{"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":"The New Science of Pain (and What It Means for You)","slug":"the-new-science-of-pain-and-what-it-means-for-you","published_at":"2026-05-14T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/excellence-actually-1225754/the-new-science-of-pain-and-what-it-means-for-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/excellence-actually-1225754","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/441/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/66d8664f-064e-40db-9425-561f21c984bc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/441/claritaspod.com/measure/prfx.byspotify.com/e/rss.art19.com/episodes/66d8664f-064e-40db-9425-561f21c984bc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"We're all going to experience pain in some form or another. Unfortunately, our long accepted model for what pain is — and how to treat it — has been wrong. Today, we're breaking down the biopsychosocial model of pain, which presented a recent change in how researchers, doctors, psychologists, and performers think about why we feel what we feel. We discuss an important distinction between hurt and harm from pain psychologist Rachel Zoffness, discuss why two people with identical injuries can have very different experiences of pain, present a taxonomy of three different types of discomfort, and give you a practical toolkit for dealing with your own pain (including a balloon metaphor that might change how you think about recovery). Get a free LMNT drink mix pack with any purchase:  drinkLMNT.com/Clay Click here for an AI-generated transcript (please excuse errors in grammar or spelling) - 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .","meta_description":"We're all going to experience pain in some form or another. Unfortunately, our long accepted model for what pain is — and how to treat it — has been wrong…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2797,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/excellence-actually-1225754/episodes/the-new-science-of-pain-and-what-it-means-for-you/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/the-new-science-of-pain-and-what-it-means-for-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}