Rich Roll

The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose

Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Self-improvement, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism

4.5 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week on The One You Feed we have Rich Roll.Rich Roll is a 47-year old, accomplished vegan ultra-endurance athlete and former entertainment attorney turned full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate, motivational speaker, husband, father of 4 and inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living.In 2012, Rich became a #1 bestselling author with the publication of his inspirational memoir Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself. Taking up where the book leaves off, in 2013 Rich launched the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, which persistently sits atop the iTunes top-10 lists.In May 2010, Rich and his ultra-colleague Jason Lester accomplished an unprecedented feat of staggering endurance many said was not possible. Something they call the EPIC5 CHALLENGE – a odyssey that entailed completing 5 ironman-distance triathlons on 5 islands of Hawaii in under a week. Commencing on Kauai, they travelled to Oahu, Molokai and Maui before finishing on the Big Island, following the course of the Ironman World Championships on the Kona coast. In This Interview Rich and I Discuss...The One You Feed parable.His experience feeding the bad wolf.His battle with alcoholism.How his sobriety wasn't all he needed for happiness.His moment of clarity at 40 that made him change his life again.The value of a plant based diet.How important it is to be ourselves and be vulnerable in telling our story.How nervous he was about sharing his innermost thoughts in his book.How he followed his heart and it led to a new life for himWhy you should stop lifehacking and invest in the journey.How to push through discomfort.The difference between the thinking mind and your higher consciousness.Eric taking on a 30 day plant power challenge.Rich Roll LinksRich Roll homepageThe Rich Roll podcastRich Roll on MediumWhy You Should Stop Lifehacking and Invest in the Journey@RichRoll on TwitterSome of our most popular interviews you might also enjoy:Mike Scott of the WaterboysTodd Henry- author of Die EmptyRandy Scott HydeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	sometimes you just have to start you don't you don't need to know where it's leading you
0:11.6	welcome to the one you feed throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the
0:16.9	thoughts we have quotes like garbage in garbage out or you are what you think ring true and yet
0:24.5	for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us we tend toward negativity self pity
0:30.9	jealousy or fear we see what we don't have instead of what we do we think things that hold us
0:37.0	back and dampen our spirit but it's not just about thinking our actions matter it takes conscious
0:43.7	consistent and creative effort to make a life worth living this podcast is about how other people
0:49.5	keep themselves moving in the right direction how they feed their good wolf
1:04.0	you know andy in our twenty two years of friendship this has to be the most bizarre thing we've ever
1:08.3	done i know our podcast my vagina said what is a podcast where we ask our everyday vagina listeners
1:14.6	to pull up a seat at the best friend table as we share our most personal and humiliating body
1:19.5	stories we are going to discuss all body things like what exactly are we supposed to do with our
1:24.0	pubes hairy menopause or wax periods and so much more listen to my vagina said what podcasts on
1:29.7	the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast what speaking of which
1:35.8	audible is the perfect place to download the book by today's guest rich roll rich is a 47-year-old
1:41.6	accomplished alter endurance athlete and former entertainment attorney turned full-time wellness
1:46.4	and plant-based nutrition advocate he's a motivational speaker a husband father of four and
1:51.9	inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living in
1:57.1	2012 rich became a number one best selling author with the publication of his inspirational memoir
2:02.5	finding ultra rejecting middle age becoming one of the world's fittest men and discovering myself
2:07.9	in 2013 picking up where the book leaves off rich launched the rich roll podcast
2:13.2	be sure to stick around for the end of the interview where Eric promises rich to try his plant-powered
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