E102 - Rich Roll: Transform Your Life At Any Age & Awaken Your Hidden Potential
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
Rich Roll is a podcast host, author, and ultra-marathon athlete who has lived a life of true inner strength, ambition, and purpose. Today, he sits down with André to discuss the foundations for living in harmony with your goals: facing off with adversity, the inner critic, and learning to surrender. He shares his story of overcoming alcoholism, becoming an athlete at age 40, and becoming a world-renowned podcast host. He reveals the power of mastering the mind: whether it be in endurance sports or facing online criticism, the mind can be an incredible tool if we learn how to sharpen it.
This is a deeply inspiring conversation to remind you that you can change your life at ANY age, and the greatness you are destined for is always within you.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:41 Balancing Success & Self Worth
7:53 Self Will vs Surrender
11:53 Solitude and Stillness Changes You
18:52 Mid-Life Crisis, Ultra-Endurance, Podcasting
33:37 5 Most Defining Moments of His Life
40:09 Transforming Pain Into Growth
45:40 Facing the Inner Critic & Cultivating Self Love
54:45 Reality of Addiction & The Subtle Hold It Has On Many Of Us
1:03:25 Mastering the Mind & Achieving Greatness
1:08:22 Maximizing the Body's Capabilities Through Ultra-Marathons
1:13:49 Plant Based Living & Preventing Dogma
1:24:29 The Power of Podcasting
1:27:44 Navigating Fame & The Ego
1:34:53 Thoughts on Plant Medicine
1:39:35 Transformative Power of Vulnerability
1:44:31 Self-Discovery Through Podcasting
1:47:25 Rich's Vision for His Future
1:49:02 Conclusion
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A graduate of Stanford University and Cornell Law School, Rich is a 50-year old, accomplished vegan ultra-endurance athlete and former entertainment attorney turned full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate, popular public speaker, husband, father of 4 and inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living.
Website: https://www.richroll.com
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@richroll
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richroll/
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| 0:00.0 | The longer these races are and the greater the distances, it's all about the mind. |
| 0:05.0 | On the cusp of turning 40, I couldn't walk up a full flight of stairs without having to pause, winded, out of breath. |
| 0:13.0 | That moment was the beginning of a new journey in which I was trying to understand who I was. |
| 0:19.0 | My vehicle for doing that was ultra-endurance sports. |
| 0:22.6 | It was much more of a spiritual journey that it was an athletic journey. |
| 0:26.6 | Your relationship with your own mind is perhaps the most important one, |
| 0:30.6 | because it's our wounds that we misinterpret as superpowers. |
| 0:36.6 | What do you think is the biggest wound you're mislabeling as a superpower right now? |
| 0:40.3 | We now live in a world in which it takes almost a superhuman effort to even engage with our interior selves. |
| 0:48.3 | It's about the tiny little things that you're doing every single day that are easy to blow off that move the needle the most. |
| 0:54.9 | All the success is a product of that philosophy. And that's how over time you're redirecting your |
| 1:01.3 | sense of who you are and rewiring that story to be one that is self-honoring. |
| 1:13.6 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Know they self. Our guest today is a globally renowned ultra-distance |
| 1:16.6 | endurance athlete, host of the wildly popular Rich Roll podcast. |
| 1:20.6 | He is a plant-based badass and somebody who I think is really a walking inspiration |
| 1:26.6 | about the power of transformation, our ability |
| 1:28.9 | to reinvent our lives at any stage, and to live in alignment and find a life of purpose. |
| 1:34.7 | Rishual, thank you for being here. |
| 1:35.9 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:36.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:38.0 | The honor is mine. |
| 1:38.8 | Let's dive right in. |
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