Laura Dern on Living Well (The Dan Buettner Podcast)
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We’re excited to share a new show from Lemonada Media: The Dan Buettner Podcast. Today’s episode features the incomparable Laura Dern.
In his groundbreaking Blue Zones research, National Geographic explorer and bestselling author Dan Buettner uncovered the secrets to longevity and happiness from the world’s longest-lived populations. Now, on the podcast, he’s sharing the practical habits, mindsets, and wisdom that can set the stage for a longer, more fulfilling life—at any age. Dan sits down with extraordinary doctors, explorers, thought leaders, and actors from around the world.
In this talk, Laura Dern shares how she lives with purpose, the surprising study that suggests winning an Academy Award can add years to your life, and lessons from her actor parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Sam. If you like Talk Easy, there's another podcast I think you'll really enjoy. |
| 0:05.2 | It's called Death, Sex, and Money from the Good People at Slate, hosted by my friend and mentor, Anna Sale. |
| 0:12.2 | It's a show about all the things we think about a lot, but don't talk about enough. |
| 0:16.7 | From debt to breakups to grief, and it gets people to open up about the parts of life that can |
| 0:22.0 | feel really isolating and confusing. So my personal favorites include Jane Fonda, Miranda July, |
| 0:29.5 | Celine Song, which we dropped in this feed, and the late great Bill Withers. It's that episode |
| 0:35.3 | with Withers called How to Be a Man that served as a real true inspiration for Talk Easy. |
| 0:42.2 | I've said it before, but I'll say it again. |
| 0:44.2 | Without that episode, How to Be a Man with Bill Withers, just even now thinking about it, it gets me emotional. |
| 0:50.6 | Without that episode, I don't know. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't think Talk Easy would be what it is today. |
| 0:56.9 | And so before I get any more emotional than I already am, you can follow and listen to death, |
| 1:01.5 | sex, and money, wherever you listen to podcasts. I promise you won't regret it. Lemonada. Hey, everyone. |
| 1:20.6 | With the long weekend coming up, I wanted to share an episode from the Dan |
| 1:23.5 | Butner podcast, another series from our partners at Lemonada Media. |
| 1:29.3 | Dan is an author and National Geographic Explorer, best known for his groundbreaking research on the blue zones, |
| 1:35.1 | the part of the world where people live the longest and happiest lives. On the podcast, |
| 1:40.4 | he recently sat down with one of my favorite performers, the one and only, Laura Dern. |
| 1:45.8 | She came on Talk Easy back in 2019, where we talked about little women, marriage story, all things, Laura Dern. |
| 1:53.2 | This new conversation recorded earlier in August covers all kinds of topics. |
| 1:57.9 | How Dern lives with purpose, the surprising study that suggests winning an |
| 2:02.1 | Academy Award can add years to your life, and lessons from her actor parents, Bruce Dern and |
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