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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Stress Better, Modupe Akinola

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

4.612.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

We all encounter stress, but what we sometimes overlook is that stress can be useful, it is, after all, built into us by evolution. Our guest this week teaches how to distinguish between good and bad stress and how to make it work for us. Modupe Akinola is Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School where she conducts research on how certain environments can induce stress and how this stress can impact performance both positively and negatively. It was her own emotional stressors which led her to explore meditation. Quickly recognizing its benefits, Akinola took the plunge and traveled to India to further her practice. Modupe talks about her meditation journey, embracing emotions, unconscious bias and details her research dealing with police officers and bias and the link between depression and creativity. Plug Zone Website: https://www.modupeakinola.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/modupe-akinola-5300b735 Twitter: @ProfAkinola Ten Percent Happier Resources: The new Stress Better course with Modupe Akinola Web: https://www.tenpercent.com/stress App: https://10percenthappier.app.link/stress-better-sms ***VOICEMAILS*** Have a question for Dan? Leave us a voicemail: 646-883-8326 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Before we get started with today's episode, if you've been around TPH land for any

0:05.4

length of time, you've probably heard me name drop Joseph Goldstein.

0:10.1

He started out as my meditation teacher then became my friend and then we teamed up to

0:15.9

help start the 10% happier meditation app.

0:19.6

And I just wanted to remind you that there is a ton of content featuring Joseph and his

0:26.2

humor and wisdom over on the app where he's the lead teacher on six different courses.

0:31.4

I'd recommend you start with the basics, which features your truly and Joseph talking

0:37.1

about how to achieve perfect imperturbability and bulletproof bliss.

0:41.6

Actually, just kidding.

0:43.6

It's just about how to get 10% happier through basic meditation.

0:47.3

It's free.

0:48.3

If you want to check it out, I encourage you to do so.

0:51.4

Download the 10% happier app today wherever you get your apps now on with the show.

0:56.8

Well done.

1:01.2

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

1:06.8

and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.

1:10.9

In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte

1:17.3

Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

1:21.0

And that's just a few.

1:22.8

We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

1:26.8

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

1:32.9

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

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