{"podcast":{"title":"excellence, actually","slug":"excellence-actually-1225754","podcast_index_feed_id":1225754,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/excellence--actually","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/excellence--actually","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/77/ba/39/bf/77ba39bf-1593-49dd-adc0-27864830085e/dec4218289381e676d633c0359603433de542ccc1597a270e8103847f2a85d4e22ee5eea9053597c6d0edcc3bfc61f8c6367074593459d98be6665d7df58404f.jpeg","author":"Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, & Clay Skipper","episode_count":353,"summary":"\"excellence, actually\" is a podcast from The Growth Equation, hosted by Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, and Clay Skipper. Drawing on their years of working and corresponding with Olympians, coaches, executives, world-class physicians, and other elite-level achievers in their coaching practice and professional careers, they give you the mental and physical tools, practices, habits, and frameworks used by the best in the world in the pursuit of excellence. Each episode will give you concrete ideas and tips to use in your life immediately to help you become more meaningfully engaged in the pursuits that support your goals and your values. This is not the performative nonsense that is peddled online by grifters and influencers, but the evidence-based systems that work for the best in the world. This is excellence, actually. (This podcast used to appear under the name FAREWELL .) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/excellence-actually-1225754"},"episode":{"title":"Q+A: On Bad Habits, Post-Race Fitness, and “Boring” Work","slug":"q-a-on-bad-habits-post-race-fitness-and-boring-work","published_at":"2025-11-27T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/excellence-actually-1225754/q-a-on-bad-habits-post-race-fitness-and-boring-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/excellence-actually-1225754","url":"https://shows.acast.com/farewell/episodes/how-to-do-boring-work-avoid-bad-habits-and-navigate-post-rac","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/441/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/1266985d-35c8-4c90-903f-5ee3b784fd6a.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"As a thanks you to you on Thanksgiving week, we're answering a handful of listener questions. 1. How can I navigate periods of intense work where my life is out of balance without developing bad habits? 2. If I truly internalize that achievement won’t make me happy, won’t I lose my drive? 3. How can I manage the tedium of doing a job that’s meaningful but involves a lot of boring day-to-day work? 4. How can I distinguish between normal training fatigue and chronic exhaustion from overtraining? 5. After a race/performance, I often come back too quickly without being fully recovered, or wait too long and lose fitness. How should I think about timing my return to training? Thanks to everybody who has sent along a question — and thanks for being a part of the The Growth Equation and excellence, actually community. If you'd like us to answer something that has been on your mind, email clay.growtheq@gmail.com or call our voicemail at 646-893-9503. Click here for an AI-generated, unedited transcript Click to pre-order Brad's new book, \"The Way of Excellence,\" which Steve Kerr, nine-time NBA Champion, is calling \"an absolutely beautiful book\" Subscribe to The Growth Equation newsletter Join The Growth Equation Academy If you are enjoying \"excellence, actually,\" do us a huge favor: text your favorite episode to three people so they can enjoy it, too. Thanks! iTunes and Apple Podcasts Spotify Android PocketCasts YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"As a thanks you to you on Thanksgiving week, we're answering a handful of listener questions. 1. How can I navigate periods of intense work where my life…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2417,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/excellence-actually-1225754/episodes/q-a-on-bad-habits-post-race-fitness-and-boring-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/excellence-actually-1225754/q-a-on-bad-habits-post-race-fitness-and-boring-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}