Don’t Compromise: Living An Expansive Life, The Divine Throughline, Thoughts on Bowie & Why All Roads Lead To Meditation

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Technically this is another episode of Ask Me Anything. But this week we don't actually answer listener questions. This week we riff. This is a conversation about embracing the journey of becoming more of who you truly are. It's about the commitment to evolve into your most authentic expression. It's about the beauty and power of living an uncompromising, expansive, creative existence. There was a man who exemplified this ethos like no other. A man who never compromised. A man who expressed his creative truth with every fiber of his being, all the way down to his final breath. That man is the singular David Bowie. May you rest in peace, Ziggy Stardust. Today we reflect back on a remarkable life. From his example we mine the path to unlocking your own personal truth. And we weave our way back to one immutable truth — all roads to personal growth lead back to your commitment to you. As a related aside, and in case you missed it, enjoy this short movie about my recent visit to Beirut, Lebanon to run the marathon. I didn't run for time. I ran for peace. An experience that uplifted me, then broke my heart. That's what travel does — it breeds empathy. 2016 is all about video for me. So if you enjoyed this little movie, subscribe to my YouTube Channel. I'll be uploading a new video every week, so lots of cool stuff soon to come. For fun daily videos on my morning routines, nutrition, training, podcast behind the scenes and random musings, add me (iamrichroll) on Snapchat! In any event, enjoy the conversation. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	The Rich Roll Podcast
0:10.0	The Rich Roll Podcast
0:12.0	Hello citizens of Planet Earth. This is Rich Roll. Welcome to my podcast.
0:18.0	I'm the host of The Rich Roll Podcast. Is that the truth?
0:21.0	That's true actually. Excellent. You in fact are. You're in the right place.
0:31.0	Hi Julie. Hi Rich Roll. How are you? I'm pretty good actually. Excellent.
0:37.0	It's been a little spell since I've been having missed me. I have missed you.
0:42.0	It's been a long time. Are we going to get intimate now? Since I've seen you. What do you mean?
0:47.0	It's been a long time since I was on the podcast. When was the last time? A long time ago. It was a...
0:52.0	Oh come on. It was look-see. Oh no way more than a couple weeks.
0:56.0	Three weeks maybe. You know it was before my father passed away. It was just before that.
1:01.0	Yeah so it's been you know six weeks now or so. No it was four weeks. It's like mid-December.
1:07.0	The December I think. Because before the best of. It was actually yeah exactly.
1:11.0	Anyway well since then quite a bit has happened. Your father indeed did pass away.
1:16.0	He did. I think was the... Let's talk about the D word in the last time you were on.
1:20.0	Yeah yeah yeah. Okay so that was right before he passed. Right.
1:24.0	He did indeed pass and it was actually kind of a beautiful process.
1:28.0	It was magnificent. Process right. Yeah.
1:30.0	It was one of the most profound experiences of my life and we were extremely blessed as a family
1:37.0	to have been able to experience that kind of a death.
1:42.0	It was absolutely magnificent and blessed and it's still blowing my mind daily.
1:48.0	What aspect of it is so profound for you?
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