I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudette. 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 Slo-Mob.

Today's guest is an unusual type of human.

He is a spiritual neuroscientist.

Dr Rick Hansen is a psychologist, a senior fellow of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. He began meditating in 1974 and hasn't turned back since. He followed a spiritual path next to his science background,

which led him to be the founder of the Wellspring Institute

for neuroscience and contemplative wisdom.

Rick is a New York Times best-selling author. His books include

Nurodarma, resilient, hardwiring happiness, the Buddha's brain, just one thing and mother nature.

He was published in more than 29 languages and sold close to a million copies in English alone.

Rick's weekly newsletter is distributed for free to 180,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those with

financial needs. Rick is a well-known expert on positive neuroplasticity, our ability to use our brains to make our lives better.

But in my personal view, he is also an expert on how to make our world better. What a pleasure to have him

with me today. I think you can already tell how much of a huge fan I am of Rick's work.

Hey there, Mo.

Hey Rick, hi.

I'd start by saying first thank you for the time and thank you for responding so quickly. I think we reached out like 10 days ago and you were like, yeah, I like this. This is a good good idea so thank you for that and context is I'm on sabbatical so yeah so it's it's actually an implicit

acknowledgement of you and your show that I wanted to do this.

My God, thank you.

Can we talk about the sabbatical?

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