🎧 This Week: Stripping Away What Controls You & A 21-Day High Performance Challenge
Two brand new episodes for you
Greetings, fellow human. 👋
Hope you’re having a nice Thursday. We’ve got a fantastic conversation for you this week, plus a new challenge I’d love for you to join me in doing.
🎧 Athena Perez on Fasting 40 Days to Face Emotional Eating
Athena Perez has lost over 200 pounds, went from a walker and two canes to opening her own CrossFit affiliate, and became a coach dedicated to the people who feel like they don’t belong in a gym — because she was one of them.
When emotional eating started creeping back in after a surprise surgery, she didn’t reach for a new plan. She fasted for 40 days. Not as a performance stunt — as a deliberate act of sitting with the thing that had controlled her for most of her life.
In this new episode of our Purpose Effect series, Jamison talks with Athena about transformation by subtraction, the danger of outsourcing your salvation to heroes, and what it means to finally stand on level ground.
This episode’s for you if:
You’re ready to stop adding more — more discipline, more habits, more systems — and actually face the thing that’s been quietly running the show beneath all of it.
You’ve put someone on a pedestal and let their perceived invincibility become a ceiling on your own potential — and you’re starting to wonder what you’re capable of when you stop looking up.
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🎧 High Performance Isn’t a Talent. Prove It in 21 Days
I go solo to kick off our next Chase Challenge — a 21-day program built around one central idea: high performance isn’t something you have, it’s something you practice.
This challenge is an invitation to close the gap between who you are and who you want to be at work, and to fight back against the kind of drift that keeps us from living a life with our hearts on fire.
This episode’s for you if:
You’ve been waiting for the right moment, the right conditions, or the right version of yourself to start performing at your best — and you’re ready to build the system that makes it happen instead.
You keep drifting through your days, finishing them without ever touching the thing that actually mattered — and part of you knows the cost of that drift is starting to add up.
Join us for the 21-day challenge:
Thanks as always for being here.
If you’ve got a friend who’s been drifting — from their potential, their goals, or just their best self — this challenge was made for them. Please pass it along.
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🤙🏼 Patrick