{"podcast":{"title":"The Adversity Advantage with Doug Bopst","slug":"the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565","podcast_index_feed_id":1209565,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD6800025034","website_url":"http://theadversityadvantage.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/5438f09a-4413-11ee-8d7a-23246612e332/image/1bf60ff268600cd577796bf4fe5c9ff1.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Doug Bopst","episode_count":725,"summary":"The Adversity Advantage is where life’s hardest struggles become your greatest strengths. Each week, host Doug Bopst — a former felon and addict who used fitness to save his life — brings you raw, powerful conversations with world-class experts and thought leaders. From Andrew Huberman to Mel Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, Gabor Maté, Robert Greene, Rich Roll, Kevin O’Leary, and more - you’ll hear the untold stories of how they turned setbacks into comebacks. You’ll also walk away with practical, everyday tools to help you: build resilience in the face of adversity, rewire your brain and body for growth, strengthen relationships and mental health, transform your health, recover from addiction and unlock the discipline to create the life you want.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T04:21:06.391309+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565"},"episode":{"title":"How To Take Complete Control When Life Falls Apart | Ken Rideout","slug":"how-to-take-complete-control-when-life-falls-apart-ken-rideout","published_at":"2026-03-12T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/how-to-take-complete-control-when-life-falls-apart-ken-rideout","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/47G541/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/BTGDG9437891616.mp3?updated=1773668744","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/47G541/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/BTGDG9437891616.mp3?updated=1773668744","summary":"Ken Rideout is the fastest marathoner in the world over fifty and a former prison guard, Wall Street trader, and opioid addict. His life story has been chronicled in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Outside. Since getting sober more than a decade ago, he has won some of the world’s toughest races, including, at age fifty-two, the Gobi March—a 155-mile, self-supported race across the sweltering Gobi Desert in Mongolia—and a few months later, the Masters (50+) Marathon World Championships. In addition to his many running victories, he has completed more than ten Ironman triathlons. In 2018, Ken founded capital solutions firm Camrock Advisors. More recently, he founded talent agency Rideout Sports and Entertainment. Today on the show we discuss: overcoming a devastating opioid addiction and rebuilding life through endurance sports, why discipline and consistency beat talent when it comes to success, the brutal mental battles that happen during elite endurance racing, how to respond when life hits you with unexpected chaos, the difference between quitting and losing and why quitting haunts you forever, and the mindset shift that turns adversity into fuel for growth and much more. Connect with Ken: Book: https://www.theothersideofhard.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ken_rideout/ Podcast: https://lnk.to/the-other-side-of-hard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Ken Rideout is the fastest marathoner in the world over fifty and a former prison guard, Wall Street trader, and opioid addict. His life story has been ch…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4106,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/episodes/how-to-take-complete-control-when-life-falls-apart-ken-rideout/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/how-to-take-complete-control-when-life-falls-apart-ken-rideout.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}