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Every Friday, I send a short email called the Friday Five—a quick hit of ideas worth your time. Each issue includes a curated mix of insights from books, business, habits, music, and more.


You’ll get:

  • 🎵 One song I’ve been spinning
  • 💬 One quote or idea that stuck with me
  • 📰 One article I’m thinking about
  • 📚 One book I read or revisited
  • 🎧 One podcast from the week

It’s simple, free, and always timeless.

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Lastest Newsletters

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

    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…


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

    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…


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

    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,…


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

    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…


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

    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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