An Ozempic Free Lifestyle: An Ozempic-Free Lifestyle is Jose Franco’s personal exploration of sustainable health through self-confrontation, discipline, mindfulness, fasting, visualization, self-awareness, and personal accountability. Drawing from his experience losing 70 pounds, Franco challenges readers to examine the habits and choices that shape their health rather than search for shortcuts. The book reflects the broader Stoop Juice philosophy: growth begins with honest self-reflection, personal agency, sustained effort, and the willingness to choose practice over performance.
Balancing The Pendulum: Navigating Politics, Capitalism, and the Self is Jose Franco’s philosophical exploration of the tension between personal growth and societal change. Through self-confrontation, introspection, resilience, courage, and empathy, Franco examines politics, capitalism, fear, love, and the pull of ideological extremes. Rather than offering certainty or choosing a side, the book invites readers to challenge assumptions, recognize blind spots, embrace complexity, and balance individual responsibility with collective action—reflecting the broader Stoop Juice belief that meaningful change begins by examining ourselves.
The Blindside Of Well Meaning Liberal Economics: Jose Franco’s exploration of how good intentions can produce unintended consequences when economics, politics, and morality collide. Blending memoir, self-confrontation, social critique, incentives, bias, ideology, and lived experience, Franco examines the blind spots created when certainty replaces curiosity. Rather than arguing for a political side, the book invites readers to challenge assumptions, question ideological comfort, embrace complexity, and recognize personal contradiction—grounded in the Stoop Juice idea that honesty, not certainty, is the foundation of justice.
Bridges Through Shadows: A Journey to Becoming is Jose Franco’s deeply personal exploration of resilience, self-confrontation, agency, identity, financial literacy, and human connection. Drawing from his Bronx upbringing and the people, hardships, contradictions, and opportunities that shaped him, Franco examines how we can confront our circumstances without allowing them to define our possibilities. Rather than pretending to have answers, the book invites readers to sit with uncertainty, question inherited narratives, become autodidacts, and build their own bridges toward purpose and self-discovery—reflecting the broader Stoop Juice belief that meaningful growth begins with the willingness to examine yourself.
Country Before Party: A Proactive Guide to Self-Confrontation for the Betterment of America is Jose Franco’s invitation to approach politics through civic responsibility, self-confrontation, self-awareness, empathy, intellectual curiosity, and objective reasoning. Rather than asking readers to abandon their beliefs, Franco challenges them to examine cognitive biases, confirmation bias, partisan loyalty, echo chambers, and the instinct to reduce fellow citizens to “us versus them.” Drawing on personal reflection, philosophy, psychology, and lived experience, the book argues that strengthening democracy begins not with defeating the other side, but with questioning our own assumptions, listening across differences, and placing shared citizenship above political identity.
Down These Inner Streets: Jose Franco’s introspective journey through memory, identity, self-confrontation, contradiction, vulnerability, and becoming. Written through the lens of an autodidact rather than an authority, Franco turns inward to examine how family, culture, experience, expectations, successes, failures, and unconscious assumptions quietly shape who we become. The book invites readers to embrace insignificance, question their own narratives, recognize blind spots, sit comfortably with uncertainty, and remain curious about themselves—reflecting the broader Stoop Juice philosophy that self-awareness is not a destination, but an ongoing practice of honestly walking our own inner streets.
How To Get Better At Things You Don’t Think you’re Bad At by 2020: Jose Franco’s collection of reflections on self-awareness, self-confrontation, critical thinking, personal responsibility, politics, and personal growth. Built from op-eds written between 2017 and 2019, the book turns the mirror toward the habits, assumptions, biases, and comfortable narratives we rarely think to question. Franco describes the essays as letters to himself, using his own contradictions and experiences to encourage readers to challenge their thinking rather than simply defend it. The central Stoop Juice idea is deceptively simple: real improvement often begins not with fixing what we know is wrong, but with questioning the things we already assume we’re good at.
John McCain’s Ghost & My Campaign For Nothing: Jose Franco’s reflection on political identity, integrity, tribalism, civic responsibility, self-confrontation, and the courage to stand apart from the crowd. Using John McCain as a symbolic presence rather than a partisan instruction manual, Franco examines what happens when party loyalty, ideological certainty, and the desire to belong become more important than independent thought. The book invites readers to question their own political biases, resist binary thinking, embrace contradiction, and become comfortable standing alone—reflecting the broader Stoop Juice philosophy that meaningful citizenship begins with thinking for yourself and being willing to confront yourself before condemning someone else.
The Mental Game Before The Mental Game: A Parent’s Guide to Coaching Youth Baseball Without Losing Yourself—or Your Kid is Jose Franco’s invitation for parents and coaches to recognize that youth baseball often reveals the adults as much as the children. Through self-confrontation, intellectual humility, emotional awareness, autonomy, failure, resilience, presence, and unconditional love, Franco explores the blind spots adults bring into development—from ego, comparison and anxiety to over-coaching, social media, status and fear of failure. Drawing on thinkers including Karl Popper, Nietzsche, Daniel Kahneman, Viktor Frankl, and Eckhart Tolle, the book asks adults to question whether their good intentions are actually helping the child grow. The central Stoop Juice idea is simple: before trying to improve a young player’s mental game, adults may need to confront their own.
The Power of Now In Baseball: Jose Franco’s practical exploration of mindfulness, presence, self-confrontation, mental resilience, discipline, accountability, and personal growth through the game of baseball. Drawing from decades of coaching experience, Franco encourages players, parents, and coaches to stop becoming consumed by past mistakes or future outcomes and instead execute the pitch in front of them—one moment at a time. Baseball becomes a laboratory for learning to embrace discomfort, confront weaknesses, accept failure, build trust, and choose growth over outcomes, process over perfection, and awareness over anxiety. The larger Stoop Juice message extends beyond the diamond: when pressure speeds everything up, learning to remain present can change both how you play and how you live.
Six Guilders And A Megaphone: A Walk Through History, Power and the Lies We Love to Believe is Jose Franco’s exploration of history, power, attention, inherited narratives, self-confrontation, certainty, and the stories we tell ourselves. Rather than offering easy answers, Franco examines our tendency to choose comfort over truth, noise over wisdom, and certainty over reflection, asking readers to question not only the systems surrounding them but the lens through which they interpret those systems. The book reflects the broader Stoop Juice philosophy of personal agency, intellectual curiosity, discomfort, self-education, and sustained reflection—an invitation to step away from the loudest voice in the room long enough to recognize and question your own.
The Name He Never Gave: is a darkly funny, self-interrogating New York coming-of-age novel about a young man who spends years inventing better versions of himself before discovering that self-awareness is not redemption—but it may be where honesty begins.