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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Bonus Re-Issue: Rich Roll from March 2014

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Bonus Re-Issue from March 2014This week on The One You Feed we have Rich Roll.Rich Roll  is a 47-year old, accomplished vegan ultra-endurance athlete and former entertainment attorney turned full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate, motivational speaker, husband, father of 4 and inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living.In 2012, Rich became a #1 bestselling author with the publication of his inspirational memoir Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself.  Taking up where the book leaves off, in 2013 Rich launched the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, which persistently sits atop the iTunes top-10 lists.In May 2010, Rich and his ultra-colleague Jason Lester accomplished an unprecedented feat of staggering endurance many said was not possible. Something they call the EPIC5 CHALLENGE – a odyssey that entailed completing 5 ironman-distance triathlons on 5 islands of Hawaii in under a week. Commencing on Kauai, they travelled to Oahu, Molokai and Maui before finishing on the Big Island, following the course of the Ironman World Championships on the Kona coast. In This Interview Rich and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.His experience feeding the bad wolf.His battle with alcoholism.How his sobriety wasn't all he needed for happiness.His moment of clarity at 40 that made him change his life again.The value of a plant based diet.How important it is to be ourselves and be vulnerable in telling our story.How nervous he was about sharing his innermost thoughts in his book.How he followed his heart and it led to a new life for himWhy you should stop lifehacking and invest in the journey.How to push through discomfort.The difference between the thinking mind and your higher consciousness.Eric taking on a 30 day plant power challenge.Rich Roll LinksRich Roll homepageThe Rich Roll podcastRich Roll on MediumWhy You Should Stop Lifehacking and Invest in the Journey@RichRoll on TwitterSome of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy:Mike Scott of the WaterboysTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Eric from the one you feed and this is a special bonus reissue of our earlier episode with Rich Roll.

0:09.8

Rich is the first guest we've had on twice and so in honor of that we're re-releasing the episode we did with him back in March of last year.

0:18.0

And also you can hear the new episode with Rich and his wife Julie available also.

0:24.0

As always thanks for listening and talk to you soon. Bye.

0:27.5

Sometimes you just have to start. You don't you don't need to know where it's leading you.

0:39.6

Welcome to the one you feed.

0:41.2

Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have.

0:45.9

Quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true.

0:51.5

And yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.

0:55.8

We tend toward negativity, self pity, jealousy or fear.

1:00.7

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

1:03.6

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

1:06.9

But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter.

1:10.5

It takes conscious, consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living.

1:15.1

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction.

1:19.7

How they feed their good wolf.

1:25.8

Hi, it's Elvis Jaran on my new podcast thinking out loud with Elvis Jaran.

1:37.2

I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.

1:42.1

We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.

1:48.3

But all jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,

1:52.3

I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.

1:54.8

Listen to my new podcast thinking out loud on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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