Hey, it's Dan. As you may already know, May is mental health awareness month, and while mental health is important every month, this month is an opportunity to share some resources that can really help.

So in that spirit, I want to tell you about some of the other podcasts I really admire and respect in this space.

The podcast's meditative story, a slight change of plans, last day and on being are all doing incredible work to advance mental health and explore the human condition.

And throughout this month, I'm going to share a little bit more about each one of those shows.

So this week, I want to share one of my favorite podcasts. It's called Meditative Story, and it blends immersive storytelling with gentle mindfulness prompts to help you improve your inner weather.

As you know, my own mental health improvements really began in earnest when I found meditation for myself. And since then, it's really become an invaluable tool to help me deal with anxiety and depression and just the regular ups and downs of life.

So the format of meditative story really feels like an intuitive way to experience mindfulness.

Every episode is also wrapped in a breathtaking musical score, which I personally find pretty relaxing. Some of the storytellers over on meditative story are people you might already know, including Sharon Salzburg, Christa Tippett, David Duchovny, and me, I actually recorded an episode with them myself not too long ago.

Others are newer voices, but every episode is really extremely cool. So many people who listen to the show have said that it's just a crucial resource for them in supporting their own mental health. And maybe you'll end up following meditative story wherever you get your podcasts.

From Wondery, flipping the bird, Elon versus Twitter is a new podcast that unravels the fascinating story of Elon Musk's unexpected bid to buy Twitter and all of the drama that has happened since.

And the essence is not only ushering in a new era of Twitter, but shaping the future of free speech on the internet as we know it.

You can listen to flipping the bird on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hey guys, we've been talking a lot about the meditation challenge. We've been running the summer at the summer sanity challenge.

The deadline for joining has passed. However, if you're still interested in learning more about booting up or rebooting a meditation practice, you can always go check out the flagship course on the 10% happier app.

It's called the basics. Joseph Goldstein and I discuss the fundamentals of meditation. We dispel common myths and Joseph leads you through a seven day meditation series. I'll put a link to the basics in the show notes.

Okay, let's do today's show at a time when work has become more challenging than ever. We're going to explore one myth and one revelation.

The myth, which many of us myself included have consciously or subconsciously incorporated into our lives, is that we need to grind ourselves into dust through faux, quote unquote productivity in order to achieve professional success.

The revelation is that the more effective and cleaner burning fuel here is the potentially sappy notion of finding your purpose.

My guest is Leo Weiss, who has impressive bona fideas on both the professional and contemplative fronts on the professional tips she teaches compassionate leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

And she wrote a book called How We Work on the Contemplative Front. She's done four one hundred day retreats and one six month retreat all in the Tibetan tradition, I believe.

This conversation was recorded pre pandemic, but it is deeply relevant nonetheless. And toward the end of the conversation, you're going to hear her drop an expression that has been rattling around in my head for months.

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