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164: How to Turn Hard Seasons Into Your Biggest Breakthrough | Ken Rideout

The Nick Bare Podcast

Nick Bare

Health & Fitness

4.96.1K Ratings

🗓️ 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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