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Okay, let me start this podcast with an apology. We taped this podcast back in I think September

or something like that. So big apologies to James Gimian or Jim Gimian who is the publisher

of Mindful Magazine which is a fantastic magazine, a great place to learn about all the latest

and greatest in the what I like to think of as the big public health revolution that is

Mindfulness and Meditation. And from his perch as publisher, Jim is able to sort of

see all these trends and see all the interesting people who are working in this area and also

he's a great connector of people in this space. Not for nothing, he's also been meditating

for decades and so it has a lot of interesting perspectives on all of this from an interior

point of view. So anyway, enough said here's Jim Gimian.

Maybe see this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Thanks for coming on man. My pleasure. Great to chat with you. So how did you get into meditation?

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