Home Joe Rogan Episode
Joe Rogan · 2025-07-22

Joe Rogan Experience #2353 - Shaka Senghor

Joe Rogan Experience #2353 - Shaka Senghor

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommended

Invictus

William Ernest Henley (inferred)

“that poem always just kind of brought me back”
“I would read the poem Invictus. Like that poem always just kind of brought me back like you're the master of your own fate.”— Shaka Senghor
BookRecommendedISBN verified

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

“things like that would keep my brain just going forward”
“There's a book called As a Man Thinketh by James Allen... any page was about if you master your thinking, you can master your environment.”— Shaka Senghor
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Dopefiend

Donald Goines

“one of my favorite authors”
“one of my favorite authors, uh Donald Goines. So he had these all these street books like Dope Fiend and you know uh Black Gangster”— Shaka Senghor
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Black Gangster

Donald Goines

“one of my favorite authors”
“one of my favorite authors, uh Donald Goines. So he had these all these street books like Dope Fiend and you know uh Black Gangster”— Shaka Senghor
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Louis L'Amour westerns

Louis L'Amour

“one of my favorite authors”
“I was reading like westerns, Lewis Lamore, um my favorite one of my favorite authors”— Shaka Senghor

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

How to Be Free

Shaka Senghor

“the book that I've recently written is called How to be free. And you know what really inspired me to write that book is I've met so many people”— Shaka Senghor

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferencedISBN verified

Pimp: The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim

“Iceberg Slim Pimp all these stories were stories I had read early on and these guys they were like me”— Shaka Senghor
BookReferencedISBN verified

What You Do Is Who You Are

Ben Horowitz

“Ben actually wrote this book called What You Do is Who You Are. And in the book, he talked about some of our conversations around culture.”— Shaka Senghor
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

“This is Jonathan Hate wrote a book about what it's doing to young girls. It's like they're comparing themselves constantly to everybody else.”— Joe Rogan