I recently sat down with Robbie Bent, CEO of Inward Breathwork and we talked about pretty much everything under the sun. Our conversation covered addiction, ice baths, psychedelics, and overall, how to live a longer life.
Robbie is open about his struggles with addiction and has been for a long time. At one point, his addiction got so bad he ended up losing his first company and going bankrupt. Soon after, he had to move into his parent’s basement.
What saved him, in the end, was moving to Israel and doing a Vipassana meditation retreat that included ten days of meditation for ten hours a day—all conducted in complete silence.
“For the first time in my life, I felt the benefits of meditation everybody had been talking about.”
Robbie became obsessed, eventually flying to Peru to participate in four Ayahuasca ceremonies, which are drug-induced experiences wherein he learned a lot about himself.
Today he’s now been sober for five years, and...(read more)