Best Ten Percent Happier Podcasts (2025)

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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America 1:11:43

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A heavy complexity is on the shoulders of the young of our species in these years — humans growing up in this time. At the same time, from the digital revolution and AI to the ecology and society, they have wisdom and instincts in their bones that will be essential if we are all to flourish and not merely survive this century. In November 2024, the…

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David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News 54:53

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A calming and helpful conversation for making sense of the very story of our time, and how that is coming to us and being powerfully shaped through media and journalism. The theory of change of journalism as it came out of the 20th century, David Bornstein says, is that shining a light on what is going wrong — what is dangerous and dysfunctional, c…

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Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment" 55:19

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Katsi Cook is a beacon in an array of quiet powerful worlds — a magnetic, joyous, loving presence. The public conversation we offer up here was part of a gathering where a fantastic group of young people had come to be nourished, to explore the depths of what community can mean, to become more grounded and whole. They've taken to sitting at the fee…

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Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver 54:41

25 days ago54:41

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A sweet and searching conversation between Krista and the man behind Bon Iver at this year's On Air Fest, full of wisdom and revelation. He is a person who experiences deeply, who metabolizes creatively, and who just keeps growing. He opens up with Krista about the strangeness of being loved for how he put his broken heart to music. They venture in…

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A New Season of On Being 2:24

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On Being is back on April 16, with a special season tethered in the persistent beauty and courage of what it can mean to be human — six conversations Krista has had out in the world in recent months, followed by an experimental, seven-week reflection/action experience— Hope, Imagination, and Remaking the World — to undertake with others in your lif…

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Remembering Nikki Giovanni - ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’ 50:40

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The delightful Nikki Giovanni died on Dec. 9. It is a joy and a solace to relisten to this beloved conversation she had with Krista in 2016 – to experience her signature mix of high seriousness, sweeping perspective, and insistent pleasure. Her words and her spirit feel, if anything, more necessary now. In the 1960s, she was a poet of the Black Art…

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Joan Baez — "This Gift of a Voice" 57:54

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She is known as the voice of a generation. The Queen of Folk. A legend. An icon, the one who sang “We Shall Overcome” alongside Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 March on Washington. As much as anyone, Joan Baez embodied the spirit of that decade of soaring dreams and songs and dramas set in motion that echo through this world of ours. Meanwhile, …

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

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The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of "pleasure activism" …

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

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An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “The End of Poetry” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “To Be Made Whole.” Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six book…

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

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We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something ex…

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

about a year ago1:17

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Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “Words That Shimmer.” Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. Since 2018, she has ser…

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

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We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as cl…

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

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In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation that Krista has had across recent months and years, even and especially with people on the front lines of humanity's struggles. Ross Gay helps illuminate…

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

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In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing fro…

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

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In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being’s 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your beleaguered body, to “blanket it with a little bit…

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

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The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which took place in the dark middle of those years, helps make sense of our present of still-unfolding epidemic distress — as individuals, as communities, …

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

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We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. Drew Lanham to offer some poetry at a live On Being event in January 2024. We could not have imagined the lightning in a bottle that unfolded — a live adaptation of the title poem that appears in Drew'…

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

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Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coerces us into giving up on democracy." This conversation is a kind of guide to generative shared deliberations we might be having with each other and ou…

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

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A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offering, Pádraig introduces the intriguing idea of poems as teachers and ponders Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics," translated by Joanna Trzeciak.…

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To 1:02:38

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There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind and spirit and action. And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage we’re call…

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts 54:16

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In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with good measures of raucous laughter and a few tears, Kate summons us to hearts "capacious enough to contain the complexities and mysteries of ourselves a…

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Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence 1:03:59

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Here are some experiences to which Nick Cave gives voice and song: the "universal condition" of yearning, and of loss; a "spirituality of rigor"; and the transcendent and moral dimensions of what music is about. This Australian musician, writer, and actor first made a name in the wild world of ’80s post-punk and later with Nick Cave and the Bad See…

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A Word from Krista 2:22

about a year ago2:22

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A little musing on this season, the spectacular finale headed your way — and ways to stay connected in the time ahead. Subscribe to the The Pause Find our Starting Points Peruse our Libraries And on YouTube, grab a Poem to Carry in Your PocketBy On Being Studios

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Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World 1:01:26

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Our built world is designed around something called "normal," and yet every single one of our bodies is mysterious, and constantly adapting for better or worse — and always, always changing. This is a fact so ordinary — and yet not something most of us routinely pause to know and to ponder and work with. But Sara Hendren has made it her passion, br…

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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution 1:19:41

2 years ago1:19:41

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The ecological crisis we are standing before is at once civilizational and personal — intimately close to each of us in the places we love and inhabit, and unfolding at a species level. And as much as anyone alive on the planet now, Christiana Figueres has felt the overwhelm of this and stepped into service. She gives voice so eloquently to the gri…

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Jason Reynolds and Kessley Janvier — On Being Young In America 1:11:43

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David Bornstein — On Our Lives with the News 54:53

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Katsi Cook — "Women are the First Environment" 55:19

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Justin Vernon — Being Bon Iver 54:41

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A New Season of On Being 2:24

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Remembering Nikki Giovanni - ‘We Go Forward With a Sanity and a Love’ 50:40

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Joan Baez — "This Gift of a Voice" 57:54

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To 1:02:38

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts 54:16

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Nick Cave — Loss, Yearning, Transcendence 1:03:59

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A Word from Krista 2:22

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Sara Hendren — Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World 1:01:26

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Christiana Figueres — Ecological Hope, and Spiritual Evolution 1:19:41

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