April 6, 2026

The Sound of Gold with guest Andrea Rosado of Mind & Body

The Sound of Gold with guest Andrea Rosado of Mind & Body
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Season 2

The human brain is incredible. More and more research is showing the impact it has on healing the mind, body and spirit. Todays show focuses on the impact music has on individuals whom suffer from Alzheimers. Tune in to learn how you can help be a musical influence.

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Hi, welcome to the Sound of Gold. I hope you're

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all doing well. It is Monday, and in the United

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States on the East Coast it is, and wherever you

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are tuning in from whatever time of day, it is

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welcome and I'm so glad that you're here. My show

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is the Sound of Gold. If you're new or even

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if you're back revisiting. The Sound of Goals is focused

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on music, musicians, music studios, music venues, and music teachers

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and pretty much everything to do with music. I'm not

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only a radio show host, but I'm also a musician,

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a piano player, a piano teacher, and I'm very invested

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in music and the well being it has on you

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and me and animals and the world around us. There's

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great vibrations that are intertwined with a sound and they

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connect with us, we connect with it. My big dream

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is to be a musician. This is my cat CALLI.

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If you're watching, she's one of my here and if

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you're listening, I'm sitting here in my home studio with

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my cat Kelli. My biggest dream is that I may play.

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First of all, to do this show. My biggest dream

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is to have the talent that's out there shine and

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to bring you out my show and to help promote you.

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And on the other side of that, I have this

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dream to play for healing purposes. I love playing music,

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and every now and again I'll do an online show.

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I've done them over the years, and I love to

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play and bring peace. And with that being said, you know,

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music has so many benefits to it, and I think

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every single human being out there knows maybe of a

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relative or a friend who has a relative or a

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friend of a friend who maybe is dealing with mental

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health issues, maybe decline or challenging. And especially for our

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populations out there, relatives friends who have or have Alzheimer's.

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And it's such a sensitive subject. I've had, I've lost

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family members to Alzheimer's. It's such a sensitive subject because

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it's so it's so heartbreaking to watch anyone go through it.

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And so my mission on especially today's show, is to

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really hone into how music heals and music helps strengthen

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the neuropathways in mental health and for those that are

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dealing with Alzheimer's. And I'm sorry for the background noise.

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I have other cats and they decided it's just playtime,

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so they're playing that set aside. I have a very

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special guest today. There is an organization out there, if

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you haven't heard of it before, it's called Mind and Melody,

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and I came across it just by chance. And there

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are you know, there are no chances that are not

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meant to be, they say, right, So I have with

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me today miss Andrea Rosato from Mind and Melody. Andrea,

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you're hanging out backstage there, go Hi, Thank you so

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much for being available today. I don't even know if

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you're working today, but you've made the time and I

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just I just admire you and everything you do. There's

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so much to say about Mind and Melody, and I

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only know probably like the iceberg surface of it. Before

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we dive into that. Please give us just a little

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from my audience out there and from my viewers, give

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us like a little background us to a little bit

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about your musical journey and what's drawn you into where

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you are the position you have, and then we're just

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going to go from there absolutely.

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First of all, thank you so much for having me

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and us and Mind and Melody on I was working today.

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You know, it's very exciting to be able to get

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to do something like this. I do work a lot

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of the behind the scenes of the magic that we

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have going on. So yeah, to tell you a little

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bit more about myself, well, I love to say how

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I have been obsessed with music since I was born.

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My mom would play music for me as a baby

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and with her you know, headphones on the belly and everything,

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you know. So as soon as I was able to,

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you know, use my hands and stuff, I was trying

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to make beats.

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Pianos and ukuleleies and.

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Guitars were always around, and you know, I was always

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inclined to those things. I didn't take formal lessons in

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music until I was like eleven years old, but it

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was always kind of like a hobby. I was always

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obsessed with listening to music and the way that it

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made me feel and my mom always used it as

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something of a tool. She would always use it. She's

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she's a doctor, or so she plays it. She calls

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herself the musical doctor. She music for her patients. She

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thinks it's something that's really important to helping soothe people

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when they're nervous and destruct them from maybe the anxiety

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of waiting or the nerves of being at the doctor's office.

