Okay, hello. Welcome. This is Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Thank you very much for listening. I really appreciate it. It's a pretty big day today. We have Judith Hanson Lasseter on. And I was very

excited to talk to her. She's somebody I admire very much. I've never studied with her directly,

but I have received teaching from her indirectly. And her name is mentioned in my class. She's

somebody who I really draw upon.

I think she's an important voice in the yoga world.

And I had fun talking with her.

I have to say, though, it was an interesting example of something.

For those of you who are new to the podcast,

I sometimes like to do these intros where I talk about myself.

Some people like that and some people don't like that.

Those of you who have been listening now, I've been obsessing recently with feedback that I've been getting from folks.

And I've decided to really try to get away from that.

Like I'm going to stop reading reviews for a little while.

I talked with Jenny Lynn Carson from Yoga Dork. She's going to be on

the podcast next month. And she said, oh, I never read comments or reviews because it makes me

doubt myself. And I think that that's really sort of been happening. Like I get three reviews of people telling me, oh, I love what you're doing.

And then I get one review of someone telling me, oh, you're horrible.

You've got to stop interrupting.

And then I can kind of really start to doubt myself.

And that's not helpful.

And I do want to, as I said last week, I really do want to be a better listener.

But when I went to talk with Judith, I'm not trying to make excuses for myself, but the cards

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