Hey everyone, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Emily Fletcher. She's a former Broadway

actress, turned author and meditation expert, who's written the book Stress Less Accomplish More.

She was named one of the top 100 women in wellness to watch and she's spoken on meditation for

performance at Google Harvard Business School Viacom, Wonderlust, A-Fest, and more. She's taught

well over 15,000 people how to meditate and she's been endorsed by health and wellness luminaries,

such as Dr. Mark Heimann, as well as leaders in the scientific community, like Dr. Andrew

Hubberman, Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford, which by the way is one of the things that I found

most interesting, is there something about your approach to meditation that makes people like me,

who otherwise get a little like he be GB over some of the language and stuff, you speak about it

in a way that draws people in. And when I saw that you had this neurobiologist from Stanford who

was like, I was beyond skeptical when I first heard about Emily and then almost by accident he

ended up listening to you. What do you think it is about your approach to meditation, maybe some of

your definitions around it that make it so accessible to people who are otherwise quite skeptical?

Well, I think the technique itself is designed for people like us. It's designed for people with

busy minds and busy lives. It's not a monastic practice. So one, it's not made for monks. And so a

lot of the mindfulness that's out there, a lot of the quote unquote meditation apps are actually

teaching mindfulness, which is originally designed for monks. And it's been sort of watered down

for a more mainstream audience. Whereas what I teach at Ziva, even though it's 6,000 years old,

it was originally designed to make you better at life. So I think one, it works. And two, I think the

delivery, I think partly my Broadway background, I like to make things entertaining. I'm not super

into meditation as an identity. I think the being, you know, we meditate to get good at life,

not to get good at meditation. And so for me, it's just a tool. And so it's like here's the science

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