10% Happier with Dan Harris Rethinking Success | Mia Birdsong
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Dec 29, 2025 
Mia Birdsong, a culture-change visionary and author of How We Show Up, shares radical insights on rethinking success and building community. She explores how the American ideal of independence can lead to isolation and emphasizes the importance of interdependence. Mia discusses the transformative power of asking for help, and she highlights the benefits of mutual care over reciprocity. Through practical daily changes, she illustrates how shared childcare strengthened community bonds, urging everyone to embrace grace and vigilance in relationships.
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Independence Undermines Human Nature
- The American ideal of independence isolates us because humans are biologically interdependent.
- Mia Birdsong argues success framed as going-it-alone contradicts our need for mutual care.
Practice Relationship Skills With Compassion
- Give yourself grace: relationship skills require practice and the system makes them hard.
- Notice when connection is failing and take small steps like texting to maintain ties.
Work Structures Erode Community Capacity
- Capitalist work rhythms extract time and energy, blocking care and community.
- Mia Birdsong frames these structural conditions as reasons relationship work is exhausting.