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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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Friday Five — Turn Words Into Actions, Waste No Time, We Must Do

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 313 | December 26, 2025 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 Paul Simon is an American singer and songwriter, best known both as a solo artist and as one-half of

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Friday Five — Stake Your Claim, Choose the Path, Do the Work

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 312 | December 19, 2025 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 Igmar Thomas’ Revive Big Band was founded in 2010 by trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Igmar Thomas. The band has

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Friday Five — Keep the Rhythm, Consistency Beats Speed, Do Not Stop

Read or subscribe at michaelwmchugh.com No. 311 | December 12, 2025 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 James Andrews is from New Orleans, the older brother of Troy Andrews, better known as Trombone Shorty, and carries

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Friday Five — Be Stingy With Time, Guard What Matters, Choose With Intent

Read or subscribe to the Friday Five at michaelwmchugh.com No. 310 | December 5, 2025 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 Sherry Finzer is a musician who leans into healing and calm as the core of

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