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Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLin. It's January 19th and we are in

part two of our interview with Noah Rasheda, a dear friend but also the founder of SecularBudism.com which is a super successful podcast and book that you should all check out.

But Noah is also the CEO of I Stabilizer. Is that the name of the company?

Yeah, I Stabilizer. And that's a really cool company that not only makes attachments and accessories for cameras but they make tripods.

All sorts of really cool camera equipment. Do you want to talk about I Stabilizer real quick or or not?

Sure, yeah, it's just a product line of photography and videography accessories specifically for smartphones, tablets and then all kinds of cameras actual point and shoot and professional cameras as well.

Yeah, it's a great quality stuff. Mormon Stories uses Noah's tripod for many of my interviews and it's seriously, I've been through like five, six tripods.

It's amazing completely worth the money. So I'm not getting paid to endorse I Stabilizer anyway, but check out I Stabilizer if you want a really awesome tripod, attachments, accessories, Noah does super high quality work.

In addition to SecularBudism. So the purpose of this episode, part two, we're going to just do an introduction to SecularBudism.

And I'm going to say that at the outset, I've already said this at the close of last episode, you don't have to believe in God or religion to get value from SecularBudism or you can be an Orthodox believing Mormon or any other religion.

And you'll probably find SecularBudism to be 100% complimentary and enhancing to your viewpoint. But if you separate all that, I have a PhD in clinical and counseling psychology.

I've spent eight years now counseling people on mental health, on anxiety, on depression, on obsessive compulsive disorder.

And I've been trained in a form of psychotherapy called acceptance and commitment therapy, which is really nothing more than SecularBudism integrated into cognitive behavioral therapy.

And by far, it's the best treatment that I know out there for so much around people's just mental health and well-being.

And so this is profound stuff. And I don't know how we're going to do it because we didn't even put an outline together.

And we haven't even sort of structured what this interview is going to be like. Having said that, no, and I have co-led several workshops and retreats together.

And I think we have a good sense for each other's stuff. So what you're going to get over the next hour is an introduction to SecularBudism.

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