Rich Roll: Story of Redemption, Personal Triumph and Ultra-Fitness 

I'm just a stoner, but Rich is such an inspiration to be sober. He makes me want to quit coffee and tea as well. I feel like in the next 10-20 year's, there will be more Rich Rolls! He's such an inspiration.

Rich Roll rocks, he is a great inspiration for me. I am overweight, 60 and have totally blown out knees which are bone on bone. I used to weigh over 400 pounds and I am now down to 290 pounds. I need to be 275 pounds in order to get my first of two knee replacement surgeries. I am eating a whole foods plant-based diet. My downfall is exercise, it's hard to get motivated to exercise when you are in severe pain and depressed. But guys like Rich Roll, David Goggins and Anthony Robbins are great inspiration and motivators. Monday I am starting my TRX and stationary bootcomp. I know what I have to do, I just need to get off of my ass and do it! I am over 4 years and 4 months clean and sober and a CCAR Certified Recovery Coach.

Rich is a good guy. Great story. He was lucky to have such a solid foundation of family, work, and people and background to help to get through it all.

Total respect to this guy... always look up to these sort of people and many others should .

The interviewer is a good listener who asks the right questions at the wright time. Great skill. Thank you. Loved to listen to this interview

Well done for overcoming the Alcohol addiction.I know how hard that is.

Wow, what you shared about your wife, that when she let go then you started to change, was so powerful... I guess just what I needed to hear... thank you for sharing and thank you Jonathan for asking Rich that great question!

I am 55. Sober over 8,5 years. Vegetarian since last February, Vegan since July. My dream is to run my first marathon this year. Thanx fot the uploading of this interview.

"Be in gratitude. Be of service." It feels so hokey and like something you'd read on a motivational poster but it's physiologically sound. When you're thankful and when you do good for others, your brain lets up on that karmic debt that you feel you owe to yourself and others. It gives you mental space to be free and grow and move around.

This is so inspirational for me... I am vegan but also alcoholic, his story is so much like mine, I was an excellent student in high school and did well until college I started to derail but still kept it together and graduated, now I am 25 in a sound engineering school and need to get a job, make connections/friends and pursue my dream in music but I feel disconnected from myself. Thank you for this video!

Wow....This is so amazing. I'm so envious of Rich and can relate to so many things that he shares..... I'm 37 and I've decided to change to a plant-based life-style 6 weeks ago.... I have so much to learn... I also carry impossible dreams that long to come true. I've had these dreams since I was a kid. I was Chronically ill for the past 12 years. Was praying and looking for a way to feel myself again. Was doing research on behalf of my dad that has cancer and diabetes. Then I discovered the 'Plant-based diet'! My dad hasn't caught onto it yet, so instead I decided to experiment with it myself. After just 2 weeks I was schocked at my high energy levels and all the changes that I noticed in my body. Thank you guys for doing this interview....and thank you Rich for being so transparent and inspiring people like us to become all that we were meant to be.... Hope that one day I can do the same, and leave behind a legacy for my kids to remember.

Agreed! The interviewer was excellent. Enjoyed Rich’s articulate of his life

Brilliant interview, thank you!

Rich’s book/journey was the inspiration and support that got me through my first year of sobriety. I had no intention of ever running an ultra, but three weeks before my 10-months of being clean, I found myself registering for a 50k and by my first year, I had completed it. He has been such a hero to me and so many. And Jonathan, your podcast got me through some really dark times six years ago when I would walk to work because I had lost my license to a DUI. Your inspirational conversations with world-shakers stirred me to want to be a better person and helped me to see a light that I didn’t think was there at the time. I appreciate, admire and thank you both so, so much. 🙏🏻🤍

Great interview. Thank You.

This guy is lucky he has got some good genes. Smart, good looks, high profile education and career whilst self confessed alcoholic. He also a managed a VERY quick detox and transformation to world fittest man these are exceptional results not everyone can pull this off.

