156: The Secrets of Happiness & Longevity: Dan Buettner discusses Blue Zones

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Looking for the secret of happiness? Interested in the science of longevity? Dan Buettner is the man to follow. He’s written 4 New York Times bestselling books after researching “Blue Zones” — regions of the world where people live longer, happier and healthier lives and what they do differently. In this episode Marie interviews Dan about the world’s happiest people, and he shares what you can do to improve your day-to-day life, no matter where you live and what you do. Lasting happiness is something that everyone can create. @BlueZones via @MarieForleo

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Marie Forleo, and this is the Marie Forleo podcast. If you want to talk about your business, your life, your health, your relationships, and even more, I gotta tell you, you are in in the right place we do it all with humor
0:14.3	and heart so let's dive in. Now if you want to give yourself the best
0:21.4	possible chance of having a long, happy and healthy life?
0:26.0	My guest today is here to show us how.
0:28.7	Dan Butner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, an award-winning journalist who's discovered the five places
0:35.1	in the world, dubbed Blue Zones, where people live the longest, healthiest lives.
0:40.5	He's a New York Times best-selling author of four books on the topic, The Blue Zones, Thrive,
0:45.9	The Blue Zones Solution, and the Blue Zones of Happiness.
0:49.3	His Blue Zones projects have dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.
0:54.8	Dan has been seen on the Today Show, Oprah, NBC Nightly News, and Good Morning America.
1:00.6	He also holds three Guinness World Records in Distant Cycling.
1:04.4	Dan, thank you so much for making the time to be here.
1:07.3	So I'm a huge fan of your work.
1:10.0	I was telling you off camera that I saw a talk that you did and I went down the Dan Bueutner Blue Zones
1:15.2	Rabbit Hole. I bought all of your books.
1:18.0	It was actually, it was really, really fun and after like working all day and being on the computer
1:22.3	it was a source of such joy for me.
1:24.5	I was like, oh, I'm getting to go into the blue zones again.
1:26.4	So let's take you back.
1:27.9	Tell us how you ended up for the past 15 years
1:31.1	studying longevity and happiness. How'd you get here? I've been a lifelong
1:35.4	explorer, started out setting three world records for biking across five continents and eventually
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