Rainn Wilson: From The Office To Soul Boom — Finding Purpose, Spiritual Growth, & Meaning In Life

The Skinny Confidential Him And Her Show

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4.5 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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#915: Sit down with Rainn Wilson — actor, producer, comedian, and author of Soul Boom, a powerful exploration of spirituality, healing, and meaning. Known worldwide as Dwight Schrute from The Office, Rainn opens up about the years he struggled as an actor, the unexpected rise of his career, and how humor became both a shield and a compass. He dives deep into his spiritual awakening, the inspiration behind Soul Boom, his search for purpose, and how he believes we can build more meaning into our modern lives. This is a candid, inspiring, and surprisingly emotional look at one of Hollywood's most beloved actors — far beyond the character you think you know.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.7	She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire.
0:07.5	Fantastic.
0:08.5	And he's a serial entrepreneur.
0:10.8	A very smart cookie.
0:12.2	And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride.
0:16.3	Get ready for some major realness.
0:17.9	Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her.
0:21.8	Ah-ha.
0:24.7	Hello everybody.
0:25.6	Welcome back to another episode of The Skinny Confidential, Him and Her show.
0:28.3	Today we have the one and only Rain Wilson.
0:31.0	Rain is an Emmy nominated and SAG Award-winning actor, writer, producer, and New York Times
0:35.1	best-selling author, best known as Dwight Shrewt on NBC's The Office. He gained early acclaim on HBO's 6 Feet Under and has appeared in films like The Meg, Jerry and Marge Go Large, and Code 3, as well as a series including Star Trek, Discovery, Darkwinds, and Utopia. Lorne and I have wanted Rain on this podcast for a very long time, not just because we're a fan of his work as an actor, but we love what he's doing now in the spiritual, mindful space, and we love what he's done with his soul boom book and now the workbook. So check him out. This episode goes all over the place. We talk about the office, but we also get very spiritual with rain. We go into wellness. into health we go into mindfulness and it was a
1:11.1	really great impactful conversation that i think you guys are going to enjoy with that rain
1:15.1	wilson welcome to the skinny confidential him and her show this is the skinny confidential him and her
1:20.6	it is strange sitting with some people because like we grew up watching you and it's weird to sit here with you
1:29.1	not that like you're not so young that you say you grew up watching me okay it's not like you were
1:34.9	four watching the office no we were like yeah 18 still growing up but you know what i mean like we're young
1:40.3	all right fair enough the way he got me to be his wife was through the office. We binge watched it together. And I made her like sit down and watch it with me. Because when I saw the office and I saw that that was his sense of humor, I was turned on. Wow. It was like an early Netflix. That's like the highest compliment the office has ever gotten as a show. And it's gotten plenty of compliments So you guys in and friendly. It brought you guys together. That's amazing. We were making out to you and Michael.
2:06.6	Oh, that's, okay, that's gross. It is really full circle to have you here. And I was excited when we got the opportunity to interview you because I love to tell people's stories.
2:18.4	And I think that it would be really cool to get all the behind the scenes and the context
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