Stress Proof: Ten Percent Happier

Optimizing Your Stress

Modupe talks about what she calls the “stress mindset” (and how to cultivate it), the vast resources available to us for handling stress (and how to tap them), and how to have productive conversations around the often stressful —but critical—issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Stress Better 

Modupe teaches how to distinguish between good and bad stress and how to make it work for us. It was her own emotional stressors which led her to explore meditation. Quickly recognizing its benefits, Akinola took the plunge and traveled to India to further her practice. Modupe talks about her meditation journey, embracing emotions, unconscious bias and details her research dealing with police officers and bias and the link between depression and creativity.