Rich Roll: How A Vegan Ultra-endurance Athlete Created A Business On Personal Transformation

My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talks with vegan ultra-endurance athlete and entrepreneur, Rich Roll (@richroll) about starting from nothing to building a million dollar business based on his love of eating plants, fitness, and being an inspiration for personal transformation. ----- Links: * Rich Roll * Rich Roll YouTube * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. * Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan's newsletter. ----- Show Notes: (02:30) - Rich Roll's background (13:50) - How to get 11M+ views on YouTube (26:00) - How to do storytelling well (32:30) - From a yurt on a mango farm to now (38:30) - How Rich Roll developed a business structure (40:50) - The business of cookbooks (47:25) - Breaking down revenue (57:45) - Advice for those starting out ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	It was really rough for quite an extended period of time.
0:03.5	We couldn't pay our mortgage.
0:04.5	We had cars repossessed.
0:06.2	I've told this story before, but it was so bad at one point that we didn't have enough
0:10.6	money to pay for our garbage collection.
0:12.8	So they took away our bins.
0:14.7	We had to put our garbage bags in the back of this beat-up minivan that we had and look
0:18.7	for bins like behind the grocery stores and stuff to like throw our garbage.
0:22.6	I mean, it was pretty humiliating and quite frankly, pretty unmasculating as somebody who's
0:27.2	supposed to be head of household and taking care of shit.
0:31.2	I was unable to make sure that my house was in order.
0:35.4	So we went through a really rough period of time and it was not clear that we were going
0:41.1	to be able to kind of persevere.
0:43.1	I feel like I could rule the world.
0:47.1	I know I could be what I want to put my all in it like no days on.
0:52.2	I'm on a road.
0:53.2	Let's travel, never looking back.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:55.6	So let's give you a little intro here.
0:56.6	So we got Rich Roll, which is an amazing name.
1:01.6	First of all, I'm sure you get that a bunch.
1:03.9	I feel like the Rick Roll kind of stepped on your corner a little bit.
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