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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

wherever you get your podcasts.

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

As you had told me a few years ago that someday I'd have my very own podcast and I'd be

able to invite anybody on that I wanted. And that one of my very first guests would be

a guy who wrote a book called A Fearless Heart. I would have been a little bit surprised.

But in this case, I'm going to set aside my militant anti-sentimentality because this guy

is worth it. His name is Thupton Jindpa. Am I pronouncing that correctly?

He's got a PhD from Cambridge. He's now working with Stanford University where he's created

a secular protocol called Compassion Cultivation Training or CCT, which is basically a course

that teaches people a series of meditative techniques designed to build your compassion

muscles. Another name for this course could be How Not to Be a Jerk to yourself and others.

That's my branding, not his. And this program, CCT, is now being studied in the labs. And

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