Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity.

Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.

Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. guest. So hey hi everyone my name is Taylor Christ. I am the executive producer of the Psychology

podcast and today I'm especially excited to be interviewing my colleague and

friends, Corey Muscarra. I could spend the entire episode talking about Corey's virtues, but I've picked a few gems here from his bio that I'm going to read out loud.

So Corey's the founder of the Long Island Center for Mindfulness, where he runs mindfulness retreats and teaches courses for people living in the Long Island in New York areas.

This is a personal favorite, something we're going to need to delve into later.

Corey spent six months living in silence, practicing meditation as a Buddhist monk in Burma.

Corey serves as faculty at the Columbia Teachers College, where he co-teaches a mindfulness-based leadership

course.

He's also an assistant instructor for the Master of Applied Positive Psychology course at the

University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his graduate work.

Lastly we have that Corey frequently shows up on the Dr. Oz show as an expert in the topic of mindfulness meditation.

Corey, so glad to have you today man.

Welcome.

Thanks buddy.

So man, how are you?

Doing well man.

Excuse to be here.

Glad to hear it.

Thanks for coming on.

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