RIDEOUT: The Other Side of Hard

Lost an Arm and a Leg at 24. Men’s Health Cover at 33. | Noah Galloway

Noah Galloway was a sergeant with the 101st Airborne, driving the lead Humvee through the Triangle of Death on the night of December 19, 2005. Two weeks earlier his colon

Olympic Gold, Dancing With the Stars and a Prescription to Stay Small | Shawn Johnson East

Shawn Johnson was the all around world champion at 15 and an Olympic champion at 16. Gold on the balance beam in Beijing and three silvers, a nationwide tour, and a Danci

From College Dropout to CEO of AG1 | Kat Cole

Kat Cole grew up in Jacksonville in a family where the men drank, the money was tight and almost nobody kept a job. When she was nine her mom left her father, worked mult

His Own Platoon Accused Him of Murder | Eddie Gallagher

Eddie Gallagher was the number one platoon chief at SEAL Team 7, on his ninth deployment, pushing through the west side of Mosul against ISIS. A year after he got home, N

Her First Mountain Was Everest. The Real Danger Wasn't the Climb. | Cesalina Gracie

Cesalina Gracie had never climbed a mountain. She gave herself six and a half weeks to train, flew to Kathmandu and summited Everest on her first attempt, in the deadlies

The Pastor Who Sold Crack and Shot Heroin | Lyle Phillips

Lyle Phillips was shooting heroin in one arm and meth in the other at 18. He sold cocaine in his Kentucky high school, slept in a dog room at a crack house and lived in t

Alabama National Champ. LabCorp Janitor. UFC Fighter at 30. | Eryk Anders

Eryk Anders was the last guy picked. He mailed 125 copies of his own VHS highlight tape to every school he could find an address for and heard nothing back. Then a runnin

The Country Singer Nashville Wouldn't Sign | Jessie James Decker

Jessie James Decker was born on a military base in Italy and lived in 14 places before she finished high school. At a sleepover in Newnan, Georgia, two senior girls she h

255 Pounds at 33. Eight Miles a Day at 64. | BeBe Winans

BeBe Winans grew up a block from Smokey Robinson in Detroit, shoveling his snow for $25 when everyone else paid $2. Stevie Wonder's house was behind theirs. He was the se

One Instagram Post Ended His 12-Year MLB Career | Anthony Bass

Anthony Bass was a Division II kid from Trenton, Michigan who threw 88 to 92 like every other college pitcher. Then in the summer of 2007 he watched a rookie his own size

It's Just Walking. 1 in 3 Don't Finish. | Marc Hodulich

Marc Hodulich was a high school sophomore when he ran five months on a broken foot. The scan turned into a bone graft from his shin, two pins across his foot and three or

The Blast that Saved his Life | Mike Sarraille

Mike Sarraille was three feet away when Michael Monsoor jumped on a grenade on a rooftop in Ramadi and smothered the blast. Mike and another SEAL took the shrapnel Monsoo

The Doctor Who Got Sick 22 Times Before Anyone Asked Why | Dr. Clay Moss

Clay Moss looked like the healthiest guy at Ole Miss. He trained six days a week and got strep throat every other month for four straight years. Twenty-two documented cas

Too Small for the NFL. Then He Broke a Chiefs Record. | Dexter McCluster

Dexter McCluster is five-foot-eight and 165 pounds. Bobby Bowden told him he could play defensive back. Urban Meyer told him he could return kicks. He turned both of them

From a Prison Cell to Nike Brand Director | Jordan Rogers

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

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

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

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

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 Alva

The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of an Olympic Champion | Missy Franklin

Missy Franklin is one of the greatest swimmers of all time. She made her first Olympic Trials at 13 years old, and four years later she went to London and absolutely domi

International Fugitive to UFC Top 10 | Ian Heinisch

Former UFC fighter Ian Heinisch sits down with Ken Rideout for one of the wildest stories ever told on The Other Side of Hard. Ian grew up in Colorado as an elite wrestl

Brutal Hits, Broken Bodies & the Business of Football | Bernard Pollard

Bernard Pollard earned a reputation as one of the NFL’s most feared hitters — and became known throughout New England as the “Patriot Killer.” In this episode, Bernard s