10% Happier with Dan Harris
Episodes
Jesse Israel
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, Jesse Israel was a sophomore film student who had just signed an up-and-coming college band to a record label he co-founded out of hi...
Dr. Richard Davidson
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Richie Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, has been meditating for over...
Oren J. Sofer
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Oren J. Sofer, a former child actor turned longtime meditation teacher, was a 19-year-old college student in New York City when he said he felt things...
Mingyur Rinpoche
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Mingyur Rinpoche, the author of "The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness," is a study of contradictions. On one hand, he's be...
Dan Ryckert
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Ryckert works in an industry where you wouldn't imagine there would be a whole lot of meditation: Video games. Ryckert is a senior editor at the p...
Claire Hoffman
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Author and journalist Claire Hoffman has been practicing Transcendental Meditation since she was 3 years old. When she was 5, she and her family moved...
Dr. Amishi Jha & Maj. Gen. Walter Piatt
06 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Amishi Jha, a neuroscientist and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Miami, and Maj. Gen. Walter Piatt of the U.S. Army migh...
Mario Batali
29 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
World-renowned chef Mario Batali has 28 restaurants, 10 cookbooks, a daytime cooking show, a food emporium in New York City, and now plans for a food ...
Dr. Mark Epstein
22 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Buddhist psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein has for years written about the overlap between Western psychotherapy and Eastern Buddhist philosoph...
Arianna Huffington
15 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Arianna Huffington has a multimillion-dollar media website that reacts to world events by the millisecond, she's a mother of two -- and yet she says s...
Adam Shankman
08 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed movie producer and director Adam Shankman is best known for his upbeat, family-friendly movies, including "Hairspray," "A Walk to Remember" ...
Emma Seppala
05 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Success and happiness: Can you have one without the other? Many may assume that these two things are at cross purposes but Emma Seppala, the science d...
Chade-Meng Tan
01 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Chade-Meng Tan was employee No. 107 at Google. But the software engineer's career took a turn when he began teaching meditation to the company's emplo...
Chodo and Koshin
25 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking about death can be supremely difficult. Many of us try not to think about it at all – until we have no choice. But two Zen Buddhist monks a...
Ali Smith
18 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Smith goes into some of the toughest neighborhoods in one of the toughest cities in America, and teaches yoga and meditation to troubled and at-ri...
Gretchen Rubin (Our Long-Lost Pilot Episode)
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In our pilot episode, which we recorded back in January before we moved into a fancy radio studio and had any clue what we were doing (this part hasn'...
RuPaul
12 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When he was 28 years old, RuPaul Andre Charles found himself broke and living on his little sister's couch in Los Angeles. "It was a really, really, r...
Steve Armstrong
11 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Enlightenment (or, more specifically, exactly how one gets enlightened) has become a somewhat taboo subject. For years, American meditation teachers h...
Thupten Jinpa
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Thupten Jinpa may be best known for being the Dalai Lama's longtime English-language translator. But now Jinpa is working to get his own message acros...
Lama Tsomo
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Lama Tsomo is one of the first American women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist lama, or spiritual teacher. Born Linda Pritzker, she is part of the...
Leigh Brasington
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation for decades and is one of the most prominent American teachers of Jhana meditation. The Jhanas are a s...
Margot Bingham
20 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Actress and singer-songwriter Margot Bingham has moved from playing the role of jazz singer Daughter Maitland in HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" to a highly-...
Sharon Salzberg
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A towering figure in the meditation world, Sharon Salzberg is part of a small group of people who helped bring meditation over from Asia to the United...
George Mumford
06 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
George Mumford has taught mindfulness and meditation to some of the greatest athletes of all time: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, a...
David Gelles
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The author of "Mindful Work," New York Times reporter David Gelles is a self-described "sporadic meditator." During the day, Gelles says he uses so-ca...
Amy Cuddy
27 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Cuddy has created a bonafide sensation in the world of happiness and well-being. A social psychologist at Harvard Business School and a New York T...
Dr. Jay Michaelson
23 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jay Michaelson is a lawyer, a rabbi, a legal/religion columnist for The Daily Beast, an LGBT activist, a professor, and an author of six books. Ye...
Brian Koppelman
18 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The filmmaker and co-creator of the TV show "Billions" talks about his practice of Transcendental Meditation.
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has been writing and singing hit songs for more than two decades. But this Grammy-winning rocker, whose lyrics about rela...
Dalai Lama
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How can you live a happier life? In our debut episode, Dan Harris sits down with the Dalai Lama and Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist and founder of ...