Finding Ultra recounts Rich Roll’s remarkable journey from an out-of-shape, mid-life couch potato to one of the world’s top ultrarunners. The book chronicles his battle with alcoholism, his transformation into an elite endurance athlete, and his adoption of a plant-based lifestyle. It includes his experiences in the elite Ultraman competition and the EPIC5, five Ironman-distance triathlons completed in less than a week on different Hawaiian islands. The revised and updated edition provides practical tools, practices, and strategies for optimal performance, longevity, and wellness, making it a guide for anyone seeking to transform their life through self-discovery and a healthier lifestyle.
Created by Rich Roll and Julie Piatt, this book shares their experiences and the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle. It includes a variety of easy-to-prepare whole food recipes, such as hearty breakfasts, lunches, dinners, smoothies, juices, and desserts. The book is not just a recipe collection but a comprehensive guide to long-term wellness, body, mind, and spirit health, and a celebration of a simple and sustainable lifestyle.
The One Minute Manager is a concise and easily readable book that tells the story of a young man's search for an effective manager. The book reveals three key techniques: One Minute Goals, which involve setting clear and concise goals; One Minute Praisings, which emphasize recognizing employees when they do something right; and One Minute Reprimands (later updated to One Minute Redirects in the new edition), which focus on immediate feedback on mistakes while valuing the employee. These techniques are designed to improve productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity within organizations.
Voicing Change is a culmination of Rich Roll's eight-year journey of interviewing unique thinkers and visionaries on his acclaimed podcast. The book distills the collective wisdom from these conversations into thoughtful essays and first-person wisdom, focusing on themes of intentional living, life lessons, and enduring inspiration.
In '10 Rules for Resilience', Joe De Sena outlines ten principles for fostering resilience in families. He emphasizes the importance of preparedness, health, leadership, and resilience in navigating life's challenges. The book aims to help families develop a mindset that allows them to approach difficult situations with calm and confidence, embracing failure and setbacks as part of growth.
We all have big dreams. But are you willing to pay the price required to make them manifest?
There’s a big difference between those who quit and those who commit.
At the core of that difference is one’s ability to tolerate discomfort.
Discomfort is the price we pay for resilience.
And resilience is the foundation of growth.
Few grasp and practice this truth better than Spartan Race founder and CEO Joe De Sena, returning to the podcast to usher us into the new year correct and jumpstart our new year’s ambitions into action.
Joe last graced the studio in December of 2020 (RRP #567), a conversation that probed his absolutely fascinating backstory and left us with powerful insights on the limits we impose on personal possibility.
Continuing in the spirited annual tradition we have here to launch the new year with an uncomfortable kick in the pants, I thought it fit (literally) to invite Joe back for a more focused elaboration on the truths, mindset tools and motivation to translate ambition into positive results.
For those new to Joe, he’s the entrepreneurial mastermind behind Spartan—the obstacle course racing series that became a global phenomenon, and the evil genius behind Death Race—perhaps the most absurd sufferfest ever conceived.
He’s also an absolute endurance freak. Example A: in a mere week, Joe completed the Vermont 100 mile run, Ironman Lake Placid, and the Badwater 135. In addition, he crushed 50 ultramarathons and 14 Ironman events in a single year (a certain kind of insanity that must be some kind of record). And he’s the kind of guy who, on a whim, once ran from New York City to Vermont.
Joe’s most striking talent is his facility for motivating the best out of people—a skill committed to print in his new book, 10 Rules For Resilience, which is a guide to developing mental toughness.
Today we deconstruct resilience in all its forms—why it’s crucial to growth and how to cultivate it.
We also go deep on discipline, courage, and discomfort. The importance of personal values in adhering to your goals. How to navigate failure. And why your reaction to challenging situations defines you.
And finally, we explore the importance of imbuing these principles into our parenting.
Joe is a force of nature—a bullshit-free and 100% authentic lunatic. But his heart is huge. His experience-based message is powerful. And paired with practical tools fundamental to shattering stagnation.
To read more click here. You can also watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May his words propel you to craft your own challenge for this impending new year—something extraordinary.
So let’s dive into it 2022 headfirst. Or, as Joe is fond of saying, fire, ready, aim.
Peace + Plants,
Rich
The Rich Roll Podcast 
