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April 28, 2022

MM#117--Whats Your Mindset?

In this MOJO Minute, Carol Dweck helps us to understand our mindset! In 2006, she wrote a fantastic book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success and we will unpack one of the important nuggets of wisdom from that book. Key...

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April 26, 2022

MM#116--A Hero's Story + Bust'em = Flourish, Flourish, Flourishing

In this episode, we share how small businesses can change and clarifying their marketing to help tell their story and in the process of doing so, we discover that each of us is on our own hero's journey. A huge thank you to D...

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April 21, 2022

MM#115--Rudyard Kipling's poem "If"

Just seven months after the end of the US Civil War, one of the United Kingdom's most recognized poets, Rudyard Kipling was born, over 8200 miles away in Bombay, India. In this MOJO minute, we hear a reading of one of most a...

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April 19, 2022

MM#114--A Holy Week From Hell

The US Civil War was America's worst national nightmare. In this MOJO minute, we explore the holy week of 1865 with Allen Guelzo's remarkable new biography of Robert E Lee: A Life Key Points from the Episode: The events fr...

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April 17, 2022

CC#7--Happy Easter

In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we share more special excerpts from Fulton J Sheen's incredible book, The Life of Christ Key points: Christ's fingers, hands and nails Doubting Thomas and God's special ...

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April 14, 2022

CC#6--The Fourth Cup--An Offering You Can't Refuse

Happy Holy Week, in this Catholic Corner segment, we explore Scott Hahn's The Fourth Cup: Unveiling The Mystery of the Last Supper and The Cross Key Points from the Episode: The Passover Seder & 4 cups The Missing 4th Cup Th...

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April 12, 2022

MM#113--Gardener's of Authentic Freedom

Happy Holy Week, in this MOJO Minute, we explore America's meaning of Freedom. To help us, we pull George Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic Key Points from the Episode: A Roman Catholic view of Lincoln's famous Gett...

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April 7, 2022

MM#112--The Man in the Arena

On April 23, 1910, former US President Teddy Roosevelt gave the speech entitled "Citizenship in a Republic" at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. We pull the most famous passage from that speech in this MOJO Minute! Th...

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April 5, 2022

MM#111--Perhaps...The Most Vital Law in Business

What is, perhaps, the most vital law in business? Especially business planning? We will discover this vital law, from Jocko Willink's and Leif Babins companion workbook to their super popular book Extreme Ownership in this M...

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April 4, 2022

MM#110--March Madness SPECIAL--One Shining Moment 🏀

This is our final March Madness SPECIAL (Im sure some of you are sad 😢) so lets discuss the most iconic ballad in all of sports, One Shining Moment and the accompanying video montage for the NCAA mens basketball championship...

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April 4, 2022

CC#5--Little Sins

In this special Catholic Corner segment of the podcast, we check in with Elizabeth Scalia's , Little Sins Mean A Lot: Kicking Our Bad Habits Before They Kick Us Key points: Difference between two different types of sins, mor...

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April 2, 2022

MM#109--March Madness SPECIAL--Duke Toughness

Here's a SPECIAL episode--March Madness MOJO Minute--Final Four Edition! As this NCAA tourney comes to a close with the Final Four games tonite and the championship game on Monday, I thought we would explore the most intrigui...

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March 31, 2022

MM#108--Mr. Pareto's High Fives & Knuckle Bumps

In this short MM, we have fun with the Pareto Principle while gaining some wisdom! Key Points from the Episode: Vilfredo Pareto created the principle in Italy about 20th century English wealth 20% of beer drinkers drink 80% o...

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March 29, 2022

MM#107--An Essential Leadership Question to Ask Yourself!

What is an essential leadership question to ask ourselves? We explore that question in this MM#107 with Jocko Willink's excellent book, Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual Key Points from the Episode: Quick revie...

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March 26, 2022

MM#106--March Madness SPECIAL--GRIT + Toughness & Two Unique Storylines = A Fascinating Tourney

Offering up another SPECIAL MOJO Minute--March Madness style--we appreciate GRIT and these two unique storylines playing out in this years NCAA college basketball tourney. Our MOJO book of the day GRIT: The Power of Passion ...

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March 25, 2022

MM#105--March Madness SPECIAL--The Anatomy of the NCAA Upset

Continuing our SPECIAL MOJO Minutes--March Madness style--we dig deep in The Anatomy of the NCAA upset. Our MOJO book of the day, Spartan UP: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance b...

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March 24, 2022

MM#104--Marketing Plans & the 64/4 Principle = Flourishing Bliss

In this MOJO Minute, we continue our study with small businesses and with our MOJO book the day, The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd by Allan Dib. Key Points from the E...

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March 22, 2022

MM#103--#1 Reason Why Small Businesses Don't Grow

In todays MOJO Minute, we study the #1 reason why small business don't grow! To help us, we dig in with our MOJO book of the day, The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out From The Crowd ...

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March 18, 2022

MM#102 -- March Madness SPECIAL -- Coach K's Prayer

Rounding out our SPECIAL MOJO March Madness MOJO minutes this week, we check in with perhaps the greatest coach of the 21st century, Duke mens basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski. In 2001, Coach K—his nickname because most pe...

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March 17, 2022

MM#101-- March Madness SPECIAL -- Wooden's Wisdom

In keeping with our SPECIAL MOJO March Madness MOJO minute, we gain some wisdom today from perhaps the greatest college basketball coach of the 20th century, John Wooden in his book, Wooden: a Lifetime of Observations and Ref...

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March 15, 2022

MM#100--To Flourish...and Thank you!

Wow! It’s MOJO Minute # 💯 Kinda special milestone! 🎊👏 So with that special milestone lets discuss my favorite word: Flourish And in doing so, we will enlist the help of a great author and expert in this area, Martin Seligma...

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March 14, 2022

MM#99 -- March Madness SPECIAL -- The Madness Of March

In todays SPECIAL MOJO Minute, we talk about the cultural phenomenon known as March Madness by sharing Joe Lunardi's Bracketology: March Madness, College Basketball, and the Creation of a National Obsession. Key Points from ...

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March 10, 2022

MM#98--The Confessions of St. Augustine

Our second installment--in this first full week of Lent for Christians--we check out, perhaps, the greatest autobiography in the world, the Confessions of Saint Augustine. Key Points from the Episode: Check out prior MM's 52 ...

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March 8, 2022

MM#97--The Better Jihad

In todays MOJO Minute as we enter, this first full week of Lent for Christians, we examine--the Arabic word Jihad--and perhaps its universal concepts across many religions and great traditions. Key Points from the Episode: Tw...

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