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The Rich Roll Podcast

Jedidiah Jenkins On Shaking The Sleeping Self & The Quest To Live Without Regrets

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

“The truth is the teacher. If I just tell the truth, it will have a message.” Jedidiah Jenkins The late Anthony Bourdain once said, “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” I think this quote beautifully captures the ethos of today's conversation. Travel as an agitator of self-understanding. A template to deeply explore the deep intertwined relationship that lives and breathes in that beautiful space between adventure and identity. Our cipher for this transcendent voyage — how exterior horizons influence scrutiny of our interior landscape — is many things: author, global adventurer, social entrepreneur, human rights activist, lawyer, filmmaker, and magazine publisher. But labels fail to capture what makes Jedidiah Jenkins special. Let's just call him beautiful human. I can’t quite recall how today's guest first came across my radar. What I do remember is happening upon his rather stunning Instagram feed as he neared the end of a spectacular bicycle-powered journey that took him from Oregon to Patagonia. Each photograph more arresting than the one prior, every image conveyed it’s own story that perfectly informed an engaging larger narrative. But it’s Jedidiah’s accompanying entries — beautifully composed, contemplative and quite poetic — that set his feed apart. Writings themed less by place than interior geography, it’s Instagram as dynamic journal — an experiment in blogging that camps out hundreds of miles beyond any travelogue, blog or vlog you’ve ever before seen. I was hypnotized. Who is this guy? A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Pepperdine University School of Law, Jedidiah began his professional career as one of the founding leaders of Invisible Children, the small non-profit that overnight became world renown courtesy of a little social justice campaign you might have heard of called #Kony2012– a campaign that redefined internet virality. The progeny of adventurer journalist parents who quite famously graced the cover of National Geographic walking across America in the 1970’s, I think it’s fair to say that despite his desk-bound legal career, Jedidiah and the outdoors had a little destiny to sort out. And so, to celebrate his 30th birthday, Jedidiah quit the job he loved to unconsciously follow in his parents’ footsteps, scare himself, embrace the unknown and, like a character out of a Mark Twain novel, light out on the territory. Three years ago, I invited him on the podcast to share the story of his sixteen-month, 10,000 mile journey. To date it's one of my favorite conversations in the history of this podcast. That day I made him promise to return upon completion of the book chronicling that experience. Today is that day. This week marks the release of To Shake The Sleeping Self*. It's everything I hoped it would be. On the surface it captures his epic bicycle expedition in vivid detail. But beyond the literal, it's an elegant polemic about the search for identity, the cultivation of community, Enjoy! Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hey, you know that kombucha, kimchi, and other fermented foods that you're eating?

0:05.0

Well, good job, pat on the back.

0:07.1

Super nutritious, delicious, but also somewhat limited in terms of gut health, a limitation

0:13.7

easily resolved by working a prebiotic and probiotic supplement into your daily routine.

0:20.8

But here's the thing, not all probiotics are created equal.

0:24.8

In fact, because the supplement world is so unregulated, the vast majority of them are

0:30.7

actually surprisingly deficient or sometimes even downright ineffective.

0:35.6

But I have found a great evidence-backed pre- and probiotic.

0:40.0

It's called seed.

0:41.3

It's a company stewarding the future of how we will use bacteria to restore and sustain

0:47.9

human and planetary health.

0:49.7

And they've got this amazing signature product.

0:52.4

It's called the DSO-1 daily symbiotic and it combines 24 clinically verified and naturally

0:58.4

occurring probiotic strains with plant-based prebiotics formulated for digestive, gut immune,

1:05.5

and additional systemic benefits.

1:07.6

And it's all delivered to you in a 2-in-1 Viacap delivery technology that protects against

1:13.7

stomach acid and digestion enzymes, which basically means the live probiotics will actually

1:19.5

make it to the end of the small intestine for delivery into the colon through digestion.

1:25.3

The prebiotic outer capsule is made from Indian pomegranate and serves as this elegant barrier

1:30.7

to oxygen, moisture, and heat, which makes for a convenient storage and no refrigeration necessary.

1:37.4

So this is all a long way of saying that there is a lot of complicated science behind the

1:41.7

DSO-1 and its efficacy.

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