Great interview, thanks for the inspection guys

Impressive that you stayed 100 days. We love Rich!

Great interview, I love hearing your story as well jonathan. Thank you for sharing!

so very inspiring for me! Thank you for your openness and your powerful and motivating story!

Great video. I really enjoyed both your books so it was awesome to see this conversation between you guys. Thanks for sharing!

I'm a huge fan of Jonathan and so excited to have Rich be on his show!

This was really nice, thank you :)

I love Rich! Thank you for the video :)

Jonathan your channel is amazing man! thank you for great videos and interviews. I'm not a big fan of tv anymore and big fan of meaningful stories; like ones you share. So, Thank you budd!

that was such an inspiring interview. i ordered the book. (the second book i'm ordering from watching this show). keep up the good work. i love this show so much. namaste.

Jonathan, always inspiring interviews.. Rich, I purchased your book 6 or so months ago.. and also Inspiring.. Thank-you.. You both motivate!

Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing.

really really great insightful interview

Thanks for sharing your story!

really great interview Jonathan. I wish I saw this years ago. Rich's story is truly inspiring.

Excellent interview, and a fantastic story.

Wow. Jonathan, you rock. I have been wondering about this guy. But seeing him with you in this interview, really underlines the fact that you have to try to end the abuse. I am so at that place of having "to get on the plane" "walk through the door" and this interview has helped so much. thank you thank you!

Great interview, of.a great interviewer- not easy, and well done! You could see he appreciated your questions and reflections. Thank you!

I really enjoyed this interview with Rich Roll who i just "discovered" from his VLOG and the genuine honesty in it between you Jonathan and Rich..much appreciated and inspiring! ..I liked your metaphor of "flipping the switch" to having the best life starting now as yes life is not a destination it is the journey..thank you Jonathan and Rich.. Have a great day and Happy 2018 all! Thank you..namaste..

I can read these comments all day long such a great energy that I can feel from this audience so refreshing❤🙏

This was just what I needed. So nourishing. 😊

Wow great insightful conversation and a pleasure to observe - Thank you

Wisdom and inspiration, thank you.

Love this!!! Jonathan your amazing ..love Rich Roll!

Excellent interview Fields, pertinent no-bullshit questions.

Thank you for this.

Great interview.

Great interview

this man inspires me in so many ways

Very good interviewing skills.

Loved this interview, I'm a big fan of rich roll and his humbleness. First time listening to Jonathon Fields and was impressed with his listening techniques.

utterly compelling and inspirational story of recovery and the power of plant based/vegan lifestyle...wonderful interview

2 great guys Thanks

I'm already vegan but when I watch his stuff I always make a mental note to get more kale:-) It's so true that raw greens make a crazy difference for energy. I've had a similar experience with raw vegan food and running. I had so much energy that I went for a run at midnight and I ran 10k veeery easy, whereas on a normal day I would struggle through 5k. Gonna get some kale and spinach!

I know Rich Roll has been candid in this way also more recently but I really wanted to honour his candour and emotional bravery; yes major endurance athlete but if you're fucked up in your mind the building blocks to reach that level of following your bliss -- Joseph Campbell was not a waste of time by any means -- it won't happen. So much to take away from this interview. I'm bipolar -- so is Stephen Fry; addiction doesn't always go hand in hand with this cycling of dopamine and the absence of foreign substances (booze was the biggy) but in my case, certainly did and healthy veganism and a great shrink plus in my own minor way doing laps in a pool which may be nothing compared with what this man does -- saved my life. Still try to edit myself, rabbit on but this interview was inspiring.

Inspirational. Time to get me on your show :-)

Love Rich Roll

I admire your achievements Rich in sports. It is impossible to have something happened without a cause. You own the listeners an explanation on the causes of the downside of your life. It will be very good for you to tell the audience the causes after you decided to do it. It will release yourself for whatever had happened and it won’t do any harm to anyone including you! The listeners can learn from you definitely. Buddha taught us to be honest, pure, fair, have right view, have compassion and kindness, achieve realization, let go, let it be, keep your faith. Each and everyone of these will work against you if you practise the opposite! Wishing you all the best Rich.

