How To Be Less Anxious And Awkward About Money | Sebene Selassie and Jeff Warren

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

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A candid conversation about money: How much is enough? How to find real security?

Sebene Selassie, an author and meditation teacher. She writes the popular newsletter Ancestors to Elements and her first book is called, You Belong.

Jeff Warren is also an author and meditation teacher. He writes the popular Substack newsletter Home Base and is the coauthor, along with me, of a book called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics. And he is the co-host of the mind/bod adventure pod.

This episode is part of our monthlong Do Life Better series.

We talk about:

How much is enough
The illusion of security
The importance of being able to talk to your friends about this stuff
The power of identifying your own money story, in other words, finding the point of origination for your own neuroses on the subject

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad-free right now.
0:04.7	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.0	It's the 10% Happier podcast.
0:16.6	I'm Dan Harris.
0:29.4	Hey, everybody.
0:33.3	We're diving into one of the great taboos today.
0:34.4	We're hugging the third rail.
0:37.5	We're going to have a candid conversation about money.
0:42.1	People get real weird about this subject, myself included, if I'm honest.
0:46.4	It brings up so much awkwardness and anxiety, but it doesn't have to.
0:54.0	Today I'm going to talk to two of my favorite meditation teachers about our own money hangups, where they come from, and how to deal with them.
0:59.3	Just to say, these teachers are not only close personal friends, but we also do business together.
1:02.5	So we have a history of having to deal with money issues.
1:07.9	In this conversation, we talk about how much is enough, the illusion of security, the importance of being able to talk to your friends about this stuff, and the power
1:11.6	of identifying your own money story. In other words, finding the point of origination for your
1:16.2	own neuroses around money. My guests are Sabinei Salasi, who is an author and meditation teacher.
1:22.5	She writes the popular Substacacac newsletter Ancestors to Elements, and her first book is called You Belong.
1:29.6	Jeff Warren is also an author and meditation teacher. He writes the popular
1:32.6	substack newsletter Home Base and is the co-author, along with me, of a book called
1:37.6	Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, and he is the co-host of the Mind Bod Adventure Pod.
1:43.8	Also heads up, Jeff, Seb, and I co-host a retreat every year called Meditation Party.
1:50.1	Tickets just went on sale for the next one, which is coming up in October at Omega, which is north of New York City.
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