Episode 553: Ken Rideout: How The World's Fastest 50-Year-Old Marathoner Traded His Darkest Habits for Incredible Strength
Habits and Hustle
Jen Cohen
4.5 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it. |
| 0:06.8 | So on this podcast, Kim, what we do is we do a healthy performance shop before we start, and this is by Magic Mind. I'm scared. This one actually is like, I think it's like the Magic Mind Max, which is three times a caffeine. Can you handle that? Let's go. I don't know. I'm scared. I've taken like three of these already today. You're talking to like a professional former drug addict. That's the idea of some extra caffeine doesn't exactly like make me start to sweat. That's like that. That's true. You told me we're going to smoke DMT, I'd be like, oh, my God. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm so, I don't want to, I don't want to die again. |
| 0:40.8 | You're right. So a little extra caffeine and a little lion's mane and a little Ashwaganda is not going to really hurt anybody. Okay. Okay, here we go. Do it. Wait, aren't you going to cheers me? And then I can't do the whole thing because I'm going to, I have had like four, but you should do it. |
| 0:54.6 | We'll watch you do it. |
| 0:57.9 | Oh. to cheers me and then I can't do the whole thing because I'm going to I have had like four but you should do it. We'll watch you do it. It tastes pretty good. It's good. Yeah. It's not like those |
| 1:00.9 | other shots that you like to promote. Very different. Shots. Shot. Exactly. Ooh. Okay. You guys, |
| 1:08.1 | you are, you are in for a treat. Ken Wright out is someone who literally is the epitome. |
| 1:14.4 | Like, if you were to look up habits and hustle in like the, like on, you know, on chat GPT now or Google or Wikipedia, your face would be there because this guy is a crazy, like, he's a killer in all the good, the best ways. |
| 1:29.5 | And his story is extremely aspirational, inspirational, and all the things. |
| 1:34.7 | And I met him, well, actually, I saw him at one of these Jesse Itzler running events. |
| 1:40.9 | Hell on the Hill. |
| 1:41.5 | Is that what it's called? |
| 1:42.1 | And he was like really kind of like just like |
| 1:45.9 | kind of like in focus mode and he basically didn't even look my way. But I looked your way and four |
| 1:53.5 | years later you're on this podcast. So anyway, Ken has a new book. It's called Everything You Want is on |
| 1:59.0 | the other side of hard and I finally have you on this show. So thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. It's my pleasure. We actually even did a podcast before the podcast, which kind of happens when you, like, click with somebody. But can you kind of just give my audience a little bit of like a origin story, like who you are beyond what I just said, like what, like what you, kind of like who you are and where you started. |
| 2:21.2 | Because it's pretty spectacular where you started and where you are right now. |
| 2:25.3 | I'm going to give you the abbreviated version because there's a whole book of it right there. |
| 2:29.3 | That's true. |
| 2:30.0 | I'm originally from Boston. |
| 2:31.3 | I grew up in the inner city. |
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