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Friday Five – Face fear, Walk the path, Let go of worry

No. 293 | August 8, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five — a quick dose of insights, inspiration, and personal favorites to kick off your weekend with clarity and intention. Music of the Week Aaron Velasquez – better known as Flamingosis – is a music producer, DJ, and beatboxer from New Jersey. Velasquez blends funk, soul, […]

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Friday Five – Control your mind, Let the day go, Unplug to reset

No. 292 | August 1, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five — a quick dose of insights, inspiration, and personal favorites to kick off your weekend with clarity and intention. Music of the Week The Herringbone Orchestra is the brainchild of composer Courtney Lain–a New Orleans-based group that sounds like something out of a

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 Friday Five – Think smaller, Fail smarter, Protect your best hours

No. 291 | July 25, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five — a quick dose of insights, inspiration, and personal favorites to kick off your weekend with clarity and intention. 🎶 Music of the Week Erroll Garner was a legendary jazz pianist and composer whose career spanned from the mid-1940s through the 1970s. Born

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Friday Five – Control what you can, Let go of outcomes, Stay gentle and steady

No. 290 | July 18, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five — a quick dose of insights, inspiration, and personal favorites to kick off your weekend with clarity and intention. Music of the Week Limp Bizkit is a metal band out of Jacksonville, Florida, known for its aggressive sound and over-the-top visual style —

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Friday Five – Master Your Mind, Embrace Reality, Own Your Peace

No. 289 July 11, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week This week I’ve been listening to Pops, aka Louis Armstrong. Born in New Orleans in the early 1900s, Armstrong basically helped invent modern jazz. He started as a

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Friday Five – Stay optimistic, ignore the urgent, create for the long haul

No. 288 July 4, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week This week, I’ve been deep in Tool’s catalog—one of my favorite rock bands from the last 30 years. Known for their blend of heavy metal, progressive rock, and

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Friday Five – Work the tonnage, Subtract the noise, Sail to the horizon

No. 287 June 27, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week This week, I revisited Sevendust—an Atlanta-based rock band known for blending heavy metal with a lot of soul in the vocals. Since forming in the mid-90s, they’ve released

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Friday Five – Stay around your spots, Figure out your edge, Say no fast

No. 286 June 20, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week This week, I revisited the music and legacy of Jimmy Buffett—the laid-back king of “island escapism.” Known for hits like Margaritaville, Come Monday, and Cheeseburger in Paradise, Buffett

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Friday Five – Be who you imagine, Try to have a good past, Don’t stay down

No. 285 June 13, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week Terius Gray—better known as Juvenile—got his start in New Orleans and began rapping at just 11 years old. A few favorites from his catalog: 400 Degreez, Bling Bling,

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Friday Five: Success breeds complacency, Complacency breeds failure, Only the paranoid survive

No. 284 June 7, 2025 Welcome to this week’s Friday Five: insights, inspiration, and a few personal favorites to kick off your weekend. Music of the Week Lake Street Dive was formed in the mid-2000s in Boston. Founding band members include Rachael Price, Mike Olson, Bridget Kearney, and Mike Calabrese. Keyboardist Akie Bermiss joined the

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