Mayim Bialik on: Anxiety, Imagination, Manifestation, Faith, and the Best Time of Day to Meditate

This is the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Happy Sunday, everybody, dropping into your feed today with a a fun little bonus episode with a couple of uh friends of the show and friends of mine. Just a little background. In April of 2023, we did an episode with the actor, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host, Mayam Bialek.

Turns out Mayam and I have a lot in common. Anxiety for one thing, also one-time game show hosts, although she was a much bigger deal, she hosted Jeopardy and I hosted a short-lived, quickly euthanized primetime game show called 500 Questions. Anyway, since April of 2023, Maya and I have become friends. Her podcast, just so you know, is called Mayam Bialic's Breakdown. She also focuses quite a bit on mental health issues.

And so when Mayam and her podcast co-host and also life partner, Jonathan Cohen, decided to launch their own Substack, I wanted to welcome them to the platform with a live video conversation. And today we're going to bring you that chat. It was a wide-ranging conversation, very funny. We talk about anxiety, of course. about creating habits, what's the best time of day to meditate.

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