Jen Kirkman, Comedian, Author
Stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman was introduced to meditation at a young age and over the years has tried a bunch of different outlets, from 'body scan' practice to mantra to meditation classes, to help ...
10 Maj 201757min
Jeffrey Walker, Former JPMorgan Exec, Philanthropist (Bonus!)
Jeffrey Walker served 25 years as the CEO and cofounder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co's global private equity group, the vice chairman of JPMorga...
5 Maj 201749min
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Creator of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Jon Kabat-Zinn was on a meditation retreat in the late '70s when he had an idea to marry science with mindfulness and bring the practice into hospitals, which then led to his redefining an important e...
3 Maj 201759min
Russell Simmons, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Author and Activist
Def Jam music label founder Russell Simmons had his first experience with stillness at a yoga class -- which he admits he took because girls were there. "I went to class because of a lot of hot chicks...
26 Apr 201726min
David Leite, Food Writer, Memoirist (LIVE!)
In a special edition of the "10% Happier" podcast, Dan Harris leads a discussion with David Leite, author of "Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love and Manic Depression," in front of a live audien...
19 Apr 201752min
Daniel Goleman, Diving into 'Emotional Intelligence' (Bonus Episode!)
"The human central nervous system and brain is designed the same around the world... and there probably is a lot of spontaneous rediscovery in different areas of different ways you can play with the m...
14 Apr 201749min
Sam Harris, 'Waking Up' Podcast Host, Neuroscientist
Sam Harris, who has no relation to our beloved host, is a scientist, a controversial skeptic and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including "The End of Faith," "The Moral Landscape" a...
12 Apr 20171h 32min
Clair Brown, Economist, Author of 'Buddhist Economics'
Clair Brown, an economics professor at UC-Berkeley and a Tibetan Buddhist, was teaching an introductory course when she asked herself, "How would Buddha teach Econ One?" Brown went on to write the boo...
5 Apr 201741min
