

The Excellence Cartel
Jeff Black / Jason Theobald
Join us each episode as we learn to be better at our crafts as coaches and business owners in the health and fitness space.
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Oct 16, 2019 • 1h 19min
Episode 10 - King of the Hill
Episode 10: King of the Hill
Jeff, Jeffrey, and Jason chat with Skip Hill, coach, author, and father of "skip loading", about how coaching and clientele have evolved over the past 20 years.
Skip recalls his time on the forums earning street cred and how giving free advice led to a robust coaching career spanning over two decades.
We also opine on competing while pregnant and the peanut gallery that is social media today.
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Oct 9, 2019 • 1h 17min
EPISODE 9: "That's Not How We Do Business.”
EPISODE 9: "That's Not How We Do Business.”
Whether you're a coach, a senior executive, or a school teacher, you know your time and energy is valuable. If you care about your work and your people, it can feel easy and natural to overextend. However in the long run, should you?
Jeff, Jeffrey, and Jason explore their boundaries, rules, and regrets in coaching, business, and their personal lives in this week's episode.
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Sep 25, 2019 • 1h 24min
The Excellence Cartel: Episode 7 - John Gorman
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EPISODE 7: Team (John) Gorman!
Jeff, Jeffrey, and Jason sit down with family man, coach, author, public speaker and business man, John Gorman. With a little bit of luck and passion for educating others, John talks about how he built his fitness business empire and shares some advice with the younger generation of up and coming coaches who may find themselves lost in the era of social media.
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Sep 18, 2019 • 1h 14min
Episode 6: The Mountain Dog Cometh
Episode 6: The Mountain Dog Cometh
Jeff, Jeffrey and Jason sit down with John Meadows, one of the most influential thinkers within the fitness industry to learn how John stays relevant as a leader while managing his supplement line, coaching business, and paid-for-content website. John reveals some of his biggest business blunders and offers advice to the up and coming generation. He also gives Jeffrey some helpful nutrition advice to stay on track while traveling.
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Sep 11, 2019 • 1h 18min
Episode 5 - Money Changes Everything
Episode 5: Money Changes Everything
Jason, Jeff and Jeffrey talk off the cuff about money - how we view it, how we make it, and how we manage it. From childhood lessons learned to where we see ourselves in the future, money changes everything.
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Sep 4, 2019 • 1h 24min
Episode 4 - Guest Alex Tilinca
The Excellence Cartel
Episode 4: Guest Alex Tilinica
18-year old men's classic physique competitor Alex Tilinca (IG: alextilinca),talks bodybuilding, hormones, and dating as a female-to-male (FTM) transgender athlete. Alex trains under Jason Theobald and recently won his class at the 2019 NPC Victor Martinez Legends Championships. From coming out to his parents to top surgery to the portrayal of the LGBTQ community in the media, Alex tackles all of our tough questions with poise, maturity, and introspection.
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Information about the Physique Education Collective
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Aug 28, 2019 • 1h 4min
Episode Three or Tree?
THE EXCELLENCE CARTEL: EPISODE III
This week Jeff, Jason, and Jeffrey look back on their years in bodybuilding and coaching and offer some insight on what mistakes to avoid. From social media snafus to how not to diet females, we’ve done it all!
We also talk about the business of bodybuilding and how that landscape is being shaped.
We also announce our first guest next week along with how to win a free ticket to the Physique Education Collective!
The Excellence Cartel is a free podcast hosted by Jeff Black, Jeffrey Su, and Jason Theobald. Our mission is to bring to YOU our musings and experiences in the business of fitness. Leadership values, coaching methodology, and what it takes to build and maintain a strong brand.
There are plenty of podcasts about all the technical stuff around training and nutrition, but not too much about the strategy and mindset that goes into creating a successful platform within the industry.
Jeff, Jason, and I may not know it all nor are any of us the most successful out there but we’ve learned a trick or two in our experiences growing each of our own businesses.
The Excellence Cartel is a sneak peak into our brains, the wackiness that goes on inside, and the greatness we each hope to inspire in all of YOU.
Enjoy!
To listen, simply click on the link below and press PLAY.
https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-…/…/It-All-Starts-Somewhere-e4v8bl

Aug 21, 2019 • 1h 4min
Episode Deux -
In this week's episode we discuss goal setting/mindset, the Weight Watchers app for kids, and training modalities to avoid.
We also are giving away 5 TICKETS to the Physique Education Collective on September 21st in Nashville Tennessee! Info on how to enter your name into the drawing for one of these tickets is in the episode.
Information about the Physique Education Collective can be found in the link below!
https://www.facebook.com/events/677929976003300/
As always, please share away if you find anything you heard valuable and always feel free to reach out to us :)

Aug 14, 2019 • 44min
It All Starts Somewhere
THE EXCELLENCE CARTEL
Episode 1: It All Starts Somewhere!
The Excellence Cartel is a free podcast hosted by Jeff Black, Jeffrey Su, and Jason Theobald. Our mission is to bring to YOU our musings and experiences in the business of fitness. Leadership values, coaching methodology, and what it takes to build and maintain a strong brand.
There are plenty of podcasts about all the technical stuff around training and nutrition, but not too much about the strategy and mindset that goes into creating a successful platform within the industry.
Jeff, Jason, and I may not know it all nor are any of us the most successful out there but we’ve learned a trick or two in our experiences growing each of our own businesses.
The Excellence Cartel is a sneak peak into our brains, the wackiness that goes on inside, and the greatness we each hope to inspire in all of YOU.
Enjoy!
To listen, simply click on the link below and press PLAY.
https://anchor.fm/jeffrey-…/…/It-All-Starts-Somewhere-e4v8bl