Podcast Episodes

How to Be Excellent, Actually

On the inaugural episode of our rebranded podcast "excellence, actually," Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, and Clay Skipper discuss the rebrand of the show (previously FAREWELL), define what they mean b…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

How to Take Better Breaks: Mastering Rest & Recovery

We all know we need to take breaks to allow ourselves to rest and recover, both physically and cognitively. But it can be especially hard to do when we feel like we need to keep pushing. So today, we…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

How to Know When to Grit vs. When to Quit

How do you know when to persevere through a rough patch—and when to give up entirely? And if you do decide to push through, what are the most effective tools to bolster your resilience and get you th…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

9 Important Life Lessons We've Learned from Exercise

Exercise isn't just a way to better yourself physically. In fact, through our years of running, competing, and working out, we've found some of exercise's greatest gifts to be the lessons it teaches …

Published on 3 months ago

120 - A 66-Year-Old Powerlifter with 71 World Records on the Secrets to Long-Term Success (with David Ricks)

David Ricks first competed in a powerlifting competition in 1981, when he was 21 years old. At 66, he is still competing. Along the way, he's won 13 world championships, 32 national championships, an…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

119 - How to Turn Your Inner Critic Into a Coach

By some estimates, the voice in your head can spew up to 4000 words per minute, making it all the more important that we learn how to live with it. This can be especially hard when it's loud and crit…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

118 - How to Build Discipline

Why are some people disciplined and others aren’t? It’s not because of an innate character trait, but because disciplined people have simply trained the skill of being disciplined. Today we break dow…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

117 - The Masculinity Crisis, and Why It Matters for All of Us (Part 2)

This is the second of two episodes we're devoting to the topic of masculinity. Last week, in part one, we spoke with Richard Reeves about how changing ideas of what it means to be a man have left man…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

116 - The Masculinity Crisis, and Why It Matters for All of Us (Part 1)

Over the next two weeks, we're going to be exploring the topic of masculinity—more specifically, how changing ideas of what it means to be a man have left many men feeling adrift, and what a path to …

Published on 4 months ago

115 - Mailbag: Daily Health Checklist, Rut vs. Burnout, & Taking Good Breaks

You've got questions, we've got answers. Today, we dive into listener emails and voicemails to answer some of your questions.

1) Can you give me a minimalist daily health checklist?

2) How do I tell th…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago