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10% Happier with Dan Harris

RuPaul

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When he was 28 years old, RuPaul Andre Charles found himself broke and living on his little sister's couch in Los Angeles. "It was a really, really, really dark, dark period for me." That's when RuPaul, now the world's most famous drag queen, started his meditation practice.

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0:00.0

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

0:09.8

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

0:17.2

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

0:23.9

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

0:29.8

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

0:36.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

0:39.7

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing

0:45.1

to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

0:56.5

The Panic is a new comedy podcast from Wondery that leans into our most absurd anxieties and

1:02.6

defuses them with humor and actual advice. Listen to Don't Panic on the Wondery app or

1:08.8

wherever you get your podcasts.

1:26.5

Hey, this is Dan Harris. I am a fidgety skeptical newsman who had a panic attack live on

1:40.1

Good Morning America. That led me to something I always thought was ridiculous. Meditation.

1:46.1

I wrote a book about it called 10% Happier, started an app and now I'm launching this podcast

1:51.2

to try to figure out whether there's anything beyond 10%.

1:54.7

Basically, here's one I'm obsessed with. Can you be an ambitious person and still strive

1:59.9

for enlightenment? Whatever that means.

2:04.6

When I learned that my next guest was a meditator, I was surprised in a very, very pleasant

2:10.0

way. It's RuPaul. He is easily the world's most famous drag queen. He's been a household

2:14.7

name since the 1990s and as I've discovered in researching him and reading his autobiography,

2:22.5

reading his interviews and watching his reality competition show, which he has on logo and

2:26.6

is called RuPaul's Drag Race. He is an extremely thoughtful person about the mind and for lack

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