Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
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Most people aren't stuck because they lack information. They're stuck because they know what to do and can't quite do it consistently. The slow drift keeps winning.
Chasing Excellence is for people who are already trying — working out, eating well, staying positive — but find themselves in the one-good-week, one-bad-week cycle.
Ben Bergeron, Patrick Cummings, and a crew of authors, thinkers, and doers explore the five factors of health — how we eat, move, think, connect, and rest — and what it actually takes to crowd out the drift and build the life you keep almost living.
New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
Beyond the podcast: the Chase Club brings together a crew for daily lessons, monthly challenges, and the real work of crowding out the drift. The ChaseTracker app helps you track the Five Factors daily.
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Chase Challenge | High Performance Isn't a Talent. Prove It in 21 Days
What if high performance at work isn't a talent you either have or don't — but a system you can practice starting today?In this episode, Patrick introduces the 21-Day High Performance Challenge and…
Purpose Effect | Athena Perez on Fasting 40 Days to Face Emotional Eating
What does it look like to go from 500 pounds to a CrossFit coach - not out of inspiration, but because fear was the only thing in the room?In this episode, Jamison sits down with Athena Perez:…
The External-to-Internal Method for Raising Healthy Kids
Every parent who cares about health eventually hits this wall: your kids don't want to do what you know is good for them — and the more you push, the harder they pull away.In this episode, we tackle…
7 Habits of People Who Make Other People Better (w/ Jon Gordon)
What if becoming extraordinary isn't really about your own habits — it's about the habits you build that make everyone around you better?In this episode, we sit down with Jon Gordon, author of 33…
Chase Challenge | Why You Need to Reverse Engineer Your Triggers
What if your triggers aren't random — they're a map back to yourself? In this close-out episode, Patrick reflects on the 21-day trigger challenge with two reframes that change everything: the tug of…
Forever Fit | Train Heavy, Fast, Far, and Free: How to Stay Formidable for Life
What if the key to being capable at 75 isn't training harder — it's training more completely?In this episode, we introduce the Heavy, Fast, Far, and Free framework: a simple weekly approach to…
Coaches Aren't Essential. Here's Why You Need One Anyway.
Coaches and mentors aren't essential — but they might be the best shortcut you'll ever find.In this episode, we answer Chase Club member David's question about whether coaches need coaches, and…
How to Persuade Yourself Into the Person You Want to Be (w/ Jay Heinrichs)
What if the reason you keep falling back on old habits isn't a lack of discipline — but a failure of persuasion?In this episode, we sit down with New York Times bestselling author Jay Heinrichs to…
5x5 | Fixing Your Testosterone Without HRT & Building a Legit Home Gym
What if you didn't need a prescription to fix your testosterone — and what if training through surgery was simpler than you thought?In this 5x5 episode, Ben answers five listener questions about…
Raise | How to Build Emotional Immunity in Your Kids (w/ Jenna Cain)
What if the most powerful thing you can do for your kids' emotional health is regulate yourself first?In this episode of our Raise series, Patrick sits down with Jenna Cain — a pediatric physical…
Purpose Effect | Ryan Rivard on the Climb From Overdose to Everest
Ryan Rivard went from a homeless overdose survivor at 19 to summiting Mount Everest at 40 — and the most powerful thing he learned is that neither rock bottom nor the summit was the point.We explore…
How to Adjust the 5 Factors of Health at 40, 50, 60, and Beyond
As we age, the Five Factors don't disappear — they shift. And most people wait until something breaks before they start paying attention.Answering a Chase Club member’s question, we break down…
Chase Challenge | Stop Letting Your Triggers Run Your Life
We're launching a 21-Day Trigger Challenge: a structured daily practice built around five pillars (trigger identification, recovery speed, response vs. reaction, regulation strategies, and…
Forever Fit | 6 Training Principles for a Yes-to-Anything Life
What does it actually mean to be fit for life — not just for a competition, a season, or a phase?In this episode, Ben, Cole, and Jamison unpack six foundational principles for anyone who wants to…
5x5 | Reading for Recall Over Ego & Letting Flow Happen at Home
In the first of our new 5x5 series, Ben takes five listener questions on the THINK factor, covering growth mindset, the Fragmented → Focused → Flow framework, and the distillation process behind the…
Raise | Of the 272 Emotions, Most Parents Only Know 12 (w/ D. Earl Johnston)
What if most of what your kids are learning about emotions isn't coming from what you say — it's coming from what they watch you do?In this first episode of our new Raise series, we explore Doug Earl…
The One Thing You're Actually Hiring a Coach For
What happens when the coach you hired tells you to do the opposite of what you expected? We dig into a listener's real dilemma — her coach told her to take six days off from training — and explore…
Be Selfless So You Can Become Fearless (w/ Jim Murphy)
What if conquering fear has been the wrong goal all along?In this episode, Jim Murphy - author of Inner Excellence and The Best Possible Life - reveals that fear isn't the root problem: the root is…
9 Distractions Quietly Keeping You From Health, Happiness, & A Heart on Fire
What's really standing between you and the life you know is possible? In this deep-dive supercut, we unpack nine distractions that quietly pull us off course — from the supplement trap and toxic…
The Most Important Question to Ask Your Kids Before Bed
What if the most powerful thing you could do for your child's confidence takes less than five minutes a day? In this short episode, we revisit a conversation with mindset coach Mark England that…
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Chasing Excellence has published 510 episodes since November 2016, covering topics in Education, Health & Fitness.
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