Flourishing - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 2/16/26
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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George Noory and author Daniel Coyle explore his research into modern society and why so many people feel disconnected, the importance of curiosity and building unexpected relationships, plus stories of miners, soccer teams and deli owners who took unusual paths to success.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:09.3 | And welcome back to coast to coast. |
| 0:11.1 | George Norrie with you, Daniel Coyle with us. |
| 0:13.4 | His book is called Flourish, the Transform the Power of Creating Community. |
| 0:17.4 | Dan, you mentioned the Chilean miners, 33 of them. |
| 0:24.9 | They were trapped underground for 69 days back in 2010. |
| 0:31.5 | All of them were rescued. Tell us that story. Yeah, we mostly remember that, right? I was a few years ago. And when they came out, remember the brotherhood and the connection that they had? They kept that going even when they didn't think they |
| 0:38.5 | were going to be rescued. They had 16 days where they had no idea that they were going to be |
| 0:42.0 | saved. And during that time, they were able to sort of stop. The boss took off his white helmet. |
| 0:47.8 | They all connected. They created this moment of meaning. And this moment of meaning wasn't about |
| 0:52.3 | like relaying information it was |
| 0:54.6 | about creating a sense that each individual there was valued and that they were |
| 0:58.8 | connected to something bigger in that little moment and preserving that through |
| 1:03.3 | rituals through that through little traditions they built like a little |
| 1:06.1 | civilization down there and by the time they came out were sort of, no one wanted to go because everyone |
| 1:12.2 | was saying, oh, you should go first. You should go first after you. So it was just such a beautiful |
| 1:17.0 | example of how, even in the most difficult situations, if you stop and really see the value in other |
| 1:23.1 | people and then connect to something bigger, that is that moment where meaning gets created, energy, |
| 1:28.5 | connection, that's where flourishing begins. |
| 1:30.7 | And they made a movie of it called the 33, didn't they? |
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