The Rich Roll Podcast
by Rich Roll
A master-class in personal and professional development, ultra-athlete, wellness evangelist and bestselling author Rich Roll delves deep with the world's brightest and most thought provoking thought leaders to educate, inspire and empower you to unleash your best, most authentic self. More at: https://richroll.com
Episodes
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Jim Morrison Skied Everest’s North Face In The Wake Of Two Tragedies: On Grief, Risk & Moving Forward After Unimaginable Loss
Jim Morrison is a ski mountaineer and the subject of “Everest: The Other Side,” the new film from Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi. A year ago, he accomplished an impossible first: skiing Everest’s direct North Face from the summit. Jim has also endured unimaginable loss – his wife and two young...
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First Light: Cole Brauer's Life Lessons From Racing Her Sailboat Around The World
Cole Brauer is the first American woman to race solo, nonstop around the world, and the author of First Light: Sailing Solo but Not Alone. We discuss the Dragon Time mindset, breaking into the walled garden of alpha males, 130 days alone at sea, choosing her boat over the win at Cape Horn, and…
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Terry Bradshaw On Lessons From Super Bowl & Broadcasting Stardom, Battling Depression & Surviving Cancer
Terry Bradshaw is a four-time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Fame quarterback, longtime FOX NFL Sunday analyst, and author of the new memoir “Looking for Terry.” Terry opens up about playing in fear, his dark alter ego Roy, the night he snuck out of a Miami hospital, two cancers, and the Netflix...
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Tom Hopper On Getting Sober, Training For The Screen & Finding The Man Behind The Muscle
Tom Hopper is an actor known for his roles in The Umbrella Academy, Black Sails, and The Terminal List. This conversation explores how Tom manages to meld an artistic sensibility with an athlete’s discipline. We discuss his path from drama school to action star, what Navy SEALs taught him…
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The Social Reckoning: Frances Haugen On What Facebook Knew & Why She Came Forward
Frances Haugen is the Facebook whistleblower whose story inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film The Social Reckoning. This compilation revisits my 2023 conversation with Frances, then turns to Jonathan Haidt, Max Fisher, and former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. We discuss the falseness of the free...
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Joe Manganiello On Getting Sober, The Mystery Illness That Almost Killed Him & The Trauma We Inherit
Joe Manganiello is an actor (True Blood, Magic Mike, One Piece) and author of Bloodlines. This conversation explores his odyssey of pain and suffering, self-discovery, and ultimately spiritual transformation – from a near-fatal illness to a family history that upended what he thought he knew....
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Journalist Anand Giridharadas On The Lost Art Of Empathy, Compassion, & Understanding Each Other
Anand Giridharadas is a New York Times bestselling author whose new book is Man in the Mirror. This conversation explores the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway, the story at the center of the book. We discuss Anand's return from punditry to reporting, how power actually operates, what…
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Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris On Turning Down A $100 Million Netflix Deal, The Cost of Success & Curiosity As A Superpower With Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist and bestselling author. Kenya Barris is a writer, producer, and the creator of Black-ish. Together they host the Audible Original podcast The Unusual Suspects. This conversation explores opposite approaches to storytelling. Kenya mines his own life, while Malcolm...
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The Perilous Fight: Colin Kaepernick On The True Costs Of Conviction
Colin Kaepernick is a Super Bowl quarterback, civil rights activist, and author of the new memoir "The Perilous Fight." Ten years after taking a knee, Colin opens up about the parts of the story we didn't see, from the death threats to the fourth-grade letter where he wrote down his future. And...
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Bryan Johnson & Kate Tolo On Curing Their Incurable Diseases, Addressing The Disparity In Women's Health & The Don't Die Mission
Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo are entrepreneurs, partners, and the subjects of the Netflix documentary "Don't Die." This conversation explores the couple's challenge to a presupposition around our mortality. We discuss AI, consciousness, Kate's endometriosis diagnosis, and our culture's…
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If I Can, I Will: William Goodge On Running 50 Marathons In 50 States In 24 Days
William Goodge is a British ultra-endurance athlete who just FKT'd his Australia crossing. In October, he runs 50 marathons in 50 states in 24 days. We get into the logistics, the strange polarity of a life spent between five-star hotels and the side of a trail, and what it's like to be doubted…
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Life's A Fight. Don’t Let It Break You: Dolph Lundgren On Trauma, Stardom & Cancer
Dolph Lundgren is an actor, martial artist, and chemical engineer, best known as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. This conversation explores the distance between the man on the poster and the boy underneath: the violent childhood, the Fulbright he traded for Manhattan, the delirium of instant fame, the...
