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Earlier this week, we tackled our G-Habits now in todays MOJO Minutes, let's tackle our G.B.O.M.B.S. from Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Super Immunity: A Breakthrough Program to Boost the Body's Defenses and Stay Healthy All Year Round (affiliate link).

Key points:
What are G.B.O.M.B.S.?

Nutritional science has made phenominal strides in the last decade or so

How we should our G-habit and our G.B.O.M.B.S. routine

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Welcome back to another week and today's MOJO Minute.

Today we have fun breaking down Joan Vernikos's wonderful book, Sitting Kills, Moving Heals: How Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness, and Early Death--and Exercise Alone Won't (affiliate link).

Key points:
What are G-habits?

Examples of G-habits

How to start your G-habit routine

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In this special college football edition, we reflect on Woody Hayes, the great Ohio State Football coach, who gave a very inspirational graduation speech in 1986.

Key points:
Why Paying It Forward matters

How self-pity always harms you

Woody Hayes’s final farewell address

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In this MOJO Minute, we review, Cal Newport's fantastic book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (affiliate link).

Key points:
How do you end your workday? What is your routine?

Or does work continue on for you into the evening and late night distracting you from your family, friends and other loved ones.

Cal's shares with us his routine for ending his workday.

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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 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...

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...

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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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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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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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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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!

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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...

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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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?

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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...