 of Leadership week
President Bush’s examples of the Law of Connection. The good and the bad.
We close with a leadership list of self assessment questions. Where do you rank?
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Key points:
Recaps of Day’s 1 and 2 of Leadership week
President Bush’s examples of the Law of Connection. The good and the bad.
We close with a leadership list of self assessment questions. Where do you rank?
Other resources:
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Aug. 17, 2021
MM#35--Leadership week #2--Lets Grab Our Chisels
In this special MOJO minute of Leadership week at the MOJO Academy, we explore character by digging into the quote from Leading an Inspired Life (affiliate link) by Jim Rohn.
Key points:
Recap of Day 1 of Leadership week
The Greek word for character means "to chisel."
Good character is the surest foundation to developing to be the leader we are capable of being.
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Key points:
Recap of Day 1 of Leadership week
The Greek word for character means "to chisel."
Good character is the surest foundation to developing to be the leader we are capable of being.
Other resources:
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Aug. 16, 2021
MM#34--Leadership week #1--How Do We Grade Leadership?
In this special MOJO minute, we kick off Leadership week at the MOJO Academy by defining how to grade Leadership best?
We utilize, Extreme Ownership (affiliate link) as the resource to unpack this brilliant definition of Leadership!
Key points:
We conduct a thought experiment about how to grade Leadership with General George Patton from WWII and the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin.
Then, we uncover the best definition of how to grade Leadership?
We challenge ourselves in growing i...
We utilize, Extreme Ownership (affiliate link) as the resource to unpack this brilliant definition of Leadership!
Key points:
We conduct a thought experiment about how to grade Leadership with General George Patton from WWII and the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin.
Then, we uncover the best definition of how to grade Leadership?
We challenge ourselves in growing i...
Aug. 12, 2021
MM#33--Talent vs Hard Work
In this MOJO Minute, we dive deep into the hard work theme again and explore the overlap of talent vs hard work. Along the way, we are helped greatly by Geoff Colvin's suburb book, Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else (affiliate link)
Key points:
Talent vs Hard Work
What is deliberate practice
what are the three zones of deliberate practice and in what zone do we grow most?
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Key points:
Talent vs Hard Work
What is deliberate practice
what are the three zones of deliberate practice and in what zone do we grow most?
Other resources:
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Aug. 10, 2021
MM#32--Do the Work
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...
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...
Aug. 9, 2021
Catholic Corner #1--Saint Dominic--The Integrated Life
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?
Other resources:
Sai...
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?
Other resources:
Sai...
Aug. 5, 2021
MM#31--Failure's New Name
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?
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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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Aug. 3, 2021
MM#30--Feelings, pt. 2--The Pole Position of LIfe
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.
Other resources:
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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.
Other resources:
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July 29, 2021
MM#29--Feelings pt. 1--Personal Cheerleader
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--...
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--...
July 28, 2021
SPECIAL--July 2021--Author Spotlight
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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Because we...
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
Other resources:
Want to leave a review? Click here and if we earned a five star review from you **high fives and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much!
Because we...
July 27, 2021
MM#28--The Bear and The Travelers
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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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.
Other resources:
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July 22, 2021
MM#27--Keeping Up with the Joneses
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!
Other resources:
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Because w...
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!
Other resources:
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Because w...
July 20, 2021
MM#26--Get To The Starting Line
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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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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July 15, 2021
MM#25--Perfectionism
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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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.
Other resources:
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July 13, 2021
MM#24--Do you Hate Salads As Much As I Do?!
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...
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...
July 8, 2021
MM#23--Mental Training
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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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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July 6, 2021
MM#22--Gratitude works
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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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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July 4, 2021
Happy Indepedence Day
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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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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July 1, 2021
MM#20--Life Isn't Fair--Drive on!
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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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.
Want to leave a review? Click here and if we earned a five star review from you **high fives and kn...