Are You Overcomplicating Your Life? | Kaira Jewel Lingo
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We’re in the midst of an exciting evolution of the overall 10% Happier project. In our quest to make this podcast more actionable – to help you operationalize all the game-changing ideas you encounter on this pod – we’re now offering guided meditations to accompany each full episode of the show, available to paid subscribers at DanHarris.com. For the month of August, those meditations will come from Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Buddhist teacher who spent 15 years as a monastic in the Plum Village tradition.
In this bonus episode, you’ll hear our head of content, DJ Cashmere, in conversation with Kaira Jewel, sharing some of her fascinating backstory. From a communal Christian community in Chicago, to a Zen monastery in the south of France, to making her life as an independent teacher in New York, you’ll hear how the thread of “voluntary simplicity” runs through all of it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.9 | Hey, gang, it's the start of a new month. |
| 0:21.3 | So that means we've got a new teacher of the month. |
| 0:24.2 | You might ask, what is this teacher of the month thing of which you speak? |
| 0:28.5 | Well, it's really for paid subscribers over at Dan Harris.com. |
| 0:31.9 | We now bring in teachers of the month to craft and record bespoke guided meditations that come with every full-length |
| 0:40.9 | episode on Monday and Wednesday. So the idea really is to address what I think is one of the |
| 0:46.1 | biggest problems in personal growth, which is that you read a great book or you listen to a great |
| 0:50.2 | podcast and you feel inspired and then you get just sucked back into the habit patterns |
| 0:55.1 | of your life. So what I want to do, what my team and I want to do is have these guided |
| 0:59.3 | meditations that allow you to pound the wisdom from the podcast conversations into your |
| 1:05.0 | neurons in an abiding way. We often compare it to the lecture lab model at universities and colleges where the podcast is the |
| 1:12.7 | lecture and the guided meditations are the lab. |
| 1:15.9 | Okay, so it's August. |
| 1:16.9 | We've got a new teacher of the month. |
| 1:18.5 | This time it's Kyra Jewel Lingo, a fan favorite. |
| 1:20.9 | She's been on the show many times. |
| 1:22.2 | I asked our director of content, DJ Kashmir, to do a kind of background informational interview with |
| 1:29.7 | Kyra Juel about her life story, which is a fascinating one. |
| 1:32.4 | She grew up in a communal religious community in Chicago and then went on to become a nun |
| 1:37.9 | in the Plum Village Zen tradition. |
| 1:40.5 | And now she's on her own as an independent Dharma teacher. |
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