The Rich Roll Podcast

By Rich Roll

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A master-class in personal and professional development, ultra-athlete, wellness evangelist and bestselling author Rich Roll delves deep with the world's brightest and most thought provoking thought leaders to educate, inspire and empower you to unleash your best, most authentic self. More at: http://richroll.com

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“Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.”John Joseph500 EPISODES. Over seven years ago, I sat down in a damp and echo-y warehouse on the north shore of Kauai and hit record for the very first time. There was ...

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02.17.2020 Cyrus Khambatta, PhD & Robby Barbaro, MPH Are Mastering Diabetes “The disconnect between the research and what the public believes and understands is mind boggling.”Dr. Cyrus Khambatta & Robby BarbaroA full blown epidemic in the developed world, diabetes currently afflicts an astonishing 30 million people in the US alone, despite ...
02.16.2020 John Joseph & Mishka Shubaly Are My Reservoir Dogs “Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.”John Joseph500 EPISODES. Over seven years ago, I sat down in a damp and echo-y warehouse on the north shore of Kauai and hit record for the very first time. There was ...
02.10.2020 Rewind Your Clock: David Sinclair, PhD Wants To 'Cure' Aging “Your genes are not your destiny.”David Sinclair, PhDAging is inevitable. Everybody grows old. Everyone dies. We accept these statements as fact. But what if they're just stories based on history and our current understanding of biology? What if everything we ...
02.06.2020 Gregg Renfrew Leads The Clean Beauty Movement “Never compromise health in the name of beauty.”Gregg RenfrewThis show spends a lot of time exploring the health, environmental and ethical implications of the food we eat. But what we put on our bodies is just as important as what ...
02.03.2020 Chef Iliana Regan Is A Boss: Thoughts On Sobriety, Literary Acclaim & Foraging “We can all connect over food and the love of the outdoors.”Iliana ReganLast week we explored the intersection of art and endurance with Rickey Gates. The week prior we broke barriers in women's sports with Lauren Fleshman and Lindsay Crouse. ...
01.27.2020 The Poet Laureate Of Running: Rickey Gates On Endurance & Empathy “Fun over fast. That’s generally what I tell people.”Rickey GatesThere are athletes. And there are artists. Rare is the individual that inhabits the best of both worlds. Meet Rickey Gates. Both idiosyncratic and extraordinary, you may know Rickey as a ...
01.23.2020 Lindsay Crouse Is Changing The Game For Women's Sports “If we really care about the future of girls in sports, we need to invest in the girls that are actually playing these sports.”Lindsay CrouseA perfect companion piece to my recent conversation with Lauren Fleshman -- and in furtherance of ...
01.20.2020 Lauren Fleshman Is Empowering Women Athletes “I changed my body for sport. No girl should."Lauren FleshmanWhat is the current state of gender parity in sport? Ask today's guest and she'll tell you that women and girls are no longer content just to have a chance to ...
01.13.2020 Balancing Your Hormones With Neal Barnard, MD “Rather than using people as recipients of prescriptions, let’s instead work with people as partners to help them to put the best fuel in their bodies."Neal Barnard, MDA predominant theme of this podcast is the profound impact of nutrition on ...
01.09.2020 Kelly McGonigal Wants You To Fall In Love With Movement “Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort."Kelly McGonigal, PhDWe equate the new year with potential energy. It's an opportunity to re-evaluate one's trajectory. A permission grant to chart a new course of self-discovery. In truth, ...
01.06.2020 Chadd Wright: Don’t Give Pain A Voice “You only have a certain amount of energy. Use it to promote the things you love."Chadd WrightOur 'Best Of' anthology series isn't the only annual tradition here at the RRP. Two years ago we started a new one, kicking off ...
12.30.2019 The Best Of 2019: Part II “If you have a spiritual life, it is for you. It is not something you should inflict on other people.”Russell BrandWelcome to Part II of our 7th annual Best of the RRP Anthology — our way of taking a moment ...
12.26.2019 The Best Of 2019: Part I “Stay positive. Make a change for yourself. Tell others about your change. Feel good and hopefully, the message will spread.”Gemma NewmanWelcome to the 7th annual Best of the RRP Anthology — our way of taking a moment to reflect on ...
12.23.2019 Kendra Little Is Becoming More: Broadening The Gender Identity Conversation “You don’t have to be intersex to be able to relate to my story. Everyone is going through something they don’t feel like they can share. This story is for them as well."Kendra LittleGrowing up in the late 1970's there ...
12.16.2019 Rangan Chatterjee, MD On Quelling Stress, Cultivating Intimacy & Reinventing Health Care “My mission is to help 100 million people feel fantastic by restoring them to optimal health."Rangan ChatterjeeToday we’re going to talk about stress. In proper doses it’s actually beneficial, promoting resilience -- both physical and mental. But for most people, ...
