The Rich Roll Podcast

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Journalist Anand Giridharadas On The Lost Art Of...

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2026/10/05

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 the Epstein emails reveal about elite relationships, the Aspen consensus, who gets to belong in America and the case for radical humanization. Along the way, I share how the program of recovery taught me to

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98:06

Black-ish Creator Kenya Barris On Turning Down A $100...

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2026/10/01

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 leaves his out entirely. We discuss Kenya's Inglewood upbringing, finding your voice, Richard Pryor walking off a Vegas stage, the $100 million Netflix deal Kenya walked away from, the shifting tectonic

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98:05

The Perilous Fight: Colin Kaepernick On The True...

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2026/09/28

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 yes, he still trains most mornings. Colin is undeniable. This conversation was an honor. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Prolon: Get 15% OFF

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116:58

Bryan Johnson & Kate Tolo On Curing Their Incurable...

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2026/09/21

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 relationship with death. I appreciated their openness. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Go Brewing: Get 50% OFF your first subscription order to Go Brewing's Beer

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111:39

If I Can, I Will: William Goodge On Running 50...

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2026/09/17

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 in public. Will is the most aura-farming, Goodge-coded ultra mog I could possibly imagine. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: TORRAS: Get 15% off the

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118:37

Life's A Fight. Don’t Let It Break You: Dolph...

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2026/09/14

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 steroids and stunts that followed, a fatal prognosis reversed by a second opinion, and the mirror work that finally took. He offers a quiet rebuke to everything young men are currently being sold about

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96:15

Olympic Medalist Jenny Simpson On Her Sudden Cardiac...

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2026/09/07

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 discuss June 16th, the inherited heart condition nobody knew she had, the five days she can't remember, and what they were actually like. Jenny is extraordinary. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on

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136:36

From Drinking Every Morning to Running 340 Miles:...

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2026/09/03

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 moment he told the truth, nine years sober, ultrarunning as a spiritual practice, who belongs on the trail, and more. Tommie is a beautiful representation of a real runner. Enjoy! Show notes +

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93:42

Hunter Biden Is Out Of Secrets: A Story of Recovery,...

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2026/08/31

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 sober, he calls the worst years of his life a gift. Hunter is proof that prophets walk among us. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Eight Sleep: Get

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82:35

How Hellah Sidibe’s 3,350-Day Run Streak Rebuilt His...

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2026/08/24

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 the way you walk the earth, happiness as moments created with people, and his role as the counterweight to the grifters preying on vulnerable young men online. We need more Hellah energy in the world

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67:22

Mindfulness, Meditation & Performance: Manoj Dias...

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2026/08/20

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 optimization. He also explains what an NBA team practices before the shot. Then it opens up to a Q&A with the room. Manoj also guides everyone through a practice. A few rounds of five breaths in and five out,

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110:58

Lee Sung Jin On The Spirituality Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’

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2026/08/17

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 worst year of his life and the scene it produced, and the name he spent twenty-five years under. The overarching message is that change, evolution, growth are possible and always within our grasp. We just

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92:00

The Most Decorated Winter Olympian Ever: Johannes...

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2026/08/10

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 Olympics.But it wasn't always so; this conversation explores how he got from the middle of the pack at age 14 to the top of Olympic history. We get into Norway's philosophy of raising top athletes, the training

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142:41

Zac Clark on Addiction, Recovery and a Life of Service

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2026/08/06

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 and why, for Zac, recovery is less about willpower than community. We cover: willingness, emotional sobriety, how families get pulled under, the stranger who saved his life, and what running gives him. Zac

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82:43

Stoic Lessons From The Odyssey w/ Ryan Holiday

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2026/08/03

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 narrators, the sirens as confirmation bias, perseverance versus persistence, and many other topics. Odysseus, it turns out, is working the twelve steps. Ryan is a great mind. And the movie is a

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124:29

Michelle Khare Is The Tom Cruise Of YouTube: How...

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2026/07/27

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 reckless, fear setting, and walking toward what scares you. Along the way, she reveals the simple test she runs before every insane risk. Michelle has arrived, and she's just getting started. Enjoy! Show

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75:02

Malcolm Gladwell & Chris Chavez Think We're Selling...

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2026/07/23

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 three podcasters rolling the dice. Where it went: the art of the interview. Farming attention with integrity. The state of running. Why America loses at the sports it thinks it should dominate. Enjoy! Show

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76:25

What Are You Actually Capable Of? Mark Dowdle On...

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2026/07/20

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 vulnerability as connective tissue, faith, why mood follows action, and dancing at the edge of your capabilities — where the mask comes off. Mark is a change agent masquerading as an ultrarunner. Enjoy! Show

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75:17

Episode 1,000: Rich & Julie Piatt Celebrate By Going...

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2026/07/13

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 everything, and why change stays within everyone's reach. Fourteen years. A thousand episodes. Grateful for every one of you. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s

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70:36

Thrilling Tales Of Modern Men: Danny McBride On Ego,...

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2026/07/06

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 of Modern Men,” puts it all on the page. We get into masculinity, disappointment, the manosphere, and a world that already feels like the extended McBride universe. Beneath the comedy, the only real

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