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Chasing Excellence — 542 episodes · page 1 of 6
Train Your Brain Like You Train Your Body
Track Phone Pickups, Not Screen Time
The Practice of Noticing in a Busy Life
Two Daily Habits for More Focused Days
Dopamine Culture Is Quietly Hijacking Your Focus
You Can't Unsee This Food Insanity
You Don't Have to Quit to Feel Fulfilled
How to Know When to Change Course
Why Discomfort Means You're Growing (Not Failing)
Am I Building Grit Or Burning Out?
Life Is a Frisbee Balanced on a Pencil
Person First, Process Second, Goal Third
Why Chasing Excellence Is Going Daily
Why Smart People Keep Outsourcing Their Diet to Strangers (w/ EC Synkowski)
Forever Fit | Why Your Fitness Feels Stalled (And Why That's Normal)
Forever Fit | The 2 Signs You're Too Sore to Train
Why We Keep Choosing Work Over the People We Love (w/ Robert Waldinger)
Annie Thorisdottir Talks Training Character, Consistency, & Collaboration (w/ Christine Bald)
Our 21-Day Happiness Challenges Starts Today!
Chase Challenge | Happiness Is a Subtraction Problem We’re Solving All Wrong
Ben’s Battle With Depression & What’s Helping Now (w/ Dr Rich Joseph)
3 Simple Principles for a Life of Health, Happiness, & Hearts on Fire
20 Questions That Map Your Mental Fitness (w/ Chris Irwin)
Individual vs. Class Programming: What Actually Matters
5x5 | Accepting Adversity & Eating Clean When Going Out
Unconditional Love Isn't Soft. It's What Makes Our Kids Brave
When "Did You Work Out?" Feels Like an Attack
20 Simple Ways to Fight Drift — That Invisible Shift Away from Your Best Self
Raise | Screens Are Only 1 of 5 Causes of Anxious Kids (w/ Kim John Payne)
Chase Challenge | You Don't Need Anyone's Permission to Be a High Performer
5x5 | Building Real Friendships After 40 & Asking Questions That Connect
Forever Fit | Learn to Breathe (+ 9 More Habits That Upgrade Your Training)
You Don't Owe Your Past More Than You Owe Your Future
Raise | Receive Your Kids — Don't Just Shape Them (w/ Christina Watka)
The High Performer's Playbook: 2 Rules, 5 Habits, & 7 Traps
Chase Challenge | High Performance Isn't a Talent. Prove It in 21 Days
Purpose Effect | Athena Perez on Fasting 40 Days to Face Emotional Eating
The External-to-Internal Method for Raising Healthy Kids
7 Habits of People Who Make Other People Better (w/ Jon Gordon)
Chase Challenge | Why You Need to Reverse Engineer Your Triggers
Forever Fit | Train Heavy, Fast, Far, and Free: How to Stay Formidable for Life
Coaches Aren't Essential. Here's Why You Need One Anyway.
