This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody in the midst of an anxiety epidemic we really need prominent people to step up and talk

about their anxiety and how they're dealing with it. Bill Hader is doing

exactly that bravely and often hilariously. As many of you know, Bill burst onto the national scene through Saturday Night Live

where he was known for his incredible impressions.

In fact, you're going to hear him do an impression of the meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein during this interview.

Then he went on to star in movies like Super Bad and Train Rec.

Most recently he created the award-winning

and excellent HBO show Barry where he plays a depressed hitman.

And he's done all of this while dealing with anxiety.

In fact, like me, he's had panic attacks on live television.

In this interview, we talk about how he channels his anxiety into creativity

we also talk about all the practices he uses to manage his anxiety this guy

takes this stuff very seriously he's not just sitting around complaining

about it

although as you will hear him say sometimes he does fall off the wagon.

This is the second installment of our New Year's series the non-negotiables

where we interview smart prominent people about the practices and principles they cannot live without.

Mostly on this show we interview experts, meaning meditation teachers, scientists and psychotherapist,

but these days we've also been throwing in a few celebrities because I think it's

really important to have exemplars of the potential for human change and well-known

prominent people who can normalize much of the shit most of us are dealing with on a daily basis.

Like I said, Bill Hader is all of that and he's coming right up.

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