How To Handle Turbulence and Transitions | Phillip Moffitt

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

A Buddhist recipe for reclaiming your sanity.

Phillip Moffitt is a Buddhist meditation teacher and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. He has written several books and is also the founder and president of Life Balance Institute.

In this episode we talk about:

A Buddhist recipe for navigating life’s ups and downs
Mindfulness tools for happier and smarter transitions
We dive into the the Noble eightfold path
Managing transitions with maximal happiness and resilience

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.7	Hello everybody. How we doing? Here is one thing I know for certain about life. You can take this
0:24.8	shit to the back. You will deal with unpleasant situations. Turbulance, transitions, etc. This is non-negotiable
0:34.0	in a universe characterized by ceaseless change and entropy. So how do you want to be
0:40.8	in these moments? Do you want to be running around like a syphilitic chipmunk or do you want to
0:45.3	display some degree of equanimity and maybe even turn the whole thing to your advantage?
0:50.2	Today we've got a Buddhist recipe for navigating life's ups and downs.
0:55.3	My guest is Philip Moffat, who's taught Buddhist meditation for more than 25 years.
0:59.4	In fact, his move into becoming a meditation teacher was a career move that was a significant transition for him, because before Buddhism, he was the CEO of Esquire magazine back in the 80s.
1:11.6	Philip has written several books, including Dancing with Life and Emotional Chaos to Clarity.
1:15.9	He's also the founder of the Life Balance Institute.
1:18.9	As you will hear, he delivers his earthy wisdom with a charming Texas twang.
1:23.6	He's great.
1:24.5	I should say this episode is part of the month-long reset series we're doing here. Every week in September, we're talking about how to reset one aspect of your life. Week one was about your nervous system. Week two was about resetting your relationships with an emphasis on how you talk to yourself. This week, it's about resetting your life and your career. Susie Welch kicked us off on Monday. That was a great episode. Today it's Philip. And on Friday, it's Matthew McConaughey. Today's episode comes with a custom guided meditation called Start Here. And it's specifically designed to help you deal with uncertainty and change from a place of equanimity, the place to start. And it comes from our teacher of the month, Vinnie Ferraro.
2:01.6	It's only for paying subscribers over at Dan Harris.com. Paid subscribers also now get weekly live
2:07.2	video meditation and Q&A sessions. We do them every Tuesday now at 4 Eastern. I'll be doing the
2:13.1	next one on September 23rd. Finally, I've got a couple of in-person offerings coming up on September 21st.
2:19.3	I'll be co-leading a workshop at the New York Insight Meditation Center with the great Leslie
2:24.2	Booker. You can join virtually or in-person. And I'll be back up at the Omega Institute for
2:28.9	another in-person installment of meditation party, the weekend of October 24th. I'll put links to both of those and the show notes.
2:36.3	You should come. We'll get started with Philip Moffitt right after this. I chose function because it's
2:41.9	the only health platform that gives me data most people never get and the insights to start doing
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