How To TRANSFORM Your Life At Any Moment: The Alcoholic Lawyer That Became "The Fittest Man On The Planet"!! Rich Roll

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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In this new episode Steven sits down with the ultra-endurance athlete, bestselling author and podcast host, Rich Roll. Rich was a successful lawyer until a revelation at 40 sent him down the path of becoming an ultra-endurance athlete, 2 years later he competed in the ‘Ultraman World Championships’, a 320 mile triathlon in Hawaii. Rich finished as the fastest American male competitor, and in 2009 he was named one of Men’s Fitness’s ‘25 Fittest Men in the World’. In 2012, he published his memoir ‘Finding Ultra’, and shortly after, ‘The Rich Roll Podcast’ which has released over 750 podcasts. In this conversation Rich and Steven discuss topics, such as: The key lessons Rich has learned after interviewing 750 guests Rich’s struggle with alcoholism What inspired Rich to make such a radical change in his life The benefit of test yourself with difficult challenges Why you should have a nourished life rather than a balanced life You can listen to the Rich Roll podcast, here: https://apple.co/3OTwuMy Follow Rich: Instagram: https://bit.ly/42r1arI Twitter: https://bit.ly/3oRmJ6U YouTube: https://bit.ly/43pa7Dd Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.0	A California lawyer turned himself into one of the fittest men on the planet.
0:39.0	Rich Role, globally recognized ultra-endurance athlete, New York Times Best Seller, and Harvard. Role the world ranked
0:59.9	ranked swimmer.
1:00.9	And I was working as a lawyer. So on the outside it looked like I was doing pretty well.
1:04.5	Inside I was dying. My first escape was through drugs and alcohol. My family didn't want anything to do with me.
1:10.3	Marriage that ended on the honeymoon.
1:12.2	Went to jail. Could barely make it up a simple flight of stairs without being winded, and that was a harsh dose of reality.
1:18.0	I needed to overhaul my life. I needed to do something that was going to be hard and uncomfortable. You can't be a Phoenix if you don't
1:24.9	burn in the flames first. We all want to be this idealized version of ourselves, and yet we still
1:30.4	don't do it. We are in a culture that prioritizes comfort and luxury and the impatience that we all have.
1:37.0	We overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and completely underestimate what we could do in a decade.
1:44.0	We don't have to suffer, we don't have to be in pain.
1:46.6	It's our emotional lives that hold us back from accessing that potential.
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