Chapter 45: Rich Roll on wrestling with recovery and running to redemption
Release Date: 04/17/2026
Chapter 160: Nita Prose on mastering manuscripts and making Molly the Maid
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Happy , everyone! Up in Toronto we're experiencing a wonderful blooming, a beautiful , and lots of slowly-getting-warmer days as we inch towards summer. With this warm spring breeze I’m thrilled to welcome our latest 3 Books guest: a luminous force in publishing, a powerhouse editor-turned-author, and a wonderful storyteller ... the one and only ! Today Nita is best known for her mystery series which features three main titles and a holiday edition—‘,’ ‘,’ ‘,’ and ‘’—which have collectively sold over 2 million copies. Raised in Ontario’s Simcoe County, Nita began...
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Chapter 45: Rich Roll on wrestling with recovery and running to redemption
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Happy new moon, everybody! Today we fly down to the hills of Calabasas, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where I sat behind a microphone at a walnut desk across from the one and only Rich Roll. Rich went to Stanford and Cornell and was a national athlete in swimming before his career was cut short by a decade-long struggle with alcohol—eventually landing him in jail and rehab. On the eve of his 40th birthday, as he walked up the stairs he was left totally winded… and decided it was time to make a change. The next day, Rich overhauled his life. He switched to a 100% vegan,...
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Chapter 159: Eve Harlow on bolstering bibliophilia and boosting bookish brains
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
We welcome global gallivant and raging bibliophile Eve Harlow on 3 Books! Born in Russia, raised in Israel, living in Canada and the U.S., is a talented actress best known for roles in , , and her current star turn as Dr. Ingrid Derian in , the medical-mystery thriller inspired by stories of Sherlock Holmes. Somehow between her busy acting schedule, Eve finds time to read a book a week. She's a library junkie, a reading phenom, and posts stacks of her latest reads between red carpet shots and behind-the-scenes clips from...
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Chapter 42: Molly Bloom on poker princess privileges and pushing past pomposity
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Join me on the couch in Molly Bloom's hotel room at the Four Seasons in downtown Toronto. Molly began her career as a world-class skier, but while training as a pre-teen was diagnosed with severe scoliosis. Her doctor told her she could never ski again, but even as a pre-teen Molly had incredible strength of mind and she ended up back on the slopes only a year after her surgery. By age 21, she was ranked #3 in North America. She then took off to LA and began running one of the most exclusive, high-stakes, underground poker games in the world, featuring players like Alex...
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Chapter 158: Sonja Lyubomirsky helps harness happiness by honing hearty habits
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
is one of the most influential happiness researchers of our time. Sonja moved to the United States from Moscow at age 9 in the 70s. She went to Harvard and Stanford in the 80s and began studying happiness in 1989 ... longer than almost anyone else alive! Positive psychology wasn't "founded" by and for another decade. Sonja has published hundreds of papers including her which defined the field by flipping a long-held assumption on its head: That happiness doesn’t follow success but causes it. Sonja is now following up her bestsellers '' and '' with a new book called '', a joint...
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Chapter 40: Comedian Pete Holmes on infinite infinities and the insanity of is-ness
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
A few years ago I was in LA and I went with my friend Chad to a "Judd Apatow and friends" comedy show where I was blown away by the lineup he brought out. Ray Romano! Zach Galifianakis! And, of course, the incredible Pete Holmes. Pete was my favorite comic that night. I have loved his comedy for years! And his book '' was a wonderful read. My parents are Hindu but I grew up in the secular suburbs of Toronto being exposed to many different religions. Pete was very religious, and then wasn’t, and now is again ... in this thoughtful, examining, spiritual way. His book, which is essentially...
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Chapter 157: Paul Hawken junks jargon to jolt generations
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Paul Hawken is a brilliant thinker, author, activist, and elder who masterfully distills wisdom about our planetary home. I remember hearing Paul's 2009 commencement speech called "" where he said "You are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system is declining and the rate of decline is accelerating." Paul is the author of nine bestselling books including '', '', and his latest book ''—an incredible book that came out in 2025 and masterfully distills endless planetary wisdom into simple truths we all need to hear. (I...
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Chapter 38: Ryan Holiday bashes beachy books and builds a balanced base
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Thirteen years ago I was surfing online when I stumbled on a blog post called “” by someone I'd never heard of named Ryan Holiday. I started reading the post and got sucked in. He had a point! Many great points, actually. And he was young. 26 years old! A 26-year-old young man telling the world to read more books? In an era where most twenty-something men read, uh, none? I found Ryan to be a breath of fresh air. I immediately began to copy everything he did! He launched a . I launched a ! (With his blessing, of course.) He was talking about reading fifty then a hundred and then...
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Chapter 156: Salim Amin chronicles courage and compassion in crisis and conflict
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Africa is the world's second largest continent—by land and population! One and a half billion people spread across fifty-five countries. It's huge! Even a trip there, even many trips there, can only scratch the surface. But we're trying! My mum was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1950, and I recently returned from my first journey to Africa where I met incredible people and heard remarkable stories. In this third African chapter of 3 Books I sat down with Salim Amin where we discuss what it means to be a great citizen in the world today and how leading with compassion and curiosity...
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The Best Of 2025: Neil Pasricha mines memorable, mind-shifting moments and messages
3 Books With Neil Pasricha
Happy Solstice, everyone! In the northern hemisphere today we have the least amount of daylight of any day of the year. Below the equator it has the most! And as we do every December solstice it's time for our annual "Best Of" episode of 3 Books. 3 Books is our award-winning 22-year-long conversation to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world ... 3 books at a time. This year we recorded shows in Nairobi, Ottawa, Del Mar, and even a few on the street ... journeying to collect stories and lessons that can help us all live richer lives of meaning and intention. ...
info_outlineHappy new moon, everybody!
Today we fly down to the hills of Calabasas, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where I sat behind a microphone at a walnut desk across from the one and only Rich Roll.
Rich went to Stanford and Cornell and was a national athlete in swimming before his career was cut short by a decade-long struggle with alcohol—eventually landing him in jail and rehab. On the eve of his 40th birthday, as he walked up the stairs he was left totally winded… and decided it was time to make a change.
The next day, Rich overhauled his life. He switched to a 100% vegan, plant-based diet, grabbed his running shoes, jumped back into the pool, and two years later, fueled only by plants and after losing 50 pounds, he became the first vegan to ever compete in the 320-mile ultra-marathon and finished as the 3rd fastest American in the race.
Are you kidding me??
He then went on to complete five Ironman Triathlons on five islands of Hawaii in one week!
In 2012, he wrote his inspirational memoir 'Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself', which became a bestseller upon its release. It’s a fantastic book and memoir. I’ve read it. I loved it and can’t recommend it enough.
In 2013, he launched The Rich Roll Podcast which is honestly my favorite podcast on the planet. Rich hangs out at the edge of personal growth and development and offers deep exploration—what he calls "a weekly aural dance"— with guests like Yuval Noah Harari, Malala Yousafzai, and, yes, even me!
If you know Rich this classic chat is a way to see him from a new side by learning about which books make him tick ... and if you don't know him yet, well, you're in for a treat. He's a gem and I think after the chat you'll want to keep hanging out with him on YouTube or Instagram.
Pull up an extra chair and grab a seat at our table!