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Chasing Excellence

The Default is Decline: How Performance Medicine Builds Resilience Before You Need It

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. We're going to get into the episode shortly, but first, listening builds awareness.

0:04.2

But awareness without action is incomplete. If you're ready to turn what you hear on the show into intentional

0:10.0

daily practice, well, the Chase Club is for you. You'll get ad-free episodes, short daily essays,

0:15.8

and the Chase Tracker, our new app that helps you track and stay focused on the key daily actions

0:20.7

that matter most to your

0:21.7

health, happiness, and vision.

0:23.7

Click the link in the show notes or head to chasingexcellance.

0:25.9

com.

0:26.4

Subscribe to join us.

0:28.4

We look forward to seeing you there.

0:30.0

Let's get into today's show.

0:35.9

Hello and welcome back to the show. I am Patrick. I think he is always with Ben. We are joined by a friend of the show, Dr. Rich Joseph. How are you gentlemen doing?

0:49.3

Doing great. Good to have Dr. Rich here. Should we refer to you as Dr. Rich? Rich, what would you prefer?

0:57.6

You can just call me Rich. It's helpful to know that I'm a doctor, but we don't have to, we don't have to over-emphasize that. Okay. We've established it. You're a doctor. We're going to go forward. We're going to call you Rich. you're Harvard trained primary care physician founder of vimmedicine folks can learn more vimmedicine.com

1:13.0

Ben, I'd love for you to maybe do a little bit you're rich uh your harvard trained primary care physician founder of vimmedicine folks can learn more vimmedicin

1:12.6

dot com ben i'd love for you to maybe do a little bit of an intro because you guys know each other

1:16.8

so some degree you work together actually i'm curious because i don't really understand the

1:20.9

relationship between you two uh between you and dr rich and the gym so why don't you give us a little

1:26.6

intro who's rich how do you know them and then rich I'll kind of have you fill in the gaps from there. All right. I'm going to leave lots of gaps. But A, Rich is a really good dude. Really, and become a really good friend of mine. B, Wicked Smat, Harvard trained, Stanford, MBA, 10 times smarter than I will ever be.

1:48.0

C.

1:48.9

He's like no.

1:49.7

Eight times smarter.

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