This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello people as you may know on Fridays we've started dropping some more experimental

episodes on Mondays and Wednesdays we usually talk to happiness researchers and

meditation slash darma teachers but I've also become interested in adding

some episodes in where we talk to well known people, you know public figures

who are really willing to go there to talk about the real shit that's happening in their lives and

Kelly Rippa fits the bill truly.

She's been the host of Live on ABC for 23 years.

She originally hosted with Regis Philman,

then it was Michael Strayhan, then Ryan Seacrest,

and now she is co-hosting with her husband Mark Consuelos.

In this conversation we talked about what it's like to work with her husband, the value of marriage

counseling even when you're not on the cusp of divorce, her resistance to meditation and what she does instead,

the upsides of anxiety, her surprising fear of public speaking, and we talk about menopause

and what it's like to get older while in the public eye.

A little bit more about Kelly before we dive in here she's recently launched a podcast of her own called

Let's Talk Off Camera and she put out her first book last year called Live Wire,

long-winded short stories. It's a collection of essays. We'll get started with Kelly right

after the break. I can tell you this was a great conversation she really goes

forward in a very open and real way just a heads up that my audio quality and also

Kelly's during this interview might be a little bit less than what you're used to but

it's such a fun interview I

suspect you will barely notice.

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