Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Friday gang bonus meditation time.

One of the coolest things about meditation in my opinion is that it allows you in a very

down to earth way to probe one of the central mysteries of the universe, the mystery of

consciousness. That may sound a little grandiose, the mystery of consciousness, but it's

really pretty simple. You know that you're awake and aware right now that you're hearing

the sound of my voice, that your other senses are operating. But can you find the source

of that knowing? Can you find some little homunculus of you behind your eyes or between your

ears? You can't. You know that you're knowing, but you don't know where the knowing is coming

from. And that is the mystery. And we're going to explore that mystery a little bit further

in today's meditation with the great Joanna Hardy. Joanna is an insight meditation practitioner

and teacher and also on the faculty at the University of Southern California. She's a

meditation trainer at Apple Fitness Plus, a founding member of the meditation coalition,

a teachers council member at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and a visiting retreat teacher at

insight meditation society. A long way of saying she knows what she's doing. So over

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