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.

Welcome to Sloemob.

My guest today is my dear friend, a wonderful human being, Hyman Sonam.

Hyman is a Zen Buddhist teacher. He's a best-selling author and the founder of the School for Broken Hearts in Seoul, South Korea where he was born.

He was educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, and then he received formal

monastic training in Zen Buddhism and then taught Asian religions for more than seven years.

He's one of the most influential Zen monks in the world with over one and a half million

followers.

His first book, The Things You Can Only See

when you Slow Down, which is an incredible,

incredible title for a book, has been translated into more than 35 languages and sold more

than 4 million copies. His second book, The Love for Imperfect Things, was the one bestseller as soon as it released in 2016 in South Korea and then became available in multiple languages in 2019.

You're going to love this conversation. Oh hello. Hello it really is an honor I am quite familiar with both of your books, even though I have sadly not the read one,

and I read the first one, but I'm going to ask you a lot about it.

You know when you're meeting someone and you feel that your souls are aligned if you want I feel I feel you

know so much that way with you so much for your time yeah I feel the same way you know like when I was listening to your

podcast even the very first in a second you know when you say oh it is time to slow down and then

it is like having a conversation with a friend.

Oh, I felt like you are just, you know, one of my kind, you know?

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