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Friday Five — Courage of Your Convictions, Never Giving Up, and What Convinces

Read or subscribe at → michaelwmchugh.com No. 322 | March 6, 2026 Welcome to Friday Five, a short dose of insights to start the weekend with clarity and focus. This Week in Friday Five 🎺 Miles Davis and three songs to start with☕ The conviction that built Starbucks📚 Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s early lessons🎙️ Instagram […]

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Friday Five — Emotional Control, Freedom to Choose, and Pricing Power

Read or subscribe at → michaelwmchugh.com No. 321 | February 27, 2026 Welcome to Friday Five, a short dose of insights and inspiration to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week The Beatles were an English rock band formed in the early 1960s. Their sound pulled from classical music, pop, folk,

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Friday Five — Take Up One Idea, Laser-Like Focus, and Saying No

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 320 | February 20, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Galactic is a New Orleans funk band formed in the mid-1990s, anchored by Robert Mercurio, Stanton Moore, Ben Ellman,

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Friday Five — Conquering Himself, Discipline Equals Freedom, and a Calm Mind

Read or subscribe to the Friday Five at michaelwmchugh.com No. 319 | February 13, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Hermanos Gutiérrez was formed in Zürich a decade ago by two Ecuadorian-Swiss brothers, Alejandro (guitar,

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Friday Five — Deeds of Kindness, Bias to Action, and the Roots We Plant

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 318 | February 6, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Beats Antique is a U.S.-based electronic group formed in the mid-2000s, made up of David Satori, Zoe Jakes, and

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Friday Five — Power Over Mind, Leverage, and the Illusion of Control

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 317 | January 30, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week While most of the U.S. treads through winter, New Orleans is doing the opposite—it gets louder. Music is the

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Friday Five — Power Over Mind, Conquering Yourself, See Clearly

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 317 | January 23, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Chris Stapleton is a widely respected singer-songwriter and guitarist from Kentucky. He’s won multiple Grammy Awards, Academy of Country

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Friday Five — Power Over Mind, Find Strength, Don’t Waste Time

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 316 | January 16, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start your weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Danny Barker was a New Orleans jazz musician, vocalist, and author. Born into a family of musicians, Barker first

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Friday Five — Quit Talking, Begin Doing, What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way

Read or subscribe to the Friday Five at michaelwmchugh.com No. 315 | January 9, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start the weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Led Zeppelin was an English rock band formed in the late 1960s by Robert Plant

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Friday Five — Focus on What You Can Control, Ignore What You Cannot, Turn Words Into Action

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 314 | January 2, 2026 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five—a short dose of insights, inspiration, and favorites to start the weekend with clarity and focus. Music of the Week Rebirth Brass Band, a New Orleans group, was founded in the early 1980s by Phillip Frazier, his brother Keith,

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