Miles of Books: The Way of Excellence with Coach Liz Waterstraat
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week, Sarah Bowen Shea is joined by Coach Liz Waterstraat for a conversation about one nonfiction title: The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg. The two talk about how excellence feels more like ease than strain, why values matter, and how curiosity, discipline, and reflection can help athletes, leaders, parents, and anyone else move toward growth.
Liz also shares why this personal-development book stands out from the pack—and why it’s worth the read.
The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Miles of Books, a book-centric show to take along on your run from another mother runner and feisty. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Sarah Bowen-Shay, and I'm joined by Coach Liz Waterstrot to talk about a non-fiction book. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, Liz. It's been a hot minute. |
| 0:22.4 | Hi, Sarah. I'm so glad to be back. Oh, good. Good. Yes. Yes, particularly important that we roped |
| 0:29.1 | you back in since you are on both of our shows. So you are integral to the another mother runner |
| 0:35.6 | family of podcasts. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Okay. So I hope people |
| 0:41.9 | got the memo that now Miles of Books is going to run every week with you and Ellison |
| 0:47.1 | alternating fiction, nonfiction. So now you and I are going to be talking every other week |
| 0:53.1 | instead of once a month. |
| 0:58.0 | So now we will be focusing on a single book in an episode. |
| 1:00.0 | On rare occasions, we'll talk about two. |
| 1:01.9 | But today, just one. |
| 1:07.5 | And in this case, it is the way of excellence by Brad Stoolberg. |
| 1:13.0 | So let's talk a bit about who Stulberg is other than a guest on the Another Mother Runner podcast in October 2019. |
| 1:15.6 | Well, Brad Stoolberg, he seems to be a little bit of everywhere. |
| 1:18.3 | He is a best-selling author. |
| 1:20.8 | Some of his other titles would be the practice of groundedness. |
| 1:23.6 | I read that one, didn't love it. |
| 1:25.9 | I did like his next one, Master of Change. |
| 1:29.4 | And he also wrote the book, Peak Performance with, I would call him maybe his BFF, |
| 1:34.5 | Steve Magnet, who's also been on the podcast. |
| 1:39.3 | And I feel like everyone knows Brad's story because he puts it out there often. |
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