It’s Your Job To Be The Dopest Version of You

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.7 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2014

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Wise words that capture the essence of this week's guest, Preston Smiles. When you meet Preston, you immediately understand who this guy is. He wears it on his sleeve. It's written all over his face. He just is exactly who he is. It's much harder to describe Preston in words. But I'll give it a shot. A leader in the emergent world of conscious media, Preston is a pretty unique cat — one of the most present, focused, passionate, open and giving people I have ever met. But honestly, everything that Preston is can be boiled down to one word – maybe the most important word in our lexicon – love. A wellspring of creativity, Preston is a writer (Huff Po / The Daily Love), a motivational messenger, a thought leader and co-founder of something called The Love Mob – a global, grassroots flash mob movement that ignites community building through “Organized Acts of Love.” The Preston I know is an unlikely evolution from a very different guy. Raised under challenging circumstances, young Preston was a hyperactive, dyslexic gang member prone to beatings and beating others. An angry, disenfranchised young man looking at an almost certain future of violence, drug abuse, jails and institutions. But Preston was able to escape this path. An emotional and spiritual transformation that instead produced a man full of life, devoted to serving others and downright unafraid to embrace and exude love, consciousness and unity — hardly the most popular subjects among men in our society. Preston is both a friend and an inspiration, and I am proud to share his powerful story and message with you today. I sincerely hope you enjoy the conversation. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Rich Roll Podcast episode 103 with Preston Smiles.
0:24.4	Hey everybody, Rich Roll here. Welcome to my podcast. Welcome to the RRP. Thank you for listening.
0:29.9	Thank you for sharing the show with a friend. Thank you for all the feedback, all the stories
0:35.7	of profound transformation you've been sharing with me. And thank you for supporting the show by
0:41.2	clicking through the Amazon banner at Rich Roll.com for all your Amazon purchases. This really helps us
0:46.4	out a lot. So thank you so much to everybody who has supported us in this way. If you haven't done it yet,
0:52.4	it would be great if you could make a point of it. It really goes a long way towards keeping the
0:57.9	lights on and allowing us to keep this show free for you guys because it's always going to be free.
1:06.0	So the Amazon banner out is just right there on the homepage at Rich Roll.com. Click through. It doesn't
1:10.4	cost you a cent extra on your Amazon purchases and they kick us a little commission change and it's
1:16.0	all good for everybody. So thank you. All right. I'm on a mission and this mission is simple. It's
1:25.9	to help you live and be better. Well, that's pretty vague. I get it. I know this is not an exact
1:35.2	science people and it's not reductionist either. Transformation can't be pinpointed to certain things
1:41.7	in isolation like shortcuts or life hacks. There's plenty of other podcasts and blogs out there
1:48.3	for you if that's what you're into. I'm talking about total transformation and transformation by
1:55.2	it's very definition. It's a messy thing. It's not linear. There's no equation or algorithm. There's
2:01.6	no one size fits all miracle yellow brick road and the biggest variable in this whole thing is you
2:09.3	because change, improvement, self-battery, transformation, growth. These are not necessarily
2:14.5	things for those that need it. It's much more for those that want it. It requires strength. It
2:22.1	requires faith, commitment. You've got to be comfortable in discomfort. You've got to be
2:27.2	comfortable in not knowing what the results of these efforts are is going to be. And you know,
2:34.5	I only have so much control over this process when it comes to working with other people, which I
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