12.12.2019 Julie Piatt: Seeing The Divinity In Everything “We are the ones we've been waiting for."Julie Piatt Welcome to the latest installment in my ongoing series of mind melds with my wife and in-house spiritual guru, the wise and ethereal Julie Piatt, aka SriMati. Longtime listeners are well ...
12.09.2019 Breaking Boston: Scott Fauble Is Leading American Marathoners Into The Olympics “Good and fast are not the same thing."Scott FaubleFor the vast majority of us, besting our 26.2 personal record by 3+ minutes would be considered fine. Something to be celebrated, but hardly a mind-bending breakthrough. At the highest level of ...
12.02.2019 Ryland Engelhart’s Philosophy Is Gratitude: Thoughts On Soil, Sacred Commerce & Sustainability “Love is not something found in a person, place or thing. It’s something that is ever present in our hearts and always available as a gift and it costs nothing to share it.” Ryland Engelhart Last week we explored the ...
11.25.2019 Soil Is Everything: John & Molly Chester’s Biggest Little Farm “This all started with a promise that we would leave the big city and build a life in perfect harmony with nature.” John Chester Biodiversity. Regenerative agriculture. Ecological sustainability. Carbon drawdown. Climate change reversal. These are popular themes that recur ...
11.21.2019 Awareness Is A Superpower “Be aware of the ignorance without judging the ignorance.” Guru Singh Making his 9th appearance on the podcast, today marks another mind-bending deep dive into the multiverse with Guru Singh, my treasured friend and favorite wizard of all things mystical. ...
11.18.2019 He Ran Across America — On Plants “Just because something is hard in the beginning doesn't mean it's always going to be.” Robbie Balenger Imagine running an ultramarathon. It’s a huge undertaking for anyone. And a bucket list dream for many. Now imagine running an ultramarathon every ...
11.11.2019 Edward Norton: Thoughts On Ego, Taking Big Swings & Speaking Truth To Power “I think ego is the deepest addiction there is.” Edward Norton One of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, today Edward Norton graces the podcast to discuss his fascinating life and perspective on filmmaking, culture, politics and the nature ...
11.07.2019 Dean Karnazes Is Running For Good: Lessons On Longevity & Embracing Discomfort “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” Dean Karnazes Gracing us with his beautiful presence for a third appearance on the show, my guest today is none other than the ...
11.04.2019 Rodrigo y Gabriela: Musical Mystics On Mettavolution, Meditation & Mastery (+ Mini-Concert!) “Music is mystical. At the beginning, you don’t even know why. You just feel. Then you hit a point when you forget that feeling and you have to meet it again.“ Rodrigo Sánchez It’s one thing to be an artist. ...
10.28.2019 Stop Compromising Yourself: Mark Manson On Hope, Human Dignity & The Perils of Comfort “Constant stimulation complicates our understanding of ourselves. The more options we have, the less willing we are to compromise what we want to be with somebody else.” Mark Manson One day not long ago, I awoke to a bright orange ...
10.24.2019 Amelia Boone Is A Human Being (And Still A Badass) “I don’t want to be ‘the eating disorder recovery girl’, I don’t want to be ‘the athlete’. This is just me. I’m super flawed, I’m super complex, just like everybody else out there.” Amelia Boone Today's guest is lauded for ...
10.21.2019 Can A Burger Help Save The Planet? Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown Says Yes “The mission of Impossible Foods is very simple. It’s to completely replace animals in the food system by 2035.” Pat Brown By now, most of you have heard about the Impossible Burger. I imagine many of you have tried it. ...
10.14.2019 We Can Solve Climate Change Now: Paul Hawken & IN-Q LIVE “There’s no difference between a climate denier and somebody who’s literate in climate change and doesn’t do anything.” Paul Hawken I'm ecstatic to share my first live podcast event, recorded at the Los Angeles Wilshire Ebell Theatre on September 27, ...
10.10.2019 Chase Jarvis: Creativity Is Our Birthright “Creativity is a muscle. It's a habit not a skill. It's a process not a product.” Chase Jarvis Conventional wisdom frames creativity as the purview of a certain select few — a rare gift that eludes us mere mortals. This ...
10.07.2019 The Craving Mind: Dr. Jud Brewer On Treating Addiction With Mindfulness “What we’re seeing with meditation is that when we get out of our own way, our brains naturally work better and we can really start to get into the flow of things and in sync with life.” Dr. Jud Brewer ...
09.30.2019 Ryan Holiday: Stillness Is The Path To Everything We Want In Life “There’s no one magical thing you do and then have stillness. It’s a process.” Ryan Holiday He's best known for popularizing Stoicism — an ancient philosophical yet highly practical operating system he pioneered to mainstream, modern adoption. In his latest ...
09.23.2019 Laila Ali’s Champion Mindset Begins With Self-Belief “I’ve always been a fighter. For some reason, I’ve always wanted to fight and prove that I was strong.” Laila Ali How do you find your path in the vast shadow cast by one of history's most accomplished and beloved ...
