How To Be Sanely Ambitious | Behind the Scenes with Dan and DJ

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan and executive producer DJ Cashmere talk about how we’re putting “sanely ambitious” into action on our team; plus, an important update on how to listen to the podcast ad-free.

In this episode we talk about:

How rest and productivity are two sides of the same coin
What psychological safety looks like on a small, creative team
Having a “parking lot” for great ideas that we aren’t ready to do
Other ways we’re navigating some big changes in our business

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.
0:18.2	Hey, everybody. How you doing?
0:20.0	We are going to talk today about one of my favorite subjects, a hobby horse.
0:25.2	Hopefully I'm not beating a dead hobby horse here, but I find this issue to be endlessly fascinating.
0:31.5	Can you be ambitious and sane at the same time? Can you be sanely ambitious?
0:37.1	And this issue is one I've been noodling on for
0:39.9	15 years, probably more, but it's increasingly salient right now because five and a half months ago,
0:47.0	about six months ago, I launched a new business. And starting a new business is a Titanic Panning the
0:53.3	ass. It's very, very hard.
0:55.3	Just for context here, some of you may know this, but back in 2015-16, I co-founded a meditation
1:00.7	app that was called 10% Happier.
1:02.7	As of March 1st, I am now fully, fully, fully separated from that app.
1:08.5	They have changed their name.
1:09.7	They have some of my old content, but I am not in any way associated with the app. They have changed their name. They have some of my old content,
1:11.1	but I am not in any way associated with the app. That was a very painful transition for me,
1:17.0	where my sanity was challenged in many ways. But now I'm launching a new business. And I'm not doing
1:22.2	it alone. I have a little team of about 10 people who are awesome. And one of the things we talk about all the time is how
1:30.1	can we be sanely ambitious? It's like a catchphrase, a buzz phrase on the team. And so we've
1:36.9	learned a lot and want to share some of that with you and also to tell you about some really cool
1:41.4	things that are going to be happening in the 10% happier world,
1:45.6	the Dan Harris world. So I'm going to talk about all of this with my main man, DJ Kashmir,
1:52.0	coming right up.
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