104 - How to Win the Inside Game, and Move from Surviving to Thriving (with Steve Magness)
When we think of "choking," we usually think of a field goal kicker missing a clutch kick, or someone freezing up during an important speech. In those moments, the mind is overcome with fear, doubt, a...
6 Feb 202548min
103 - Steve's 5 Essential Rules for Training Physical Fitness
On today's episode, Steve breaks down his five foundational rules for building a training practice that he's used to coach world-class athletes to success. These five core principles provide a useful ...
30 Jan 202531min
102 - The Art of Attention: Breaking Free from Digital Distraction
Last week we heard the ways in which our fractured attention was keeping us from connecting and negatively impacting our society. So this week we're turning to some solutions by discussing ways to imp...
23 Jan 202536min
101 - From Solitude to Social Fitness: Rethinking Connection in the 21st Century (with Derek Thompson)
Americans are spending more time alone than we have in a long, long time. That wouldn't be such a big deal if we weren't also reporting feelings of increased anxiety and unhappiness. This is why journ...
16 Jan 202552min
100 - Badwater 135 Finisher on Lessons from "The World's Toughest Foot Race" (with Kelaine Conochan)
Badwater 135 is a 135-mile race across Death Valley, where temperatures reach 125 degrees, runners cover an elevation gain of more than 20,000 feet, and where one of the primary injury concerns is org...
9 Jan 202551min
099 - 25 Lessons (in 25 Minutes) for 2025
Happy New Year! To celebrate, we've put together a special edition of The Coach Up, looking and highlighting 25 of our favorite learnings from a year of FAREWELL. Plus: five questions to ask yourself ...
2 Jan 202525min
098 - Farewell, 2024: The Year's Best Tools, Lessons, Performances, & Books
We use the last episode of the 2024 calendar to reflect on the year, discussing the tools or mental frameworks we found most useful, the biggest lessons learned, our favorite performances, and the mos...
26 Dec 202437min
097 - Healing Internet Brain Rot: Tips for a Healthier Information Diet
Oxford's 2024 word of the year is "brain rot" (which appears, to us at least, to be two words). What does it mean? "The deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as t...
19 Dec 202444min
