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Getting After It
You already know you're capable of more. So why do you keep getting in your own way?
Getting After It is the podcast for people who are done with excuses, done playing it safe, and ready to close the gap between who they are and who they know they can be. Hosted by ultra trail runner, entrepreneur, and accountability obsessive Brett Rossell, this show doesn't hand you motivation. It hands you a mirror.
Every episode cuts into the real reasons people self-sabotage, avoid discomfort, and settle…
Episodes
- Getting After It
210 - A Message to the "You Just Wait" People
People love to say "you just wait." You just wait until the baby comes. You just wait until the honeymoon phase is over. You just wait until you have no time…
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209 - Running on Empty: Chasing Big Goals While Raising a Family
Welcome to the first episode of Running on Empty, a new series on Getting After It with my good friends Brayden Galbraith and Jace Skidmore. We're three dads…
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208 - The Leadville 100 - Brayden’s Story
Brayden came back on the podcast after finishing one of the hardest races in the country: the Leadville Trail 100. What makes his story crazy is that he wasn't…
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207 - What Arnold, Jocko & Tony Robbins Taught Me About Hard Work
I believe in hard work. This podcast is called Getting After It, after all. But the older I get, the more I realize that hard work by itself isn't enough. In…
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206 - Can You Chase Big Goals and Still Be Present for Your Family?
My wife Ally is back on the podcast, and this episode felt a little different. We’re only a few weeks away from becoming parents for the first time. As excited…
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205 - Dina Rossell: When One Chapter Ends, Another Begins
Nine years ago, my mom started a business with an idea and a willingness to try. This year, she closed the doors and we talk about all the lessons learned. In…
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204 - There Is No Finish Line: A Conversation with Jace Skidmore
Jace Skidmore ran a 4:05 marathon. Years later he ran a 2:53. I wanted to know what actually changed in between, so I sat him down and asked. Jace is one of…
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203 - You Can’t Rush Adaptation
In this episode, I talk about something I’ve been learning the hard way: you can’t rush adaptation. Whether it’s health, running, work, podcasting, or becoming…
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202 - Excellence Changes With Every Season
In this episode, I talk about something I've been thinking about a lot lately: what excellence actually means. For a long time, I thought excellence looked the…
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201 - You Don't Become Someone New Without Saying Goodbye to Someone Old
Episode 201 feels like the beginning of a new season for Getting After It. After 200 episodes, I've been thinking a lot about what growth actually costs. We…
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200 - Discipline Changes Shape (Lessons from Another 100 Episodes)
Episode 200. I started this show with one microphone, a laptop, and no real idea what I was doing. This one is harder to record than a race recap. My…
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199 - Why My Wife Competed in Hyrox While Pregnant - Ally Rossell
Ally likes to do hard things in hard seasons. Which is why she competed in a Hyrox while being 26 weeks pregnant. She went in without a watch, without a time…
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198 - Andy Glaze: Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong
In this episode, I talk about the story of ultrarunner, firefighter, father, and author Andy Glaze. Andy's book, Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong, is about far…
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197 - The Mind Quits Before the Body: Lessons from the Iron Cowboy
Last week at Pattern Accelerate, I snuck into a talk from James Lawrence because I wanted to hear what drives someone to complete 101 Ironmans in 101 days. I…
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196 - No Time for Ease and Comfort: A Lesson from 1940 for the Life You're Living in 2026
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure." Winston Churchill said that in January of 1940. I've been thinking about it for…
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195 - Discipline Is Just Boredom Tolerance
Most people think discipline is about pain tolerance. I don't think that's entirely true anymore. You don't quit the things you want because they hurt. You…
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194 - Fear Isn't Telling You to Stop. It's Telling You This Matters.
