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521 Premium: Dr. Joseph Parent “Zen Golf” and “The Best Diet Book Ever”

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3577 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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521 Premium: We kick off our 11th year with our very first guest. Dr. Joseph Parent, author of the most popular golf mental game book every written, "Zen Golf" makes his tenth appearance on Golf Smarter talking about working with LPGA Tour Pro Cristie Kerr, helping get golfers out of their own way, and his new book "The Best Diet Book Ever". Want to watch this entire interview? It was recorded on Blab.im and is now watchable with closed captioning on our homepage at http://GolfSmarter.comPlease join me Wednesday, January 13, 5pPacific / 8p Eastern for Podcast Fan Day at Blab.im. Participate from the app or website. Just search GolfSmarter and let's talk golf. No guest that day! Just you and me talking about stories you’d like to share, any comments you have on past episodes, any ideas for Golf Smarter for 2016, any questions you have for me...anything you’d like!!https://blab.im/podcast-fan-day-golf-smarter-podcastfandayFor exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Golf Smarter Premium number 521, published on January 5, 2016.

0:08.3

Author of Zen Golf, Dr. Joseph Parent, and mastering the mental game of golf, and dieting.

0:14.8

This is Golf Smarter Premium. Here's your host, Fred Green.

0:20.8

Welcome back to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Dr. Joe.

0:24.2

Pleasure to be here, Fred.

0:25.8

It is great to have you on to help us celebrate the beginning of our 11th year on the Golf Smarter Podcast.

0:32.9

Has it been 10 years since we were on?

0:35.5

Yeah.

0:36.0

We were on the first show, right?

0:37.2

That's right.

0:37.7

Episode number one, and I brag about it all the time, that episode number one was Dr. Joseph

0:42.2

Parent of Zen Golf, and that that episode is just as valid today as it was when we recorded

0:49.3

it 10 years ago, because the content, you know, is strong and doesn't really change for golfers.

0:55.3

Well, it's been so exciting. We've been in the, Zen golf has been in the top 10 in sales on

1:00.3

Amazon since it came out. And that was almost 14 years ago.

1:07.4

Amazing. Amazing. Yeah. It's pretty cool. I wish I could take some of the credit for getting

1:12.0

this, but I'm not going to it. It's the content. No, content is king. It's been great. And

1:18.5

what's really exciting, I went to a meeting. We had a lot of junior golfers as part of a program

1:25.9

that we'll talk about later when we talk about

1:27.8

the movie that I'm taking part in. Oh, absolutely. All these junior golfers saying, I, you know,

1:34.7

your book is what I, is how I play the game. And, and these are kids who basically were

1:42.3

two years old when the book was written.

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