Where Grit and Heart Meet: Adoption, Addictions and More with Ken Rideout, Fastest Man over 50
Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder
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4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ken Rideout shares his extraordinary journey of overcoming childhood trauma, addiction, and physical challenges through resilience, authenticity, and love. This show also explores the power of self-awareness, the importance of inner union, and the transformative impact of compassion and perseverance.
Chapters
00:00 The Journey of Self-Discovery
03:03 Pain and Growth: Lessons from Running
05:52 The Impact of Childhood on Adult Life
08:51 Navigating Fame and Ego
11:33 The Role of Family and Relationships
14:36 Overcoming Adversity and Finding Strength
17:42 Parenting: Challenges and Realizations
27:46 Navigating Family Dynamics with a Nanny
28:48 The Impact of Addiction on Relationships
30:36 The Journey to Sobriety and Adoption
31:51 The Heart of Adoption: Choosing to Love
33:55 Challenging the System: Advocating for Children
37:07 Emotional Resilience and Self-Awareness
40:45 Finding Stillness in a Busy Life
42:13 Creating a Fulfilling Life Beyond Work
43:56 Understanding and Managing Anger
46:36 The Power of Perseverance in Endurance Sports
49:42 Core Messages of Resilience and Self-Reflection
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Ken Rideout Resources:
Book: Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard: A Memoir
Website: https://www.rideout.group
Social: @ ken_rideout
Podcast: RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard
Bio: Ken Rideout is the fastest marathoner in the world over fifty and a former prison guard, Wall Street trader, and opioid addict. His life story has been chronicled in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Outside. Since getting sober more than a decade ago, he has won some of the world’s toughest races, including, at age fifty-two, the Gobi March—a 155-mile, self-supported race across the sweltering Gobi Desert in Mongolia—and a few months later, the Masters (50+) Marathon World Championships. In addition to his many running victories, he has completed more than ten Ironman triathlons. In 2018, Ken founded capital solutions firm Camrock Advisors. More recently, he founded talent agency Rideout Sports and Entertainment. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Shelby, and their four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness. |
| 0:07.8 | When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible |
| 0:22.8 | results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna, |
| 0:39.3 | creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. |
| 0:45.0 | I am passionate about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. |
| 0:51.4 | Let's get started. |
| 1:01.1 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to our Monday interview show. I'm very excited to talk about heart and grit and mindset today with Ken Rideout. He has a new book |
| 1:08.1 | Out called Everything You Want is on the other side of hard. |
| 1:12.0 | Ken is the fastest marathon runner in the world over 50. |
| 1:16.9 | He's also been a prison guard, an opioid addict, a Wall Street trader. |
| 1:22.7 | He and his wife have adopted a child, a girl from Africa after struggling with infertility |
| 1:31.7 | for years and then went on to have their own children. |
| 1:35.6 | But today we talk a lot about authenticity and how your heart can always lead you to the next best thing along your path, even though it may seem murky |
| 1:47.6 | at times and other people may not believe in you, but how you can really go in and connect to |
| 1:53.4 | this place of deep strength inside of you, which Ken has done time and time again. |
| 1:58.7 | So I'm really excited to share this very vulnerable, raw |
| 2:02.5 | conversation with you. I think we'll all connect in different ways to the human struggle that we all |
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| 2:27.0 | I cannot wait to share it with you. Also, I am leading a heart-based retreat live June 5th through 7th in L.A. Come join me for |
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