The Athletic Philosopher Podcast

In this episode we all get schooled by the great Dr. Phil Pearlman in how to properly approach fitness and life coaching. He and I take you behind the curtain into the minds of two coaches who want to help people take control of their physical health as a starting point to living towards their true potential in all areas of life.
We move through discussions on psychology, our personal approaches, what we see in the world of coaching that's good and bad, and how you can navigate the complex area of health and wellness in good faith and conscious.
There's special emphasis placed on guiding up and coming coaches who also want to make a difference in this space as we want to help spread what works for us in hopes of helping someone else get their coaching program off on the right foundation.
Big time thanks to Dr. Pearlman, he's a big time leader in this space and this conversation left me a better coach and person cause of his passion, dedication, and beautiful heart.
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Episode 74 is an addendum on Episode 73 which in itself is an addendum on Episode 72 where I explore the different dualities in sports starting with endurance characters, moving through fundamental building blocks of reality, and ending with the moral duality of good and evil that is exorcised through sports.
I dissect how proper aim in the physical produces moral situations where we bring goodness or badness into the world with our choices and that properly moving the body can alert us to these moral directions. 
This turned into more of a storytelling episode using my own experiences as well as some of my coaching testimonies to highlight how sports are a true arena of moral battles. If you are someone who wants to get MORE out of your exercise, this is a perfect place to become a believer in how you can actually bring the GOOD inside you out into the world through proper calibration of mind, body, and spirit through physical activity  
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This is a wild exploration into the nether regions of thought and experience, live philosophizing at its finest. This is an extension of thought off of Episode 72: The Two Types of Endurance Athletes 
I dive deep into the idea of the dual elements of reality that I believe best explain how we experience life and that are revealed and understood most properly in intentional intense physical activity. 
Those two building blocks help me situate myself within the cosmos, orient me towards the proper meaning of my life, and allow me to manifest and actualize that understanding in my day to day actions. 
When you understand these two elements, Breath and Rhythm, the world opens up to you in powerful ways the help you best know yourself, and how moving with intention and purpose generates an awareness of the deep meaning you should go after in your own life.
That's how sports reveal both the truth about the world and about your mission inside of your experience living through it.  
We fell into the rabbit hole on this one, but sometimes that's the best way to get to the bottom of things! 
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This is a straight up philosophizing episode that took a sharp turn into a talk with myself about my upcoming jump into the world of endurance triathlon competition.
Coming out of my last 50 mile race, I started thinking about what kind of person gravitates towards these ultra endurance events. Thinking about myself and Tribal Training head coach and founder Ryan Dreyer helped my come up with two frames, the endurance athlete who's addicted to the 'chase' and the one who needs it for the opening up of 'space.'
But as I went through the different sketches of these general characters, I realized in real time that this is actually a podcast about my own internal dialogue about reticence about entering into a new arena for myself, one I've long thought was just 'not for me.'
So in the end, this podcast is an excellent example of how making meaning through the training ends up revealing tremendous lessons of self while giving you the clear path forward on how you can improve current limits by training and competing from the heart! Basically I end up coaching myself the same way I coach my guys, how cool!
If you are interested in fitness and life coaching opportunities you can contact me here: drjordanbgoldstein@phyaacademy.com
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This is another direct response episode to a conversation I started on social media about the difference between the mind searching for truth and the heart knowing the Truth. 
I dive deep into why the center of your body must be the place that points towards meaning and break down why the mind cannot be the one that's providing the aim in this crucial area of your life. 
The element of physically training the body from a spiritual perspective gives you a perfect way to understand how this relationship between these parts of your being must interact to give you holistic health in body, mind, and spirit. 
From my perspective as a coach, athlete, and philosopher I've seen too often how people get tripped up by the shortcuts of the mind in finding purpose and meaning in life. This is how you get things straight. 
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This is the second interview in my new series "Personal Transcendence Through Sport" and I'm excited for everyone to hear the story of Jason Parker who found a familiar yet unknown version of himself through conquering the Oracle Rumble 50 miles trail ultra we ran together on Jan 31, 2026 with 11 of our Tribal Training Teammates.
Hear how this one moment is the culmination of years of intentional work to improve himself as a father, husband, and fitness coach through dedicating himself to athletic pursuit. 
Get inspired by his breakthrough and how it's rippling through every aspect of his life and get some of that FIRE for yourself by playing sports you love and competing for the love of the game and the challenge of self it presents you.
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Listen to his NSD Podcast Episode here: Spotify / Apple
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The first interview of 2026 kicks off a new series I'm hoping to bring to the Athletic Philosopher and there's no better first guest that Phil Lee. The series aims to bring on people who have seen their lives break open through athletic pursuit, real stories of transcending themselves by taking on big physical challenges in sport.
Phil Lee is the creator and owner of ENAK Seasonings, a bi-vocational pastor, endurance athlete extraordinaire (2x IronMan), and a teammate of mine on Tribal Training. He served our team at our latest Team Ultra at the Oracle Rumble 50 milers in Arizona by being our full time chef and crew member.
In this discussion, we explore a central theme of Phil's life, trusting his internal compass to push forward into the scary unknown instead of staying in the comfortable, yet miserable known. We talk training, building businesses, travelling the world, and what he experienced firsthand serving the team as part of his own journey.
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After a spirited discussion on the value and utility of competition in adults athletics in my Temple coaching group I decided to bring out the big guns and make a full and passioned argument on behalf of getting into the game out of necessity.
This is especially important for adult athletes who don't want to get caught back up in the world of chasing goals, outcomes, and achievements for their own sake through athletic competition and would rather exercise as a means of personal expression, artistic creativity, and self improvement. 
I discuss the ways in which we should instead view the competition as a chance to prove our characters and how we develop them through the training. The competition is connected intimately to the ways in which we know ourselves through the training by testing us in ways the training cannot. 
So instead of training to compete, we instead compete so we can train more fully aware and alive. Let's keep winning together team! 

We're back with the first episode of 2026! 
Come along for the ride as I recap the Frozen Gnome winter 50K trail race I completed on January 10, 2026 and how I'm able to use the race result as a measuring stick for personal development and character growth.
I took on my first solo race as a way to attempt to better understand and harmonize elements of selflessness and selfishness that at times battle eachother intensely inside my mind. My history in racing has seen me give away my own physical potential to help guide and coach others along the way, but started to become a crutch that allowed me to shrug off 'going all in' on performance. 
In this race, I got great information on how I can better balance these two desires in my life outside the arena, in business, coaching, parenting, and of course back to training. 
My race recaps are lighter on the 'what happened' and heavy on 'why it matters,' a perfect entry into 2026 and using training as a vehicle of self discovery on the path towards self mastery. 
Let's keep winning together team!
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In this episode I recap the events of my 'off the couch' fast and smooth marathon attempt from December 4, 2025. 
Tale of the Tape: 26.2 Miles (23 on snow) / 3 hr 57 min 11 second elapsed : 3 hr 54 min 58 second 'chip' / 18F (-8C) / Kid pickup 30 minutes after ending 
Come inside the effort as I go deep into how I took down a snow marathon in my own unique style. I break down the gear, the pacing, the fueling, the logistics, the mindset, the heartstance, and the takeaway lessons from a wild training effort en route to my first solo ultra marathon, a winter 50K in January. 
Leave inspired to craft your own creative and daring vision of what fitness inspired by your spirit and heart can become in your life. Be an artist in sport and use your body as the canvas to create beautiful experiences and expressions of self. I live it everyday and this was just one more piece for the portfolio. My hope is that you begin to view your fitness this way and begin making beautiful art of your own! 
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