How to Persuade Yourself Into the Person You Want to Be (w/ Jay Heinrichs)
5x5 | Fixing Your Testosterone Without HRT & Building a Legit Home Gym
Raise | How to Build Emotional Immunity in Your Kids (w/ Jenna Cain)
Purpose Effect | Ryan Rivard on the Climb From Overdose to Everest
How to Adjust the 5 Factors of Health at 40, 50, 60, and Beyond
Chase Challenge | Stop Letting Your Triggers Run Your Life
Forever Fit | 6 Training Principles for a Yes-to-Anything Life
5x5 | Reading for Recall Over Ego & Letting Flow Happen at Home
Raise | Of the 272 Emotions, Most Parents Only Know 12 (w/ D. Earl Johnston)
The One Thing You're Actually Hiring a Coach For
Be Selfless So You Can Become Fearless (w/ Jim Murphy)
9 Distractions Quietly Keeping You From Health, Happiness, & A Heart on Fire
The Most Important Question to Ask Your Kids Before Bed
The 10-Point Drift Diagnosis: Modern Life Is Like a Lazy River
Feel It, Don't Feed It: Own Your Emotions Without Being Owned by Them (w/ Margaret Cullen)
The Anti Bucket List: Stop Chasing What You Already Have (w/ Marcus Wilson)
Stop Letting Tech Do the Work: The Old-School Method That Actually Makes Diet Changes Stick
The Difference Between Those Who Rarely Miss a Workout & Everyone Else (w/ Jordan Metzl, MD)
7 Universal Laws Every Self-Aware Person Should Know
10 Hard Truths for People Who Are Done Making Excuses
Name Your Mattering Project & Find a Path to a More Meaningful Life (w/ Rebecca Goldstein)
Don't Just Look Fit. Be Fit. (w/ WWE's Ivy Nile)
What Modern Culture Gets Wrong About Fulfillment: Money, Comfort, & the Cost of Believing the Lies
Where Do You Feel Most Alive? Why Growing Together Beats Going Alone (w/ Daniel Coyle)
Surplus Value Mindset: Become the Person Everyone Wants on Their Crew (w/ Chris Irwin & Mark England)
Wim Hof's Three-Pillar System for Stress Resilience: Breath, Cold, and Mindset (w/ Brandon Powell)
The 5 Reasons You Feel Physically Broken & The Mindset Shift That Will Help (w/ Scott Hogan)
7 Training Habits Average Athletes Skip (But Elite Athletes Never Do)
An Upside-Down Food Pyramid & New "Healthy" Labels Won't Save Us (w/ EC Synkowski)
Anchor Your Mission, Adapt Your Methods: Thriving in an AI-Driven World (w/ Zack Kass)
Anti-Fragile Confidence: Your Protocol Beats Your Motivation (w/ Brian Johnson)
How to Stop Drifting Through Life & Start Directing It (Vision, Anti-Vision, & Values)
Our 5 Factors Year in Review: Mindset, Sleep, & Connection (Part 2)
Our 5 Factors Year in Review: Training & Nutrition (Part 1)
Why Confidence Is a Choice, Not a Feeling (w/ Laura Ianello)
The Map & The People: Everything You Need for an Excellent 2026
Your Kids Are Watching: A Guide to Modeling Healthy Habits
Why You Should Treat Triumph & Disaster as the Imposters That They Are
Slay Dragons, Chase Lions, Tame Wolves: The Path from Inner Work to Outer Impact
Stop Treating Every Problem Like a Hurricane: A New Framework For Complaining Less
The Learner vs. The Knower: Which Identity is Holding You Back?
The One-Page Practice That Answers Questions Stuck in Your Head for Years
The 5 MindKillers: How You're Sabotaging Your Mental Fitness (& the Countermeasures to Stop)
EHow to Know if You Should Quit Your Job, Leave Your Partner, or Sell Your House
The Default is Decline: How Performance Medicine Builds Resilience Before You Need It
The Crux of Your Health Problem? You're Solving the Wrong Problem
The Individualism Trap: How Modern Life Is Making Us Miserable (And What Groups Can Do About It)
Being Normal is Making Us Sick. It's Time to Embrace Being Weird
The ABCDs of Real Health: Attitude, Basics, Consistency & Discipline
Stop Choosing the Wrong Discomfort: 10 Lessons from The Comfort Crisis & Netflix's Biggest Loser Doc
Training vs Exercising: Why the 5-3-1 Method Destroys Random Workouts
Asking Better Questions, Getting Better Results: The 5 Enemies Blocking Your Progress
From Raised Hands to Real Change: A Step-by-Step Guide to Being a Better Change Agent
Your Ferrari Brain: Stop Idling in Mental Traffic
Vision & Anti-Vision: The Push-Pull Framework for Living on Purpose
The Anti-Modern Neighborhood: A Radical Prescription for Deep Health
The Mental Gym: 3 Simple Tools to Kill Your Victim Mindset (Before It Kills Your Dreams)
The Deep Life Blueprint: Cal Newport on Escaping Status Games & Finding True Fulfillment