The Dr. Greg Wells Podcast

In today’s conversation Dr. Greg explores the decision he and his sixteen-year-old daughter Ingrid made to attempt seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. He shares how persistent injuries led them to stop, recover, and rebuild their health from the ground up before they were ready to begin endurance training again. The episode traces the project from a series of small rehabilitation sessions to a potential Guinness World Record attempt, while introducing the Great World Race as a living exploration of human physiology, adaptation, and possibility. The event is scheduled for November 15–21, 2026, beginning at Wolf’s Fang in Antarctica and finishing in Miami.

In today’s conversation Dr. Greg Wells shares the core ideas behind Rest, Refocus, Recharge and explains why true performance is built on cycles of stress and recovery rather than nonstop output. He shows how rest, reflection, focus, creativity, and flow are linked to different physiological and cognitive states, and why learning to move between them is essential in a high-pressure world. The masterclass blends neuroscience, physiology, and practical routines to help listeners recover deliberately, think more clearly, and perform with greater consistency. At its heart, this is a guide to slowing down strategically so you can speed up where it matters most.
You will learn how deliberate recovery improves mental and physical performance, why sleep is foundational for health, learning, and emotional regulation, how reflection and metacognition sharpen decision-making, how mindfulness and movement improve focus and attention, and why creativity and flow emerge more easily when tension gives way to recovery. You will also learn how different brainwave states relate to recovery, learning, concentration, ideation, and extraordinary performance, and how small, repeatable rituals can help you access those states more consistently.
You will discover that recovery is not a break from performance. Recovery is part of performance. When you deliberately create space for sleep, reflection, movement, and renewal, you give your brain and body the conditions they need to grow stronger, think more clearly, and perform at a higher level.
This masterclass helps solve the challenge of feeling chronically busy, mentally overloaded, and physically depleted while still wanting to do meaningful work at a high level. Dr. Wells gives the listener a practical framework for escaping reactive busyness and replacing it with deliberate recovery, better focus, and healthier, more sustainable performance.

Chris Bailey is trying to solve the gap between setting goals and actually following through on them. In this episode, we dig into helping you to stop relying on vague motivation or willpower and instead align your goals, priorities, and daily actions with what matters most to you.

In today’s conversation Chris Bailey explores why intention is deeper than goal setting and why follow-through depends on aligning daily actions with values and priorities. He and Dr. Wells unpack Bailey’s “intention stack,” the science of human values, and the hidden role of aversion in procrastination. They also examine how people can redesign goals so they feel more meaningful, attractive, and realistic. The conversation ultimately turns productivity into something more human: a way of acting with purpose instead of simply doing more.
You will learn how Chris defines intention, how values quietly shape motivation and follow-through, why priorities sit between values and goals, how procrastination is often driven by aversion rather than laziness, and why time awareness is one of the most practical tools for becoming more intentional. You will also hear a simple daily practice he uses himself: setting three clear intentions for the day before the noise begins.
You will discover that a goal is not just a wish or an ambition. In Bailey’s framing, it is a prediction about where your current and planned actions will take you, which means better follow-through depends on designing those actions far more carefully.
This episode helps solve the challenge of knowing what you want but repeatedly failing to act on it. Bailey gives listeners a framework for making goals more doable by connecting them to values, reducing aversion, and translating them into concrete daily intentions.
Key take aways:
Goals fail when they clash with values.
Priorities connect values to goals.
Aversion drives procrastination.
Time awareness creates better action.
Three daily intentions sharpen focus.

Dr. Mitchell is trying to solve the problem that most people know what healthy behaviors are, but struggle to start and sustain them in real life. His work focuses on using behavioral science, digital health tools, and practical design strategies to help people make small, realistic changes that last and improve health at scale.

In today’s conversation Alex Hutchinson explores the mind-body relationship at the heart of endurance, effort, and human performance. He and Dr. Wells unpack how the brain interprets fatigue, why self-talk changes perceived effort, and how challenge can become a source of meaning rather than something to avoid. They also discuss adventure, curiosity, and the science of exploration, bringing the conversation back to a practical truth: consistent movement and a healthy relationship with effort are foundational for a better life.