The Best Of 2021: Part One

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

As the Earth embarks upon another miraculous arc around the sun, let us prepare by taking space to pause, breathe, and reflect. A blank slate represents potential energy. Let us infuse the 2022 tabula rasa with the energy of hope and inspiration to catalyze your new year ambitions into reality. This process requires taking inventory of the twelve months past. Where you were this time last year. Celebrate your victories. Deconstruct your setbacks. Imagine yourself this time next year. Set your intention for that experience. Establish specific time-bound goals and the stepping stones to get there. Create accountability for those benchmarks. And vision the better self laying dormant within, yearning to be more fully expressed. But first, we pause. Because it is in quiet that we gain clarity—a crucial first step on the trudge towards self-actualization. It is in this spirit that we indulge a tradition here at the podcast—our annual ‘Best Of’ series—wherein we reflect upon the previous 12 months with a 2-part compilation of clips excerpted from a handful of the year’s most compelling guests. Think of it as a refresher course for the avid fans. An anthology or digest for those newer to the podcast. A love letter to my guests. And most importantly, a way of thanking you, the audience, for taking this journey of growth alongside me. Guests featured in this first of two total anthology episodes (hyperlinked to their respective episodes) are listed here: The Rich Roll Podcast: Best Of 2021: Part One Compiling this auditory yearbook is both a joy and a challenge. I have great fondness for all my guests. I take no comfort in leaving anyone out. Should you find one of your personal favorites missing, I get it—please don’t @ me! Special thanks to Blake Curtis, Jason Camiolo and Dan Drake for the behind-the-scenes heavy lifting required to pull this two-parter together. To read more click here. You can also watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Here’s to an extraordinary 2022. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	So I was in total denial that I was sick. I didn't understand that your brain can get injured
0:08.7	just like your knee. I just, I didn't understand that. I was of the mindset that I needed to
0:14.0	keep pressing forward and fix all on my own whatever it was that I was feeling. And then
0:20.6	I started to have these even darker thoughts. And that's when I felt like I understood
0:25.8	my mom in a way that I never wanted to understand her. Like you have these thoughts that like you
0:32.0	want to die. And it was terrifying because I've always been afraid my whole life for the moment
0:38.2	that that might happen to me. And where that fear came from was I have a photo book of her
0:44.2	when she was like teenager. And she looked really happy. And I was like, there's no way I just don't
0:49.9	believe that this 16 year old knows what's going to happen to her. And that was so scary because
0:55.5	I was like, am I a ticking time bomb? Does it just happen to people? Her brother took his own
1:00.3	like, like it runs deep in her family. So I just knew that there was a possibility. And then when
1:05.1	it did, I thought that that was just my fate. It now happened to me. And because the narrative I was
1:11.9	told about her was she just had to go. Like she just, she was so sick that she had to go. And I was
1:18.5	like, well, I guess I'm so sick that maybe I have to go because I don't know what else there is.
1:23.6	That's Alexi Papis. And yes, it must be that time of year again because this is part one of our
1:32.5	annual Best of 2021 edition of the Rich Roll Podcast. The Rich Roll Podcast. Greetings and happy
1:51.6	holidays from everyone here at the RRP Mother Ship. Welcome to the show where for the last nine
1:57.8	years, I have endeavored to have deep, meaningful, long form conversations about things that matter
2:05.4	with a wide swath of the world's best and brightest minds, discussing everything from fitness and
2:11.0	education, science, nutrition, and environmentalism to arts, spirituality, literature, entrepreneurship,
2:18.6	athleticism, creativity, and positive culture change. And this past year was no different.
2:25.0	Despite 2021 being a year that we can all safely label as challenging for a variety of reasons,
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