231 - Small Shifts with Big Impact: What is the 1% Practice with Peaceful Barb & Michelle | Life Happens the Podcast
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It’s the small shifts that create a big impact— trust that your efforts are leading to greatness. 💫
This week on Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re introducing The 1% Practice — a conversation on how small, intentional actions can create the life of your dreams. From cultivating patience to releasing perfectionism, this episode is for anyone seeking more ease, confidence, and joy in daily life.
💬 Barb shares how letting go of perfectionism and rigidity helped her find grounding through patience and presence.
💬 Michelle opens up about the power of tiny joys — and how small self-care moments spark hope, happiness, and healing.
✨ Episode Highlights
- The 1% Practice: Small, consistent steps lead to meaningful growth — just 1% of your day can positively impact the rest.
- Discipline & Consistency: Commit to your well-being and find a sustainable rhythm that supports you long-term.
- Pause, Breathe, Begin Again: Take the edge off life by returning to the present moment and choosing your next step with intention.
- Release Rigidity: There are no rules or timelines — your path is your own, and what works for you may look different for others.
Finding bliss in your daily life begins with the small, mindful moments we weave into our routines. Just pause, breathe, and begin again. 🌸
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💛 Episode Topics:
- Understanding we can only control our actions
- Leaning into who you want to be and your desires
- Seeking the tiny joys to spark hope and resiliency
- Trusting that your practice is benefiting you
- Grounding yourself in the present moment
💬 We’d love to hear from you! What insight or moment resonated most with you in this episode? Share in the comments—we truly read every one.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Life Happens with Barb and Michelle. |
| 0:05.0 | I am Michelle and of course this is my mom Barb and we are so thrilled that you are back with us for another conversation about life and its most interesting and meaningful topics. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey Mom. |
| 0:16.0 | Hi Michelle. |
| 0:17.0 | How are you going? |
| 0:18.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:19.0 | How's it going being you? Very, very good. I'm always |
| 0:22.8 | excited to sit down and have our conversations and yeah, it's all going well. We have a great |
| 0:29.0 | episode in store for today, which I think is one of your favorite topics. The topic of a daily |
| 0:35.0 | practice and why it's so important and why I really think it's been like |
| 0:38.6 | the cornerstone of your life for sure and how it's kept you who you are for so many different |
| 0:46.3 | reasons that we're going to dive into. But really just what it means to have a daily practice |
| 0:52.1 | and why you believe in it, I believe in it, and why we think it's so important. |
| 0:56.6 | It's everything, and we'll get into all the details of it. |
| 0:59.5 | I know we've talked about practice, and we've talked about, you know, why it's important over the past year of doing this podcast life happens. |
| 1:07.3 | But today we're going to dive really deep into it and talk about some of the nuances of it. And I'm very, very excited to talk about a new, a new version of the practice |
| 1:16.2 | that you and I have been working on. Love that. That we're going to be releasing in January, |
| 1:20.9 | of course. So many exciting things. That kind of says it all of how important we think practice is. Yeah. And so I'm very, very excited to talk about. Well, when I think of you, I think of practice for sure. I mean, I could think of a lot of things, but practice is up there. It's really up there. I mean, I did write a book called The Practice, so maybe that's part of it. So yeah, no, it's everything. And you all know I wanted a treatment for bulimia |
| 1:44.7 | 40 some years ago. And coming out of treatment to stay in recovery, it was really about what kind of |
| 1:51.5 | structure can I create, you know, which was really born out of, you know, A.A. meetings and doing all |
| 1:56.8 | of the things. So how do we, it's really my purpose. And I know you and I've developed this together, |
| 2:03.0 | but I think it's our purpose, you know, to really help people live their, you know, their greatest |
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