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Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings 515 Episodes Aug 24, 2026

Chasing Excellence is a podcast for people who already know what to do but struggle to do it consistently. Hosts Ben Bergeron and Patrick Cummings explore the five factors of health—how we eat, move, think, connect, and rest—with insights from authors, thinkers, and doers. The show aims to help listeners break the cycle of one good week followed by one bad week and build a life of lasting excellence. New episodes are released every Monday and Thursday.

Episodes

Our 21-Day Happiness Challenges Starts Today!
Our 21-Day Happiness Challenges Starts Today! Aug 24, 2026 00:01:44 Short and sweet this week: Our latest challenge is kicking off today, and we don't want you to miss it.❤️‍🔥 More information on the Happiness Challenge🐾 Join us inside the ChaseTracker app👊 Jump into the Chase ClubSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chase Challenge | Happiness Is a Subtraction Problem We’re Solving All Wrong
Chase Challenge | Happiness Is a Subtraction Problem We’re Solving All Wrong Aug 20, 2026 00:18:29 We’re kicking off our new 21-Day Happiness Challenge — and it's probably not what you expect. Instead of focusing on what you have to be grateful for, we flip the lens: what don't you have that you're grateful to be without?That single shift — from counting blessings to counting absences — sits at the heart of this challenge. We explore how modern culture, the "affluenza virus," and the p
Ben’s Battle With Depression & What’s Helping Now (w/ Dr Rich Joseph)
Ben’s Battle With Depression & What’s Helping Now (w/ Dr Rich Joseph) Aug 17, 2026 00:58:10 What does depression look like when nothing in your life is actually wrong?Ben shares his first real experience with depression — not born of circumstance, but of chemistry — and why it changed everything he thought he understood about mental health.In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Rich, Ben's physician and friend, to unpack the autoimmune response that attacked Ben's brain, the trea
3 Simple Principles for a Life of Health, Happiness, & Hearts on Fire
3 Simple Principles for a Life of Health, Happiness, & Hearts on Fire Aug 13, 2026 00:35:29 What if every day you could see — in real time — whether you're drifting or chasing?In this solo episode, Patrick unpacks the rebuilt ChaseTracker app and the foundational framework behind it: drifting is the slow, often unseen move toward convenience, comfort, and conformity, while chasing is the daily decision to organize your time, energy, attention, and money toward what truly matters
20 Questions That Map Your Mental Fitness (w/ Chris Irwin)
20 Questions That Map Your Mental Fitness (w/ Chris Irwin) Aug 10, 2026 01:16:34 What if you could assess your mental fitness the same way you track your lifts, your miles, and your macros — with honest data, asked on a regular schedule?In this episode, Patrick hosts Chris Irwin to build a practical self-assessment tool rooted in the Five Mind Killers: a set of diagnostic questions mapped across each mind killer that, asked honestly every three to six months, reveal w
Individual vs. Class Programming: What Actually Matters
Individual vs. Class Programming: What Actually Matters Aug 6, 2026 00:11:21 What if the most important question in programming has nothing to do with the workout itself?In this episode, Ben breaks down how to design training that works — whether you're coaching a packed class or programming for a single athlete — and why the answer starts with one question most coaches never ask.Learn why compliance is the real metric, how logistical constraints shape every progr
5x5 | Accepting Adversity & Eating Clean When Going Out
5x5 | Accepting Adversity & Eating Clean When Going Out Aug 3, 2026 00:36:55 Hard things don't get easier when we pretend they aren't hard — they get easier when we stop wishing they were different.In this solo 5x5, Ben answers one listener question from each of the five factors: dealing with a chaotic home situation with a napping toddler, chasing a federal special agent fitness standard, eating clean on the road, deciding whether to have more kids in your 40s, a
Unconditional Love Isn't Soft. It's What Makes Our Kids Brave
Unconditional Love Isn't Soft. It's What Makes Our Kids Brave Jul 27, 2026 00:55:08 How much responsibility do we actually carry for where our teenagers end up — and how much is simply out of our hands?In this episode, we dig into a powerful listener question from David about parental influence, the six factors that shape teenagers, and the three things fathers can genuinely control: modeling, connection, and agency.We explore why control and influence are two very diffe
When "Did You Work Out?" Feels Like an Attack
When "Did You Work Out?" Feels Like an Attack Jul 23, 2026 00:13:14 What do you do when the person who loves you most says something that makes you feel shame — even when they don't mean it that way?In this episode, we answer a question from Chase Club member Ashton, who's 31 weeks pregnant and navigating the emotional complexity of a husband who keeps checking in on her workouts.We explore the gap between what someone actually says and the story we tell
20 Simple Ways to Fight Drift — That Invisible Shift Away from Your Best Self
20 Simple Ways to Fight Drift — That Invisible Shift Away from Your Best Self Jul 20, 2026 00:51:10 Twenty tactics. Five factors. One episode worth pulling back from the archives.In this replay, we walk through the four highest-leverage actions you can take in each of the five key areas of life — Move, Sleep, Eat, Think, and Connect — and unpack the why behind each one.Drift is the enemy of excellence, and this episode is one of the sharpest tools we've built to fight it. You'll leave w
Raise | Screens Are Only 1 of 5 Causes of Anxious Kids (w/ Kim John Payne)
Raise | Screens Are Only 1 of 5 Causes of Anxious Kids (w/ Kim John Payne) Jul 13, 2026 00:48:54 What if the thing overwhelming your kids isn't screens — it's a culture of too much?In this episode, Patrick sits down with Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting, to explore why children today are exhibiting what used to be considered trauma responses, and what parents can actually do about it.We explore the five causes of childhood overwhelm, why the antidote starts with the par
Chase Challenge | You Don't Need Anyone's Permission to Be a High Performer
Chase Challenge | You Don't Need Anyone's Permission to Be a High Performer Jul 9, 2026 00:25:48 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 perfor

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