It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing I do a lot of interviews for this show,

but this one was particularly enjoyable.

I rarely laugh more than when I'm in a conversation

with RuPaul. I'm a little worried I'm going to get cancelled as a result of this

one because dude is super racy in a way that I truly appreciate it. I hope you're

cool with it. But he's also super deep we talk about surviving

childhood especially if you have emotionally unavailable parents as he did why

self-love is not selfish the notion of the inner child often a misunderstood notion

RuPaul's definition of wealth his incredibly insightful expression were all born

naked and the rest is drag, addiction and sobriety, and the importance of fun, which

he will illustrate via a little game he calls dirty charades, and that is the part where I'm worried I'm going to get

canceled it's toward the end of the interview and perhaps toward the end of my

career. I'm pretty sure everybody knows who RuPaul is but just in case he got

famous in 1993 with a song called Supermodel. Since then,

he's put out 18 albums. He's been in more than 50 movies and TV shows, including of course

his global hit RuPaul's Drag Race and he's put out four books

including his latest the number one New York Times bestseller the House of

Hidden Meanings it's a memoir just to say this interview is part of a little summer experiment we're running where we're doing a series of celebrity interviews. We're calling it boldface

This week it's Abby Wombach, RuPaul, and Jada Pinkett Smith coming up on Friday.

Ru Paul right after this.

But first some BSP, as you've heard me say before,

the hardest part of personal growth,

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