Miles of Books: Inner Excellence + The Art of Learning

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Calling all strivers: In this episode, Coach Liz Waterstraat and host Sarah Bowen Shea talk about how to move toward personal excellence. Coach Liz highlights two books creating buzzes in the sports world—Inner Excellence and The Art of Learning—starting with the intriguing back story of each tome. She shares how awareness unlocks success and the importance of looking for small moments that feel like gifts. Loads of Liz love-language points, including the importance of having a beginner’s mind and that anything worthwhile takes time. One critical takeaway: Give the best of what you have that day. Words to live (and learn) by! When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Fuel + stay hydrated: Save 20% with code AMR2520at GUenergy.com through 8/31/25 The eyes have it: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2025 at TifosiOptics.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.6	Welcome to Miles of Books.
0:36.4	I'm your host, Sarah Bowen-Shea, and coach Liz Watershraught is here to talk about nonfiction books as she does every other episode.
0:44.9	Hello, Liz.
0:46.0	Hi, Sarah.
0:47.1	How are you?
0:48.5	I am, I've almost made it to the end of summer.
0:51.5	I am hanging on by a thread.
0:56.2	Oh, my goodness.
0:58.2	All right.
0:58.9	So you need to tell us about the theme uniting the two books that you chose.
1:04.0	The theme is Lazy Summer because I haven't been reading too many books lately because I've been washing pool towels.
1:12.7	Cleaning up messes. Don't admit that, Liz. Don't admit it. It's okay. I think it's very real. But honestly,
1:18.1	the theme this month is excellence. So these are two books that focus on excellence, which is
1:26.0	very different than perfection. I feel like perfection is an
1:30.0	unattainable state, whereas excellence is something we can all strive for. Yes, yes. And I just
1:37.0	really think in this day and age, there are too many women striving for perfection. And so I'm
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