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June 19, 2022

MM#134--SPECIAL--Happy Fathers Day

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 Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-s...

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June 16, 2022

MM#133--Habits of Happiness

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 w...

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June 14, 2022

MM#132--Happiness Set Point

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 Want and learn about the Happiness set point. Key points: Why be happy? Why your happi...

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June 9, 2022

MM#131--The How of Happiness

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 H...

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June 7, 2022

MM#130--Monk Morning Mode

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, Ea...

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June 5, 2022

CC#10--Those Nine Days In June

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 "...

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June 2, 2022

MM#129--Debunking The Lies Of History

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...

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May 31, 2022

MM#128--The Gray Lady Winked

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 As...

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May 30, 2022

MM#127--SPECIAL--Happy Memorial Day

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, Ou...

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May 26, 2022

MM#126--A Hero's Journey, part 2

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 ...

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May 24, 2022

MM#125--A Hero's Journey, part 1

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...

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May 23, 2022

CC#9--Mothers Always Listen To Their Children

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 Hea...

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May 19, 2022

MM#124--The Integrity Of Life

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-abil...

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May 17, 2022

MM#123--Start With The End In Mind

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...

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May 16, 2022

CC#8--SPECIAL--Vatican Foreign Policy Stumble

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 th...

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May 12, 2022

MM#122--The Last Of The Human Freedoms

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 ...

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May 10, 2022

MM#121--Action Cures Fear

In todays MOJO minute, we explore why fear paralyzes us at almost every turn? To answer this question, we turn to David Schwartz in his Uber popular book, The Magic Of Thinking Big: Acquire the Secrets of Success...Achieve E...

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May 8, 2022

MM#120--SPECIAL--So God Made A Mother

Happy Mother's Day Inspired by Paul Harvey's 1978 'So God Made a Farmer Speech' - Dodge Ram Trucks Super Bowl commercial in 2013. Other resources: Want to leave a review? Click here , and if we earned a five-star review from ...

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May 5, 2022

MM#119--The (Good!!) Digital Hangover

In this follow up episode to our last MM, we continue our discussion on our smart phone digital health and some best practices. Our MOJO book of the day carries over too from our last MM and Catherine Price's remarkable boo...

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May 3, 2022

MM#118--Breaking Up With Your Smartphone 📲

In MM#118, lets chat about our smart phone use with the help of Catherine Price's remarkable book, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30 - Day Plan to Take Back Your Life. Key Points from the Episode: Are we Americans addi...

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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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