The Collective
The mission of the Collective is to provide an opportunity to directly engage experienced professionals with varying perspectives and nuanced considerations in discussing the value of action-oriented consistent effort in the development of a growth mindset.
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The Person You Practice (opens the original)
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Who we say we are matters, but repetition may matter more. Every habit, relationship, discipline, and environment rehearses a way of responding to the world. Eventually, practice does more than sharpen a skill, it shapes the person performing it.Today, Chance and Shaun are joined by Wade Winfrey, a Marine veteran, father, fitness coach, and sobriety advocate, and Dr. Gino Collura, a behavioural scientist whose research examines Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, trauma, social connection, and veteran reintegr
The Cost of Integrity | A Conversation On The Collective (opens the original)
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What does integrity cost when something you value is on the line?Isaac Miller and Matt Barnett join Chance and Shaun to explore what happens when our principles meet pressure, from relationships and work, to the decisions we have to live with.We discuss the difference between integrity and stubbornness, who else carries the consequences of our choices, and whether changing our minds can be an act of integrity.It’s easy to say what we believe. The harder question is what we do when acting on it c
When the Danger Is Gone | A Conversation On The Collective (opens the original)
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Some people are at their best when everything goes wrong.Danger provides a clear objective. Training takes over, priorities narrow, and being useful becomes simple. But when the immediate threat passes, ordinary life demands a different kind of competence, patience, ambiguity, restraint, and the ability to act without urgency.Today, we explore what happens when someone built to perform under pressure no longer has a crisis to solve. Why can peace feel uncomfortable? Why do ordinary responsibilit
Excellence Is a Moving Target | A Conversation On The Collective (opens the original)
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Today on The Collective, Chance and Shaun sit down with Jeff Nichols and Fran Racioppi to explore a deceptively difficult question: What does excellence actually mean?Excellence is not a fixed destination. It changes with experience, responsibility, environment and purpose. What makes someone an excellent operator may not make them an excellent father, entrepreneur or leader—and the standards that build one kind of success can create tradeoffs somewhere else.The conversation examines discipline
Grace not Slack | A Conversation On The Collective (opens the original)
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Grace isn’t giving up. It’s what we learn to offer ourselves after effort, not before.Today, Shaun and I talk about responsibility, low energy, relationships, and what it means to keep showing up when we don’t necessarily have much in the tank. Where is the line between recovery and avoidance? Between holding ourselves accountable and expecting more from ourselves than we currently have to give?A conversation about effort, responsibility, and learning when to give ourselves some grace without gi
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