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Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'Souza
Fearless truth speakers. Faith-filled entrepreneurs. Countercultural parents. Conversations with extraordinary individuals. Dr. D'Souza is a clinical psychologist, national speaker, Harvard Human Flourishing Program research affiliate, and author of Saving Teens from Toxic Screens. Speak truth, do good, or die trying. johanndsouza.com
Episodes
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.122 - Big Techs Made Your Smartphone Mandatory: Brad Littlejohn on Smartphones, Porn, and Protecting Kids Online
Ask most people about the smartphone and you get a familiar shrug. It is a free choice. Buy one or don’t, nobody is forcing you. My guest spent years in tech…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.121 - The One Thing That Predicts How Your Kids Turn Out: David Goodwin on Faith, School, and Screens
Ask a parent what it takes to raise a good kid and you get a familiar answer. The right school, the right tuition, the right opportunities. My guest ran those…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.120 - The Worst Day of Their Lives Was Not the Abuse. It Was the Divorce. | Marriage | Family | Parenting |No-Fault Divorce
Ask people what broke the family and you get a familiar list of villains. My guest points somewhere almost no one is looking. One quiet change to the law. I…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp. 119 - Tim Connors on Building a $40 Billion Mission for the Poor, the Planet, and the Church | Catholic Social Teaching | Venture Capital | Parish Revival
Most people think you have to choose. Do good in the world, or do well for yourself. Pick one. That is one of the most expensive lies in business, and this…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.118 - Fr. Carter Griffin on Raising Saints, Forming Priests, and the Phone in Your Kid's Bedroom | Catholic Parenting | Virtue
You lock the door at night. You'd never let a stranger sleep in your kid's room. Fr. Carter Griffin says the phone on the nightstand pulls off exactly that…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.117 - Joshua Charles: What You Lost the Day You Got a Smartphone | Eternal Christendom | Catholic Culture | Classical Wisdom
People without smartphones were smarter. Not a little smarter. Way smarter. That is not nostalgia. That is what you discover when you open an old book and…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.116 - Katy Faust on Overturning Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S. | Children's Rights | Marriage Law | Greater Than Campaign
Nobody has a right to a child. Nobody. Not gay couples. Not straight couples. Not fertile couples. Not infertile ones. Children are not accessories to be…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.115 - 11 Kids, Zero Regrets: The Catholic Father's Blueprint for Raising Virtuous Children | Large Family | Classical Parenting | Michael Moynahan
He has 11 children. He has watched them dig six-foot holes in the backyard, ride their bikes to Harpers Ferry overnight, and lead decades of the Rosary before…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.114 - Danny Flynn on Raising 14 Kids Without Screens and Why Our Schools Are Broken
No parent has ever said on their deathbed that they wished they had given their child a smartphone sooner. Not one. Danny Flynn has 14 children and has led…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.113 - Andrea Davis on Holding the Line When Your Kids Push Back on Screen Limits
She gave her daughter a smartphone at 12 and watched her disappear into it. So she took it back. Her daughter cried. She did not cave. Years later that…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.112 - Paul Rose on How Catholics Lost the Prayer That Saves the World | Liturgy of the Hours | Sacred Music | Catholic Tradition
Most Catholics have never heard of a prayer so powerful the Church says it saves the world. It is not a private devotion. It is not a popular retreat method…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.111 - Cameron Riecker on How the Rosary Transforms Feckless Men into Virtuous Fathers | Catholic Manhood | Daily Thomist | Corda
He quit his teaching job on St. Joseph's Day with 89 subscribers on his YouTube channel. No backup plan. Just prayer and a conviction that this was what his…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.110 - Andrew Pudewa on Why Screens Are Destroying Your Child's Mind | Institute for Excellence in Writing | Classical Education | Homeschooling
Well over half of high school students have not read a single book in the last year. A good chunk of them have never read a book in their entire life. Andrew…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.109 - Matt Kibbe on Why Fauci Will Go to Jail and Trump Is Failing | Free the People | Deep State | Forever Wars
MSNBC called him the second worst person in the world. Matt Kibbe took it as a compliment.Matt is president of Free the People and one of the leaders of the…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.108 - Ryan Klopack on Helping Schools Flourish and Finding God in the Latin Mass | Arcadia Education | Classical Education | Homelessness Ministry
