164: How to Turn Hard Seasons Into Your Biggest Breakthrough | Ken Rideout
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ken Rideout returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard, and the life experiences that shaped it. We discuss his rise from addiction and adversity to sobriety, business success, and a 2:28 marathon, plus his recent Austin Half Marathon win at 54. This conversation explores discipline, faith, identity, risk, and what it takes to build a meaningful life on the other side of hard.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:30 The Other Side of Hard
02:58 Winning the Austin Half at 54
05:49 From Addiction to Endurance
07:46 Leaving Wall Street, Starting Over
12:04 The Marathon Breakthrough
15:41 Loving the Process, Not Just PRs
18:54 Family, Roots, and Perspective
23:38 Breaking Out of Your Environment
27:06 Insecurity, Recovery, and Growth
29:24 Marriage, Fatherhood, and Real Life
31:56 Cancer Scare and Perspective Shift
36:28 Faith, Weakness, and Identity
43:41 You Are More Than Performance
53:26 Build the Life You Want
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the show, returning guests, Kenrod out. |
| 0:11.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:12.0 | I just want to say before we start how much I appreciate you, like writing this book |
| 0:16.2 | and then having to go out and do promo and ask friends like yourself to have me on the show. |
| 0:20.6 | It's like by far |
| 0:21.7 | much harder than writing the actual book. So I just want you to know how much I appreciate you |
| 0:26.2 | allowing me to share my journey, my details of my book and everything else with your audience. I |
| 0:32.8 | don't take it for granted. And I thank you sincerely. No, I appreciate that. I mean, I just got done in this past year |
| 0:39.2 | with the whole book process, writing, publishing, PR, doing the tour. So I feel you. It's truly a marathon. |
| 0:49.2 | Well, I'd also like to say that a big part of the, a big reason why this book actually came to fruition in |
| 0:55.0 | part is because of you and people like you that allowed me to come on when you know I couldn't |
| 0:59.8 | get arrested no one knew who I was and you allowed me to come on and share my story and it resonated |
| 1:04.1 | with so many of your fans that have that I feel like I'm part of that tribe like we're all kind of like |
| 1:09.4 | I was telling you when I walk into your facility here at BPN I'm like I feel part of that tribe. Like we're all kind of, like I was telling you, when I walk into your facility here at BPN, |
| 1:12.6 | I'm like, I feel comfortable. |
| 1:14.6 | I feel like I'm with my people. |
| 1:16.6 | And being able to share my journey with your people really allowed the book to become a reality |
| 1:22.6 | because my story resonated with so many of your tribe members. |
| 1:28.5 | So, thank you. |
| 1:30.0 | So the book is called The Other Side of Hard. |
| 1:32.9 | Yep. |
| 1:33.4 | Everything you want is on the other side of Hard. |
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