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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing we've got a great show for you today. There is an extremely interesting contrast in my opinion

between Goldie Hahn's persona and her actual personality. On screen, as you know, she commonly plays a goofball, but in real life, she is a deeply

curious person with a profound interest in neuroscience and meditation.

That is not to say that she's never funny in real life but

once you listen to this interview you'll get a fuller picture. Goldie Hahn is an

Academy Award-winning actress, producer, director, and best-selling author.

She's written two books, a memoir called A Lotus Grows in the Mud, and then more recently,

10 Mindful Minutes, which is for kids and parents.

She's also the founder of Mind Up, a charity that equips children with mental fitness.

In this conversation we talk about how she got interested in meditation, a story that like

mine involves panic attacks, the power of curiosity, what she means

when she talks about God, what it means to take a brain break, why jealousy has never

been a big part of her repertoire and how to make a romantic

relationship last. She's been with her partner, the actor Kurt Russell, for more than

30 years. Just to say before we dive in here we are rebooting this week an occasional franchise

that we run here on the show called Boldface where we talk to well-known people who are

willing to truly go there.

Coming up on Wednesday, it's the rapper Common,

and on Friday it's a personal Dad Rock

hero of mine, Jeff Tweedy from Wilco. We'll get started with Goldie Hahn right after this.

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