And now love transmissions, Hello all you positive heads out there, Brandon Beacham here. As always, thanks for tuning

in to the Positive Head podcast. Today we have a very special guest, Barb Schmidt.

Barb is a woman of many talents and achievements to name a few. She's creator of

the nonprofit Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Life which acts as an inspiring online resource and rapidly

growing online community. Barb is also the author of the recently published book, The

Practice. After just finishing reading the Practice myself,

I can personally confirm that she has achieved her mission

to teach, inspire, and empower.

At least where I'm concerned, so I'm very happy to have the opportunity to talk with her today.

Hello Barb welcome to the show.

Hi Brandon it's such a pleasure to be here thank you.

A pleasure to have you. So to jump right in, first off, you know, in the practice, you reference one of the things that kind of stuck out to me.

And, you know, as I mentioned to you before we got started here, I just finished reading it,

thoroughly enjoyed it, got a lot out of it that we'll talk about.

You reference attending a retreat with the famous Vietnamese Buddhist monk and I hope I

don't butcher his name is it tick nut hun. Very good yes. Ah good. I've been

practicing my Vietnamese.

And you've referenced that event as the one that led you to starting peaceful mind, peaceful life,

correct?

What can you... life, correct? Correct.

You know, he is probably one of my most profound teachers, you know, as you saw in the book I have many many teachers and so many inspirational humans

that have really helped me on this path but when I started reading his books and

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