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Hello and welcome back to the show.

As we get close to wrapping up yet another year,

I wanted to do something just a little bit different this week.

I wanted to take two of the conversations that I think are perhaps our most important

or foundational conversations from this year, put them together in a single episode.

Think of it as a reminder as we exit 2025 of some of the big ideas that we want to carry

with us in our mental backpack as we welcome January. Both of these are actually from the

beginning of 2025. So they're both from January. So they'll be forgiven if you haven't thought about them in a minute. And in fact, that's why I wanted to bring them back because it has been 12 months since we released them. The first conversation we're going to replay is the very first episode of the year as it happens. We called it the hidden path from pull-ups to peace of mind. In it, Ben and I were really excited to do

something that we don't do very often. I don't think we had done it before, which is zoom all the way

out. We try to connect all the dots of things we talk about here on chasing excellence. We start

with the end in mind, which is peace of mind, that context, independent sense of fulfillment.

And we work our way backwards through chasing what truly

matters, through health and freedom all the way down to the five factors of health.

It's the complete framework. It's the roadmap. We did our best to bring everything from the last

eight or nine years into a single conversation. And then the second episode we're going to

bubble back up is one that we

called the crew effect. It was also from early on in the year. It's a deep dive into one of those

five factors that, quite frankly, I think is the one most overlooked. It's connection, specifically

connection with other people, your crew, the people you surround yourself with, because it turns out the people

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