#044 Headspace - Could Mass Meditation Change Everything? (with Andy Puddicombe)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

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🗓️ 20 January 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Co-founder and voice of the Headspace app, Andy Puddicombe joins me to discuss his striving to teach meditation and mindfulness within a consumerist society via an interesting journey from the UK to becoming a Tibetan Buddhist monk and training with the Moscow State Circus.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Under the Skin with me Russell Brand in which I ask what's beneath the surface of people
0:04.2	we admire, of the ideas that define our time and the history that we are told. Today's show is sponsored
0:09.0	by my book Recovery which is a good book and you can get it on Amazon. It's pretty cheap at the
0:13.0	moment, check it out. Also you can get the audio book which is me talking a book directly into your
0:18.3	mind. Get that on audible. Do get it. It's a good book. It will change the way you think and possibly
0:23.9	hopefully the way you feel but now it's time for Under the Skin.
0:33.0	Welcome to Under the Skin with Russell Brand. My guest today is Andy Puddakum and is the co-founder and
0:56.8	voice of the headspace app. In his early 20s midway through a university degree in sports science
1:03.2	and he made the unexpected decision to travel to the Himalayas to study meditation instead. It was
1:08.8	the beginning of a 10-year journey which took him around the world culminating with ordination
1:13.2	as a Tibetan Buddhist monk in northern India. His transition back to normal life in 2004
1:19.2	saw him training briefly at Moscow State Circus before returning to London to complete a degree in
1:25.6	circus arts with the conservatoire of dance and drama while strolling up the early plans for what
1:31.4	was later to become headspace. Welcome Andy to Under the Skin. Thanks Russell. Even though Under the
1:37.7	Skin in his instance is taking place in your studio where you actually welcome to his place.
1:43.6	Thank you very much. It's very generous of you to we've never done this before on Under the Skin.
1:48.0	We've always recorded it in various places in London. We're in Los Angeles now. We're in
1:54.0	one of the facilities of headspace and it's wonderful to be here. The reason I was strongly motivated to
2:01.6	meet you was because people get mentioning headspace in Under the Skin. It's Stafford, the
2:07.6	survival expert and I call him the Grunge Bear Grills. Not that I don't love bear grills.
2:12.5	He's a straight, standard bear grills vanilla. I love that guy too. But it's Stafford. He's
2:17.0	like the Navarna version. He loves headspace. So more and more people were mentioning headspace to me.
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