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Friday Five – Control the controllable, Strength over ease, Rest with purpose

No. 296 | August 29, 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 311, formed in the late 80s, first hooked me with their 1995 self-titled album Blue Album—and I’ve been a fan […]

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Friday Five – Let the future wait, Control what you can, Strengthen today

No. 295 | August 22, 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 Vibes & Tones is a collaborative project that blends jazz, neo-soul, and hip-hop. The group draws on musicians from the

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Friday Five – Push through, Bend not break, Find strength in the storm

No. 294 | August 15, 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 Rebirth Brass Band, a New Orleans institution, has been bringing the city’s streets and stages to life for decades. Founded

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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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