The Rich Roll Podcast · 2026-03-09 · 108 min · 21,936 words

Ken Rideout On Why Everything You Want Is On The Other Side Of Hard

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Extreme discipline has given me the life I wanted, but my kids are like, my dad is crazy because I'm constantly on them. Can't be easy to be your kid. No, it's not. And what they see is intensity and aggressiveness, and I don't want to put this burden on them. We have Ken Rideout, one of the world's pre-eminent masters athletes.

A former prison guard Wall Street trader. He has overcome addiction. He's been put in that fight. or flight situation and he's always pick fight. There's an element of me that's tortured and my protective mechanism is to have a hard exterior.

All of the hard charging, driving and trying to win and be the best is just an extension of wanting validation. There's something missing in my life that I have to do which is Ken Rideout, you made it here. You're back in the studio. Round three.

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