{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"More Than a Song: A Conversation With Prudence Farrow Bruns","description":"Prudence Farrow Bruns is a local treasure. It doesn\u2019t take long to see why John Lennon wrote a song\u2026 THE song\u2026  about her all those years ago. Sure, Prudence\u2019s father, film director John Farrow, and mother, Maureen O\u2019Sullivan (\u201cJane\u201d from the first Tarzan movie), and sister Mia Farrow are Old Hollywood royalty. But my guess is this adjacency to fame was never something she valued. I bet it was just the opposite.  During her coming of age, Prudence\u2019s social circle was full of characters that people revered.. even idolized. \u201cThey were beautiful, and they had all the money they could imagine. They were FAMOUS. And that became the American Dream. But I saw the ugly side of the dream.\u201d Prudence values something other than fame. Something more MEANINGFUL than fame. She values Time. She values Impact. She values Peace.  In this episode, we talk about Prudence\u2019s life\u2019s work, Transcendental Meditation, which has impacted the lives of thousands of people. We cover her time with Swami Satchidananda and the legendary Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and of course that fateful trip to India in the 1960\u2019s.  Prudence is a gifted storyteller. She weaves together characters and anecdotes throughout, like her life-altering experience meeting Maharishi, or the time Paul McCartney fixed her eyeglasses, or what it was like to hear Dear Prudence for the very first time.  After listening to this episode, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll agree that South Walton\u2019s very own Dear Prudence is a local treasure\u2026 as priceless as John Lennon\u2019s favorite Beatles song. And her message of inner peace and enlightenment is more relevant now than ever.   BONUS: If you liked this episode, you\u2019re going to LOVE her book: \u201cDear Prudence: The Story Behind the Song\u201d. You can find it on Amazon: https:\/\/a.co\/d\/9oPr9lI  ","author_name":"SOWAL House","author_url":"https:\/\/www.sowalhouse.com","html":"