Be Selfless So You Can Become Fearless (w/ Jim Murphy)

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health, Education, Mindset, Crossfit, Wellness, Self-improvement, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What if conquering fear has been the wrong goal all along?

In this episode, Jim Murphy - author of Inner Excellence and The Best Possible Life - reveals that fear isn't the root problem: the root is self-centeredness, and fixing it changes everything. We explore the "affluenza virus," the three internal adversaries (the Critic, the Trickster, and the Monkey Mind), and why the ego's obsession with comparison quietly poisons everything it touches.

Walk away with a practical ego check-in, a clearer understanding of what's actually driving your fear, and five daily paths to the presence that makes fearlessness possible. This is an episode for anyone who has chased success and still felt something missing - and anyone who wants to build a life that burns brighter the more they give it away.

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0:00.0	Hey, before we get into it, quick heads up on something. We're going to relaunch the Chase Club in
0:05.3	April with some real honest-to-goodness structure. Daily lessons Monday through Thursday,
0:10.3	aka the Daily Chase, 21-day challenges every single month. And Friday, Chase Club chat clubs to keep
0:16.7	all of the work alive. And in May, importantly, the price is going to go up significantly.
0:21.4	Right now, it's just $8 a month or $80 a year. If you've been thinking about joining us,
0:26.6	April is the best time. Lock in the lowest price it'll ever be. Chasingexcellance.com.
0:31.5	Email, the link is in the show notes. Okay, let's get into it.
0:39.0	Hello and welcome back to the show.
0:42.0	Thank you very much for joining us.
0:43.7	I'm here.
0:44.6	As always with Ben, and we are very, very excited about this conversation.
0:48.3	We have with us today, Jim Murphy, author of the book, Inner Excellence, and a Brand New Book. It actually just came out yesterday
0:56.0	as of when we're recording this called The Best Possible Life. Jim, how are you? We have been
1:02.3	looking forward to this conversation for weeks. So good. So grateful to be here. Thank you.
1:08.0	Ben and I talked last week and we were joking that, and these are my words,
1:11.8	but I think Ben agreed, I've never had more highlights out of a book than I have with inner excellence. It was like almost to the point where I was like, I need to stop highlighting every fourth word here because at some point the highlights don't make any sense. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. So great to hear. I actually when when I was reading the new one, Jim, I was reading the new one.
1:29.7	I was like, oh, my God, oh, my God, underlining, underlying reading to my kids.
1:33.8	Like, oh, guys, wait, listen to this one.
1:35.9	And then I, like, after reading and reading, I then finally turned the page and I was like, chapter one.
1:41.5	I was like, what?
1:42.6	That was all the intro?
2:04.8	Yeah. I had the same experience. I was at my, I was at a birthday party that my son was at. And I was just, oddly enough, I was sitting at a bar, which is not something I do, but it was at a, it was on an arcade with a bar. I was reading Best Life Possible. And that was exactly the same experience I had with the intro. I was like 15 minutes. I was like, no, I need to stop highlighting everything. Yeah. I'm impressed, man. It was really, really good. So excited. We're going to stop complimenting you endlessly now. But we just wanted to
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