Sober Podcast 196 - Do you have to wait for a low bottom? (or, "I want to be on the Rich Roll Podcast")

I want to be on the Rich Roll podcast.

If you don't know who he is, he's an ultra-endurance runner, previous over-drinker. He's a vegan athlete now and he has a podcast that is very popular. He talks to people about health and wellness, not just about recovery (although when the person he is speaking to has an over-drinking history, that will often become at least the subtext of their conversation).

I figured someone in my group probably knows who he is. Either you live in LA, or you know him, or you know his wife, Julie Piatt, or you know his cafe (Joi Cafe).

I'd like to be on his show because I think that I have an interesting perspective to offer, particularly as I just listened one of his recent episodes, where at the end, he and the guest — and the guest was another over-drinker, marathon ultra-endurance runner — were discussing how do you reply to people who email and say, "you've inspired me, I want to quit drinking, what’s your advice?"

The two of them come to it with different approaches, of course. As I’m listening I think, "gee I would say a totally different thing that will reach a whole other group of people that these two responses don’t reach."

HOMEWORK

Do you know Rich Roll or Julie Piatt or Joi Cafe? Short of irritating him with multiple emails, do you have an idea how I can get on his show? Do you know someone who knows someone? I think the idea of a sober trial needs to be shared more, and we need to spotlight the newly emerging internet-based, anonymous, private, AND portable supports for sobriety.