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She's always used it as a tool for not only

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soothing people, but connecting with them. So I was always

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instilled that and the power of music was always present

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in my life. So again, I didn't do formal lessons

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until I was like eleven, and even then it was

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like kind of light guitar lessons.

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I'm pretty much.

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Self fought for the most part guitarists. I play kind

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of the basics of you will. I know the basic

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chords and everything, and I can read, you know, charts

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and stuff, and I sing, and I kind of It's

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always been my hobby. It's always been something that I've

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turned to at every point in my life for whether

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it be as anyone who's a music enthusiast, imagine, right

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when you're feeling happy, when you're feeling sad when you're angry.

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It's always something that I turned to. I make my

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own music. I've always written like poetry and stuff, so

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that's my connection to it. I always was obsessed with it,

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and then I was really intrigued by psychology growing up

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as well. I never really looked at music as something

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of a for me as a career. It was just

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always a hobby for me. But psychology was my passion

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that I wanted to pursue as far as my career.

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So I did end up getting my bachelor's in psychology.

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I will hopefully soon at some point be getting my

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doctorate as well.

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But thank you.

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But as kind of part of my journey, I worked

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at a music store for many years while I was

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in college and my psychology program. I wanted to do

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something that kind of tied those things together, and it

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kind of just fell in my lap, similar to how

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you heard about the organization that it was just kind

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of a happenstance kind of thing. Someone introduced me to

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the organization because I was talking about what I wanted

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to study and my intention or my goals for me

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in pursuing my study of psychology and neuroscience. And cognition

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is the effects that music has on it. And in

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that kind of discussion with somebody, they introduced me to

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the organization and I kind of began as a musician

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and have worked my way up since then. So that's

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kind of my long winded background with music.

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I love it. You're such an inspiration and we've talked

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previously other than the radio show, and there's so much

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more I can say, but i'll say that. I'll probably

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say that for another time because it's a little different

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of a focus, but I want to really hone into

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the benefits of music and the healing power because we

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all I don't I don't care who it is on

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this planet. We all know somebody, if not have somebody near,

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near and dear to us that has had or has

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Alzheimer's or that deals with mental health issues. And like

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you said, music, I mean it connects to all of us.

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Whether we're sad, we're happy, we're excited, there's always one

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song out there or for every emotion there is a song.

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And so with your experience and with your with your

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journey and where you're going, please tap into that a

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little bit for us because there's so many people out

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there that are just questioning, like, how do how do

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I help my loved one? I can't because it's so

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difficult to to Sorry, it's so difficult to see that

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you lose your your family member or your friend. And

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how do you make it so that music in some

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way brings them back or heals them?

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Absolutely? And I love that question.

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I know that it touches home for close to home

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for you, and I'm sure that's the same case for

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many people.

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And I love the question because it is something that

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this organization Minded Melody heavily, heavily, heavily.

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Focuses on, right, is the power that music has to

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access a person's true identity despite what they're going through,

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despite having lost so much of their personality, seemingly. We're

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actually working on a presentation now so I can tell

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you the stats. Seven point two million Americans right now

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are diagnosed with Alzheimer's and specific to the county that

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I'm in, Miami Dade County, seventy seven thousand individuals have

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been diagnosed with Alzheimers.

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And that's the.

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Largest number in any community in the nation. So it's

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an epidemic, may give you, well, it's it's very very common, unfortunately,

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and it is a condition that unfortunately ends up stripping

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away a person's personality.

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One of the things that we use to kind of

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drive home the uh not even impact, but what it does.

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What this disease does is if you think of what's

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a thing that you do in the every morning, right,

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you get up, you brush your teeth, you make your bed,

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you make your coffee. It's things that you do without

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even thinking about it, right, it's automatic. A lot of

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the people who are experiencing these these this disease, you

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lose that, right, you lose your personality, you lose your

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sense of humor, your routine. Uh so you lose yourself.

