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Today on the show, we have Shelley Tegielski.

While in grad school, Shelley took a summer internship with the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Raised as an Orthodox Jew, each morning, she would go out onto the porch and say her daily prayers.

But even as she looked out at the gorgeous sunrise, she realized she was just mouthing the prayers, checking them off her list.

Meanwhile, a Japanese couple would join her on the porch and sit in silence.

Rising was such a serene aura that she became intrigued,

and eventually they introduced her to Zen Buddhism and meditation. When she returned to New York,

she continued her meditation practice under the guidance of Sharon Salzburg, and meditation

became her solace and emotional foundation as she climbed the corporate ranks.

To help her stressed out colleagues, she would hold meditations in the lunchroom and eventually

started teaching publicly on a beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Six months later, that Sunday

Beach meditation was attracting upwards of a thousand people,

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