The Rich Roll Podcast
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Optimize Your Health, Fitness & Spirituality To Become Your Best, Most Authentic Self
- 2 hours 3 minutesReclaim Your Excellence: The Path To A Meaningful & Joyous Life w/ Brad Stulberg
Brad Stulberg is a bestselling author, executive coach, and one of my favorite thinkers on sustainable high performance.
This conversation explores the dualities in personal development, discipline and self-compassion, striving and surrender, intensity and joy. We discuss the "humble badass" archetype, building resilient identities, why curiosity is the skeleton key, and excellence as an antidote to alienation.
Along the way, Brad gets vulnerable about the childhood wounds that still drive his ambition—and I share my own.
Amidst the chaos of self-help, Brad remains a principled voice of reason. Enjoy!
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Dr. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist, host of the podcast “A Slight Change of Plans,” and author of “The Other Side of Change.”
This conversation explores the challenge of navigating involuntary change, whether it's injury, loss, or a future that suddenly collapses. We discuss identity and attachment, the illusion of control, why our brains resist uncertainty, the end of history illusion, rumination, and practical tools to help us see change not as a burden—but as a revelation.
Maya also opens up about her own identity crises, a career-ending injury at 15, and later pregnancy losses that forced her to confront who she was beyond her deepest aspirations.
Change is coming for all of us, whether we like it or not. Maya's goal is to give you the companion you need along the way. Enjoy!
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Dr. Will Bulsiewicz is a gastroenterologist, one of the world's foremost authorities on the gut microbiome, and author of “Plant Powered Plus.”
This conversation explores the gut-immune connection as the root determinant of chronic inflammation—the silent driver behind three out of five deaths. We discuss the four nutritional workhorses, why your microbiome is nocturnal, and what happens when you eat after dark.
Dr. B also opens up about a decade-long estrangement from his father—an unexpected reminder that healing isn't always biological. Sometimes it's emotional.
This is our third exchange together. Our best yet. Enjoy!
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Mark Manson is the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and host of the Solved podcast.
Back for his third appearance (eps. 476, 882), we skip the backstory and pull questions from a fishbowl. We discuss vanity goals versus values-aligned goals, why procrastination is really about emotional avoidance, the trap of people-pleasing, how to distinguish intuition from impulse, and the delusion of passive manifestation.
I also share my own shifting perspectives on positive thinking and the dissolution of self.
Mark is the anti-guru. And this conversation is your New Year intervention. Enjoy!
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The finale is here. Let's close this thing out.
Part 2 explores courage, honesty, creativity, relationships, and balance. Bravery. Addiction. Love. Mastery. And why fulfillment doesn't require sacrifice.
It's been fun putting this auditory yearbook together. I hope you found these two episodes uplifting and inspiring.
Thanks for the love and support. This podcast has been an amazing journey. I'm grateful you're on it with me.
Here's to 2026.
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Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange29 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 46 minutesBest of 2025 (Part One): Conversations That Shaped Us
Happy holidays from the RRP mothership.
Another year in the rearview. Time for what's become one of my favorite traditions, our annual “Best Of.” 12 years running now.
This year was packed with an astonishing array of guests—too many to feature here.
Part 1 revisits the year's most powerful moments: longevity science, neuroplasticity, happiness research, emotional regulation, consciousness, and what it actually takes to change.
I'm filled with gratitude for our guests, my team, and most of all—for you. I don't take your attention and support for granted. Here's to growing together in 2026.
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22 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 58 minutesKevin Hall, PhD On The Science & Politics of Weight Loss
Kevin Hall, Ph.D., is a physicist-turned-nutrition scientist and author of "Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us.
"This conversation explores why diets fail, the truth behind the "slow metabolism" myth, how ultra-processed foods hijack our biology, and why the 800-pound gorilla driving the obesity epidemic isn't willpower—it's our toxic food environment.
He also opens up about his decision to leave the NIH after 20 years due to political interference with his research.
Kevin is an honest actor, always trying to set matters to rights amidst a hurricane of nutritional misinformation. Enjoy!
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18 December 2025, 10:00 am - 2 hours 15 secondsLet’s Make The World Wildly Better: Rutger Bregman On Moral Ambition
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian, bestselling author, and the guy who went viral telling Davos billionaires to pay their taxes.
This conversation is a salve for the crisis of meaning percolating through modern life. We explore Rutger's pragmatic antidote—moral ambition—and discuss why a quarter of workers believe their jobs are socially useless, what the abolitionists teach us about coalition-building, and why factory farming may be the ethical abomination future historians judge us for most harshly.
Rutger's conviction is rare and infectious. By the end of our conversation, I was so inspired that I committed $25K to his organization’s new US Food System Reform Program, a cause area that is deeply important to me.
Final Note: Through December 31st, every dollar to moralambition.org/food is matched. I hope you’ll consider joining me today in making a donation to this impactful organization. See the links in our newsletter, on our website, and in our Substack. Let’s lean into our own moral ambition and do something truly meaningful, together.
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Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange15 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 51 minutesGregg Renfrew Is Making Counter Moves in Clean Beauty
Gregg Renfrew is the founder of Beautycounter and now Counter—a pioneer in the clean beauty movement.
Five years after our first exchange, Gregg returns with her story about navigating imposed change. After losing her company, she bought it back out of foreclosure in 48 hours—then let it die to save it. Today, we explore identity collapse, decoupling self-worth from success, why selling control means losing it, and the beauty industry's toxin loopholes.
Along the way, we confront rebuilding when everything you've created is stripped away.
This is an honest conversation about ego, humility, and the courage to begin again. Enjoy!
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8 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 25 minutesRich On Rock Bottom, Resolutions & Reframing Family Dynamics
Roll On returns! Just in time for the holiday gauntlet.
Adam Skolnick and I unpack three questions the season demands: how to navigate family gatherings when the same dynamics play out like clockwork, what rock bottom actually means (hint: it's a launchpad for transformation, not a life sentence), and why I've traded rigid goals for something more like trajectory.
We get into the superpower of extreme neutrality, why everyone is right from their perspective, and morning pages as the unlock you didn't know you needed. We also celebrate Adam's debut novel “American Tiger”—finally out in the world!
Last but not least, we crown our favorite films of 2025. Enjoy!
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Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange4 December 2025, 10:00 am - 1 hour 55 minutesTodd Marinovich: The Superstar Quarterback Who Lost Himself In Drugs & Found Himself In Love
Todd Marinovich is a former NFL quarterback, USC Rose Bowl champion, and the subject of the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary "The Marinovich Project."
This conversation explores the duality of engineered perfection and performance-based love. We discuss his father's authoritarian methods, the identity crisis of living someone else's dream, his harrowing addiction, the moment his father's approval paradoxically ended his motivation, and his journey toward self-compassion through art and recovery.
Through it all, Todd elucidates what it means to reclaim your humanity after decades of self-defiance.
Todd's story is raw and achingly human. And his message is clear—hope is a decision. Enjoy!
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