Addiction, Reinvention, and Finding Ultra with Endurance Athlete Rich Roll

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Chase Jarvis

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4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Rich Roll is a New York Times best selling author, endurance athlete, parent and beautiful human being. He first came across my radar a few years ago when he completed FIVE Iron Mans in five consecutive days. That’s a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, finished off with a marathon in one day — TIMES 5 DAYS!!

On the show, we dive into reinvention, overcoming addiction and depression, explore plant based diets, and his spiritual calling...

We also cover:

After a decade of living what he though the “American dream of success” was, he found himself miserable and in a career that he pursued because he thought that’s what we should do. He shares his journey OUT OF THE MESS… and advice for pursuing what our hearts tell us.
We cover parenting and helping to develop agency in our kids and future generations - to leave the planet better off than we found it.
And, how embracing our weakness, our struggles, and our pain in life - just might be our strongest ally in living the life we were meant to live…

This episode is a whopper. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, what's up? It's your friend Chase. Happy to be in yours today for another episode of the show. That's right. The Chase Sharper's Live show here on Creative Live. You know this show, this is where I sit down with amazing humans and I do what I can to get the things that are in their brain out and into yours.
0:26.3	My guest today is a legendary endurance athlete.
0:27.3	Check this out.
0:33.7	Among lots of other amazing feats, he has competed in five, or rather not competed in,
0:42.0	completed five Iron Man's in five days on five different islands in Hawaii.
0:46.7	If you do not understand what an Iron Man in it, it is what I would consider, the ultimate test of human endurance, right?
0:48.4	2.4 miles swim, a 112 mile bike, and a marathon in a day.
0:55.5	And my homie, Rich Roll, who's on the show today, did five of those back to back to back.
0:59.9	And here's the crazy other thing about Rich Roll is our episode is very, very low on what it takes to be an endurance athlete and very, very high on how to reinvent yourself after complete failure.
1:14.6	He's so well spoken, so articulate on his own journey through going through a life of
1:22.9	addiction, substance abuse, depression, and falling flat on his face to rock bottom and then rebuilding
1:30.6	himself that it's no wonder he wrote a number one New York Times bestseller about this
1:37.5	process called Finding Ultra. He's also one of the top podcasters out there with the Rich
1:43.2	Roll podcast.
1:45.1	And in this episode, we go deep on those things.
1:48.5	So a couple other bullets before, I don't want to give the show away because it is, again, it's got like endurance athlete and superstar on the cover.
1:58.4	But underneath are the pages in this podcast here, if you can think about it like
2:02.2	that, this is really a story of human challenge, triumph, and reinvention. He also talks a lot
2:09.0	about the spiritual journey, not religious, not in that context, in very, the spiritual journey
2:15.1	of personal growth, what it feels like to struggle, to fail, to climb out of a very dark place and to not just survive, but thrive.
2:24.6	He also talks about his unexpected fame as something like in his late 40s from not being the fastest triathlete, not being the fastest ultramarathoner, but just doing
2:36.3	challenges that he created for himself.
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