Hi everyone. Hi friends welcome back to Barb knows best at the

podcast. I'm your co-host Michelle Marros and I'm thrilled to be here with my mom Barb to

Chat once again.

Hi mom I'm excited to hi Michelle.

I was playing a little bit with the intonations of my voice in that intro I could tell did you notice I did notice did it bring you joy yes

Was it like mud if you didn't listen to last week's episode, you don't know what that means.

So go back and listen to it.

And this is kind of a continuation of, this is kind of a wrap-up of the last two episodes.

So, like my mom says the mind is a tricky customer but my mom is also a tricky customer because I'm like you know I think I think two episodes is probably good for your retreat. You know that's two hours of conversation about your experience and you know I don't I don't know I don't want the

listeners to get bored or I don't know are they I don't know who knows and she was I think we need more time and I'm like no no no I'll get you I'll cut you down to two and

tricky tricky barb here we are again but I'm happy about it I know know you are. I know you are.

Barb does know best. It makes me realize that you know you really knew that we needed time for this and I'm I'm happy about it.

So here we are again. Well, this was a 30-day silent retreat and I felt like I had a lot that I wanted to share.

But I have to be honest that there's so much I didn't.

I mean, 30 days, this was packed.

I could probably do a month's worth of

episodes when I think of all of the things that came up and all of the things that

I experienced and all the learnings that I had so and all of that.

So I mean 30 days of silence is profound and this was a very profound retreat so I'm not

surprised that we're now recording our third episode.

Well, perhaps something that you've been saying for quite some time, you will add this to a book that you're writing book number two yes

you know now that I've said that for all of you listening oh you mean I'll add the

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