RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard

Ken Rideout

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Booking Overview

This is a long-form interview show focused on resilience, redemption, and overcoming extreme personal or professional adversity, typically featuring elite athletes and coaches with firsthand stories of high-performance careers and difficult turning points. Credible pitches include championship athletes, renowned coaches, and other high-performance leaders with significant accomplishments and compelling recovery or reinvention narratives; booking difficulty is high.

Metrics

Episodes: 60

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.3k subscribers

Instagram: 131.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Ken Rideout - Ken Rideout is the host of the show and author of The Other Side of Hard.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Elite athletes, championship-level competitors, renowned coaches, or high-performance professionals with major career accomplishments and a compelling story of adversity, resilience, or reinvention.
Required Achievements:  
World or national championships, Elite professional sports careers, Coaching championship-level athletes, Major career comebacks or high-performance achievements, Successful post-career reinvention

Recent Guest Discussions

Andrew Talansky - His Rise From Recreational Cycling To The Tour De France, Professional Cycling’s Physical And Psychological Demands, Burnout, Retirement, And High-performance Coaching.

Eric Nicksick - Coaching Development, Leadership, Preparation, Fighter Safety, Building Trust, And Working With Elite MMA Athletes.

Regis Prograis - Overcoming Hurricane Katrina, Building A Professional Boxing Career, Injuries, Management Challenges, Fear, Burnout, And Retiring On His Own Terms.

Recent Topics

Resilience, Combat Sports, Endurance Sports, Coaching, High Performance

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard
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The Brutal Road to a Tour de France Top 10 | Andrew Talansky

July 24, 2026

Andrew Talansky didn’t get on a road bike until he was 17. Seven years later, he finished 10th overall in the Tour de France. Andrew joins Ken Rideout to tell the story of his unlikely rise from getting dropped on Miami group rides to competing against the best cyclists in the world. He shares how a running injury led him to cycling, why he left college to chase the sport, and how a brutal experience living and racing in Italy nearly ended his career before it truly began. Andrew also takes...

From Bartender to Elite MMA Coach | Eric Nicksick

July 22, 2026

Eric Nicksick never planned on becoming one of the most respected coaches in MMA. He grew up in Las Vegas surrounded by football coaches, learning how to study film, lead a team, master the fundamentals, and separate himself through what Randy Couture later called “things that take no talent”: being early, being prepared, and doing the work. After football, Eric walked into Xtreme Couture before the gym had officially opened. He trained with world-class fighters, became its first paying mem...

From $1 Paychecks to World Champion | Regis Prograis

July 17, 2026

Two-time world champion Regis "Rougarou" Prograis built his career the hard way. He started boxing late, lost everything when Hurricane Katrina destroyed his family's home, sold tickets to fund his early professional career, and eventually fought his way to the top of the sport, becoming a two-time world champion. But behind the belts was a very different story. Regis opens up about paying opponents just to get fights, rebuilding his life after Katrina, career-threatening injuries, managem...

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