Bible Man had a lightsaber and fought off theological doubts with canned answers you would find on a Hobby Lobby plaque. Ryan Klopack sat in that performance…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.107 - Patrick Reilly on Why Most Catholic Schools Have Lost Their Mission | Cardinal Newman Society | Faithful Catholic Education
Two-thirds of Catholic school students gone in sixty years. But the real loss is not the numbers. It is the mission.Patrick Reilly founded the Cardinal Newman…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.106 - Nikki Sweeney Banned Phones and Mental Health Issues Dropped 94%
They stopped talking to each other. Nikki Sweeney had been in education for 30 years. But after COVID, she saw something new. Kids sitting at the same table in…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.105 - Jeremy Tate on How One Test Is Reclaiming American Education | CLT | Classical Learning Test | Western Tradition
What gets tested gets taught.That one sentence explains why College Board has shaped American education for 125 years. They own the SAT, the PSAT, and the AP…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.104 - The Paradise of Individualism Is Actually a Nightmare with Anthony Schratz | Earnscliffe | Mentoring | Virtue Formation1
They stopped reading.That's what Anthony Schratz discovered after 40 years of mentoring young people. A whole generation has lost the intellectual tools to…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.103 - Dr. Andrew Abela: Atomic Habits Told You How, Aquinas Told You Which | Catholic University of America | Virtue Ethics | Catholic Business
Atomic Habits told you how. Aquinas told you which.Dr. Andrew Abela connected the two. The founding dean of the Busch School of Business at Catholic University…
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Sexual Liberation Is Political Control with E. Michael Jones | Libido Dominandi | Culture Wars
What if sexual liberation was never about freedom? What if it was always about control? E. Michael Jones wrote Libido Dominandi 25 years ago. The subtitle…
Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'SouzaEp.102 - How Catholics Are Quietly Winning in Hollywood with Fr. David Guffey | Family Theater | Faith-Based Media
Fr. David Guffey is the national director of Family Theater Productions, a Catholic media apostolate creating content since 1947. Documentaries. Digital…
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Ep.96 - This Parish Grew 300% Through COVID with Tim Glemkowski | Amazing Parish Leadership | Pastor Burnout Solutions | Catholic Church Renewal
In some dioceses, half of priests ordained in the last twenty years have left ministry or are planning to. Tim Glemkowski of Amazing Parish knows why—and what…
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E. Michael Jones on Logos, Revolution, and the Battle for the Catholic Mind Culture Wars | Jewish Revolutionary Spirit
In 1980, Dr. E. Michael Jones was fired from a Catholic college for being pro-life. He has been persecuted and canceled ever since.Google his name and the…
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Ep.101 - Allison Gingras: You Were Never Meant to Parent Alone | Catholic Mom | Family Rosary | Faith & Motherhood
You were never meant to parent alone.Not in the sleepless nights. Not when the world mocks your faith. Not when you wonder if any of it is getting through. God…
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Ep.100 - Father Dave Pivonka Asks: What If Universities Formed Saints? | Franciscan Steubenville | Catholic Higher Education | Newman Guide
Harvard offers remedial math to elite students. Franciscan University of Steubenville forms saints. Fr. Dave Pivonka interviews every faculty hire…
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Ep.99 - Your Life Has Six Pillars, Nathan Crankfield Breaks It Down | Seeking Excellence Podcast | Excellence Coaching | Aristotle Habits
Now he runs a podcast, coaching program, and community while working full-time with two kids and a Denver mortgage. His framework: six pillars of…
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Ep.98 - Not Today Satan Says Kimberly Fletcher of Moms for America | Patriot Moms | American history homeschool | Liberty Education
The Kansas Teachers Union said it on camera: "We fear Moms for America." They wrote a dossier to remove these moms from school boards. The Southern Poverty Law…
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Ep.97 - Rich Meyer: Rip The Bandaid Off And Ban Phones From Your School | Catholic High School Leadership | Digital Detox Education | Student Flourishing Strategies
Over 100 students baptized at one Catholic high school. Not because they softened the faith—because they stopped apologizing for it.Rich Meyer banned phones at…
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Ep.95 - Teaching Girls Their Bodies Are Good Before The World Tells Them Otherwise | Natural Womanhood Fertility Awareness | Period Genius Program | Hormonal Birth Control Risks
She got her first period at eleven and thought she had cancer. Nobody told her what was happening. That silence is exactly what Grace Emily Stark is fighting…
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Ep.94 - Andrew Hickman: The Words You Use Are Sabotaging Your Sainthood | Catholic Personal Development | Mindset Coaching Faith | Language Pattern Healing
