Pursuit of Excellence
Pursuit of Excellence
Podcast Description
What separates the good from the truly great? Pursuit of Excellence dives into the mindset, discipline, and strategies needed to break through limits and reach your highest potential. Hosted by business strategist and financial consultant Tinja Anderson, each episode delivers inspiring stories, best practices, and actionable insights for business owners, professionals, and leaders who refuse to settle for average. If you're ready to master the fundamentals, push past plateaus, and redefine success on your terms, the pursuit starts here.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on key themes such as mindset, discipline, and strategies required for personal and professional growth. Episode examples include discussions on the transition from athlete to leader with Morgan Jones, oil and gas strategy insights from Jeff Krimmel, and personal growth tactics with Dean Miles. The show emphasizes breaking through plateaus and redefining success in various contexts.
What separates the good from the truly great? Pursuit of Excellence dives into the mindset, discipline, and strategies needed to break through limits and reach your highest potential.
Hosted by business strategist and financial consultant Tinja Anderson, each episode delivers inspiring stories, best practices, and actionable insights for business owners, professionals, and leaders who refuse to settle for average. If you're ready to master the fundamentals, push past plateaus, and redefine success on your terms, the pursuit starts here.
What does it take to compete at the highest levels of sport, build companies from the ground up, and redefine success as life evolves?
In this episode of The Pursuit of Excellence, Tinja Anderson sits down with Mike Anderson — world champion sailor, two-time Olympian, Managing Director at George Smith Partners, and Co-Founder of AHM Group — to explore how excellence transforms across seasons of life.
From Olympic campaigns to structuring complex real estate capital stacks, Mike shares how his definition of success shifted from chasing accolades to building teams, leading with integrity, and showing up fully as a father and partner.
Together, they unpack the mindset shifts required to navigate pressure, partnership, risk, and reinvention — both on the water and in the boardroom.
You’ll learn:
✔️ Why attitude is the only thing you truly control
✔️ The difference between chasing outcomes and mastering process
✔️ How elite sport translates directly into leadership and capital markets
✔️ Why no real success is achieved alone
✔️ The underrated performance skill that sustains long-term growth
✔️ How patience and integrity create durable excellence
Whether you're an athlete, founder, executive, or parent navigating your own next chapter, this conversation will challenge you to rethink what excellence really means — and how to pursue it sustainably.
Connect with Mike:
LinkedIn: Mike Anderson-Mitterling
Connect with Tinja:
Instagram: @tinjaanderson, @pursuit_of_excellence_pod
TikTok: @tinjaanderson_pod
Podcast Website: The Pursuit of Excellence Podcast
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