What is Dan Harris’ net worth?
Dan Harris has a net worth of $15 million. He is an author and former co-anchor for the weekend edition of GMA on ABC News.
He was born on July 26, 1971, in Newton, Massachusetts, as Daniel B. Harris.
His brother, Matt, is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures.
Dan was raised in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
He played drums in a high school band.
In 1993, Dan graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
In March 2000, Harris joined ABC News. Previously he worked at New England Cable News, WCSH in Portland, and WLBZ in Bangor.
From 2006 to 2011, Harris anchored World News Sunday.
Became a Buddhist & Panic Attack
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Around 2008, Dan became a Buddhist.
His beliefs initially started to change after a panic attack on national television during a broadcast of Good Morning America.
“Even more embarrassing than freaking out on national television is actually the back story, in other words, what produced the panic attack—I think at the root of it is something that everybody at Yale for sure shares, which is ambition,” Harris confessed in April 2018 at Yale University.
Additionally, Harris revealed that drug abuse (cocaine and ecstasy) also contributed to the on-air panic attack.
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He later read the books “A New Earth” and “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. He also discovered mindfulness meditation.
“I went to Toronto and interviewed Eckhart Tolle, and the first thing I did was ask him you know what do you do about the voice in the head, and he took a beat and said, ‘take one conscious breath,’ and the voice in my head was like, what the hell does that mean and I asked him, again and again, you know what seriously what do you do about this … what do you do, but and he seemed unwilling or unable to say anything that made any sense to me,” Dan said at the same event at Yale.
In 2009, Dan received an Emmy Award for his Nightline report.
Good Morning America
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In October 2010, Harris was named co-anchor of ABC News’ weekend edition of “Good Morning America.”
In 2013, he was named co-anchor of Nightline alongside Dan Abrams and Cynthia McFadden.
Book
In March 2014, Dan Harris became the author of the book “10% Happier.”
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Focus, said that “10% Happier” is “an insightful, engaging, and hilarious tour of the mind’s darker corners.”
Elizabeth Gilbert wrote that the book takes “quite a personal look at the benefits of meditation.”
In January 2015, he published another book, titled – “Hoist on My Own Petard.”
In 2020, he appeared in the documentaries – “My Year of Living Mindfully” and “The Mindfulness Movement.”
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Left GMA
In September 2021, Harris left ABC News to focus on his meditation company, Ten Percent Happier.
“This is very hard for me,” he said at the time. The journalist added: “I love ABC News, I’ve been here for 21 years.”
In April 2022, Harris held a TED talk in Vancouver.
Wife
In May 2009, Dan Harris married his wife, Bianca Harris (née Quagliarello). Bianca is a pulmonologist and a graduate of NYU School of Medicine. She works at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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His wife had breast cancer, but thankfully she’s fine now.
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Children
In 2014, their son, Alexander Robert Harris, was born.
In 2017, Dan rushed his son to the emergency room after he fell off the couch and hit his head on the table.
Dan Harris and Bianca Harris attend ASPCA’S 18th Annual Bergh Ball honoring Edie Falco and Hilary Swank – @Getty
Net Worth
So, how much is Dan Harris worth?
Harris earned most of his wealth from working as an anchor and correspondent for ABC News for 21 years.
He joined the network in 2000 and was named anchor of GMA Weekend in 2010.
Dan is also the co-founder of Ten Percent Happier. The meditation company has a podcast and offers a membership that costs $8.33 per month.
Harris is the author of “Hoist On My Own Petard” and “10% Happier” and co-author of “Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics.”
Dan appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, Mindfulness Goes Mainstream, No, You Shut Up!, and Life is Short with Justin Long.
In 2012, Harris listed his home in the Hollywood Hills West area at $2.3m. He bought the property in 2005 for $2m.
Dan Harris is also the author of several books. On Amazon, Harris’ books have over 25,000 ratings — this means about 1,250,000 to 2,500,000 copies sold.
Therefore, Dan Harris has an estimated net worth of $15 million.
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