[ 🗣️ ] HopperTalk: Self-Worth & the Skill of Friendship
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
❤️ Free Newsletter & the Chase Club
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We’re reintroducing an older format, but with a twist. We’ve got wisdom from writers Elizabeth Gilbert and Simon Sinek that we’ll hear, discuss, and learn from.
Takeaways:
- 🔍 Reflect on cultural teachings and personal beliefs about self-worth and challenge any negative self-perceptions.
- 🤝 Foster deep and meaningful connections with others to build a supportive community.
- 🗣️ Engage in open conversations about mental health and the societal influences that contribute to negative self-image.
- 📚 Educate children on the value of friendship and how to develop strong interpersonal skills.
- 🙏 Practice empathy and compassion towards oneself and others, recognizing that perfection is not the goal.
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❤️🔥 ABOUT THE SHOW
We answer listener questions about health, fitness, fulfillment, and what it takes to chase what truly matters. New episodes on Tuesdays & Fridays.
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🤙 ABOUT US
📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, writer, and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to Chasing Excellence a show about Chasing that truly matters. My name is Patrick Cummings here with my friend Ben Bergeron. How are you sir? |
| 0:38.8 | Doing good, Patrick. Good, thanks everybody out there for joining us. We are bringing back something that we haven't done in a long time. |
| 0:45.0 | We used to do Hopper Talk, which was a bit of a just random hodgepodge of questions that I would find on the internet, often on Reddit, and we would just talk through three or five of them. |
| 0:53.4 | And it was often fun and brought us in conversations that went in strange left turns |
| 0:57.3 | that we wouldn't normally take. |
| 0:58.3 | So I wanted to bring them back but I wanted to play around with it a little bit. |
| 1:01.1 | Folks may remember the episode we did, |
| 1:03.7 | right as we were reformatting to do |
| 1:06.6 | two shorter episodes a week instead of one longer. |
| 1:08.5 | And we did one episode where we had clips from Bruce Lee, |
| 1:12.1 | random clips that I found on the internet that I thought |
| 1:14.4 | would spark an interesting conversation. |
| 1:16.8 | We haven't done that since, so I thought I would love to bring that idea into this idea of Hopper Talk. |
| 1:22.0 | What we're going to do this week is I've got two clips from two |
| 1:25.7 | podcasts that I've listened to or watched recently. So we've got two two minute clips from a couple of different |
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