Episode Description

For episode 234, Sharon speaks with author and podcast host, Dan Harris. Dan is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir, 10% Happier, about a fidgety, skeptical news anchor who finds meditation. He’s also the host of the Ten Percent Happier podcast and the co-founder of the Ten Percent Happier meditation app. For 21 years, he worked at ABC News, where he anchored such shows as Nightline and the weekend editions of Good Morning America.

In this conversation, Sharon and Dan discuss:

• The new edition of Ten Percent Happier

• What has changed in the meditation space in the last decade

• The line between cynicism to skepticism

• The climate of despair and nihilism

• Working with the inner critic

• Dan’s drug-fueled panic attack on-air

• Big life changes are not often a straight shot

• Dan’s path finding meditation

• The Jew-Bu movement towards Asia

• The connection of Dan’s father and Joseph Goldstein’s family

• Dan meeting Mark Epstein

• The first time Sharon saw Birkenstocks

• Dan’s first meditation retreat

• How lovingkindness has affected Dan

• “The Way of the Worrier” list from Ten Percent Happier

• Dan’s son teaching lovingkindness meditation

Additional Resources

Dan closes the conversation with a guided lovingkindness meditation. You can learn more about Dan’s work and get a copy of Ten Percent Happier, the newly reissued book on his website.

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