Welcome to the Rich Roll Podcast, episode 26, with Michael Arnstein.

The Rich Roll Podcast, may everybody welcome back to the podcast.

My name is Rich Roll, who am I, if you're new to the show?

I am an ultra-distance triathlete, triathlete, blah blah blah.

I am the best-selling author of a book called Finding Ultra, which comes out in paperback, May 21st.

I am a public speaker, motivational speaker, a very passionate advocate on behalf of plant-based nutrition and holistic lifestyle.

I guess you could call me a holistic lifestyle entrepreneur, although even I am not really sure what that means.

I'm a recovering attorney, I'm a family guy, and hey, now I'm a podcaster.

I started this podcast back in December with a singular goal, which is to share with you the people and the personalities that I've met along this journey to wellness.

And to be able to bring them to you, to inspire and educate you, to help you be more self-empowered about your health, your health choices, and fitness.

So I've had world-class athletes on, I've had entrepreneurs, I've had nutritionists, I've had doctors, I've had every man athletes, and all sorts of different kinds of people.

This is not a triathlon training podcast. There are plenty of other podcasts out there like that.

This is more a long-form conversational interview-style show, and the topics are varied.

Every guest brings something different and special to be equation, and I hope you've been enjoying it. It's been really fun to do.

I love it. If it was up to me, I'd do one every day.

I'm having so much fun doing it, and I'm in New York City right now, and actually with a very heavy heart today is the day after the explosions at the Boston Marathon yesterday.

I had the sort of unique, what would you call it, unique experience of being at the CNN headquarters in New York when the story broke.

My plan was to interview Ronnie Selig, who is the executive vice president and director of the Health Wellness and Medical Unit over at CNN.

Essentially, she's Sanjay Gupta's boss, and she's also an amazing triathlete and a mom, and my plan was to sit down with her and chat about how she balances triathlon with her very busy life and her incredibly demanding job.

As we were sitting in her office, kind of just catching up the story broke. All of these journalists have televisions in their office, and it just flashed on the screen what had occurred, and I was able to sit there and kind of watch how a major news organization jumps into action and responds to these sorts of things.

It was a privilege to be able to kind of observe what goes down. It was very much like a scene out of that HBO show newsroom. It was remarkable, but needless to say, Ronnie had to focus on the task at hand, and we were not able to do a podcast.

And it seems even weird to me to be bringing an interview to you today to talk about anything other than what transpired yesterday. I'm absolutely out of laws for words, just a horrific, horrific event, the implications of which I think will be heard and experienced by all of us for quite some time.

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