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Now with music, it's so fascinating. It's one of the

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only things that accesses or activates rather multiple systems in

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your brain. Right, So that's that neuropathway part of it.

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It's activating your memory, your emotion, your motor skills, your focus, right,

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what's responsible for your executive function.

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So so many.

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Of these things are being activated, and so it's able

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to penetrate whatever it is that you're going through. And

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one of the most visible things that we see is

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how connected to memory it is, right, you can even now,

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I'm sure you can think of a song that reminds

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you of a specific moment in your life and it.

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Takes you back. Right. I had this story.

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She was a I mean maybe in her thirties, but

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we were having a conversation and she mentioned the fact

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that her there was a song that was playing when

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she was giving birth to her son, and every time

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she hears it, she like goes back to that moment.

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And I told her, I promise you that when you

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are seven ninety years old, you're still going to listen

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to that song, and it's going to be like you're

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back in that moment when you're worth to your son.

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If you have that connection to it already, that'll never

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go away.

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That doesn't matter the.

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Condition that you have, whether you know you have advanced Alzheimer's,

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that song will still spark that neuropathway in your brain

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that takes you back to that moment.

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And that's the power that music has.

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That's the power that we try to harness, we try

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to use and take advantage of. Really, Right, So we

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all have these connections to music. Right.

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We listen to songs that make us feel things.

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We go to music when we're happy, we go to

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music when we're sad. We oftentimes connect to music a

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lot in our youth, right when when you're developing certain

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your brain as a teenager or you know, when you're

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in your twenties, and you really really create those strong

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bonds to certain types of music or certain songs or

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artists that it's proven and we see it time and

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time again. You play that song for somebody that is

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no longer there, right, someone that especially at our sessions.

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like that, and it's like they're in the shell and

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they can't communicate, and you play a song.

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the eighties that hopefully our participants will recognize things from

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when they were younger, right that they created that inevitable

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bond with And you'll see that you play these songs

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for people and it's like a light switch turns on,

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the life comes back into them. You get access to

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this person once again. They'll start singing all the lyrics.

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were put in a facility and you know, the people

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forgot that this person played the instrument, uh, and so

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it wasn't a part of their life anymore. We've had

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situations where we've learned this and then brought the instrument

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to them and they've played it flawlessly, and it's like

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they returned back to their personality. Someone who wasn't spiling anymore,

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wasn't communicating anymore, suddenly has this this personality back.

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it has this connection to our to the wiring in

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our brain that's inevitable and can be accessed at no

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matter what point in your life and what conditions we're in.

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see our scroll on our screen. For those that are listening,

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please share with us how people our listeners can tap

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into or connect with mind minded Melody for more information.

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which is kind of the main source there. We have

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our contact information there, so it's Mind and Melody dot org.

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Our logo and our.

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Actual name is Mind and Person Melody, but for the

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sake of the website, it's mind m.

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d y dot org. And we also have our socials.

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We post a lot of videos of different sessions. Participants

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are musicians, uh, and that can be We're found on

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Facebook and Instagram. It's Mind and Melody all written out

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So that's that's our information, all of our socials there,

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that's where you can find us mostly Instagram and Facebook

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posting about what we got going on.

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So basically, for for our listeners and our viewers, you're

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nonprofit organization. Your focus is on bringing music to facilities,

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so you're not a facility itself. You're an organization that

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kind of contracts out musicians too. And this is also

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for my musician listeners. If you have the time and

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you can connect with Andrea Rasatta, I'm gonna say your

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name right, Rosatto Rasatta reach out to mind and melody,

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especially on Facebook. I think that's how we met through

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Facebook messenger because you are not only located in Miami,

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but you are growing. You are in Home Beach County

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now and you are continuing to grow correctly. And so

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I mean, I would like to think next is Shreasure Coast.

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So this baby is snowballing that you've created, and it's

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so beautiful because it is so needed. It is so needed.

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So my musician friends out there, like I said, if

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you have the time, please connect with Andrea. She would

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love to connect with you and get you in to

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share your talent. I mean, I don't not giving jobs away,

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but I know I've got so many musicians.

