Virtuous Leaders with Dr. Johann D'Souza

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Speak truth, do good, and die trying. How do we find our footing in a chaotic world? Join clinical psychologist and speaker Dr. Johann D’Souza, as he bridges modern psychology and classical philosophy to uncover what it means to lead with integrity. From government whistleblowers to entrepreneurial visionaries, Dr. D'Souza interviews leaders who trade comfort for courage. Whether you’re a professional or a parent, tune in for practical wisdom on ethics, leadership, and personal growth. Subscribe to find your truth and build a legacy of moral excellence.

  1. Ep.113 - Andrea Davis on Holding the Line When Your Kids Push Back on Screen Limits

    6D AGO

    Ep.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 daughter wrote her college essay about finding herself once the noise stopped. Andrea Davis is a mother of five, founder of Better Screen Time, and the author of Creating a Tech Healthy Family. This conversation is honest, warm, and unapologetic. If you are losing the battle for your child's attention and identity, this is where you start fighting back. What You'll Hear: Why early habits and real world values are your most powerful weapon against tech addiction How to talk to a teenager about their phone in a way they will actually hear The family tech plan that transformed Andrea's own home Why fear-based parenting fails and what love-based confidence looks like instead How to bring a resistant spouse on board without forcing a confrontation What your kids are quietly being protected from when they do not have a smartphone Andrea Davis Author and Founder, Better Screen Time Tech Healthy Family Hub Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist and Host 🔗 https://www.johanndsouza.com/ 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ #AndreaDavis #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #ScreenTime #TechHealthyFamily #DigitalParenting #RaisingKids #CounterCulturalParenting 👇 At what age did you or would you give your child a smartphone, and knowing what you know now, would you make the same call?

    23 min
  2. Ep.112 - Paul Rose on How Catholics Lost the Prayer That Saves the World | Liturgy of the Hours | Sacred Music | Catholic Tradition

    APR 13

    Ep.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. It is the Liturgy of the Hours, and it has been hiding in plain sight, buried under bad formation, bad music, and a Church culture that forgot what worship actually is. Paul Rose is the founder of Sing the Hours, a podcast reaching 700,000 listeners a month across the globe. He is not a priest or a theologian. He is a husband, a father, and a man who found the ancient prayer of the Church and refused to let go of it. What he shares in this conversation will challenge everything you thought you knew about Catholic prayer. This episode goes deep. The rubrics most Catholics have never read. The reason our imaginations have been stolen from us. The ancient warrior tradition of sacred song. And why a two-year-old named Carmella holding a breviary in the dark might be one of the most powerful images of how we rebuild Christendom. What You'll Hear: Why the Church explicitly states that lay people praying the Liturgy of the Hours saves the world, and why almost no one knows itHow Satan strategically targeted beauty as a transcendental to hollow out Catholic worship from the insideThe shocking rubrics from official Church documents that direct singing, not silence, as the primary mode of adorationWhy King David, the Templars, and the Church Fathers all point to the same truth: sacred song is not effeminate, it is the warrior's dutyHow Paul and his wife pray the Hours with their two daughters, one of whom is not yet two and already humming along, holding a breviary in the darkWhy unbridled silent prayer without the Psalms can be spiritually dangerous, and what Saint Teresa of Avila's rule reveals about the proper ratio of song to silence Paul RoseFounder and Host, Sing the Hours Podcast Dr. Johann D'SouzaClinical Psychologist and Host🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ #PaulRose #VirtuousLeaders #DrJohannDSouza #LiturgyOfTheHours #CatholicPrayer #SacredMusic #GregorianChant #CatholicTradition 👇 If the Church says praying the Liturgy of the Hours saves the world, why has no one ever told you that from the pulpit?

    36 min
  3. Ep.111 - Cameron Riecker on How the Rosary Transforms Feckless Men into Virtuous Fathers | Catholic Manhood | Daily Thomist | Corda

    FEB 11

    Ep.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 family needed. Cameron Riecker now runs a successful channel helping young men become virtuous husbands and fathers. His secret weapon is the Rosary. Sister Lucia of Fatima said no problem on earth cannot be solved by the recitation of the Rosary. Riecker has seen it work in his own life and in the lives of everyone he has recommended it to. The real problem is not lust. Lust is the symptom. The real problem is that men have no idea what they are for or where they are headed. They have no understanding of what a human person is. Once you fix that, everything else starts to fall into place. Key Takeaways: • The Rosary is the most powerful weapon for our times according to St. Padre Pio and 25 popes • Our Lady will reveal your principle fault and show you how to overcome it • If you make a thousand videos, about 10% will do well and that is enough to build a channel • Perfection is the enemy of progress so do things poorly if necessary to get the reps in • Consecrate your business to the Blessed Virgin Mary and she will never be outdone in generosity • Repetition is essential because people need information presented multiple times before it impacts them Cameron Riecker Catholic Content Creator & Contributor to the Daily Thomist Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ #CameronRiecker #Rosary #CatholicManhood #VirtuousLeaders #DailyThomist #Corda #Fatherhood #DrJohannDSouza 👇 Do you pray the Rosary daily?

