This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, how we doing?

I find it inexhaustibly interesting to hear how meditation teachers handle life's inevitable vexations.

It's so easy to look at or listen to meditation teachers with their calm demeanors and soothing voices

and conclude that they are somehow imperturbable.

But obviously, they're human beings subject to all the same infirmities and indignities as the rest of us.

So seeing how they handle that shit can be incredibly instructive.

It may be the highest form of meditation teaching.

We've got something new for you today, a little context before I explain it to you. We're in the

middle of an exciting evolution here in 10% happier world. This show has been going on for about

eight years, and I've long wanted to make it more actionable to really help you operationalize

all the game-changing ideas you hear on this podcast. So in June, we started creating guided meditations to accompany each

full-length episode of the show, the Monday-W-W-Snesday episodes, and those guided meditations

are available to paying subscribers over on Dan Harris.com. That offering in June went over so well

that we're going to keep it going for the month of July. So every new full-length

episode will come with a bespoke meditation from our teacher of the month, Don Maricio, who's a teacher

in the Insight meditation tradition, who my team and I love. And that brings me back to today's episode.

We wanted to give you a chance to get to know your teacher of the month a little bit.

So I asked DJ Kashmir, who's our head of content and who you've probably heard before on the show,

to conduct a short interview with Don about how she became a meditation teacher in the first place

and what she hopes you will learn during your month of practice with her.

Don Maricio, right after this.

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