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Ben Greenfield Life

The Zen Of Rich Roll: Veganism, Yoga, Meditation, Travel, Kids & More.

Ben Greenfield Life

Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Plant-powered ultra-endurance athlete Rich Roll is no stranger to the show. Previous episodes with Rich have included:

-Ben Greenfield interviews Rich Roll on "How To Be Extremely Active And Eat A Plant-Based Diet Without Destroying Your Body"...

-Ben Greenfield interviews Rich Roll on "Some Of The Craziest Superfoods You’ve Never Heard Of"...

-Rich Roll Podcast #11 with Ben Greenfield: "Exercise Nutrition Geekfest"...

-Rich Roll Podcast #59 with Ben Greenfield: "Nutrition, Fitness, Online Entrepeneurism, Homeschooling And High Fat Diets"...

-Ben Greenfield, Rich Roll & Vinnie Tortorich Diet Debate Video...

In this episode, Rich Roll returns, along with his new book entitled "The Plant Power Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Family", and in this episode, you'll discover:

-The unique process of creating a photo rich, cookbook style manual instead of a print based book...

-The one food Rich would take with him to a desert island...

-Rich's exact morning routine (and his biggest barriers when it comes to squeezing in that routine)...

-How Rich meditates...

-The crazy story of how Rich's wife healed a golf-ball sized cyst with Ayurvedic medicine...

-How Rich gets his kids to eat things like adzuki bean edamame fettuccine or hash browns made with portobello mushrooms...

-How Rich and his wife manage homeschooling their kids...

-Rich's take on kids and ultra-endurance...

Resources we discuss in this episode:

-Headspace App

-The Artist's Way

-The Plant Power Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Family

-Ayurveda: The Science of Self Healing: A Practical Guide

-Ayurveda: A Life of Balance: The Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition & Body Types with Recipes

Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Rich or I about this episode? Then leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, and be sure to check out Rich's new book "The Plant Power Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Family".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.

0:04.0

I'm off gallivanting about the globe and so in lieu of our normal weekly Q&A podcast,

0:10.4

I'm bringing you a special episode with ultra-endurance, plant-powered athlete, rich

0:16.2

role.

0:17.2

Now two quick things before we jump into this episode.

0:21.3

The first is that this podcast is brought to you by mattresses, specifically Casper

0:27.6

mattresses.

0:29.1

Super mattresses describe themselves as an obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly

0:34.8

fair price, which seems like a pretty catchy catchphrase, in my opinion.

0:40.1

But I actually have been on these things.

0:41.7

They've got good sink, they've got good bounce.

0:44.0

I've got one in one of the bedrooms in my house and it's actually a combination of two

0:47.6

different technologies, latex foam and memory foam.

0:51.8

And so when you lay on this thing, it feels like it's supporting you, but you also sink

0:56.9

into it.

0:57.9

It's almost like it forms around your body, not in a bad water bed way, but in a very

1:03.2

comfortable way.

1:04.5

So the other thing about Casper is they're incredibly affordable.

1:08.4

It's about 500 bucks for a twin size mattress, around 950 for a king size mattress, but

1:14.2

you get $50 off either of those already low mattress prices.

1:20.4

When you go to Casper.com slash Ben and use discount code Ben, that's Casper.com slash

1:27.6

Ben with discount code Ben.

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