Endurance Minded

Leadership, Resilience, and Performing Under Pressure w/ Jeffrey Weiss

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 operating in high-pressure environments, helping them develop the mental and emotional skills required to navigate uncertainty, regulate themselves, and make clear decisions when it matters most.

Together they explore:

• What happens psychologically when pressure increases
• Why self-regulation is the foundation of effective leadership
• The difference between reacting and responding under stress
• How resilience is developed through consistent exposure and awareness
• Why leaders must do the internal work before they can lead others

This episode is a deep dive into the internal side of endurance, where leadership, psychology, and performance intersect.

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The Hidden Cost of Always Being “On”

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 conversation dives into emotional endurance, sustainable performance, nervous system regulation, and the subtle ways achievement can become identity, protection, and avoidance all at once.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted despite doing everything “right,” this episode will challenge the way you think about performance, recovery, and what it actually means to endure.

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Hunger for More: What Extreme Endurance Teaches About Identity, Purpose, and Human Limits w/ JD Tremblay

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 Hunger4More, a movement centered around pushing beyond perceived limits and developing the mental toughness required to pursue meaningful goals. He’s also completed events like the EpicDeca, one of the most grueling races on the planet, requiring athletes to complete ten Ironman-distance triathlons over ten consecutive days.

But this conversation goes far beyond racing.

Taylor and JD dive into the psychology of extreme endurance, what really happens in the mind when fatigue and doubt begin to take over, and why the hardest moments in endurance sports often mirror the challenges we face in business, leadership, and life.

Together they explore:

• What the EpicDeca reveals about human limits
• How the mind negotiates with pain and fatigue
• The difference between ambition and true purpose
• Why adversity often reveals identity rather than builds it
• How cultivating a “hunger for more” can reshape the way we pursue growth

Access JD’s ENDURE Framework HERE.

This episode is a conversation about pushing limits—but more importantly, about discovering who you become when you refuse to quit.

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Guest Intro (no video) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oyR0dFTiraiukQ1305Pgxa-8EVJe2C-4?usp=drive_link

Less Discipline, Better Defaults

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 current defaults are holding you back, and how to rebuild them so you can stay consistent in your training, your business, and your life, especially when things aren’t perfect.

Because the version of you on your hardest days?

That’s the one that determines your results.

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Building Strength, Community, and Long-Term Fitness w/ Chris Ryan

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 relationship with movement.

Through Chris Ryan Fitness, Chris has built a community centered around the idea that fitness should be accessible, enjoyable, and something people can maintain for life, not just during short bursts of motivation.

In this conversation, Taylor and Chris explore the deeper lessons that physical training can teach us about consistency, identity, and resilience. They talk about the difference between motivation and sustainable habits, how community can dramatically influence long-term health, and why the most powerful changes often come from small routines repeated over time.

Together they discuss:

• Why motivation alone rarely leads to lasting fitness
• The mindset shift from short-term results to long-term health
• The role community plays in sustaining consistency
• How movement can build confidence and emotional resilience

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The Hidden Layers of Endurance

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 introduces a simple but powerful framework: the three layers of endurance.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why endurance is more about staying than pushing
• The three layers that determine long-term success
• What causes people to lose momentum (even when they’re capable)
• How to build consistency without relying on motivation
• Why identity, not goals, is the foundation of real endurance

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Conviction Under Pressure w/ Chris Harris

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, responsibility, and the discipline required to stay grounded when the stakes are high.

In this conversation, Taylor and Chris dive into the long game of leadership and what it really takes to build something meaningful over time. They explore how adversity often reveals the foundation of a person’s character, and why real growth often requires dismantling parts of your identity before stepping into the next season of leadership.

Together they discuss:

• Why pressure reveals character more than it creates it
• The emotional endurance required to lead during uncertain seasons
• Conviction and staying aligned with your values
• The hidden cost of chasing success without clarity
• Why strong leadership starts with internal stability

This episode is a conversation about responsibility, personal growth, and the kind of endurance that allows leaders to stay steady when everything around them feels uncertain.

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The New Science of Recovery and Human Resilience w/ Dr. Tommy Rhee

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, seeing firsthand the hidden cost of chasing performance without prioritizing recovery. His work challenges conventional approaches to injury, inflammation, and aging by focusing on cellular signaling, non-invasive regenerative solutions, and long-term durability rather than short-term symptom relief.

This conversation moves beyond protocols and into philosophy. It’s about understanding the body as an adaptive system, and learning how to support it without overriding it.

If you’re building something that requires staying power, whether in sport, business, or life, this episode will challenge how you think about recovery, sustainability, and the true meaning of resilience.

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Why High Performers Lose Their Edge

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 broken, just not as sharp as they know they can be.

If you’ve felt the slow erosion of intensity, clarity, or integrity… this conversation will help you reset the standard.

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Running Toward Who You’re Becoming w/ Chris Avery

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.

This episode is for anyone navigating a long season: athletes, leaders, and builders who want to understand what endurance is really training beneath the surface.

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