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.

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

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

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

wherever you get your podcasts.

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

If you read my book, which you're not required to do in order to listen to this podcast,

but if you did, you know that I obsessed over the balance between ambition and peace of mind.

You could argue though that I left out a key dimension, which is how can you help fix

the world's problems? In other words, how do you balance ambition with happiness and

also with meaning? The further I go into embracing Buddhism, which again I want to say, to be

clear, I see as not something to believe in but something to do. But the further I go

into embracing Buddhism, I sometimes wonder about whether I'm actually living in alignment

with what I claim to be my values. Even that phrase living in alignment with my values

has a certain sort of after-school special vibe to it. It's because it's hard to talk

about helping the world without lapsing into very annoying cliches, which brings me to

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