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Olympic Medalist Jenny Simpson On Her Sudden Cardiac Arrest After A Race & The Journey Back To Health
Jenny Simpson is a three-time Olympian, Olympic medalist, and one of the most decorated American middle-distance runners of her generation. In June, she collapsed at a community mile race. No pulse. More than twenty minutes of CPR. We sat down eight weeks later, before she'd spoken publicly. We...
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From Drinking Every Morning to Running 340 Miles: Tommie Runz on Recovery, Running & Redemption
Tommie Runz is a runner, sobriety advocate, and co-host of the PR Project. This conversation explores addiction and redemption through Tommie's insistence that sobriety comes first and everything else is downstream. We discuss his backstory, the denial and the delusion of functional drinking, the...
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Hunter Biden Is Out Of Secrets: A Story of Recovery, Exposure & Amends
Hunter Biden is a writer, painter, and lawyer who spent a decade being publicly dissected. We explore the trauma beneath the addiction, the anatomy of a relapse, guilt versus shame, and what happens when your covers are pulled so completely that nothing holds power over you anymore. Seven years...
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How Hellah Sidibe’s 3,350-Day Run Streak Rebuilt His Mind
Hellah Sidibe is a former professional soccer player, transcontinental runner, and now 3,349 consecutive days into a run streak. This conversation explores the tenets of the run streak and the architecture of Hellah's relentless positivity. We discuss gratitude, why abundance is a consequence of...
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Mindfulness, Meditation & Performance: Manoj Dias Live At The Rivian Performance House
Manoj Dias is a meditation teacher, author of "Still Together," and co-founder of the mindfulness studio Open. Recorded live in New York at Rivian's Performance House, we get into wellness as a secular religion, mindfulness as a choose-your-own-adventure, and what's underneath the language of...
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Lee Sung Jin On The Spirituality Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’
Lee Sung Jin is the Emmy-winning writer, director, and showrunner of Beef, and is now co-writing Marvel's X-Men. We discuss his backstory, the Jungian shadow work underneath the show, the specificity with which he constructs these characters and the universality piece that comes out of it, the...
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The Most Decorated Winter Olympian Ever: Johannes Klæbo On Training, Mindset & Reinventing His Sport
Johannes Klæbo is a Norwegian cross-country skier, an 11-time Olympic gold medalist, and the most decorated Winter Olympian in history. Johannes caught the world's attention with his signature sprinting on skis, sweeping his events and winning the most gold medals ever at a single Winter…
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Zac Clark on Addiction, Recovery and a Life of Service
Zac Clark is the founder of Release Recovery and a tireless recovery advocate, as well as the winner of The Bachelorette. He totally embodies the principles of recovery and what it means to give back to this community that has saved so many. This conversation gets into the reality of addiction…
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Stoic Lessons From The Odyssey w/ Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is a bestselling author and a leading voice in modern Stoicism. This conversation explores Christopher Nolan's interpretation of Homer's Odyssey and the moral truths the poem was built to transmit. We discuss why interpretation is the assignment, the hubris Nolan left out, unreliable...
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Michelle Khare Is The Tom Cruise Of YouTube: How Anxiety Became Her Superpower
Michelle Khare is the Emmy-shortlisted creator behind the YouTube series "Challenge Accepted." We explore the seismic shift underway as the creator economy and Hollywood converge. She recreated one of Tom Cruise's most dangerous stunts, hanging off a C-130 mid-flight. We get into daring versus...
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Malcolm Gladwell & Chris Chavez Think We're Selling Running All Wrong
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker, bestselling author, and podcaster. Chris Chavez is a journalist, podcaster, and the founder of CITIUS MAG. I just passed a thousand episodes, which has me rethinking what I want this to feel like. So for this one, no agenda, no notes. Just…
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What Are You Actually Capable Of? Mark Dowdle On Winning A 306 Mile Backyard Ultra
Mark Dowdle is an endurance athlete and former football and lacrosse player. This conversation explores the intersection of endurance and identity, digging into the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and how we get uncoupled from them. We discuss turning pain into purpose, shared...
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Episode 1,000: Rich & Julie Piatt Celebrate By Going Back To Where It All Began
This is the 1,000th episode of the podcast. Insane. To mark it, Julie and I take it back to the start. We recap the origin story of this show. A creative experiment, born in a yurt on a Kauai mango farm, our family was on the precipice of foreclosure. We get into the crucible that gave birth to...