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Absolutely, We're always looking for, you know, more people to

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spread what it is that we're doing. We're very much

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empathy based, passion love based, right, not only do we

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want to bring these people these moments, but we want

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to connect with them in these moments. So we are

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constantly looking for passionate musicians who want to use their

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talents to do that.

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And yeah, we have.

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The organization was founded in Miami Dade and it's since

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expanded to several different counties. We're working out of Miami,

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Roward County, Palm Beach County.

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Hopefully we work a little bit in the Treasure Coast,

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but I believe right now we only have.

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One, maybe two musicians in the Treasure Coast, so we're

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working on expanding there. And we do have a small

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network of musicians in Tallahassee, New York, and New Mexico

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as well, So we're constantly working on growing and expanding.

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As you mentioned, we don't have our own facility.

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We do work with several facilities throughout these different counties.

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So we work primarily and that's who the organization was founded,

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working with older adults with Alzheimer's.

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With Alzheimer's, you know, individuals and either senior living communities,

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independent living communities, and we also work with a variety

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of other individuals too. You know, we work with some

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long term care facilities where maybe it's individuals who have

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had some sort of brain damage or stroke or car

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accident or whatever the case is that they're in that

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long term facility.

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We work with those. We also work with young adults

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and children with special needs.

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We work with different organizations like the Friendship Circle of Miami.

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We work with some special needs schools, the Dan Marino

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Bom Beach County.

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So, uh yeah, we are constantly working on expanding, bringing

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on new facilities, bringing on new musicians. So if anyone

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is ever interested, I am the person to come to

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as well as far as you know, recruiting and all

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of that stuff. So if you want my direct contact, also,

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it's just my name Andrea A. N D r e

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A at mind and Melody dot org. That's my direct email.

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If anyone is interested, I would be more than happy

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to give you some more information.

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Wonderful, Thank you, thank you. And for our listeners out

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there as well as our viewers. Let's say if this

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is brand new for them and they're their relative or

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a friend of a friend, they have somebody they know

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that's in a facility and this is brand new to them,

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how do they contact you the same way?

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Yeah, they can reach me via email.

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I am the one that's working on kind of expanding

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the organization. Uh So, we have a small group of

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internal team members. We have someone working on the scheduling

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aspect of it.

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Which is a base of its own.

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That I don't like to involve myself in too much,

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but I'm responsible for anything that is expanding. So if

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it's any new facilities that are interested in any new

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musicians that want.

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To onboard, I'm the girl for you.

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And again, my email is the easiest way to contact me, obviously.

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I mean you can reach me through the website as well.

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The website has our contact information. It's not my direct contact,

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but you ask for me, or just ask for what

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it is that you're looking for, we'll be able to

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direct you to the right place.

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But yeah, if anyone's interested in.

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Bringing Minded Melody into any facility that they know of,

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it's always best. We're always looking to expand and reaching

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out to new facilities, but it's always best to have

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that personal account, have someone advocating for the program, because

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it's hard to cold call a place and say, hey,

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we have this program. I know how great it is,

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and you know how great it is. But I think

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a lot of the times, with the way that things

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are as far as budgeting and all of that stuff,

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people are kind of closed off to things that they

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aren't familiar with, that they don't really recognize.

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We try to get as much exposure as possible, sometimes

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you know, the activities directors or admin at these facilities

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just don't know. So if there's family members that see

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the value in it and are interested, then there's power

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in that and it's worth you know, advocating for it.

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Sure. Absolutely, So I have a few questions. I'm kind

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of just gonna jumble them off all at once. So

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let's say I'm a musician, and let's say I come

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in to you a facility nearby, and just I want

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my listeners out there and viewers out there to understand,

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like really what it's about, like how it works. Like

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if I were to go into a facility and I'm

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gonna say, bring a keyboard, Like is what is the

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ideal day of or the hour of or the three hours?

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Like what's the program?

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Absolutely that is a wonderful question. So what we offer.

