Rich Roll on the power of change, leaps of faith, and finding your path in life.

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Podcaster and author Rich Roll joins the WHOOP Podcast for an in-depth discussion on the power of change, leaps of faith, and finding your path in life. Rich shares how he battled alcoholism and health challenges in his 20s and 30s, before transforming his life after turning 40. Through this transformation he has become an elite endurance athlete and a leading name in veganism. He discusses his battle with alcoholism (5:32), why it's critical to become teachable (9:15), how mood follows actio...

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0:00.0	What's up folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast where we sit down with top athletes,
0:09.5	scientists, experts, and more to learn what the best in the world they're doing to perform at
0:14.3	their peak and what you can do to perform at yours. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop,
0:20.7	and we are on a mission to unlock human
0:22.5	performance. This week we've got
0:24.6	an amazing guest, one of the biggest names
0:26.5	in podcasting, in fact.
0:28.5	Endurance, sports, athlete,
0:30.5	vegan, aficionado,
0:32.9	Rich Roll. You may know him
0:34.7	from the Rich Roll podcast, which is often
0:36.8	at the top of the charts, or from his
0:38.7	best-selling book, Finding Ultra.
0:41.1	Rich's story is an inspiring one.
0:43.8	He was a swimmer at Stanford University and wanted to become a corporate lawyer, and despite
0:47.9	that outward success, he was battling alcoholism, and he ended up in rehab at 31.
0:54.8	Rich was very forthcoming about his struggles with addiction and really what it took for him to overcome those struggles.
1:01.4	And by the time of his 40th birthday, he decided it was time to prioritize his health.
1:06.9	We talked about his health transformation, why he went vegan, signed up for an Ultraman.
1:12.3	So he's competed in all these amazing endurance events.
1:16.3	He actually finished in the top 10 of a 320-mile double Ironman distance triathlon, not
1:22.3	long after making this transition.
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