Endurance Minded

What if endurance isn’t about pushing harder, but about continuing to evolve over a lifetime? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with Margie Goldsmith , an award-winning travel writer, bestselling author, and lifelong adventurer who proves that it’s never too late to redefine what’s possible. At 82 years old, Margie is still training, traveling, and pursuing challenges. She’s vi...

What separates those who stay steady under pressure from those who fall apart? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with Jeffrey Weiss to explore the psychology of resilience, leadership, and what it really takes to perform when the stakes are high. With a background as a U.S. Army officer and a career focused on performance psychology, Jeffrey has worked with leaders and teams op...

Many high performers don’t know how to slow down — not because they lack discipline, but because their nervous system no longer trusts safety. In this solo episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor explores the hidden cost of constant activation, the difference between ambition and hyper-vigilance, and why so many driven people struggle to disengage even when they desperately need rest. This conversatio...

What drives someone to keep going when every part of their body is telling them to stop? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with JD Tremblay to explore the mindset behind some of the most demanding endurance challenges in the world and the deeper lessons they reveal about identity, resilience, and purpose. JD is an ultra-endurance athlete, entrepreneur, and the creator of Hunger...

Most people think they need more discipline. They don’t. They need better defaults. In this solo episode, Taylor breaks down why discipline is unreliable under pressure and why your real performance is determined by what you do when you’re tired, stressed, and overwhelmed. The truth is, you don’t rise to your goals… you fall to your defaults. Taylor walks you through how to identify where your cur...

Building Strength, Community, and Long-Term Fitness w/ Chris Ryan Description: What if the real key to fitness isn’t intensity, motivation, or discipline, but sustainability? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with Chris Ryan , a former Division I track and field athlete turned coach and entrepreneur who has spent years helping people build a healthier, more consistent relations...

We talk a lot about endurance as the ability to push harder, go longer, and withstand more. But what if that’s not what actually determines whether you succeed? In this solo episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor breaks down a deeper perspective on endurance, one that goes beyond physical effort and into the patterns that shape long-term growth in business, fitness, leadership, and life. This episode...

In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with Chris Harris to explore the internal endurance required to lead, build, and grow through seasons of uncertainty. Chris works with leaders and organizations to develop clarity, conviction, and resilience in how they show up, not just professionally, but personally. His work focuses on the internal side of leadership: identity, responsibilit...

In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with Tommy Rhee, physician, innovator, former U.S. Navy aviator, and founder of RheeGen , to explore the evolving frontier of regenerative medicine and what it means for athletes, entrepreneurs, and high performers navigating long seasons. Dr. Rhee has worked with elite competitors across the NFL, Olympic sports, and endurance disciplines, seei...

In this episode, host Taylor Thomas breaks down why high performers lose their edge, not from laziness, but from tolerated drift. We’ll explore the difference between goals and standards, how success can quietly soften urgency, and why what you walk past eventually becomes your culture. This episode is for athletes, founders, executives, and leaders who feel slightly off, not burned out, not broke...

What does endurance look like when no one’s watching? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor sits down with Chris Avery, a coach, runner, and community leader who has run every single day for nearly four years—over 1,400 consecutive days. What started as a one-mile experiment has evolved into a daily practice averaging 17 miles and a long-term vision to run the perimeter of the United States....

Radical Clarity isn’t about doing more; it’s about deciding what actually matters. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor explores why so many high performers feel exhausted, stuck, or restless even when life looks full on paper. From endurance sport to leadership to everyday life, we break down how lack of clarity quietly drains energy, increases stress, and fragments focus. This conversatio...

Pressure doesn’t create your reactions; it reveals them. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas dives into Emotional Capacity Under Pressure: the ability to stay grounded, intentional, and effective when stakes are high and stress is real. Whether it’s a hard conversation, a major decision, competition day, or a pivotal business moment, your emotional capacity determines how you show u...

We train our bodies. We sharpen our skills. We optimize our schedules. But almost no one trains their emotions, and it’s quietly sabotaging performance, leadership, and fulfillment. In this solo episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas introduces the concept of Emotional Fitness: the ability to recognize, regulate, and recover from emotional stress with the same intentionality we bring to physic...

Most people think they have a motivation problem, but what they really have is a capacity problem. They’re not stuck because they can’t do more… they’re stuck because they don’t have the space, clarity, or bandwidth to express the potential they already have. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas breaks down the modern Capacity Crisis: why we chronically underestimate our mental, emot...

High performers are great at starting things, new training blocks, new businesses, new projects, new goals. But the skill almost no one talks about is the one that matters most: knowing when to stop. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas explores the psychology and strategy of healthy endings, how to recognize when something has run its course, why letting go is often harder than hold...

There’s a moment in every athlete, entrepreneur, and leader’s journey where the version of you that got you this far stops being the version that can take you where you want to go. That uncomfortable, confusing, often painful space? That’s the Identity Gap, and learning to navigate it is one of the most important skills you can develop. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas explores w...

You did everything right, set the goals, did the work, hit the target. But instead of pride or relief, you feel… flat. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas unpacks the hidden emotional cost of high achievement: the ambition hangover. Drawing from psychology, performance science, and real-world experience, Taylor explores why hitting goals often leaves us unfulfilled, and how to recon...

In this episode, coach Chad Dunn joins us to unpack what it really means to train your mind like you train your body. From identity and mindset to navigating the pain cave and staying present under pressure, Chad shares powerful tools and frameworks used by elite athletes, military operators, and high performers. Whether you’re chasing a finish line or showing up fully in everyday life, this conve...

We all know recovery matters, but most of us treat it like an afterthought, a box to check, or something we’ll “get to later.” What if recovery was actually your most strategic advantage? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor unpacks recovery in a new light: as a skill you can train, measure, and leverage. You’ll learn the four dimensions of recovery: physical, mental, emotional, and strateg...

Resilience helps us bounce back, but adaptability is what allows us to thrive when circumstances change. In this second episode of the Resilience & Adaptability series, Taylor Thomas unpacks why adaptability is the ultimate edge in today’s world of sport, business, and leadership. You’ll learn the science of adaptability, how to build it as a skill, and why the people who succeed long-term are...

In part one of this two part series, Taylor Thomas explores the modern definition of resilience, and why it’s about flexibility and recovery as much as toughness. We’ve all heard that grit and toughness are the keys to success. But what if grit, by itself, isn’t enough? In this episode of Endurance Minded, drawing from psychology, sport, and business, Taylor breaks down how to build resilience wit...

In a world obsessed with overnight success and viral moments, it’s easy to forget that the most impactful wins come from the long game. In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas explores why sustainable success, in sport, business, and life, will always outlast short-term sprints. Drawing from lessons in endurance training, entrepreneurship, and leadership, Taylor reveals the mental shift...

Why do we cling so tightly to identities that are holding us back? In this episode of Endurance Minded, Taylor Thomas unpacks the hidden cost of staying attached to roles, titles, and habits that no longer serve us. From athletes afraid to train differently, to business owners stuck in outdated ways of working, many of us struggle to evolve, not because we can’t, but because we’re afraid of who we...

Leila Entezam, LMFT, MBA, a Neuro-Emotional Performance Coach and author of The Heart of Peak Performance: Emotional Mastery for High-Performing Men, a #1 new release in mental health on Amazon. As a thought leader in neuro-emotional intelligence (NEI), Leila integrates neuroscience, psychology, and peak performance strategies to empower high achievers to master their emotions and elevate their pe...