I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow mow. I'm honored today to be speaking to an author and a world-renowned psychologist that completely changed my life.

Daniel Goldman was a science journalist

that reported on the brain and behavioral science

for the New York Times for many, many years.

His book in 1995, Emotional Intelligence, is one of those massively

influential paradigm shifting kinds of books, you know, it's the kind of book that you read and go like

why did I not think of that before it's so glaringly obvious so life-changing and yet we

rarely ever spoke about emotional intelligence before Daniel wrote about it.

And that book sold millions of copies over the decades.

He of course continued to provide us with amazing work in many other books.

Focus is one of my favorites as well as altered traits.

Daniel is also an-founder of the

and has worked with the Dalai Lama

to express his key teachings backed by empirical evidence.

Daniel is the co-founder of the Collaborate. by empirical evidence.

Daniel is the co-founder of the Collaborative

for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning

and is currently co-directing the Consortium for research on emotional intelligence in organizations at the Rotger's University.

He is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute. He has been honored by the Washburn Award for Science Journalism, a Life Career Award from the American Psychological Association, and he was made a fellow of the American Association for the

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