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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Ali Smith

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ali Smith goes into some of the toughest neighborhoods in one of the toughest cities in America, and teaches yoga and meditation to troubled and at-risk school kids. And the results have been incredible. Smith, a certified yoga instructor, is the co-founder and executive director of the Holistic Life Foundation. His workshops and after-school programs reach approximately 4,500 kids every week – and that number only continues to grow.

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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

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing

0:45.1

to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:56.5

The Panic is a new comedy podcast from Wondery that leans into our most absurd anxieties and

1:02.6

defuses them with humor and actual advice. Listen to Don't Panic on the Wondery app or

1:08.8

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:17.7

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

1:24.8

One of the things that annoys me the most about the meditation world is that it is by reputation

1:30.7

and sometimes frankly by design for whole food shoppers, you know, upper middle class white

1:36.4

people. And I'm not, I don't hate those people. I am one of those people. I shop at whole

1:41.8

foods and I'm upper middle class and white. But it's baloney and malarkey that this is just

1:48.9

for one small privilege set of people. Meditation was invented 2600 years ago by an Indian guy.

1:57.9

And by the way, that's just one form of meditation. It's been around for millennia practice

2:03.4

by all sorts of people who are not living on the upper west side of Manhattan. And in fact,

2:10.2

in the United States right now it is being practiced by all sorts of people with all sorts

2:15.3

of socioeconomic backgrounds and all sorts of racial backgrounds. And so the idea that this

2:19.9

is just for one select group of people I find very, very annoying. And so I'm very pleased

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