Todd Herman On The Alter Ego Effect: Unlocking The Hero Within

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

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

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

“There's a big difference between interested and committed.” Todd Herman What if I told you that one secret to success just might be adopting a secret identity? I know. It sounds weird. I too was skeptical. But today's guest sold me with one unique thought: What if your alter ego is a more accurate representation of who you really are? Pondering this left me wanting to learn more. So I invited high performance coach Todd Herman on the show to elaborate. An author, advisor, and entrepreneur, Todd has spent the last 2 decades helping professional and Olympic athletes, entrepreneurs, leaders, and executives unlock peak performance at the highest level to achieve wildly outrageous goals while enjoying the process. Featured on the Today Show, Sky Business News, Inc. Magazine and CBC National News, Todd is also the author of the recently released book, The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life*. Equal parts instructive and entertaining, it's a provocative exploration of the heroic self within as a means to overcome that which holds you back with one goal in mind — to empower greater expression of your inner best self. This conversation tracks the viability of Todd's alter ego thesis through the lens of successful case studies who have used this strategy to their advantage. It explores the fraught terrain of actualizing peak performance and the proven strategies to maximize human potential. And it's about how to best confront and overcome the hurdles that unnecessarily prevent the best of us – often repeatedly or in some cases continually – from inhabiting our most expressed selves. In addition, we explore the why behind Todd’s work. More specifically, Todd relates how confronting a severe childhood trauma helped him overcome profound feelings of guilt and shame that held him back for years. Impactful for anyone who suffers in silence, it's a powerful story of healing and empowerment (but perhaps inappropriate for the little ones among us — so fair warning). Very much in the vein of my recent podcast with James Clear (RRP #401), I found this conversation both fascinating and entertaining. My hope is that you will too. To view our conversation on YouTube, visit bit.ly/toddherman422. And don't forget we're also now on Spotify. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	What makes human beings truly unique is our ability to tap into a creative imagination,
0:07.4	to create a heaven from hell or a hell from heaven, or to suspend the disbelief for a moment
0:15.6	so that we can unleash just a different self and show up like we know that we can, but
0:23.6	we sometimes block it because of again shame, trauma, imposter syndrome or any one of the
0:30.0	number of things. That's Todd Herman, this week on the Retroll Podcast.
0:35.3	The Retroll Podcast
0:48.4	So what if I told you that the secret to success? Well, maybe not the secret, but perhaps a secret
0:56.2	just might be having a secret identity. Now I know that sounds a little ridiculous, perhaps a
1:03.3	little bit cheesy, but before you engage in that knee jerk reaction, what if I added to this idea
1:10.4	by also telling you that this secret identity that you're empowered to come up with on your own,
1:16.5	whatever you conjure for yourself might actually when the dust settles be a more accurate
1:24.8	representation of who you really are. Think about that for a second. That's what we're going to
1:30.2	explore today. My name is Rich Roll. I'm your host, settle in, get comfortable, because today
1:36.4	is a doozy. If you enjoyed my podcast with James Clear, a little while back, he's the guy who
1:42.2	authored a book called Atomic Habits, that was RRP 401. It was all about habit and behavior change.
1:48.8	It was a very popular episode. If you did dig that then, I suspect you are very much going to
1:55.2	enjoy today's conversation with Todd Herman, as it is very much in the same vein. Todd is a
2:02.2	high performance coach who has spent the last two decades working with professional and Olympic
2:07.6	athletes, entrepreneurs, leaders, and executives to decode and unlock peak performance,
2:14.3	peak performance at the highest level. He is also the author of a brand new book that just came out.
2:19.2	It's called The Alter Ego Effect, the power of secret identities to transform your life.
2:25.5	That book, obviously, as I just mentioned, explores this idea, this idea of the heroic self within.
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