When You’re Just Trying to Survive (But Everyone Else is Trying to Thrive)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The 3 Big Questions We're Answering:
1. How can we effectively cope with the challenges of personal safety and well-being while balancing work demands and relationships?
2. What strategies can we implement to redefine success in our lives, especially when facing significant personal obstacles?
3. How does vulnerability in our relationships enhance connection and understanding, and how can we leverage this to foster a supportive environment?
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📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe health is the foundation that unlocks freedom. |
| 0:07.1 | The freedom to live fully, to be an asset and not a burden, and to chase what truly matters. |
| 0:13.4 | Through daily practices and proven frameworks, we are here to help you build deep health, |
| 0:19.2 | find lasting peace, and live with your heart on fire. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome to the chase. |
| 0:26.8 | Hello and welcome back to the show. |
| 0:29.6 | Patrick here, as always with Ben. |
| 0:31.9 | How are you, buddy? |
| 0:33.1 | Doing good, Patrick. |
| 0:35.2 | We've got a listener question this time around it's from our chase |
| 0:38.6 | club a member his name is jeff just as a reminder chase club is our premium membership you can get ad |
| 0:43.3 | three episodes as well as every day every week day in the morning we send out something called the |
| 0:47.7 | daily chase which is a short focused essay for you to start your day thinking in the right |
| 0:53.3 | direction so if you want to join us, |
| 0:54.8 | chasing excellence.m. Email is the place to get all that. And then of course we try to answer |
| 0:58.8 | chase club members questions in episodes here. So this again is from Jeff. Thanks for sending |
| 1:04.0 | it along. He said, I wanted to thank you and Ben for the episode on Maslow's hierarchy. |
| 1:08.2 | Ever since then, the hierarchy has been floating around in the back of my head. |
| 1:11.9 | One thing occurred to me. Have you guys considered the interaction between people at different |
| 1:15.9 | levels of the hierarchy or how close friends and family members can influence an individual's |
| 1:21.3 | place in the hierarchy? There's a friction that can develop between people at different levels, |
| 1:26.1 | and I wonder how to cope with it. |
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