Most people treat fear like a stop sign. They call it wisdom. They call it patience. It's usually neither. Fear shows up before everything worth doing. The…
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193 - When Progress Begins to Slow
I set out to run a half marathon this weekend. I made it ten miles. My leg told me to stop. And for once, I listened. That didn’t sit well with me. I’m doing…
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192 - Train Like You Want to Still Be Dangerous at 60
I trained for a sub-three marathon, hit it, and spent the next several weeks barely able to walk without my hips locking up. I did everything right. Trained…
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191 - The Invisibility Problem: The Silent Power of Habits (Until They Disappear)
Most people quit their habits right before they start working. I recorded this episode after watching a close friend pull himself out of a year of isolation…
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190 - The Achilles Choice
Most people never make the choice. They tell themselves they're being patient, being strategic. But if you get honest, it's fear wearing a responsible…
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189 - Show Up Before You're Ready
January 2023. Start line. Wrong shoes. One unofficial training run to my name. I ran the half marathon anyway and it taught me more than any race I was…
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188 - What Suffering Is Actually For
I spent most of my life trying to outrun suffering. A brutal 24-mile training run, months of unexplained illness in my early twenties, and a long fight with…
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187 - The Miles You Can't Go Back To
I crossed the finish line at 2:56 and couldn't walk right for weeks. Sub-three marathon, shot hip flexors, and a lesson I should have learned a long time…
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186 - You're Not Stuck, You're Avoiding a Decision
You're not stuck. You know exactly what you need to do, you just haven't decided to do it yet. And that's costing you more than you think. In this episode, I…
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185 - Choose Hard Before Hard Chooses You: Building the Capacity for Life's Toughest Moments
There is a version of you that already knows what it needs to do. It knows the race to sign up for, the conversation you've been avoiding, the thing you keep…
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184 - The Boredom Problem: Why You Can't Do Hard Things If You Can't Sit Still
The reason you can't do the hard thing isn't motivation. You can't sit still, and that reflex is quietly eroding your capacity to do anything that matters. In…
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183 - Why Discipline Feels Impossible (And It's Not a Willpower Problem)
You haven't lost your discipline. You've lost your energy. And those are two completely different problems that require two completely different solutions. In…
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182 - The Comfort Trap: Why Playing It Safe Is the Riskiest Thing You Can Do
The safest decision you ever made might be the one that's quietly destroying you. Comfort doesn't look like weakness, it looks like a steady paycheck, hitting…
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181 - If You Want a Village, Be a Villager: How to Actually Build Real Friendships
Loneliness is rising everywhere. But the problem isn’t that people don’t know anyone. The problem is that most people lack consistent, meaningful interaction…
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180 - When Your Identity Gets Threatened
This week shook me. Not because I failed publicly. Not because I got injured. But because things that used to feel easy suddenly became heavy. I started a new…
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179 - You Don’t Need More Motivation. You Need Fewer Excuses.
Why do intelligent, capable people stay stuck? In this episode of the Getting After It Podcast, we break down the psychology behind “elegant excuses” — the…
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178 - You’re Not Burnt Out. You’re Under-Recovered.
Most people who think they’re burnt out aren’t actually burnt out. They’re under-recovered. In this episode of the Getting After It Podcast, we break down why…
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177 - What This Season Is Teaching Us (That We Didn’t Expect)
Life doesn’t always teach you the lessons you ask for. Sometimes it teaches you the ones you need. In this episode, Ally and I sit down for an honest…
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176 - Stop Waiting to Feel Ready: Audience Q&A
This episode is a Q&A with the Getting After It community. We talk about running—how to get better, how to recover, and whether running is actually required to…
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175 - Adapt or Break: Why the Plan Is Meant to Change
At some point, every plan stops fitting. Not because it was bad. Not because you lacked discipline. But because life changed. In this episode of Getting After…
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174 - How to Build Your Dream Life (5 Questions That Change Everything)
Most people don’t choose their life — they drift into it. In this episode, Ally and I go behind the scenes on how we’re trying to build our dream life with…
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173 - Building Character & Staying True to Your Values
Becoming successful is hard. Becoming someone you respect is harder. In this episode, I break down what character really is, how it’s built over time, and why…
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172 - 7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Running 2,100 Miles
I didn’t set out to run 2,100 miles to learn life lessons. I ran them chasing consistency, discipline, and progress—and along the way, those miles taught me…
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171 - Identity is Earned, Not Chosen
Most people think identity is a decision. They believe once they feel motivated or clear, they’ll finally become the person they want to be. But that’s not how…
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170 - What This Year Taught Me About Work, Loss, and Love
This episode is my honest year-in-review. Not a highlight reel. Not a list of wins. But a real reflection on what this year demanded of me—and who it shaped me…
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169 - The Athlete’s Paradox: When Injury Forces You to Learn How to Rest
What do you do when the thing that keeps you grounded is suddenly taken away? In this episode of, I dive into the psychological and emotional side of injury…
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168 - Every 13 Minutes: The Silent Crisis in Men
Men make up nearly 80% of suicide deaths. And yet, so many of us suffer in silence. In this episode, I open up about a chapter of my life I’ve never shared in…
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167 - Control What You Can. Run Through the Rest.
