Your Kids Are Watching: A Guide to Modeling Healthy Habits
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 β’ 2.2K Ratings
ποΈ 2 December 2025
β±οΈ 181 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever felt like raising kids and staying healthy are competing priorities, this episode will change how you think about both.
We're bringing together six of our most powerful conversations on parenting β from applying the Five Factors to family life, to helping kids navigate adversity, to designing environments where healthy choices happen naturally.
Last week, we published an essay called Your Ceiling Becomes Their Starting Pointβ a complete guide to building healthy family habits.
This compilation episode is the raw material behind that essay: years of conversations about how to raise resilient kids while maintaining your own health.
We explore the frameworks, tactics, and daily practices that transform abstract principles into real family culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we dive into the episode, quick reminder, the Chase Tracker app is now available exclusively |
| 0:05.2 | for Chase Club members. It's the easiest way to track your five factors of health and stay |
| 0:10.5 | consistent with what matters. Join us chasingexcellance.com. Email. All right, let's get into it. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello and welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for tuning in this week and every week. |
| 0:28.0 | Last week, we published an essay called Your Sealing Becomes Their Starting Point, |
| 0:32.8 | A Guide to Building Healthy Family Habits. If you haven't read it yet, I would love for you to go check |
| 0:38.3 | it out at chasing excellence. email. We'll also put the link in the show notes. The essay explores |
| 0:44.3 | something that Ben and I have talked about on and off for years, how the same principles that make |
| 0:48.5 | you strong in the gym make your family strong at home, how modeling beats managing, how your daily |
| 0:53.9 | habits become |
| 0:54.9 | your kids baseline for what normal adult behavior looks like. And the essay, of course, |
| 1:00.4 | didn't come out of nowhere. It came from a synthesis of all of these conversations that Ben and I |
| 1:05.8 | have had over the years on this show about parenting health and how to raise kids who can handle life's challenges |
| 1:11.8 | with resilience. So today, I wanted to bring all of those conversations back together in one |
| 1:16.6 | place. So I've pulled six episodes spanning 20, 24 and 2025. These are all conversations about |
| 1:23.4 | the five factors applied to family life about training and youth athletics, about adversity |
| 1:28.5 | and screens and environmental designs. It's a bit of a super cut. So if you're a parent trying to |
| 1:33.2 | figure out how to stay healthy while raising healthy kids, this one is for you. And if you know |
| 1:37.5 | other parents who might benefit from this conversation, please share it with them. We'd really |
| 1:42.5 | appreciate it. And we'd love to bring more people just like |
| 1:46.5 | you into the chasing excellence universe. So we're going to start with a bit of foundation setting. |
| 1:52.6 | We've got a talk that Ben and Heather, Heather is Ben's wife, together at Comptrain, New England. |
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