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RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard

Ken Rideout

Booking Overview

An interview-driven resilience show featuring raw, long-form conversations with people who have endured extreme personal, professional, athletic, military, or legal hardship and rebuilt their lives. Credible pitches include accomplished executives, elite athletes, military veterans, law-enforcement figures, recovery professionals, and experts with an unusually compelling firsthand transformation; booking difficulty is medium because major accomplishments help, but exceptional personal stories can also qualify lesser-known guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 74

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 13.1k subscribers

Instagram: 158.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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Host

Ken Rideout - Author, endurance athlete, and host focused on resilience, adversity, and personal transformation.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Guests generally have distinguished careers or extraordinary firsthand experience involving elite sports, business leadership, military or law-enforcement service, incarceration, addiction recovery, trauma, or major personal reinvention. A highly candid account of overcoming severe adversity is as important as conventional public prominence.
Required Achievements:  
Senior executive or CEO leadership, Professional sports careers and championship-level achievement, Elite military or special-operations service, Major endurance or mountaineering accomplishments, Recovery, reinvention, or survival after severe personal hardship

Recent Guest Discussions

Bernard Pollard - The Physical And Psychological Demands Of Professional Football, Anger And Adversity, The Realities Of NFL Culture, Retirement, Fatherhood, And Finding Purpose Through Player Development.

Kent McGowen - Law Enforcement, Wrongful-prosecution Claims, Courtroom Failures, Incarceration, Life After Release, And The Continuing Fight To Revisit His Case.

James Jet Davies - High Finance, Ambition, Trauma, Burnout, Self-harm Recovery, Career Loss, Identity, And Creating A More Purposeful Life.

Scott DeRue - Purpose-driven Leadership, Mountaineering, Resilience, Organizational Transformation, Rebuilding Equinox During Covid-19, And The Business Of Endurance Experiences.

Taylor Cavanaugh - Military Service, Addiction, Self-destruction, Suicide And Recovery, Rebuilding Through Discipline, And Controlling The Controllables.

Recent Topics

Resilience, Redemption, Endurance Sports, Leadership, Recovery

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard
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From a Prison Cell to Nike Brand Director | Jordan Rogers

September 11, 2026

Jordan Rogers was using heroin at 15. By the time he landed in county jail, he weighed 116 pounds. His parents had spent his college fund on rehab, and he was facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. I know what it’s like to organize your entire life around getting high. There was a lot in this conversation that hit home for me.  We get into his 396 days locked up, what finally changed when he stopped trying to outsmart every rule, and what happened when he read his mother’s accoun...

From Compulsive Gambler to a $465 Million Exit | Rich Galgano

September 09, 2026

Rich Galgano came back from Vegas so broke that a friend had to pay to get his car out of the airport parking lot. He swore he was done gambling. Then he got home, found $500, and went straight back to another casino. I know what it’s like to promise yourself you’re finished and then do the same shit again.  This week, I sat down with Rich to talk about the gambling addiction that was taking over his life, the three-day bender that finally made him ask for help, and walking into Gambler...

19 Million Followers, Losing Everything, and Starting Over in Nashville | Tayler Holder

September 04, 2026

Tayler Holder has 19 million followers on TikTok, millions more across social media, and a story that goes way beyond being an internet star. Tayler grew up in tiny Alvarado, Texas, racing dirt bikes and chasing adrenaline from the time he was a kid.  He left traditional high school after ninth grade to train and race motocross, then eventually shifted his focus to Vine, Musical.ly, and social media. He moved to Los Angeles determined to figure it out, literally hanging around the apa...

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