Love Rich and his candidness. Functioning active Alcoholics are VERY SMART. I can believe how he achieved what he has.

fabulous

YRS YES YES!!!!!! Rich in the good life project!!!!

I'm much more conscious about healthy nutrition than my husband, and it kills me to see him eat chunks of industrially-produced cheese on white bread and drink coffee all day long, but what can I do? I can't force him to adopt healthy eating habits. Each person is the author of his/her own life, including health. But it does hurt...

loved the interview but Im wondering- in your book is the "cleanse" you did (at the beginning of your journey)in your book?

It is never too late !!! Everyone is on route !!!

Kudos Rich. And such a great interviewer.

U bounce back, good for u.

I gotta get Rich's book.

great story, so inspiring.... love those glasses man, what are they ?

I've liked rich since watching him on impact theory ... thought this was a great interview, just two guys chatting about life.

You Rock.

Rich is awesome! #RRP

Love those socks Rich.

Great interview. Rich was fortunate that he had the backup($) to spend 100 days in a rehab clinic. Most alcoholics and drug addicts don't have that same luxury and they end up homeless and on the streets. I'm surprised this was never brought up in this interview.

where did you go to rehab in Oregon?

Sounds like Brian Roses' voice from London Real.

Anyone know what Rich’s height weight is now?

he is so handsome

This guy is amnazing

He should try American ninja warrior. I don't know if he does any body weight training though

Anyone know the story on Rich’s wedding that didn’t work?

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If I go plant based, will I grow hair like his?

Came here for a school assignment.

Rich Roll includes coconut oil and other oils in his diet, but isn't oil 100% refined fat? Why would a super athlete like Rich who's so switched on in the area of nutrition, want to include oils and other products which also contain oils such as veganaise? All the major plant based doctors such as Caldwell Esselstyn, T. Colin Campbell, Micheal Greger, John Mcdougall, Dean Ornish etc. recommend not including oil in one's diet as it offers no nutritional benefits whatsoever and 100% of calories are coming from fat. Can someone please shed some light on this issue? Thank you.

Looks like Iggy Pop in his younger days!

wonder if a really fit affluent person wanted to write a best selling book but didn't have a narrative whether they could actually start drinking so that they could "recover" and excel and say they turned from drug addict to superfit

Better alcohol at least the liver can regenerate.

So you are an ultra athlete. . . Would you say you have an addictive personality? For the record, most alcoholics are very smart

Sorry...Rich Froning is the fittest man on Earth!!!!

Impressive what he's done, but I kinda think most of these people like Roll do this only so they can have these sort of movie-like, showbiz-like sitdown interviews where they talk about their life. Like that's what their whole deal is, trying to turn their life into a movie. It's impressive, but weird at the same time. And I for some weird reason never trust a man who seems so wholesome, peaceful, positive. Like something about that in this world seems just off to me. Not in the sense that you just have to be grim, foul mouthed and brooding, but I like men more on the cynical, grumpy side. A guy like this to me strikes me as someone who's pushing away reality so he can feel like a teenager in his 50s.

Just fuckin drink!

To be this educated and self accomplished and knowledgeable, I find it ridiculous that Richard roll believes that alcoholism is a disease. There is mental illness there is emotional instability. There are all kinds of things that are part of our biology, but we were not born with alcohol in our bodies. Disease is a breakdown of something internal.

Lift weights, eat healthy, and fuckin drink Booze

where's the diversity of ethnicity in your guests??

He is living now much unhealthy then before

interviewer is so out of touch w/ alcoholism & addiction

This man was insanely lucky, to be honest. Only people with his base of support can get sober. I mean…. He was “almost homeless” but could afford a flight and time for rehab? Fishy.