114: Life as a Full-Time Athlete with Dan Churchill
The Nick Bare Podcast
Nick Bare
5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Performance chef. Hybrid athlete. Dan Churchill is back in town and on the mic.
In this episode, Dan unpacks his evolution — from running restaurants to chasing world-class athletic goals. We dive deep into what it really takes to train hard, eat with purpose, sleep for recovery, and show up with discipline every single day. Dan doesn’t just talk goals — he lives them. He’s chasing a sub-60 at HYROX Pro and a sub-3-hour marathon in London. We break down how he’s training, how he’s planning, and how he stays locked in mentally.
We also talk identity — how embracing the title of “athlete” can shift your mindset and elevate your effort across the board. Plus, we go into the psychology behind nutrition, and what it means to truly fuel with intent.
CHAPTERS:
01:24 Dan's Athletic Goals and Training Journey
05:19 Work Ethic and Personal Growth
12:09 Balancing Personal Life and Professional Ambitions
24:51 Dan's Restaurant Business Experience
42:22 Commitments and Productivity
55:11 Training with Elite Athletes: Key Takeaways
01:00:24 Sleep Gadgets and Hacks
01:09:31 Fueling for Performance
01:24:11 Balancing Diet and Social Life
01:35:10 Concluding Thoughts and Future Plans
MENTIONS:
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692
Lewis Howes episode
https://youtu.be/Rl-SnsoPp-c?si=pbJsIBLaagk6R2Xo
ULU Wellness: Wellness Starts Here
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are back with my friend, the legend, Dan Churchill. |
| 0:13.2 | Chef Dan Churchill. |
| 0:16.4 | What's up, brother? |
| 0:17.9 | And be always good to be here, dude. |
| 0:19.8 | Just hanging out. |
| 0:20.5 | It's always great to see you. |
| 0:21.4 | You too, bro. |
| 0:22.3 | You too. |
| 0:23.4 | When are you moving to Texas? |
| 0:25.4 | Someone asked you that this morning. |
| 0:27.8 | You know, I just bought an apartment in New York last year, and I actually think that |
| 0:31.5 | opens the doors for me to be living in multiple places. |
| 0:34.0 | So you never know. |
| 0:34.7 | The next purchase could be Austin. |
| 0:36.4 | How does the fian fiance feel about that? I think she'd be stoked around it, particularly between January to May |
| 0:43.3 | March. I think she'd like that a lot. That makes sense. Yeah. And then when it's really |
| 0:48.1 | freaking hot in Austin, everyone just comes to live with us in New York. Is she from New York? |
| 0:53.3 | She's from, she's actually born in |
| 0:55.1 | Macedonia and then moved to Australia when she was five years old. And then I met her. So |
| 1:01.5 | she's an Australian and I met her in New York as an Aussie. Oh, wow. Yeah. So I went to the |
| 1:06.5 | other side of the world to meet my future wife. Crazy. Interesting. Yeah. Crazy. Well, |
| 1:11.2 | congrats on the recent engagement. Thanks, man. Just following the footsteps, dude. Next, |
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