Dan Harris: Meditation, Mental Health, Six-Peckered Goats & The 2024 Election

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

John is joined by Dan Harris, former ABC News anchor of Nightline, World News Sunday, and Good Morning America’s weekend edition, to discuss Dan's transformation into a full-time meditation and mental health guru and entrepreneur — and accidental social media influencer. The longtime pals discuss strategies for staying sane in the face of the flood of anxiety and agitation unleashed by the 2024 election; why failure is often more productive and profitable (mentally, emotionally, spiritually) than success; how to maintain a sense of calm and balance while working harder than, in Dan’s phrase, a “six-peckered goat;” and some big changes happening in Harris’s 10 Percent Happier empire. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Aloha and mamaste everyone and welcome to in politics with John Heilman my
0:08.1	podcast for Odyssey and Puck coming at you every Wednesday and Friday with
0:11.7	fresh topical candid conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power and influence in America
0:16.4	From Washington to Wall Street Hollywood Silicon Valley and beyond
0:20.0	Shifting and shaping the warp and weft of our politics and culture.
0:24.0	With just a little bit more than 50 days to go before election day,
0:28.0	those two streams, politics and culture, are increasingly merging into one
0:32.0	and flooding the zone with a fizzy
0:34.0	mixture of excitement and edginess nervousness anxiety, agitah and all around fear
0:39.0	and trembling. So when my friend Dan Harris, longtime ABC News correspondent,
0:44.0	former anchor of Nightline, the weekend edition of Good Morning America and World News Sunday,
0:48.0	now turned full-time meditation guru and entrepreneur,
0:52.0	when Dan reached out recently to alert me to an episode of his 10% happier
0:55.9	podcast entitled Eight Things I'm Doing to Stay Sain during this election season, I thought,
1:02.2	well, if that episode's any good, I should
1:05.0	get that guy on the podcast to chop it up.
1:07.6	Because if my friends and colleagues are any indication, staying saying during this election
1:11.0	is no mean feat. In fact, it's a combination of a full-time
1:14.4	job, Sissophian struggle and total pipe dream. But as expected, Dan's episode of
1:20.8	10% happier is good, really good, and so,
1:24.7	Wala, we have Dan here with us today
1:26.7	to talk about that and a whole lot more.
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