Jameela Jamil on Mental Self-Defense
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Our guest for our 400th episode is actor and activist Jameela Jamil, who you may have seen on such shows as The Good Place, The Misery Index, and Legendary. Outside of her acting career, Jameela is known for launching a movement and platform called I Weigh. She's also the host of the I Weigh podcast, where she talks to everybody from Reese Witherspoon to Vivek Murthy, the US Surgeon General, to Gloria Steinem.
This episode explores: how to develop what Jameela calls mental self-defense; how to be ruthless when it comes to personal boundaries; the difference between body positivity and body neutrality; how she handles the scrutiny and toxicity of social media; and how men can play a positive role in a world with profound double standards when it comes to looks.
Content Warning: This episode touches on the topics of suicide, eating disorders, and sexuality. Any profanity has been bleeped out.
This episode is the first in our two-part Anti-Diet Series. In this series, you'll not only have the chance to reconsider your relationship to food, eating, diet, exercise, and body image–you'll also learn practical, research-backed tools for approaching all of these things in a healthier, more mindful way. It's also the subject of our newest Challenge over in the Ten Percent Happier app. In the 7-day Anti-Diet Challenge, we are going to help you build a better relationship with food and your body. The Anti-Diet Challenge kicks off on Monday, December 6, in the Ten Percent Happier app. If you're not already a Ten Percent Happier subscriber, you can join us by starting a free trial that'll give you access to the challenge–along with our entire app. Click here to get started.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, y'all believe it or not, you are now listening to episode number 400 of the 10% happier |
| 0:16.4 | podcast. I cannot believe that. I feel like we started this thing just yesterday. Anyway, |
| 0:22.0 | thanks for supporting the show and thanks to all the incredible people who've worked so |
| 0:26.4 | hard on this show. This episode number 400 is a doozy. Let me just step back for a second |
| 0:32.2 | before I tell you about our guest. As everybody knows, the holidays are here and as everybody |
| 0:37.4 | I believe knows this season can bring up a whole cornucopia of complex psychological issues. |
| 0:44.1 | One of the biggies here is food and how we feel about our bodies. Many of us can get super |
| 0:50.0 | obsessive about food and body issues at any time, but especially so during the holidays. |
| 0:55.8 | Pretty much every woman I know will relate to this immediately, but a quick note to my |
| 1:00.9 | male listeners. Dude, you might think you're immune to this stuff and maybe you are if so, |
| 1:07.3 | God bless. But I urge you to look closely at the noise inside your dome. How much time |
| 1:14.2 | do you spend perseverating about what you eat, how much you eat and how you look as compared |
| 1:19.0 | to your friendly neighborhood Instagram influencer? Is it possible that turning down the volume |
| 1:24.8 | on food slash body preoccupation, self assessment and self criticism would make you happier |
| 1:31.3 | and healthier and free up limited bandwidth to focus on something that is perhaps more |
| 1:36.6 | constructive? We're launching a two part series today, which we are calling the anti-diet |
| 1:41.6 | series. On Wednesday, we're going to be talking to an expert in something called Intuitive |
| 1:45.8 | Eating, which has had a huge impact on me. Today though, our guest is Jamila Jamil, |
| 1:53.1 | an actor and activist who you may have seen on such shows as The Good Place, The Misery |
| 1:58.6 | Index and Legendary. As you're about to hear, she has opinions, strong opinions, which |
| 2:05.2 | she will express with a lot of conviction, humor and profanity. Outside of her acting, |
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