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Jan 2022
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#561: Rich Roll — Reinventing Your Life ...

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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Rich Roll — Reinventing Your Life at 30, 40, and Beyond | Brought to you by Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplementEight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heatingand Tonal smart home gymMore on all three below.

At age 40, Rich Roll (@richroll) made the decision to overhaul the sedentary throes of overweight middle age. Walking away from a career in law, he reinvented himself as a globally recognized ultra-distance endurance athlete, bestselling author, and host of the wildly popular Rich Roll Podcast, one of the world’s most listened to podcasts, with more than 200 million downloads.

Named one of the “25 Fittest Men in the World” by Men’s Fitness and the “Guru of Reinvention” by Outside magazine, Rich shares his inspirational story of addiction, redemption, and athletic prowess in his bestselling memoir, Finding Ultra, and in the cookbooks/lifestyle guides The Plantpower Way and The Plantpower Way: Italia, which he co-authored with his wife Julie Piatt.

Rich is a graduate of Stanford University (where he was a member of their dynastic, multiple-NCAA-championship men’s swimming program) and Cornell Law School. He has been featured on CNN and on the cover of Outside and has been profiled in The New York TimesForbes, ESPN, and many other prominent media outlets.

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