Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2026-10-29

Rich Roll & Cole Brauer: books mentioned on The Rich Roll Podcast

First Light: Cole Brauer's Life Lessons From Racing Her Sailboat Around The World

1 book · With Cole Brauer · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Cole Brauer is the first American woman to race solo, nonstop around the world, and the author of First Light: Sailing Solo but Not Alone.

Rich Roll discussed First Light by Cole Brauer.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. First Light

    Cole Brauer · at 2:22 · mentioned 19 times

    Discussed
    “Of course you communicate this in your new book first light. Congratulations. ... And then I read the book and I was like, "Oh, I didn't I didn't really I don't really [laughter] like understand this world at all."”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing First Light
“I recently saw Al, who's in the book. He's in the prologue. He was my boyfriend who’s the fisherman and I recently saw him.”
Passing First Light
“And I just recently met up with my uh my meteorologist Chelsea, who I mentioned in the book a lot. We met here in New York.”
Passing First Light
“And we we would definitely not have a book right now if my parents had been, "Oh, no, you must be a doctor. You must be a lawyer. You must be this."”