134. The Lightness of Choosing Peace with Barb Schmidt

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode, Sharon chats with Barb Schmidt, better known to her many social media followers as @peaceful_barb. Barb and Sharon talk about ways we can feel less overwhelmed by the news and negativity and be more confident with being ourselves (the world needs YOU, not a duplicate of someone else!) Barb also shares how she likes to combat repetitive negative thinking. There’s no use in wasting our precious, finite energy on negative things that, ultimately, aren’t going to help us live the lives we want to live. Instead, Barb champions getting to know ourselves well enough that we can make wise decisions and recognize our stressors in the moment so we can know our next step forward. That next step is important, and while it isn’t feasible for most of us to lighten the suffering of many, we can choose to use stressful moments to ease the suffering of someone around us with a smile, a positive thought, or a simple action. Choose to write yourself a good story.

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome. So happy you're here today. I am joined by my friend Barb Schmidt.
0:06.7	You might follow her on Instagram. Her account is peaceful, Barb, and she just has
0:11.6	this beautiful smile and she is usually holding up a whiteboard with a sign.
0:16.0	And the sign usually says something super profound. And I just love her. She has
0:21.8	so much warmth, kindness, wisdom, and this conversation was absolutely
0:28.4	incredible. So happy to have you here because I know you're going to get a lot out of this.
0:33.8	Let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:40.9	I'm so excited to be trying to be Barb Schmidt today because when I saw her face come up on
0:47.9	the internet for the first time on my Instagram for the first time, I was just like, I was mesmerized.
0:53.6	And so I've been, I don't know exactly how long I've been following you bar, but it's been a while.
0:58.0	And I just like every single post and like, well, I love that too. So thank you for coming.
1:03.8	The same right back to you Sharon. I know when you came up on mine, I mean, I just, I love the way
1:09.0	you walk us through all of the teachings that you have and all of the truths and the realities
1:13.4	out there. I absolutely love it. It's my favorite. It really is my favorite. You're my go-to for
1:18.5	what's all happening. You're my go-to for making sense of what's happening out there. So thank you
1:24.8	for being here. Tell people if they're not already following peaceful underscore bar.
1:32.5	Tell everybody what it is that you do. So wow, it's been, it's been many decades of doing the
1:39.9	practice that I do of meditation and mindfulness and really trying to connect deeply with myself to be
1:46.8	everything in life that I came here to be. So that connectedness with myself. So that's what I do.
1:52.3	And I think in translating that one, social media came on the scene. And I decided, my daughter
1:57.8	Michelle and I, we decided to start this nonprofit peace of mind, peaceful life. It really was about
2:02.6	how can we now, we've got access now to the world. How can we actually share all the teachings and
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