    33 min
  4. Ep.110 - Andrew Pudewa on Why Screens Are Destroying Your Child's Mind | Institute for Excellence in Writing | Classical Education | Homeschooling

    FEB 3

    Ep.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 Pudewa has spent thirty years fighting to reverse that trend. He is the founder of the Institute for Excellence in Writing and has taught tens of thousands of teachers and parents how to cultivate language in children. The problem is simple. You cannot get something out of a brain that is not in there. And the linguistic input of children has collapsed because media is dumbed down and screens have fractured attention spans. Technology atrophies the skill it replaces. Key Takeaways: • The more screens in a classroom, the lower the reading, writing, and math skills • Technology amplifies character so disorganized children become more disorganized • Memory has been abandoned though it is essential for forming the mind • Read to children at a level above their decoding skills to pull up vocabulary • Follow CS Lewis's rule and read one old book for every new book • Book recommendation: The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior Andrew Pudewa Founder & Director, Institute for Excellence in Writing Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ #AndrewPudewa #IEW #ClassicalEducation #Homeschooling #VirtuousLeaders #ScreenFree #ReadingMatters 👇 When was the last time you finished a book?

    30 min
  5. Ep.109 - Matt Kibbe on Why Fauci Will Go to Jail and Trump Is Failing | Free the People | Deep State | Forever Wars

    JAN 29

    Ep.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 Tea Party movement. He just produced a docu-series called The Cover-Up about Anthony Fauci and gain of function research. He believes Fauci will go to jail because Rand Paul now has subpoena power and Biden's pardon may be illegitimate.But Fauci was not the architect. Kibbe believes Fauci's real boss may be at the CIA, Homeland Security, or DOD. This was never about public health. It was a military intelligence style mad science experiment. Key Takeaways: • Fauci has two choices when subpoenaed: tell the truth or commit perjury • Trump is not delivering on spending and is attacking Rand Paul instead of Lindsey Graham • Politics is downstream of culture so storytelling matters more than statistics • The Five Eyes countries locked down hardest, suggesting globalist coordination • To resist government oppression you do not need a majority, just brave people willing to speak • Forever wars must end to defund the deep state and eliminate the debt Matt Kibbe President, Free the People Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ #MattKibbe #FreeThePeople #DeepState #Fauci #VirtuousLeaders #ForeverWars #RandPaul 👇 Do you think Fauci will actually face justice?

    30 min
  6. Ep.108 - Ryan Klopack on Helping Schools Flourish and Finding God in the Latin Mass | Arcadia Education | Classical Education | Homelessness Ministry

    JAN 21

    Ep.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 as a fourth grader rolling his eyes thinking, I do not know if God is in this. Then the Twin Towers fell. And he was exposed to inexplicable evil that could not be explained away with canned answers. He needed something with extraordinary gravity. Something real. That same year, missionaries told their story of being kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, thrown into prison, and walking out free after a miraculous intervention. Ryan had a mystical encounter with God that day. He felt the weight and the presence and the glory in a way he cannot explain. It was like encountering the sun. That encounter set him on a path of stripping away the artificial and replacing it with the real. Classical education became his bridge to Catholicism. The Latin Mass became his home. Key Takeaways: • Arcadia Education helps Christian and classical schools flourish by handling the processes that burn leaders out • 92% of people who left homelessness in Scottsdale came through their relationship-based ministry • The core of their homeless outreach was seeing people as made in the image of God with no strings attached • Bible Man and canned Christian answers cannot stand up to real evil • The Latin Mass preserves the weight and holiness that a God that big demands • We need to conform to reality, not construct our own values Ryan Klopack Director of Executive Search, Arcadia Education Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ #RyanKlopack #ArcadiaEducation #ClassicalEducation #LatinMass #VirtuousLeaders #Homelessness #CatholicFaith 👇 What stripped away the artificial and led you to encounter the real?

    27 min
  7. Ep.107 - Patrick Reilly on Why Most Catholic Schools Have Lost Their Mission | Cardinal Newman Society | Faithful Catholic Education

    JAN 17

    Ep.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 Society in 1993 after witnessing scandal after scandal at a Jesuit university. Abortion referrals. Student groups contrary to Catholic teaching. He decided someone had to defend faithful Catholic education. Thirty years later, he is still doing it.Key Takeaways: • The Newman Guide recognizes 97 institutions and is expanding to 300 • Notre Dame is troubled. CUA under Peter Kilpatrick is thriving. • Once compromise enters, it cascades toward less Catholic identity • Parents are primarily responsible for education, not distant bureaucrats • Faith and reason must both be restored in Catholic formation • Graduates of Newman Guide schools can change the culturePatrick Reilly Founder and President of The Cardinal Newman Society. Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ 👇 Did your Catholic education actually form you in the faith?#PatrickReilly #CardinalNewmanSociety #NewmanGuide #VirtuousLeaders #CatholicEducation #FaithfulFormation

    28 min
  8. Ep.106 - Nikki Sweeney Banned Phones and Mental Health Issues Dropped 94%

    JAN 15

    Ep.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 total silence, glued to their phones. Mental health emergencies everywhere. So she banned the phones. And the blowback was brutal. But she held the line. In year one, mental health emergencies dropped 94%. What You'll Learn: • The shift happened after COVID when kids learned to communicate through devices • There is no better way to hurt a child than to isolate them • Kids who belong to something perform better academically and emotionally • Your happiness is based on the quality of your relationships • If you harness what you love and pay it forward, it never feels like work Nikki Sweeney  Author, The Virtue Code  Founder, Pay It Forward Enterprises Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/ 👇 What changed when you put your phone down? #TheVirtueCode #VirtuousLeaders #PhoneFreeSchools #MentalHealth #ConnectionNotScreens

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Speak truth, do good, and die trying. How do we find our footing in a chaotic world? Join clinical psychologist and speaker Dr. Johann D’Souza, as he bridges modern psychology and classical philosophy to uncover what it means to lead with integrity. From government whistleblowers to entrepreneurial visionaries, Dr. D'Souza interviews leaders who trade comfort for courage. Whether you’re a professional or a parent, tune in for practical wisdom on ethics, leadership, and personal growth. Subscribe to find your truth and build a legacy of moral excellence.

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