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10% Happier with Dan Harris

73: David Leite, Food Writer, Memoirist (LIVE!)

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

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 audience in New York City. Leite talks at length about struggling with bipolar disorder for decades -- and going undiagnosed for much of that time -- but also shares funny stories about navigating relationships and his passion for food. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

0:09.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

0:17.2

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:23.9

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

0:29.8

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:36.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.7

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0:56.5

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1:02.6

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1:08.8

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:12.7

Hey, so we're doing something slightly unusual on the podcast this week, unusual in a couple

1:21.0

of ways. First, we recorded this episode live at the Barnes and Noble on the Upper East

1:26.3

side of Manhattan with a dude named David Leet. David is a friend and he is unusual for

1:32.8

us in that the major thrust of his work is definitely not meditation nor is he in active

1:38.0

and ongoing meditator right now, although he's dabbled with it and aspires to do more

1:42.1

of it. But he does fit on the show because he's written a really funny memoir about of

1:49.3

all things living with mental illness. David is by trade and by training a culinary writer

1:55.5

and a cook. He's written cookbooks. He's got this big website called Leets Culinary

2:00.5

which has won some James Beard's awards. But he's also lived with bipolar disorder for

2:05.7

decades much of that time, unfortunately, undiagnosed. And so he's written this new book called

2:10.6

Notes on a Banana in which he talks about dealing with this situation and the plot of the

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