528: Rich Roll - finding the ultra you

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Kevin Miller

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🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Rich Roll was near 40 and in horrific shape. He had a big awakening and transformed himself into not just a fit and well guy, but an elite, ultra endurance athlete. And from that, a guy who is massively inspiring hundreds of thousands of people. You may know Rich from his top ranked podcast, “The Rich Roll Podcast”. Rich is a world-renown, plant-based ultra-endurance athlete, in-demand public speaker, wellness advocate, bestselling author and inspirational hero to a global audience of wellness seekers as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living. The story is, after succumbing to the sedentary throes of overweight middle age, at age 40, Rich made a decision to overhaul his life, adopting a plant-based diet and reinventing himself as an ultra-distance endurance athlete. Just a few years later, Rich stunned the multisport community with top finishes at the Ultraman World Championships, a 320-mile, 3-day double ironman-distance triathlon widely considered one of the most grueling endurance events on the planet. Rich chronicles his journey in Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself -- an inspirational memoir of plant-fueled athletic prowess which quickly became a #1 bestseller. In 2015, Rich and his vegan chef wife Julie Piatt released The Plantpower Way – a plant-based cookbook and lifestyle primer for the active modern family. The discussion was, well, Rich! I felt quite a kindred spirit in Rich, and from the authenticity he shares in the struggles he’s dealt with, I think you will too. You can connect with Rich at richroll.com and you’ll want to check out his new offering, meals.richroll.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.
0:07.0	Over the years I became less and less enthusiastic about that.
0:10.0	So I actually wasn't doing very well financially even as a lawyer because my heart was not in it and when I had that kind of crisis point moment on the staircase and decided to change my life and I just thought like what makes me happy and it turned out like when I really did an
0:24.8	inventory of this question the things that made me happy were really simple things
0:29.6	Welcome to the Ziggler show where we inspire your true performance.
0:33.8	I'm your host Kevin Miller and today we bring you a guy who is near 40 and in horrific shape
0:40.4	and he transformed himself, not just into a fit and well guy but into an elite and
0:46.4	ultra-endurance athlete at the top of his game. From that then a guy who is
0:51.5	massively inspiring hundreds of thousands of people with his
0:56.2	journey.
0:57.5	Rich Roll.
0:58.7	You may know him from his top-ranked podcast, The Rich Roll Podcast. He is a world-renowned plant-based ultra-endurance athlete,
1:06.8	highly in-demand public speaker, a wellness advocate, a best-selling author, and an inspirational
1:12.3	hero to a global audience of wellness seekers
1:15.6	as a transformational example of courageous and healthy living.
1:20.7	It's just a great story that's what we're going to dig in today.
1:23.6	And really the background story is after succumbing to just the sedentary throws of overweight
1:29.5	middle-agedness at the age of 40, he made a decision to overhaul his life. Why he made that
1:35.3	decision, the catalyst for that is a big part of the story and we start off pretty
1:38.8	quick in the interview with that. But he adopted a plant-based diet and totally reinvented himself as an ultra-distance
1:46.9	endurance athlete. Just a few years later, he stunned the multi-support community with top finishes
1:52.2	at the Ultraman World Championships. the ruling endurance events on the planet.
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