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Just because you’ve identified the problem doesn’t make it right.
What are you going to do about it?
As they say in the rooms of recovery, self-awareness will avail you nothing. That’s what this whole conversation is really about.
Ken Rideout is back in the studio for the third time (episodes 701 & 793). The first time, we met the man – the improbable trajectory from a chaotic Boston childhood to Wall Street to world championship marathons. The second time, we witnessed the beast – the Gobi Desert win, the mindset, the relentless machinery of a man who refuses to lose. This time, we meet the person underneath both of those versions. The one who has been running from something this whole time.
Ken’s memoir, Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard, tells the story that race results never could. A childhood marinating in dysfunction. A prison guard gig at the same facility where his stepfather had served time — and where his brother would eventually end up. Wall Street. 9/11 at Cantor Fitzgerald. A secret opioid addiction. And then the running – the thing that saved his life and simultaneously became the next elaborate mechanism for avoiding the deeper work.
“If you can’t be accountable to yourself, how are you going to show up for other people?”
- KEN RIDEOUT
Specifically, we discuss:
- The Childhood Trauma Beneath the Trophies
- Opioid Addiction & the Cycle of Relapse
- Surviving 9/11 at Cantor Fitzgerald
- Win or Die Trying: Obsession as Superpower & Achilles Heel
- Shelby’s Cancer Battle & the Road to Faith
- Fatherhood, Generational Trauma, & Breaking the Pattern
- Why the Real Obstacle Was Always the Self
For those who prefer a visual experience, the conversation is available on YouTube. As always, the audio version streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
I love this man. I’ve watched him grow in ways that are genuinely moving. And what you’re about to hear – raw, uncomfortable, achingly honest – is the proof that the work is working, even when it doesn’t feel like it.
Peace + Plants,
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