You Can't Hate Yourself Into Becoming a Better Person | Vinny Ferraro

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

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🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We're in the midst of an exciting evolution of the overall 10% Happier project. In our quest to make this podcast more actionable – to help you operationalize all the game-changing ideas you encounter on this pod – we're now offering guided meditations to accompany each full episode of the show, available to paid subscribers at DanHarris.com. For the month of September, those meditations will come from Vinny Ferraro, a Buddhist teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition.

In this bonus episode, you'll hear our head of content, DJ Cashmere, in conversation with Vinny, who shares his backstory: a tough kid from Brooklyn who found the Buddhist tradition to be the most helpful thing in his life.

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On Sunday, September 21st from 1-5pm ET, join Dan and Leslie Booker at the New York Insight Meditation Center in NYC as they lead a workshop titled, "Heavily Meditated – The Dharma of Depression + Anxiety." This event is both in-person and online. Sign up here!

Get ready for another Meditation Party at Omega Institute! This in-person workshop brings together Dan with his friends and meditation teachers, Sebene Selassie, Jeff Warren, and for the first time, Ofosu Jones-Quartey. The event runs October 24th-26th. Sign up and learn more here!

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.7	Hey, hey, how we doing? Okay, here's the deal. I'm just going to give it to you straight. We all have demons. The question is, are you going to find a way to work with your difficult parts, the difficult aspects of your inner repertoire, or are you going to let your demons own you? Your call. That's up to you. Today Today you're going to hear from a guy who has learned this
0:39.0	lesson the hard way and in the process has become a beloved Buddhist teacher. Vinnie Ferraro leads
0:45.0	the Big Heart City Sanga, which is part of the Insight Meditation tradition. He's also our teacher
0:50.0	of the month over on Dan Harris.com, which means he'll be producing guided meditations throughout
0:55.7	september to go with all of our monday wednesday episodes the ideas that you can listen to the
1:00.1	episode learn a ton and then vini will help you as i like to say pound the wisdom into your neurons
1:05.6	with a guided meditation these meditations are only for paid subscribers over at Dan Harris.com.
1:11.7	Paid subscribers also now get weekly live meditation and Q&A sessions.
1:15.9	I had been doing these intermittently, but now we're going to systematize and do them every week,
1:20.6	every Tuesday at 4 Eastern.
1:22.1	So you can put that shit in your calendar.
1:23.6	The next one is Tuesday, September 2nd.
1:25.9	It will feature both me and Vinnie.
1:27.8	Okay, so that brings me to today's episode.
1:29.8	It's a brief interview between Vinnie and my executive producer, DJ Kashmir.
1:33.8	And in this conversation, you'll hear Vinnie talk about his extraordinary life story, how he came to meditation after a truly chaotic adolescence and much more.
1:42.8	Please enjoy.
1:43.8	Vinnie Ferraro, welcome back to the show. chaotic adolescence and much more please enjoy
1:45.0	Fini Ferraro welcome back to the show thank you so much good to see you DJ it's so
1:51.0	good to see you I've been looking forward to this for a minute now let's dive right in
1:55.0	been asking everyone the same questions I'll put it to you when we think about the
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