Andy Puddicombe (Buddhism, Meditation and Creating Headspace) - Episode 189
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Andy Puddicombe is the creator of the meditation app Headspace. We discuss his childhood trauma, becoming a monk in India, the many benefits of mindfulness and meditation, mental resilience and much more.
Andy is a meditation and mindfulness expert. An accomplished presenter and writer, Andy is the voice of all things Headspace.
In his early twenties, midway through a university degree in Sports Science, Andy made the unexpected decision to travel to the Himalayas to study meditation instead. It was the beginning of a ten year journey which took him around the world, culminating with ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Northern India.
His transition back to lay life in 2004 was no less extraordinary. Training briefly at Moscow State Circus, he returned to London where he completed a degree in Circus Arts with the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama, whilst drawing up the early plans for what was later to become Headspace.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome guys to episode 189 of Behind the Shield podcast. My name is James Gearing and I am so excited to |
| 0:06.6 | bring to you this week, Andy Puddikum, who is the founder of the app Headspace, the meditation app that |
| 0:12.8 | you've heard me rave about in other episodes. So I am going to talk about this app for a second. |
| 0:17.4 | This is not a paid commercial by any means. I just want to underline what I, |
| 0:22.0 | you know, my opinion of it. This is the app that I talk about when I try to sleep in the station. |
| 0:28.0 | You know, obviously your mind is going a million miles a minute. I use this app. They're 10 |
| 0:31.7 | minute segments to deregulate to bring myself down to be able to get some quality sleep |
| 0:36.9 | between these calls. I use this app as well |
| 0:39.6 | when I come back from a high stress call where your whole body is running a thousand miles a minute |
| 0:45.3 | by that point to again, deregulate and bring everything down, whether it's to go back to sleep or |
| 0:49.7 | just to come back down to a basal level again. So I highly recommend this. There is a 10-day free trial. |
| 0:56.9 | There's free content on there as well. Not a paid commercial, like I said, I just, in return for |
| 1:02.8 | Andy coming on the show, I want to make sure that I highlight you guys visiting this app and trying it |
| 1:07.6 | because it's absolutely worth your while. So with that being said, as I always say, |
| 1:12.6 | please go to your podcast app, rate the show, share the show, and most importantly, use social |
| 1:17.8 | media and spread the word about each and every one of these amazing guests because every single |
| 1:23.1 | person that donates their time and talk to us has so much valuable information that could literally |
| 1:28.2 | save a life if we get it to the right person. So with that being said, I introduce to you, |
| 1:33.5 | Andy Putakum. Enjoy. I want to start by saying thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:57.5 | It's a pleasure. |
| 1:58.5 | Thanks for having. |
| 1:59.3 | All right. |
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