Speak truth, do good, or die trying.Andrew Hickman blends Aquinas with productivity to help burnt-out professionals become saints via “Be God, Be Yourself, Be…
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Ep.93 - Marcellino D'Ambrosio: Building Catholic Culture Through Business Not Just Churches | Catholic Marketing Agency | Post-Liberal Christianity | Family Traditions Guide
Speak truth, do good, or die trying. Marcellino D’Ambrosio @SherwoodFellows and his twin brother launched their “crack squad of dudes” in 2015 to transform…
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Ep.92 - Brock Murphy On Why No Parent Ever Regrets Delaying Smartphone Use | Online Predator Protection | Healthy Digital Habits | Parental Control Solutions
Speak truth, do good, or die trying.Brock Murphy @ParentProTech turned ranch wisdom into digital defense for families. With experience at the White House and…
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Ep.91 - Mother of 7, Heidi St. John Fights Woke Cities With Truth and Homeschool Empire | Christian Political Engagement | Becoming Mom Strong | Traditional Family Values
Speak truth, do good, or die trying. Heidi St. John @BusyMom overcame childhood abuse to become a mother of seven and a loud voice for truth. With 30 million…
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Ep.90 - Father of 9 Opens Door Every Wednesday to Transform Neighborhoods | Delray Collective | Family Dinner Movement | Love Your Actual Neighbors
Speak truth, do good, or die trying. Ennie Hickman @DelrayCollective was thriving in ministry until his children challenged him to love his actual neighbors…
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Ep. 89 - Andrew Laubacher on Why Tech Founders Send Kids to Zero-Tech Schools | Humanality Villages | Digital Detox Movement
Get $40 off Wisephone using code valuesfirstAndrew Laubacher of Humanality ditched his smartphone at the peak of his music career, and something miraculous…
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Ep.88 - Running Your Business Like a Saint with Catholic Founders' Silas Mähner | Catholic Entrepreneurship | Faith-Based Business | Building God's Kingdom
Silas Mähner, founder of Catholic Founders, reveals how to run your business as if a saint was the CEO. After wondering "What would it look like if Jesus ran a…
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Ep.87 - Why Zero Parents Complained When Headmaster Jason Hebert Destroyed Students' Phones | Phone-Free Schools | Parenting Courage | Screen Addiction Solutions
When a Catholic school headmaster and former NFL player decided to grind smartphones into pieces, parents didn't complain—they thanked him. Jason Hebert…
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Ep.86 – Why Corrupt Institutions Lie to Parents About Child Screen Time With Richard Freed | Tech Addiction | Child Psychology | Silicon Valley | Parent Guide
Dr. Richard Freed drops a bombshell: the very organizations parents trust for screen time advice are funded by Big Tech. While Silicon Valley executives send…
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Ep.85 – Chris Stanley: Homeschooling, Faith & Sailing—Counterculture Parenting | Faithful Parenting | Traditional Values | Christian Homeschooling | Family Bonding
Chris Stanley is the Founder of MiniBook Publishing, where he empowers entrepreneurs, coaches, and thought leaders who struggle with getting their expertise…
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Ep.84 – Parenting Against the Culture: Sam Sorbo’s Battle for Virtue | Family Discipleship | Christian Parenting | Moral Education | Conservative Faith
Sam Sorbo is an education freedom advocate, author, and filmmaker dedicated to helping parents who feel trapped by modern educational systems but long for a…
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Ep.83 – Kevin Goodnight: Transforming Fatherhood With Faith | Devoted Dads | Virtuous Parenting
Kevin Goodnight is the Founder of Dad Voted, where he helps dads and men who struggle with distraction, addiction, and uncertainty in their roles as fathers to…
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EP.82 – JOHN KIRIAKOU: CHOOSING TRUTH OVER CAREER—WOULD YOU? | COURAGE | FAITH UNDER FIRE | WHISTLEBLOWER | CATHOLIC VALUES
John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer and renowned whistleblower who stood up for truth and human dignity, even when it put his freedom and family life on the…
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Ep.81 – Jason Shanks: Sparking a Catholic Revival in the Family | Eucharist Mission | Faith Renewal | Catholic Leadership | Traditional Values | Family Formation
Jason Shanks is the President of the National Eucharistic Congress, where he helps Catholic communities across the United States who struggle with…
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Ep.80 – Liz Lantigua: How Parents Can Save Kids from Corrupt Books | Virtue Ethics | Classical Education | Family Conservatives | Legacy Building
Liz Lantigua is the founder of Literacy Advocates USA, where she helps parents, educators, and schools who struggle with the growing prevalence of unsuitable…
