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This past weekend, Jill and I took our daughter, Caroline, to visit Philadelphia. Yesterday, we spent the day touring the beautiful campus of Villanova University – one of Caroline’s top choices to attend after she graduates high school in 2024. We also took the...

An excerpt from The Gift of Influence, Tommy’s newest release, now available wherever you buy books! I’ve been blessed to meet thousands of virtuous people in my life, people who devote themselves to the service of others. You will go on to meet many of them in...

Every month I meet with an incredibly exceptional group of heart-led leaders. We call our forum Iron Works, from one of my favorite proverbs: “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another (Proverbs 27:17).” Each month we fly to a new city, have dinner, open...

Let me tell you about a man named Walter Isenberg. I’ve known Walter for many years. He and his wife, Christie, are generous donors to the National Leadership Academy, and their daughter Nicole was one of the very first graduates of our program. Walter is one of the...

Back when I was growing up in New York State, I didn’t listen to much else besides Billy Joel, the Eagles, and Journey. Whenever country music came on the radio, I’d immediately change the station. It wasn’t until about twenty years ago that I realized what country...

I’m a huge fan of the New York Yankees, and one of my top three players of all time is Derek Jeter. (The other two are Thurman Munson and Bucky Dent.) For Father’s Day last year, my kids got me a Yankees trivia book. I was looking at it recently and saw that when...

Over the weekend, I wrapped up a Heart-Led Leader Women’s retreat at the beautiful Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. We had twenty-six senior female leaders from all over the country participate. These retreats are all about teaching high-impact leaders to...

I've written a lot about my two wonderful sisters, Lisa and Michele, but few people know that I also had two brothers named Timothy and Andrew. Timothy, who was nineteen months younger than me, died while my mother was giving birth. A few years later, Andrew died...

A couple of months ago, my stepson, Anthony, began his second year at the United States Military Academy at West Point. A few days before he left, Anthony shared something with me that has haunted my thoughts, “I’m willing to die for my country.” This wasn’t the first...