09.19.2019 The Seed Of Infinity: Guru Singh On Consciousness “Consciousness is a seed. A seed of infinity with no specific identity and the same vast potential as a seed.” Guru Singh Newly rebranded from Guru Corner to Guru Multiverse — because after all the infinite has no sharp edges ...
09.16.2019 Kelly Corrigan Is The Poet Laureate Of The Ordinary “Appreciation is the purest, strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.” Kelly Corrigan Love. Connection. Pain. Finding the universal in the specific. And beauty in the mundane. This is ...
09.09.2019 David Epstein On Why Late Bloomers Win “You don’t change your identity overnight. You have to start with these little keyhole experiments until something that you think that was just an interest becomes a real passion or a vocation.” David Epstein Conventional wisdom dictates that mastery demands ...
09.05.2019 Keep Evolving: Julie Piatt Returns “The heart is the divine mind, not the brain” Julie Piatt Has it really been a full year since Julie appeared on the podcast? Well that's just not right. So today marks the latest installment in my ongoing series of ...
09.02.2019 Lori Gottlieb: Stories From A Therapist In Therapy “We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.” Lori Gottlieb Let's talk about talking to someone. Personally, I've been in and out of therapy for more ...
08.26.2019 Tony Riddle Wants To Rewild Your Life “We can’t all live in nature but that doesn’t mean we can’t all live naturally.” Tony Riddle Screens and cubicles. Shoes and chairs. Fluorescent lights and air conditioned offices. Processed foods. Netflix and chill. Disconnecting us from our essential human ...
08.22.2019 Gwen Jorgensen’s Champion Mindset: Big Dreams, Taking Risks & Following Your Heart “It doesn’t matter what other people think. Not everyone is going to always support you 100% but as long as you are doing you and you know that you’re becoming a better person then that’s what’s important.” Gwen Jorgensen How ...
08.19.2019 How to Unlearn: Humble The Poet On Simple Truths For A Better Life “We all have the unlimited power to shift our perspective, and with that the unlimited power to change the way we feel about life.” Humble The Poet We craft our identity around story. And that story is comprised of beliefs. ...
08.12.2019 Annaka Harris On Consciousness “Sometimes, we have to completely let go of intuitions that are actually giving us false information about reality.” Annaka Harris What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take ‘experience' for granted. But the very ...
08.08.2019 Amanda Palmer On Radical Compassion & The Power Of Vulnerability “We will stay crippled in the darkness if we cannot feel compassion for the heart that is the darkest.” Amanda Palmer Today's guest is many things. A fiercely independent singer, songwriter and musician. A bestselling author and blogger. A playwright ...
08.05.2019 Toby Morse On Punk, Parenting & PMA “The key to being positive and happy is doing what you love. I’m very lucky to still be able to do that. I don’t have a ‘Plan B’. I never really had one. I just live my life.” Toby Morse ...
07.29.2019 Titus Welliver On Gratitude & Great Art “Gratitude and humility attract opportunity and success.” Titus Welliver Hey it's that guy. You know the guy, right? The guy with the crazy moustache in that Ben Affleck movie? The Man In Black from Lost? The Irish gangster in Sons ...
07.25.2019 Zach Bush, MD Wants You To Let Go Of Your Story “The biggest problem we all face is the story that we tell ourselves of what our lives have been. It’s keeping us in a box. The ‘cubicle’ you’re really living in is your story.” Zach Bush, MD He’s back! One ...
07.22.2019 Matthew Futterman On The Secrets of Speed & Endurance “Where you’re born, how you’re born and how you grew up are not your destiny. You can change your destiny. If you do the work, you can be better tomorrow than you were yesterday.” Matthew Futterman What is the secret ...
07.15.2019 Pro Boxer Mike Lee On Why Mindset Is Everything “The more you can be in this present moment and control what you can control, the better off you're going to be.” Mike Lee To be totally honest, I don't follow the pugilistic arts all that closely. But professional boxer ...
07.11.2019 Jeff Gordinier Is Hungry: Perfect Plates, Punk Rock & Prolific Prose “You are here now. Make the most of it and change what's not working. It's crucial.” Jeff Gordinier Why is great food important? How and why did restaurants become culturally significant? And what life lessons can be gleaned from the ...
07.08.2019 Miguel McKelvey Is Reimagining The Workplace — How Design Fuels Human Connection “What I really care about is connecting people.” Miguel McKelvey The tectonic plates of the workplace landscape are rapidly shifting. Gone are the days of multi-decade corporate allegiance, replaced with project-based careers. The rapid rise of the freelance economy. And ...
07.01.2019 Dave Roll: Meditations On Character, Integrity & Leadership “Character matters.” Dave Roll For reasons both obvious and perhaps less so, this week's episode holds a very special place in my heart. There is something unique about sitting before a microphone that permits a species of conversation difficult to ...

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