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Ep.79 – Pete Burak On Why Catholic Men Must Lead With Grit & Grace | Catholic Dads | Spiritual Leadership | Courage | Raising Boys
Pete Burak is the Vice President of Renewal Ministries, where he helps individuals and communities hungry for deeper faith who struggle with stagnation or…
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Ep.78 – Why Most Christian Kids Walk Away: Homeschool’s Answer | Classical Education | Faith Based Parenting | Virtuous Leaders | Family First
Robert Bortins is the CEO of Classical Conversations, where he helps Christian families who struggle with secular influences and a lack of control over their…
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Ep.77 – Juggling Motherhood & Mission: Catholic Wisdom for Today | Faith & Family | Balancing Life | Catholic Moms | Conservative Values
Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead is a Fellow at The Catholic Association, where she helps Catholic women—especially mothers—who struggle to find their voice in the…
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Ep.76 – Catholic Marriage Advice No One Told Us (Wit From the Frontlines) | Marriage Advice | Catholic Leaders | Family Values | Relationship Wisdom | Husband Role
Kevin Lowry is the Chief Financial Officer of the Diocese of Columbus, where he helps Catholic organizations and families who struggle with balancing…
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Ep.75 – Eric Cook: Reclaiming Virtuous Education Against Modern Chaos | Classical Christian Schools | Parenting | Virtue Formation | Conservative Values
Eric Cook is the President of the Society for Classical Learning, where he helps a national network of classical Christian schools—and the families they…
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Ep.74 – Why I Refused to Sell: Matt Velasquez’s Bold Catholic Stand | Family Business | Patriotic Faith | Conservative Values
Matt is the Owner of Patriot Talk 9:20am, where he helps Houstonians who struggle with feeling unheard or misrepresented by mainstream media to find authentic…
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Ep.73– Emily Cherkin Exposes Big Tech: Saving Kids from Screen Addiction | Family Values | Parenting | Digital Dangers | Tech Intentional | Conservative Parenting
Emily is the Screen Time Consultant and Founder of Tech Intentional, where she helps parents, families, and schools who struggle with managing children’s…
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Ep.72 – Joe Coleman: Why Every Catholic Leader Needs a Podcast | Faithful Influence | Podcasting for Business | Catholic Entrepreneurship | Family Values
Joe is the Founder of St. Kolbe Studios, where he helps Catholic business owners and ministry leaders who struggle with standing out and building trust through…
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Ep.71 – How Virtuous Leaders Fight Cancel Culture: Neil Patel’s Story | Faith In Media | Building Strong Families | Free Speech
Neil is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network, where he helps viewers and independent thinkers who struggle with finding trustworthy, unbiased…
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Ep.70 - Inside Great Hearts: Dr. Amber Dyer Shares the Secret to Raising Standout Kids | Great Hearts Academy | Virtue Formation | Faith-Based Education
Dr. Amber Dyer leads one of the most remarkable classical schools in the nation: Great Hearts Irving. She's passionate about helping young people, many of whom…
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Ep.69 – Dan DeMatte: Multiplying Virtue & Faith in Catholic Youth | Traditional Family | Missionary Leadership | Catholic Parenting | Raising Virtuous Kids | Evangelization
Dan is the Executive Director at Damascus, where he helps young people, parents, and youth ministers who struggle with cultural confusion, lack of leadership…
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Ep.68 – David Niccolini: Faith vs. Human Trafficking | Catholic Virtue | Modern Slavery | Entrepreneur | Family Values
David is the Co-Founder at Evidencity and Hotel Shield, where he helps corporations and organizations striving for ethical operations who struggle with the…
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Ep.67 – Anastasia Dedyukhina: Raising Virtuous Kids in the Age of AI - My Wake-Up Call | Faith & Family | Digital Wellness | Christian Parenting | Tech & Kids
Anastasia is the Director of Conscious Digital Institute, where she helps professionals, educators, and parents who struggle with digital overwhelm and…
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Ep.66 – Jordan Langdon: Reclaiming Family Culture With Faith, Fun & Mission | Catholic Parenting | Family Mission Statement | Virtuous Leadership | Marriage & Prayer
Jordan Langdon is the CEO of Families of Character, where she helps parents and married couples who struggle with feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, and…
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Ep.65 – Dr. Robert George: Fidelity Month Inspires Unity Through Faith | Traditional Values | Faith And Family | Moral Philosophy | Conservative Thought
Tune in to an insightful episode of the Virtuous Leaders Podcast as Dr. Johann D'Souza connects with Dr. Robert George, a leading legal and political…