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Facilities, Obviously it's going to look a little bit different

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depending on who's conducting the session. We give autonomy to

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our musicians. Everyone's an individual and has their own style.

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But what Mind and Melody offers is interactive music sessions.

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Now what that means is that it's going to be

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sessions that are consisting some performances, typically from the time

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periods that the participants will recognize. Considering the majority of

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our participants are older adults, it's going to be music

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from about, like I mentioned, the forties to about.

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The eighties, So some performances.

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Whatever instrument you may be playing, you know that that's

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of your choice of repertoires to be had. And then

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we'll also incorporate different musical activities. All of our session

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leaders are or will have instruments, so tambourines, moroccas, rhythmsticks,

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some interesting instruments sometimes like a thundertube or stuff like

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that that participants might be intrigued by. And a session

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essentially is you're gonna have your intro as you would imagine,

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and then mix in different activities with performances. So maybe

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you'd start with an intro activity where you get people

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to warm up by you know, playing a song and

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having them raise their hands and do little easy dance moves.

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Again dependent on the participants, so we accommodate our sessions.

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If it's a very active group, then we're gonna get

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up and we're gonna dance, and we're gonna you know,

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maybe do a conga line, or do whatever it is

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that the participants are kind of moved to do, and

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we want them to actually just take part in the

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music making process with us. So whatever that looks like

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for that group. Some groups are a little bit more

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or a little bit lower activity levels, a little bit

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lower cognitive levels, in which case you're really going to

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emphasize that instrument playing just shaking it to the beat,

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or you know, playing maybe songs that are easy to

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follow along to, maybe playing songs that listen kind of

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a call and response sort of activity where we want

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people to repeat the chorus.

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We want them to recognize the chorus and repeat it

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with us.

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If that's something that either the group isn't something it's

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not something that they can do easily, or just as

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another activity, we might have a song that we hum

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instead of sing the lyrics to, you know, and just

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have people use their vocal chords and say something. You know,

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a lot of the times people are afraid of doing

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those things because it's not something familiar to them. So

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a lot of a session I think consists of working

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towards that engagement, making people feel comfortable and connecting with

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them and creating this environment where they want to participate.

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You know, a lot of a session is going to

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be people like saying.

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Oh no, I don't know how to play that.

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I don't know how to play that, and making finding

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a way to make them feel comfortable enough and.

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Motivated enough to actually play it.

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and a session is going to look different from a

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session leader to session leader, but essentially it's that interaction

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of it. And we're always looking to learn more about participants,

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so using song to do so, using song to learn

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about what this experience, what this song reminds them of,

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what experience it reminds them of.

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Or you know, where they're from, or something like that.

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You know, as you do sessions repeatedly with certain participants,

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you also start to learn them, so then you kind

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of modify the session style to that as well. You

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know that this and reacts very well when you play

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a certain salsa song, so you'll reserve the salsa song

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for the part of the session where you want this

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activity where.

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They get up and shake their tail feathers a little bit.

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so it's hard to give you a perfect rundown. But

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essentially those are the things that we're trying to incorporate

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in every session.

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So if a musician's got like considering doing this, is

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there a limited amount of participants or is it just

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whoever shows up and it's different every time, or is

473
00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.279
there an expected group number limited.

474
00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:41.599
That's a wonderful question. It depends on the facility. So

475
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.640
there's some facilities that have set groups that do you know.

476
00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:49.160
We have some facilities that do weekly sessions and it's

477
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.039
the same seven participants and it's.

478
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:53.039
Only seven of them.

479
00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.200
And we have some facilities that either do weekly or

480
00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:00.559
monthly sessions where it's twenty to thirty. Parts of that

481
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.759
might show up to the session, and it might be

482
00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:06.000
the same people more or less, or it might be

483
00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:09.440
rotating crowds of people. So it really does look very

484
00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:13.119
different from session to session. I have the majority of

485
00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:18.039
the session that I actively do are with younger participants,

486
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:20.640
where I work with the special needs community primarily, and

487
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:26.119
that's more of like a consistent group. The group sizes

488
00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.519
are about fifteen to twenty participants. It's the same participants

489
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:34.920
every time, and we work on kind of music making together.

