The Way of Excellence With Brad Stulberg
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today we're joined by Brad Stulberg, author of the recently released book, The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World.
Whether you are practicing guitar, pushing your limits at the gym, leading a team, honing a craft, studying medicine, or giving yourself the time and space to finally write that book, the pursuit of excellence is a big part of what makes life worth living, and it is for all of us.
Too often, we get caught up in convenience and distraction to the detriment of our true potential. The good news is that we can set ourselves on a better path, one that includes more aliveness and resonance, more connection to self and others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Friday, January 30th. And yeah, I know it's still January. So I want to bring you more content that's going to get you going for your year ahead. Today, I have a great guest. It is best-selling author Brad Stolberg. Now, he's been on the program previously, |
| 0:22.9 | and you may have seen his name. He contributes to the New York Times of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:27.4 | He likes practical advice like we do, and his newest book is called The Way of Excellence. |
| 0:34.2 | Now, before you roll your eyes and snort, excellence is very different the way that |
| 0:40.1 | Brad talks about it. So I know you're going to really like this interview. I sure did. We'll have a |
| 0:46.0 | link to the book in our show notes. If you've got any questions and you want to follow up with us, |
| 0:50.9 | of course, just go to the website, jill onmoney.com, click the contact us |
| 0:54.9 | button. Write us a note. If you want to join us live to talk about excellence or anything else |
| 0:59.5 | in your financial life, just check the box. Mark will do everything else. Okay, here is our |
| 1:05.6 | interview with Brad Stolberg. Brad Stolberg. Welcome back to the program. How are you, man? |
| 1:11.4 | I am doing well, Jill. |
| 1:12.5 | It is great to be back. |
| 1:14.1 | You're so prolific because you have three books now. |
| 1:20.2 | So Master of Change, the practice of groundedness, and now the way of excellence. |
| 1:26.1 | How do you have time to do all this? |
| 1:28.2 | Come on. |
| 1:28.7 | This is insanity. |
| 1:30.3 | It's my job, Jill. I'm just, I'm doing my job. I'm a writer and writer's right. Shooter, shoot, and writer's right. Yeah, I'm a shooter. I'm a content creator. I talk. I do a lot of talking. So Brad, after Master of Change and the practice of groundedness, which I think I teased you about it. |
| 1:46.8 | I was like, eh, who needs groundedness? of talking. So Brad, after Master of Change and the Practice of Groundedness, which I think I teased |
| 1:46.4 | you about it. I was like, eh, who needs groundedness? And then after I talked to, I'm like, |
| 1:49.6 | yeah, it works for me. Why do we need a book about excellence? Man, we need a book about excellence |
| 1:54.4 | for a number of reasons. I think the first is people are just feeling numbed and like they're going through the motions and like they've |
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