In this episode, Ally joins me for a deeply human conversation about the dichotomy of control—what we can change, what we can’t, and why knowing the difference…
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166 - The Journey of Creativity and Storytelling with Knives Monroe
What does it actually take to Get After It when your "it" is creative passion? That's what I dug into with this episode's guest, Knives Monroe. Knives is a…
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165 - Mason Wright’s Run Across Utah & Lessons in Suffering
Mason Wright is not your average ultrarunner. He’s a gym owner, a former 285-pound lineman, and the man behind Worn Legs, a poetic tribute to what it means to…
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164 - Consistency Over Everything: Sticking to Discipline
If you've ever struggled to stay consistent with your training, this episode is for you. I’ve been there—tired, unmotivated, bored, over it. But I’ve also…
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163 - Honest Talk on Infertility and Hope with Emeli Rossell
Infertility is one of the hardest things to go through. It’s isolating, unpredictable, and often filled with grief that no one else sees. In this episode, I…
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162 - How to Start Running (and Actually Stick With It)
Starting to run can be tough—mentally, physically, and emotionally. In this episode, Ally and I talk about what it was like to start running together, the…
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161 - Three Runners, One Desert, Zero Excuses: Canyonlands 50K
This episode is a little different. It’s a raw, on-the-road conversation with my wife Ally and my brother Drew — recorded before and after we ran the…
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160 - Five Pillars Holding Me Up for 31 Miles
I’m days away from running 31 miles through the Canyonlands, my second 50K. On the surface, it’s a race. But underneath, it’s a test. This training block has…
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159 - Stick to the Plan. Especially When It Sucks.
What do you do when the plan falls apart? In this episode, I share the story of a marathon-distance run that didn’t go as expected. My brother Drew and I had…
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158 - Stuck But Not Broken - How to Escape Mental Ruts
Everyone hits a wall. This episode is about what to do when you do. When your mind feels heavy. When motivation fades. When you’re not sure what the next step…
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157 - Back From the Break
I just got back from a cruise with my wife Ally, my family, and some friends. In this episode, I talk about what it felt like to rest, unplug, and try to shift…
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156 - How to Endure Challenging Times - Ally Rossell
This episode is about what happens when life doesn’t give you a choice. Ally joins me again to talk through how we both deal with hard things—both the ones we…
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155 - Why We Do Hard Things (The Benefit of Discomfort)
Why do we do hard things? In this episode, I break down why discomfort matters and what it does for us in everyday life. Hard is relative—what challenges me…
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154 - What Past Guests Taught Me About Getting After It
This episode is about three lessons I’ve learned from past guests. The first is resilience. Dave Daly broke his neck and had to relearn how to live. His story…
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153 - Being Graceful with Yourself (Why It Fuels Discipline)
We’ve been taught to believe that discipline means never missing a step, never falling short, never giving ourselves an inch of slack. But the truth is—grace…
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152 - Dallin Shurts - The Mindset of An Athlete
In this episode of Getting After It, I sit down with Dallin Shurts—BYU record holder, Team USA discus thrower, and a man who has learned as much from failure…
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151 - The Marathon of Life: Lessons Beyond the Miles
Running is more than exercise, it’s a teacher. In this episode, I explore the lessons running offers far beyond the trail: how it strengthens the body…