Hello and welcome back to the show.

My name is Patrick here with just a quick introduction.

We've got something, the fun, a little bit different.

We haven't, in fact, done this, I think, once before.

But I'm going to take a couple conversations that I've had recently on another podcast of mine

called The Consistency Project Podcasts that I do alongside our friend, your friend, everybody's friend, E.C. Sinkowski.

What we've got this time around is EC's take on a couple different things that either you'll

know of because we've talked about it here on the show or you'll know about it because you're alive

in the year of 2025. The first episode that we're going to listen to today is EC's five lessons

from Michael Easter's, say that fast, EC and Easter's. Michael Easter's, the comfort crisis,

which is a book that Ben and I have talked about before. We both recommend, we both love,

all about why modern life has made everything feel harder than it should and what we can do about it. Then in the second half of our episode today, we're going to unpack EC's

five insights from Netflix's recent documentary on The Biggest Loser, revealing why weight loss

maintenance is so much harder than we think if you've ever wondered why

the easy path rarely leads to results you want or why lasting change seems so elusive.

These couple conversations will give you some frameworks to think differently about challenge,

comfort, and what it really takes to create lasting transformation.

Before we jump into the first one, which is going to be all about the comfort crisis,

a quick little plug for EC.

She's being kind enough to let me share these episodes with you here on Chasing Excellence.

I want to return the favor and let you know, and I'm actually going to do you a favor as well.

I'm going to let you know that she's running her last master class of 2025.

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