excellence, actually

Steve Magness, Brad Stulberg, Clay Skipper

kavan@wearebv.com

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Booking Overview

“excellence, actually” is a practical, evidence-based show about the mental and physical tools top performers use to achieve sustained excellence. It’s pitched toward coaches, executives, physicians, and elite athletes/performers—and often includes real practitioner perspectives like writers/creatives navigating long-term performance.

Metrics

Episodes: 359

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 1.3k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Steve Magness - Co-host of “excellence, actually,” drawing on years of working and corresponding with Olympians, coaches, executives, world-class physicians, and other elite-level achievers to share mental/physica...

Brad Stulberg - Co-host of “excellence, actually.” Episodes share evidence-based practices, habits, and frameworks used by elite-level achievers (e.g., Olympians, coaches, executives, physicians) to pursue excelle...

Clay Skipper - Co-host of “excellence, actually.” The show provides concrete ideas and tips grounded in the systems used by elite performers, based on the hosts’ experience working with and corresponding with hig...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Elite practitioners and public-facing experts whose work involves performance at a high level—e.g., high-achievement athletes/coaches/physicians, or widely recognized creators/writers whose careers show durable excellence (as evidenced by credits and/or public track record).
Required Achievements:  
Notable high-level career accomplishments (e.g., major film/TV credits), Demonstrated long-term commitment to performance/skill development (e.g., endurance/longevity framing), Publicly recognized expertise and sustained output in a high-performance domain

Recent Guest Discussions

Brian Koppelman - Longevity And Career; Undiagnosed ADHD And Curiosity; Discovering Tracy Chapman; Writer’s Block; What Michael Jordan Can (and Can't) Teach About Greatness; Separating Success From External Validation; Staying Creative And Excellent Long-term.

Recent Topics

Performance, Excellence, Coaching, Psychology, Mind Body

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
excellence, actually
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Six Books That Changed How We Think About Performance

June 25, 2026

Brad and Clay Skipper first became friends over books — specifically, a DM about Brad's bookshelf. Today, they return to that origin with a show-and-tell on six books that have genuinely changed how they think about performance: a poet-philosopher on the tension between work, self, and relationships; a Buddhist nun on learning to stop fighting the inevitable; a tennis coach who figured out the mind-body problem 50 years ahead of everyone else; the psychologist who named flow; a philosopher wh...

How to Come Back, from the Greatest Playoff Run in NBA History

June 18, 2026

Last Saturday night, the New York Knicks won the NBA Championship. It was an improbable, remarkable run, one of the best in NBA history. After going down 2-1 in the first round, they won 15 of their next 16 games, beating the Spurs 4 to 1 to win the title. Their point differential over that stretch was 283, the biggest in the history of the league. Most incredibly, the Knicks trailed all five games in the NBA finals by double digits. They lost the first five quarters by a total of 57 points. ...

Longevity, Actually (with Brian Koppelman)

June 11, 2026

Brian Koppelman has been writing great films and shows for 30 years — Rounders, Ocean's Thirteen, and Billions, to name a few. Now 60, he's working with as much energy as ever. He'll be back in the role of "Computer" on the hit show The Bear when it returns later this month, and he's three years into a powerlifting journey he began at 57 after almost fainting on a tennis court. When we think about the type of longevity worth aspiring to, we think of Brian Koppelman. Today, he talks about how ...

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