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

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

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

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

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

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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Friday everybody. It's bonus meditation

time and today we have a meditation for when things suck. To be clear things don't have

to suck irretrievably and uncontrollably in order for this meditation to do its magic.

Maybe you're just a little bit down. Anyway, this meditation is not designed to magically

fix everything that's generally impossible. But it is designed to help counter program

against our negativity bias to dig underneath our stories and see that the bad stuff is

not the whole picture. Our teacher Du jour is Kyra Joule Lingo who's been a guest on

the show a couple of times. She went to Stanford then became a nun for 15 years and now she

is a lay Dharma teacher based on Long Island and is the author of the book We Were Made

for These Times. Here we go now with Kyra Joule Lingo.

Hi, this is Kyra Joule. We may believe that in order to be happy our suffering has to

disappear completely. But though you may be struggling in a time of transition or adversity,

you can still be in touch with what is wholesome and good in yourself and around you. In fact,

this is the moment you need it the most.

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