This is the 10% happier podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Today, we're talking about something we all want, but often struggle to actually achieve equanimity. You're going to hear from one of my favorite meditation teachers, Kamala Masters, who's an awesome person. You're going to hear from her about how she cultivated some measure of balance and calm in the middle of an extremely chaotic period of her life when she was raising young children by herself.

To be clear, though, this is not just about achieving equanimity with children.

It's about keeping your shit together no matter what's going on.

As you may have noticed, there's a lot going on in the world.

So this is a discussion of evergreen importance.

As you also may have noticed, we've been doing Friday episodes of late where we share golden nuggets from our vast

archive as selected by members of the team here at 10% Happier. Today's clip, which again is from

Kamala Masters, the clip was chosen by DJ Kashmir, who's our executive producer, who himself has

young children. In a moment after this quick break, you're going to hear DJ describe why he

picked the clip, and then we will hear the clip from Kamala. But first and very quickly, I want to

remind you to come check out what we're doing over at dan harris dot com paid subscribers now get guided meditations

that come with all of our monday wednesday episodes custom guided meditations really

designed to help you take the learnings from the conversations here on the show on mondays and

wednesdays and i kind of put them in your brain in your mind in a deeper way paid subscribers

also get live meditation and q and a sessions on video every Tuesday at 4 Eastern.

I'm going to do the next one solo, but sometimes I do it with our Teacher of the Month.

In September, our Teacher of the Month has been Vinnie Ferraro in October.

It will be the great Seb and A. Salasi.

Speaking of Seb, if you want to meditate with me and Seb in person, we will be back at the

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