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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I interview

fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any advice they have

for the rest of us. So today I am excited to welcome Brad Stillberg to Before Breakfast. Brad is the

author of the brand new book, The Way of Excellence. So, Brad, welcome to the show.

Laura, it's great to be here. Yeah, well, thanks so much for joining us. Why don't you tell our

listeners a little bit about yourself? So I wear a couple of hats. One hat is an author where I'm

really interested in exploring the things that make humans flourish. I write books. I research and I report for those books.

The second hat I wear as a performance coach. So I work with athletes, executives,

entrepreneurs, and creatives on their own performance, applying so many of the things that I

write about. And then the third hat that I wear as a professor where I'm adjunct faculty at the

University of Michigan, and much like my writing in coaching, I work with students there on their

professional development, leadership, and mental performance. Excellent. Well, your book is about

excellence, which is a bit of a lofty topic. And I know that your clients are people

like these athletes and things like that. Is excellent something that the rest of us should be

thinking about as well? I mean, there's same things that athletes do, are they applicable to the rest of us?

Absolutely. I think that one of the biggest misconceptions about excellence is that it's only

for the select

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