The Voice in Your Head Doesn't Have to Ruin Everything | Rachel Martin and Dan Harris
10% Happier with Dan Harris
10% Media, LLC
4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Practical advice for handling anxiety, envy, and that feeling that you're a bad person.
What happens when a deck of cards controls the conversation? On Wild Card, hosted by Rachel Martin, that's the whole idea — and when Dan sat down as a guest, the cards led somewhere genuinely interesting.
In this episode: why Dan keeps going on silent meditation retreats even though loneliness is the hardest part; what finally made him delete Instagram; the "good-ish" concept that unlocked a new relationship with self-criticism; and a deep dive into the Buddhist take on the soul — which turns out to be a lot more useful than it sounds.
Wild Card is produced by NPR.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% Happier Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, it's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. Today we have a conversation |
| 0:23.1 | about envy, Instagram, defensiveness, and why the Buddhists do not believe you have a soul. |
| 0:30.6 | This is a conversation between me and my old friend Rachel Martin from NPR. She has her own show |
| 0:37.1 | called Wild Card, which she refers to as a metaphysical game show. |
| 0:41.5 | So what you're about to hear is me playing the game with her. |
| 0:46.3 | And the goal is for you to enjoy our conversation, but also to go check out her show, which again is called Wild Card. |
| 0:53.1 | Real quick, before we dive in, I want to remind you to check out my newish meditation app, |
| 0:57.0 | 10% with Dan Harris. |
| 0:59.0 | If you sign up, you'll get guided meditations and courses from many of the greatest |
| 1:04.0 | living meditation teachers. |
| 1:06.0 | You'll also get ad-free versions of this podcast and weekly live video sessions where we do some meditation |
| 1:14.6 | and take questions. Join the party. You can get the app at Dan Harris.com. Also, if you want to |
| 1:20.8 | meditate with me in person, I've got a few events coming up on May 17th. I'll be at the 92nd Street |
| 1:25.4 | Y in New York City. And then coming up on October 16th through 18th, I'll be doing my annual meditation party weekend retreat with my friends, Seminace, and Jeff Warren. |
| 1:37.0 | We do this at the Omega Institute in Upstate New York. |
| 1:40.6 | I will drop links to both of these events in the show notes. |
| 1:45.6 | All right. We'll get started with Rachel Martin and Wildcard right after this. Hey, it's Dan. I just want to tell you about something |
| 1:51.6 | I'm really proud of. The new community we are building over on my new app, which is called 10% |
| 1:57.6 | with Dan Harris. Here's something I believe with no reservation. |
| 2:02.3 | Taking care of your own mind is not selfish. |
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