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It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, how we doing? We got a fun one today, although we do end up talking about some pretty deep stuff, but in a fun way.

We are, to say the least, in the midst of a very difficult news cycle.

So what better time to have the NPR Stalwart Rachel Martin on the show. In this conversation we talk

about how to survive the news and also about how to make a huge career

pivot which Rachel recently did. We also cover insomnia, meditation, how to decide what matters in your life, what it's like to become an orphan as an adult, and much more.

A little bit of background on Rachel. She spent six years as a host on

NPR's Morning Edition. Before that, as a reporter, she covered such beats as

National Security, Intelligence, and Religion. And before NPR, she and I worked together at ABC News where as an anchorman I

had the pleasure of reading the intros for some of Rachel's stories and just as I

walked away from my big job on the anchor desk a few years ago,

Rachel recently decided to abandon what was once her dream job as one of the hosts of NPR's Morning Edition,

their big morning show.

Now she is the host and co-creator of a brilliant new podcast called Wild Card,

which is described as an interview game show about life's biggest questions.

Alternately you could think of it as a metaphysical game show.

Toward the end of this interview you will hear Rachel and I play the game together.

Rachel Martin, coming up. But first in blatant

self-promotion this will be quick one of the biggest problems that many of us

face in terms of keeping our meditation habit going is that we don't know other people who do it.

And actually having that social support can be a huge, huge deal, which is the operating thesis behind the meditation party retreats that I've

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