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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Soren Gordhamer, Being Mindful in Silicon Valley

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Soren Gordhamer is the founder and host of the Wisdom 2.0 conference, which is lauded as one of the largest gatherings of meditators in the world, but it also has been the target of controversy. Raised in Lubbock, Texas, Gordhamer grew up as one of five kids in a Buddhist-friendly household and said he was drawn to meditation in high school as a way to deal with pain and suffering.

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

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0:23.9

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0:29.8

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0:56.5

The My Phone is World or the meditation world, whatever you want to call it. It is a pretty

1:19.1

small place. I would say Soren Gordhammer occupies a pretty large position in this world

1:26.3

because he started this thing called Wisdom 2.0 which has become the largest and loudest

1:33.4

gathering of mindfulness and meditation types on earth. It's been featured on 60 minutes.

1:38.8

It's been written about all over the place. And you would think that a gathering like this

1:42.5

would be a reasonably uncontroversial affair. But as it turns out, actually there are, there's

1:49.7

plenty of controversy around it for lots of reasons, interesting reasons you will hear about

1:54.0

soon in this conversation. In fact, there was actually a protest on stage one year. So

2:00.1

Soren is interesting because of the place he occupies in this world. Also his backstory

2:05.7

as is the case with pretty much all of our guests we've been lucky in this way thus far

2:09.4

is really, really interesting. So here he is.

2:14.2

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

2:20.1

Well, thank you for doing this. You're welcome. It's nice to see you. Yeah, like my...

2:24.3

I forgot how tall you are. How tall are you? Almost six four. Wow. Like six three and three four.

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