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The Rich Roll Podcast

Stephen & David Flynn Are The Happy Pear: Creating a Mainstream Movement to Inspire Healthy Living

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Prepare yourself for a supernova blast of pure energy, unbridled positivity and infectious enthusiasm certain to inspire you to next level wellness. David & Stephen Flynn are the joined-at-the-hip identical twin brothers behind The Happy Pear. What is the Happy Pear you ask? Take a 30-minute drive south from Dublin to Greystones, a picturesque seaside town nestled along the Irish coast and you'll stumble upon an impossible-to-miss family run natural food store overflowing with local, organic and seasonal produce. It’s also two whole food cafés as well as evening restaurant, where the brothers conduct wildly popular health education courses for the community. But venture beyond the welcoming Happy Pear storefront and you'll quickly discover this isn't just a veg shop — it's an empire in the making. A vast and growing enterprise that encompasses a superfood sprout farm and a 14,000 sq. ft. facility aptly called Pearville where the twins' team of 100 craft and distribute a prodigious line of organic, locally harvested plant-based products like granola, jam, hummus, pesto, fair trade coffees, smoothies, sprouted foods and even kombucha. To put it in perspective, I believe they are currently shipping about 30,000 healthy superfood bars a month. Relentless, selfless servants at the very center of Ireland’s healthy living movement, David & Stephen have synergistically authored two incredible cookbooks – The Happy Pear* (of course) and the recently released World of the Happy Pear*, which is already a runaway, smash bestseller across Ireland the UK. And when the super fit dads aren't making pre-school breakfast picnics on the beach, engaging in impromptu handstand competitions, traveling extensively for public speaking or serving up kitchen duties on Jamie Oliver’s Family Food Tube (the largest foodie community in Europe), they enthusiastically guide a vast and devoted audience of wellness warriors across every social media platform from YouTube to Instagram to Snapchat with an endless stream of highly entertaining, quality nutrition and fitness tips, recipes, and daily slice-of-life vlogs with inspiration for miles. After our Italy retreat, Julie, Trapper & I spent an amazing few days with these boys. We got a spirited peek into their lives and advocacy. I even gave an evening talk at the restaurant, followed by an impromptu 5 am plunge in the chilly Irish Sea that drew over 100 keen participants (many of whom drove hours to attend), which speaks volumes about the brothers' appeal and popularity. Not only are the inseparable David and Stephen Flynn positively the most charismatic and enthusiastic advocates for healthy living I have ever met, they are two guys who have cultivated incredible community and positivity and excitement around their powerful ideas related to living a healthy happy life. So what is The Happy Pear?  The Happy Pear is David & Stephen. It's everything they do and are. But fundamentally, The Happy Pear is a movement. Enjoy! Rich

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

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0:18.9

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0:24.0

Follow your passions. You know, we all have fears. Every one of us has fears. You know, of certain things,

0:28.2

and maybe that won't work, or maybe you're going to screw up, or maybe I'll do it wrong.

0:31.6

But like, I think if you're too afraid, find someone that will support you and help you do what you're passionate about.

0:36.8

Because if all your passions, you're going to be good at it and you're going to find a way to make it work.

0:41.2

That's Steven Flynn, or maybe it's his twin brother, David?

0:45.1

No, I think it's Steven. It's impossible to tell these two guys apart.

0:49.1

And this is the Rich Roll Podcast.

0:58.4

I'm the Rich Roll. I'm the Rich Roll Podcast.

1:01.9

I'm the Rich Roll Podcast.

1:03.9

The show we're each week. I sit down with paradigm-breaking thought leaders.

1:13.5

The best and the brightest across all categories of health, wellness, diet, nutrition, fitness, mindfulness, meditation, spirituality, creativity, entrepreneurship, you get to picture.

1:23.5

The idea behind this is simple. To help all of us as a community to set a better trajectory for our lives, to unlock and unleash our best most authentic self.

1:32.2

So thank you so much for joining me today for sharing the show, for subscribing on either Google Play Music, or on iTunes, for leaving a review.

1:38.8

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2:04.4

So I got a great show for you guys today. Let me set the stage.

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