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Thrilling Tales Of Modern Men: Danny McBride On Ego, Grievance & The Stories Men Tell Themselves
Danny McBride is the writer, actor, and producer behind “Eastbound & Down,” “Vice Principals,” and “The Righteous Gemstones.” For 30 years, he's satirized the aggrieved modern male, the guy who grew up on Rambo and ended up working at Geico. His first collection of short stories, “Thrilling Tales...
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Play Is The Miracle Drug: Dr. Kelly Starrett On Movement, Recovery, & The Wellness Trap
Dr. Kelly Starrett is a physical therapist, New York Times bestselling author, and co-founder of The Ready State. This conversation explores human performance and a wellness culture that's become a kind of secularized religion, fixated on optimization while the fundamentals get ignored. We…
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What Happened To The Vegan Movement? Rich & Simon Hill On The Rise & Fall Of Plant-Based Eating
By 2020, veganism wasn't a fringe choice. It was mainstream. A few years later, the momentum faded. So what happened? I sit down with nutrition scientist Simon Hill for an honest autopsy – the overhyped meat alternatives, the broken trust around health claims, the sanctimony that turned people…
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Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien on Depression, Trauma & Finding Light Again
Ed O'Brien is a member of Radiohead and the artist behind his new solo album "Blue Morpho." This conversation explores the intersection of creativity and mental health, and the ways transformation so often mirrors the artistic process itself. We get into the prolonged depression that birthed the...
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Fulfillment Maxxing: Why Offline Is The New Online & How to Feel Alive Again
I think a lot of us are quietly struggling with some version of self-obsession right now. So today I want to talk about a different way to think about all of it: fulfillment maxxing. I get into the comfort crisis, the three P's we keep chasing, and why discomfort might be the price of a…
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Rachel Entrekin Runs On Joy: How She Won The Cocodona 250 Outright By Letting Go Of The Outcome
Rachel Entrekin is a professional ultra runner and three-time Cocodona 250 champion who just won the race outright. This conversation explores the mindset behind that feat. We discuss her shift from chasing outcomes to chasing joy, her "why not me?" self-belief, an unexpected encounter on the…
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Touch Grass: Andrew Yang Returns To Talk Phone Addiction, AI's Cognitive Toll, & The Fight For Your Attention
Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur, former presidential candidate, and founder of Noble Mobile. This is a conversation about our phones, and what they're doing to us. We get into the machinery engineered to colonize your attention, the cognitive cost of leaning on AI, and why willpower won't save…
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ROLL ON: Enhanced Games
Roll On, but enhanced! Adam Skolnick came over to help make sense of the Enhanced Games, the pay-for-PEDs enterprise that just went down behind a Vegas casino. Think Idiocracy meets The Hunger Games, with Bryan Johnson calling the action from under a giant UV umbrella. It veers dystopian:...
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Paul Rosolie Met An Uncontacted Tribe & Is Trying To Protect Them: On Preserving The Amazon To Save All Life On Earth
Paul Rosolie is a conservationist, adventurer, and the author of “Junglekeeper.” This conversation explores Paul's ardent case for ground-level conservation, the dire state of the Amazon, the indigenous wisdom that shaped him, his ill-fated brush with the Discovery Channel, encounters with...
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How to Stop Sabotaging Your Own Life With Joe Hudson
Joe Hudson is an executive coach to people at SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, and Apple. He is also the creator of the Art of Accomplishment. This conversation explores avoidance, emotional fluidity, the Golden Algorithm, the inner critic, and why self-understanding beats self-improvement. At certain...
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Inside My 72-Hour Psychedelic Iboga Therapy With Julie Piatt
Julie Piatt is my wife, my partner, and the person I needed sitting across from me for this one. This conversation explores my recent experience with iboga, the root bark medicine used by the Bwiti people of Gabon for thousands of years. We discuss what led me there after decades of recovery and...
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Smile, Or You're Doing It Wrong: Andy Glaze On Relentless Positivity, PTSD, & The Healing Power Of Movement
Andy Glaze is a firefighter paramedic, ultrarunner, and the author of “Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong.” This conversation explores the space between falling down and getting back up and how movement becomes a catalyst for emotional healing. We discuss Andy's descent into addiction, the…
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What's Going Right: Dr. Paul Conti On Self-Sabotage, Trauma & Why Being Hard On Yourself Is Slowing You Down
Dr. Paul Conti is a psychiatrist and author of the new book “What's Going Right.” This conversation flips the script on a field focused on what's wrong, and asks a different question: what's going right? We get into the three human drives, the structure of self, self-sabotage, boundaries, and the...
