Mishka Shubaly On Forgiveness, Authenticity & Life As a Sober Artist

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

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🗓️ 27 August 2015

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

If you're a long-time listener of the podcast, then you’ve treated yourself to several of my conversations with today's guest. You know this guy well as my gravelly voiced, eminently talented, always charming yet generally disheveled, periodically homeless co-host — now back for a record 6th appearance on the RRP. Mishka Shubaly doesn’t care much for formalities. But if you need a resumé, his goes something like this: A self-professed povertarian, Mishka writes true stories about drink, drugs, disasters, desire, deception, and their aftermath. He began drinking at 13 and college at 15. At 22, he received the Dean's Fellowship from the Master's Writing Program at Columbia University. Upon receiving his expensive MFA, he promptly moved into a Toyota minivan to tour the country nonstop as a singer-songwriter, sharing the stage with artists like The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Decemberists. At 32, Mishka got sober and shortly thereafter began publishing a string of bestselling Kindle Singles – short non-fiction novellas — through Amazon. His writing has been praised for its grit, humor, fearlessness, and heart. The Long Run*, his mini-memoir detailing his transformation from alcoholic drug abuser to sober ultra-runner is one of the best-selling Kindle Singles in Amazon history. Mishka's third solo album, Coward’s Path — the finest set of miserable and sad songs you might ever hear– will be released on October 2, 2015. His new book, I Swear I'll Make It Up To You: A Life on the Low Road* hits bookstores March 8, 2016. If you're new to this podcast, dig the Mishka vibe and want to hear more, check out RRP episodes 27,31,65,95 & 104. That's about 9 hours of Mishka to keep you busy. Enjoy! Rich

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0:00.0	The Rich Roll Podcast
0:12.0	Hey everybody what's going on? Rich Roll here, host of the Rich Roll Podcast, the
0:17.4	podcast where I sit down with the outliers, the paradigm breakers, the big forward thinkers
0:22.0	and in the case of this week's guest, the reformed, what would you call yourself, Mishka?
0:29.7	How about reforming? Reforming in a perpetual state of reforming what? Reforming idiot.
0:37.6	That boy. An excellence across all categories of excellence and positive culture change
0:44.2	to mine the tools, the insights and the principles that can help all of us unlock and unleash
0:48.6	our best most authentic selves. So we're doing an unprecedented thing here. I'm having
0:53.5	Mishka sit here and record the podcast intro with me, something I usually do by myself.
0:58.6	We just wrapped our interview and I thought it would be fun to have him join for this
1:02.9	section. How do you think the interview went? Scary, it's always scary. We always talk
1:08.4	about stuff in public that I wouldn't talk about in private, but I'm proud of what we
1:15.4	do. We always go there. I think it was pretty good. We brought some new ground on a couple
1:20.3	issues I think. Pretty wide ranging too. You and I, we can talk about anything.
1:25.7	All right, well, for somebody who's brand new to the podcast and maybe missed the six or
1:29.8	five or seven or however many times you've already been on the show, let's break down your
1:35.2	background a little bit. Impressario of the Kindle Singles market. How many best selling Kindle
1:41.6	singles have you written? Well, let's back up or going even earlier than that. I'm an
1:45.5	alcoholic and I'm also a best selling writer. I've had six best selling Kindle singles.
1:51.3	I'm a musician. I have a new record coming out October 2nd called Cowards Path, which
1:56.4	is about my years in darkness. I am a sometime ultra runner. I am a. Which is the subject
2:05.9	of perhaps your best selling Kindle single the long run? Yes. Which you have adapted into
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