Chasing Excellence

Margaret Cullen, author and meditation teacher behind Quiet Strength, shows how equanimity lets you feel emotions fully without being hijacked by them. She discusses practical cognitive hacks, the 90-second rule, widening your window of tolerance, and creating conditions like nature and humor to let calm arise naturally. Short, actionable, and grounded in mindfulness practice.

Marcus Wilson, NOBULL co-founder and executive leader who helps scale brands and inspire mental, emotional, and physical growth. He explores the reverse bucket list and why wanting less can bring lasting fulfillment. Short reflections on expectations, presence over performance, building calm under pressure, and designing daily practices to become the person you want to be.

EC Synkowski, nutrition coach and founder of the Three Pillars Method, turns complex science into practical habits. He argues calorie trackers and AI miss individual needs. Measuring intake and using weight trends for 10–14 days beats predictive equations. He explains why friction from weighing food builds awareness and why apps can create dependency rather than true dietary autonomy.

Jordan Metzl, sports medicine physician and author of Push, shares decades of work turning exercise into preventive medicine. He explores how lowering the cost to act transforms motivation. Short takes cover biases that block movement, the knowledge→belief→emotion pathway, gamification, temptation bundling, curiosity as fuel, and why daily choices shape most of our health.

They highlight seven universal laws that shape decisions, confidence, and growth. Topics include why simplicity wins over complexity, how beginner confidence can mislead, and when metrics distort behavior. They cover choice overload and speeding action, reframing rare events and luck, and the value of assuming indifference rather than malice to lower stress.

Ten blunt realities about personal responsibility and why blaming others stalls progress. Practical angles on changing yourself, reassessing priorities, and choosing the feelings you want daily. A look at how defensive habits, untrue personal stories, and chasing more things block growth. Guidance on accepting unfairness and aiming for steady improvement over perfection.

Rebecca Goldstein, philosopher and novelist and author of The Mattering Instinct, explores the human need to justify our own worth. She maps four mattering strategies and tells how projects shape lives. Conversation covers how projects form, shift, and can transform harmful paths into meaningful ones. Short, thought-provoking, and practical.

Emily Andzulis (Ivy Nile), WWE pro wrestler and former Titan Games/MMA competitor known as The Pitbull, shares her disciplined training and recovery routines. She discusses travel-ready workouts, CompTrain programming, practical non-negotiables with flexibility, making training contagious rather than intimidating, and how small daily actions compound into lasting capability and purpose.

What if everything modern culture tells us about fulfillment is wrong? In this compilation episode, we explore the two foundational lies that drive much of our dissatisfaction and drift: the belief that chasing fame, wealth, and power will make us happy, and the belief that if we're comfortable, we're somehow doing it wrong. Discover how these lies shape the decisions we make, the ladders we climb, and the regrets we carry into our final days.We unpack the four idols that distract us from what actually matters, why deliberately choosing discomfort builds the capacity for everything else, and what the dying wish they had known sooner. Learn how to recognize when you're being pulled toward the wrong things, how to build a life around what truly fulfills you, and why thinking about death isn't morbid - it's the tool that helps you live fully right now.👉 Get the full Listener's Guide here🤓 Read The Two Lies Everyone Believes❤️ Free Newsletter & the Chase Club🏁 New to Chasing Excellence? Start here!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Daniel Coyle, author of Flourish who studies how communities create shared growth. He explores why aliveness comes from belonging, the two attention systems that shift us from doing to connecting, and simple awakening cues and rituals that nudge presence. He also explains “yellow doors” — saying yes to small risks that build deeper relationships and how leaders can tend groups like gardeners.