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    Chasing Excellence

    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 | You Don't Need Anyone's Permission to Be a High Performer Jul 09, 2026
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    Is the label "high performer" quietly holding you back from becoming one?

    In this episode, Patrick unpacks four lessons from the 21-day High Performance Challenge — and makes the case that high performance isn't a status reserved for athletes and CEOs. It's a set of actions anyone can adopt.

    From Tony Robbins' "musts vs. shoulds" to Kobe Bryant's marathon gym session, we connect high performance to the core belief that true excellence is something we pursue for others, not for ourselves.

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    5x5 | Building Real Friendships After 40 & Asking Questions That Connect Jul 06, 2026
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    What does it actually take to connect — with your kids, your partner, your community, and the strangers you meet every day?

    In this episode, Ben answers five listener questions on the CONNECT factor, from parenting across different households to rebuilding friendships in your 40s and 50s.

    You'll learn why kids become what they repeatedly experience (not what you tell them), how to distinguish a values divergence from a seasonal slump, why adult friendships require intention and initiative, how to create hope and agency in a loved one without becoming the health police, and which questions actually open people up.

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    Forever Fit | Learn to Breathe (+ 9 More Habits That Upgrade Your Training) Jun 29, 2026
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    What if the problem isn't your program — it's how you're showing up for it?

    In this episode, Ben and Jamison break down 10 training hygiene habits that can transform your results, regardless of what you're training for, where you train, or what program you follow.

    From intentional intensity and the recovery-adaptation curve, to learning to breathe, filming yourself, and never negotiating mid-workout — these principles serve the Train factor in the Five Factors framework.

    The goal isn't to do more. It's to finally get what you came for.

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    You Don't Owe Your Past More Than You Owe Your Future Jun 25, 2026
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    What if the guilt you're calling loyalty is the very thing keeping you stuck?

    In this episode, we answer a question from Chase Club member Mike about whether to switch gyms — and it turns out, it's not really about gyms at all.

    We unpack the difference between loyalty (a choice) and guilt (a feeling), explore the three pillars that make any community worth staying in, and give you a framework for knowing when it's time to move on — and how to do it with integrity.

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    Raise | Receive Your Kids — Don't Just Shape Them (w/ Christina Watka) Jun 22, 2026
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    What if raising a child well means releasing your vision of who they're supposed to become — and learning instead to see who they actually are?

    Patrick is joined this week by Christina Watka, an installation artist whose entire practice is built around entering a space without a plan, noticing what's there, and letting the work lead.

    In this Raise episode, they explore how that same artistic openness transforms the way you parent: the role of noticing, the power of solitude, and what it means to receive your children instead of trying to shape them.

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    The High Performer's Playbook: 2 Rules, 5 Habits, & 7 Traps Jun 15, 2026
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    High performance isn't a talent — it's a system.

    This week, we bring together three of our most foundational conversations to show you exactly what that system looks like in practice.

    From the two non-negotiables that underpin every kind of success, to the five specific characteristics we see in every high performer we've ever met, to the seven quiet habits that keep most people from closing the gap — this is the raw material behind our new 21-Day High Performance Challenge.

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    Chase Challenge | High Performance Isn't a Talent. Prove It in 21 Days Jun 11, 2026
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    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 walks through the five interdependent characteristics that, together, make up a practice for doing the right things at the highest level you're capable of.

    We connect this system to the Five Factors of health you already know — because drift, the quiet enemy of excellence, doesn't just happen to your body. It happens to your work, too. And these five characteristics are how you fight back.

    Whether you join inside the Chase Club, the ChaseTracker app, or with nothing but a notebook and three questions at the end of each day, this challenge is an invitation to close the gap between who you are and who you want to be at work.

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    Purpose Effect | Athena Perez on Fasting 40 Days to Face Emotional Eating Jun 08, 2026
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    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: affiliate owner, coach, and author of a two-part memoir about identity, worth, and what fitness spaces get dangerously wrong.

    We explore how compounding habits shape who we become long before we notice, why a 40-day fast became Athena's clearest window into emotional eating and genuine purpose, and why placing people on pedestals - in the gym or anywhere else - always costs you something.

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    The External-to-Internal Method for Raising Healthy Kids Jun 04, 2026
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    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 Chase Club member Brendan's question about getting his 16-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter to move consistently, despite shared custody.

    We dig into why the modeling you do today isn't for the teenager in front of you — it's for the 26-year-old they'll become. We explore the power of structured environments over parent-led training, how external rewards bridge to internal motivation, and why finding the right entry point matters more than finding the perfect program.

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    7 Habits of People Who Make Other People Better (w/ Jon Gordon) Jun 01, 2026
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    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 books and 18 bestsellers, to explore seven habits that transform ordinary people into the kind of person others genuinely want to be around.

    We explore how the ratio of positive to negative interactions determines whether your relationships thrive, why shouting praise and whispering criticism builds deeper trust than you'd expect, and how the abundance mindset — giving freely, making the pie bigger, winning the person instead of the argument — creates energy that lifts everyone in your orbit.

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