Optimize This: If You Care About Mental And Physical Health, This May Be The Missing Piece | Kasley Killam

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

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

4.6 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Up until now, in our culture, we’ve generally talked about physical health and mental health–but there’s an emerging consensus that the missing piece is social health.

But what can you actually do to improve your social health? Today we’re going deep with the scientist who has thought a lot about this, and has a ton of good advice.

Kasley Killam, MPH, is a leading expert in social health and the award-winning author of The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier. As a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, sought-after advisor and keynote speaker, and founder of Social Health Labs, Killam has been improving global well-being through connection for over a decade. Her collaborations with organizations like Google, the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the World Economic Forum contribute to building more socially healthy products, workplaces, and communities. Killam’s insights can be found in outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, NPR, Scientific American, Psychology Today, and The Washington Post.

In this episode we talk about:

Why social health is so important, and how it impacts our physical and mental health
How to figure out what your social style is
Tips for strengthening your social muscles
What you can do to boost your social health muscles
How much vulnerability is appropriate
How to have a healthy relationship with yourself
How legislation could help with social health
Emerging industries for social fitness
And lastly, how we can work towards creating a society that cultivates connection

Related Episodes:

Self-Compassion Ain’t Always Soft | Kristin Neff

Kryptonite for the Inner Critic | Kristin Neff

Rethinking Success | Mia Birdsong

Sign up for Dan’s weekly newsletter here

Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok

Ten Percent Happier online bookstore

Subscribe to our YouTube Channel

Our favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular Episodes

Full Shownotes: https://happierapp.com/podcast/tph/kasley-killam-839

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to 10% happier early and ad free right now.
0:04.5	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.5	It's the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing I
0:29.4	I have some pronounced optimizer tendencies.
0:34.7	That means I can get pretty nerdy and obsessive about tracking my steps, my sleep,
0:38.9	my workouts, etc.
0:40.8	However, if you really care about being fit, focused, happy, or successful, there's something
0:46.8	that I suspect many people are overlooking.
0:49.2	In fact, as you're going to hear my guest today say,
0:52.5	it's something the medical community is only now really catching on to.
0:56.5	Up until now, in our culture, I think we generally talked about
1:00.0	physical health and mental health, but there's an emerging consensus that the missing
1:04.4	peace is social health.
1:06.8	You've probably heard me bang on about this, how the data show that perhaps the most important
1:11.2	variable when it comes to living a long and
1:13.0	happy and successful life is the quality of your relationships. But what can you
1:17.5	actually do to improve your relationships, your social health? Today we're going to go deep with a scientist who's
1:24.4	thought a lot about this and has a ton of good advice. Casley Killum is a
1:28.4	Harvard-trained social scientist. She's the author of a new book called The
1:32.0	Art and Science of Connection,
1:33.3	Why Social Health is the missing key to living longer, healthier, and happier.
1:37.6	We talk about why Social Health is so important and how it impacts our physical and
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -133 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 10% Media, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 10% Media, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.