The Rich Roll Podcast

Nick Bilton is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, a New York Times bestselling author, and screenwriter.

This is a solo AMA focused on my diet and fitness routine in the aftermath of spinal fusion surgery.

Max Jolliffe is the Moab 240 course record holder, elite ultrarunner, and one of endurance sport's more unlikely origin stories.

Tiger Woods' recent DUI arrest has everyone asking why. I have some thoughts on that. And some personal experience. In this solo episode, I draw on my own history with addiction to illuminate what's really happening beneath the spectacle.

Arthur Brooks is a Harvard professor, bestselling author, and one of the world's leading authorities on human happiness. This conversation explores what he calls a psychogenic epidemic — a crisis of meaning driven by the very technology we can't put down.

Simon Hill is a nutritionist, physiotherapist, and host of “The Proof” podcast. We dig into the newly released U.S. Dietary Guidelines: what changed, what the evidence actually supports, and how the final document diverged from the advisory committee's recommendations.

Dr. Tommy Wood is a neuroscientist, physician, associate professor at the University of Washington, and the author of “The Stimulated Mind.” I came into this one with a lot on my mind. My mother has Alzheimer's, and for two years I've been watching this disease dismantle someone I love.

Bill Burnett and Dave Evans created perhaps the most popular course at Stanford, "Designing Your Life," and co-authored the book "How to Live a Meaningful Life." This conversation explores the intersection of product design and personal development.

This is my first solo episode — and honestly, out of my comfort zone. Which is exactly why I needed to do it. The recent Channel 5 interview between Shia LaBeouf and Andrew Callaghan went wildly viral. Most of the discourse has been voyeuristic or vilifying.

Ken Rideout is a masters world champion marathon runner, recovering opioid addict, and the author of the new memoir, “Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard.” This conversation explores the childhood trauma Ken spent decades outpacing, the addiction that nearly destroyed him, his wife Shel

Tom Sachs is a contemporary artist and cultural provocateur known for turning branded consumer objects into high art.

Bone smashing. Steroids. Crystal meth. 13-year-olds letting AI judge their faces. It's called looksmaxxing – and it presents as self-improvement. Underneath, it's a deftly weaponized pipeline to nihilism, misogyny, and self-destruction, consuming millions of young men right now.

Michael Easter is a New York Times bestselling author, UNLV professor, and the mind behind “Walk With Weight.” This conversation explores rucking, the evolutionary movement pattern humans are built for that modern fitness has largely overlooked.

Dr. Dawn Mussallem is a Mayo Clinic oncologist who survived stage 4 cancer at 26, heart failure, and a heart transplant—then became the first person to run a marathon within a year of receiving a new heart.

Roll On is here—and this one has teeth. Adam and I unpack the tale of two Alexes—Honnold and Pretti—and what that juxtaposition reveals about the best and worst of human nature.

Alex Honnold, the world's most accomplished free solo climber and subject of Oscar-winning Free Solo, just climbed Taipei 101 live on Netflix.

James Nestor is an acclaimed science journalist and author of the international bestseller "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art." This conversation explores why so many of us breathe dysfunctionally—and how it may be connected to chronic ailments.

Bruce Wagner is a novelist, former student of Carlos Castaneda, and author of fifteen books, including his latest, "Amputation." This conversation explores his use of Hollywood as a laboratory for human behavior, crafting transgressive fiction that skewers the desperate while searching for transcend

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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.

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.

Will Bulsiewicz on the gut microbiome as the root determinant of chronic inflammation — the silent driver behind 3 out of 5 deaths. Fiber diversity (not just quantity) is the single most important dietary variable for microbiome health.

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.

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.

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.

Kevin Hall on why diets fail: ultra-processed foods hijack the brain's reward system, causing people to eat 500+ more calories per day compared to whole foods. The obesity epidemic isn't a willpower failure — it's an environmental one.

Rutger Bregman on the crisis of meaning in modern work: 25% of workers believe their jobs are socially useless. Moral ambition — redirecting talent toward the world's real problems — is the antidote to both bullshit jobs and the meaning crisis.

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.

Elizabeth Gilbert on addiction beyond substances — sex, love, codependency. Six years of celibacy as self-care after buying drugs for her dying partner. The hardest recovery isn't from substances; it's from patterns of self-abandonment.

Ethan Suplee: 530 pounds at his heaviest, congestive heart failure at 29, now a competitive bodybuilder. The transformation wasn't linear — yo-yo dieting, relapse, body dysmorphia. 'Just diet and exercise' is both true and deeply insufficient.

Valter Longo on the Fasting Mimicking Diet and its implications for aging, cancer, and diabetes. Therapeutic fasting triggers autophagy — the body's cellular recycling system — and promotes stem cell regeneration. Five nutrition pillars for longevity.

Cory Richards — National Geographic photographer, first American to summit an 8000m peak in winter. His achievements masked bipolar disorder, PTSD, and alcoholism. The paradox: the accomplishments that saved his life became the prison that delayed his healing.

Vanity Fair correspondent Nick Bilton discusses the dark underbelly of Silicon Valley: how the tech industry creates products designed to addict, why former tech leaders wont let their own children use their products, and the growing technologist-to-Luddite pipeline.

Arthur Brooks presents the science of happiness: why achievement addicts are the unhappiest successful people, how to transition from fluid to crystallized intelligence, and practical frameworks for building a happier life.

Peter Attia on Medicine 3.0 — shifting from treating disease to preventing it decades before symptoms appear. The four pillars of longevity: exercise (most important), nutrition, sleep, emotional health. Zone 2 training as the foundation.

Gabor Maté on the connection between childhood trauma and adult disease. Unhealed trauma isn't just psychological — it creates physiological stress responses that manifest as autoimmune disorders, cancer, and addiction. The body keeps the score.

David Goggins on the 40% rule: when your mind says you're done, you're only at 40% capacity. His origin: abused as a child, 300 pounds, barely literate — became a Navy SEAL, ultramarathon runner, and pull-up world record holder through pure mental discipline.