How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special from The Happiness Lab
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
According to the science, it really is better to give than receive. Donating a dollar; sharing a kind word or lending someone a hand changes lives, but can also hugely boost your happiness. So we're teaming up with other podcasts from Hidden Brain to Revisionist History to ask you to give to a charity helping some of the poorest people around. We're calling it #PodsFightPoverty.
Go to givedirectly.org/happinesslab right now and give whatever you can.
Even a small donation will make you feel good and have a much larger impact on the world than you thought possible. To help inspire you, this special episode examines the science of giving and shares stories of heartwarming and impactful acts of kindness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:08.3 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:12.4 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. |
| 0:16.3 | And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:27.4 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:40.9 | Listen to heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Happiness Lab podcast. |
| 0:56.1 | I hope all my listeners who celebrate had a happy Thanksgiving. But the day I really look forward to each November is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Forget Black Friday and Cyber |
| 1:01.7 | Monday. My holiday of choice is Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is the global holiday of charitable giving |
| 1:08.3 | giving that falls right in the midst of our shopping frenzy, |
| 1:11.4 | a day that's not about commerce, but compassion. |
| 1:14.9 | Here at the Happiness Lab, we tend to make a big deal out of giving Tuesday. |
| 1:19.1 | Every year we share a special episode that explores why doing good for others is super good |
| 1:23.6 | for our own happiness. |
| 1:25.2 | We also like to give our listeners a chance to team up and donate |
| 1:28.4 | to a charitable cause that really does good in the world. For the past few years, that charity |
| 1:33.9 | has been give directly, a nonprofit that takes your cash and gives it directly to people in extreme |
| 1:39.2 | poverty to spend as they see fit. But this year, we are going even bigger. We're bringing together the fans |
| 1:46.2 | of some of my favorite podcasts to raise even more money to fight poverty. Think 10% happier with |
| 1:51.8 | Dan Harris, on purpose with Jay Shetty, revisionist history, hidden brain, how to be a better human, |
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