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Pay Now, Love It Later: Why I Work Out at 4 AM & The Mindset That Wins The Long Game
A solo riff today. No guest. Let's get into it. Today's conversation is about intentional living in a reactive world—the 4 AM routine, the creative power of constraints, and why mood follows action. Plus, the spirit animal I'd argue we'd all be better off adopting: the tortoise. I close with the...
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David Epstein On Why Constraints Drive Creativity, The Myth Of Productive Freedom, & How Limits Make Us Better
David Epstein is a scientist-turned-investigative journalist, author of "Range," and one of the most rigorous thinkers working today. This conversation explores his new book "Inside the Box," the counterintuitive argument that limits, not freedom, are what unlock our best work. We cover the...
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What We're Still Getting Wrong About Women's Health & Fitness: Dr. Stacy Sims Live
Dr. Stacy Sims is an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist whose mantra – "women are not small men" – has reshaped how women approach their health. Recorded live with a studio audience, we challenge the conventional wisdom around fasting, cardio, and calorie restriction. In its place, a...
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ROLL ON: Stop Optimizing Your Life & Start Living It, Seeking Depth Over Algorithms, The Future of Podcasting, Artemis II, Media Diet & More
Roll On, al fresco! Adam Skolnick came over. We went outside and let the conversation breathe. No studio walls. No agenda. Just two guys, some birds, and a wide-ranging hang that covers self-obsession as the enemy of growth, the dork problem in modern podcasting, and why 14 years in, we're…
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In Waves & War: Marcus & Amber Capone On Psychedelic Treatment For Veteran PTSD, Rebuilding Life After War & The Mission To Heal A Generation
Marcus and Amber Capone are the subjects of the Netflix documentary “In Waves and War” and founders of Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions. We discuss Marcus's 13 years in Naval Special Operations, the TBI and suicidal ideation that followed six combat deployments, the marriage that nearly...
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Everything Is A Story: Journalist Nick Bilton Thinks AI Might End Humanity & How Stories Could Save Us
Nick Bilton is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, a New York Times bestselling author, and screenwriter. This conversation explores the power of story — how tech titans like Jobs, Dorsey, and Musk wield narrative as a weapon, and why AI may be the first technology capable of wiping us off…
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Rebuilding My Body & Starting Over After Spinal Fusion Surgery
This is a solo AMA focused on my diet and fitness routine in the aftermath of spinal fusion surgery. I walk through the specifics — what I ate, how I trained, how I went from 207 pounds and completely atrophied to dropping 37 pounds while building lean muscle — and the salient lessons I've…
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The King of Moab: Ultrarunner Max Jolliffe On Winning Moab 240, Recovery From Heroin Addiction & Why Suffering Is His Greatest Teacher
Max Jolliffe is the Moab 240 course record holder, elite ultrarunner, and one of endurance sport's more unlikely origin stories. This conversation explores Max's multi-generational family history with addiction, the opioid crisis, his decade-long battle with heroin, the moment in a jail cell that...
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Rich Speaks On Tiger Woods, Addiction & The Wounds That Fame Can't Heal
Tiger Woods' recent DUI arrest has everyone asking why. I have some thoughts on that. And some personal experience. In this solo episode, I draw on my own history with addiction to illuminate what's really happening beneath the spectacle. Because the question most people are asking presupposes...
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Arthur Brooks On The Crisis Of Meaning & How To Actually Find It
Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, bestselling author, and one of the world's leading authorities on human happiness. This conversation explores what he calls a psychogenic epidemic — a crisis of meaning driven by the very technology we can't put down. We discuss the three macronutrients of...
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Decoding the New U.S. Dietary Guidelines with Simon Hill: What They Got Right, Wrong & Why It Matters
Simon Hill is a nutritionist, physiotherapist, and host of “The Proof” podcast. We dig into the newly released U.S. Dietary Guidelines: what changed, what the evidence actually supports, and how the final document diverged from the advisory committee's recommendations. The fine print reveals a...
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Future-Proof Your Brain from Dementia & The Lifestyle Levers That Keep You Sharp with Neuroscientist Dr. Tommy Wood
Dr. Tommy Wood is a neuroscientist, physician, associate professor at the University of Washington, and the author of “The Stimulated Mind.” I came into this one with a lot on my mind. My mother has Alzheimer's, and for two years I've been watching this disease dismantle someone I love. What…
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A master-class in personal and professional development, ultra-athlete, wellness evangelist and bestselling author Rich Roll delves deep with the world's brightest and most thought provoking thought leaders to educate, inspire and empower you to unleash your best, most authentic self. More at: https://richroll.com
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