490
00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:40.279
But again, it varies from facility to facility.

491
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.759
Now, for our viewers and our listeners, I'm speaking from

492
00:28:43.799 --> 00:28:46.480
a little bit of a different platform. I'm other than

493
00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.240
a musician. I'm also a music teacher and I work

494
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:54.160
with mostly children. I do have some adults. And I've

495
00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:56.839
been doing this for over twenty years, and so that

496
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.960
makes me sound old, but I don't think i'm that old.

497
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.559
Set aside. I set that aside when I work with students.

498
00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:08.000
I've always loved working with them one on one and imound.

499
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:12.720
I'm finding, especially most recently, that a lot of my musicians,

500
00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:17.960
including myself, are starting to expand and teach group lessons

501
00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:21.559
as well as myself and the support. You know, it's

502
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:24.440
it's great to get one on one attention, but the

503
00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:27.839
support that you get in a community, in a group

504
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:32.599
is so empowering because I think we are all that

505
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.160
like terrified little child on the inside where we don't

506
00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:37.240
want to be rejected and we I don't care what

507
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.519
you know, this is set aside from any mental health issue.

508
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:44.440
We're all human, right, so you know, we we're all

509
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:46.799
a little bit terrified, and we all feel like we're

510
00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:50.279
already gonna be rejected out the door. So having this

511
00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:53.880
group or having group sessions, which I've been doing with

512
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:58.680
my students, is so supportive because they're they're supporting each

513
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:01.559
other or like, oh hey, Joey, that sounds really good.

514
00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:03.359
What was that? I want to play the same thing,

515
00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.680
you know. So it's it's so supportive and it's not

516
00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:10.240
for me. It's eye opening because you know, I think, oh,

517
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:12.440
we all want that one on one attention. That's special

518
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:15.039
one on one. But really, when you come into a

519
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.440
group setting, and I'm not speaking for you, but I

520
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:21.319
think we can relate in a group setting, you get

521
00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:25.200
so much more love and support and reassurance that the

522
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:28.920
acceptance is just there, like you don't have to. Most

523
00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.359
of us people that are thinking about getting into the

524
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:37.079
music world are terrified even to do that. So you know,

525
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:40.440
in group settings of teaching and group settings of being

526
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.000
a student, there's so much power to that.

527
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.960
Absolutely, And I mean that's also just it's community. It's

528
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.559
something that you know, ties you together with your peers.

529
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:56.759
It makes you feel more accepted. Right, you mess up,

530
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.480
but nobody cared. Really everyone is also messing up. Like

531
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:03.880
that's the main thing in our sessions. Our sessions aren't

532
00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.640
really for the most part class style, just because of

533
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:10.559
the demographics that we were with. More just like music

534
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:15.559
making and that's kind of up for interpretation to whoever's

535
00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:18.799
listening to it, you know. So participants will be afraid

536
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.079
a lot of the times, but when they see that

537
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.000
the like three of their other peers around them are

538
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:28.079
just shaky and they don't even care because they're having fun,

539
00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:30.920
then they feel encouraged to do that as well, and

540
00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:32.720
then in turn they end up having fun.

541
00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:35.599
And I think the main thing.

542
00:31:35.599 --> 00:31:42.079
That makes making music feel good is just doing it.

543
00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:44.599
It's playing right. It's like play. A kid at a

544
00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:48.279
park is gonna play. However, you know, they're not doing

545
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.559
it right or wrong. They're just exploring and playing. It's

546
00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.839
fun and it's not with the purpose of being perfect. Again,

547
00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:59.160
it's it's just to do it. And I think that's

548
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:03.359
the main thing with music, and that's also as a teacher,

549
00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:05.680
I'm sure that you can also attest to this. That's

550
00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:11.079
the main thing, and growing and becoming a better musician

551
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.680
is just doing it right, just just doing it and

552
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:18.160
doing it wrong. The more times that you do it wrong,

553
00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:21.960
the more you'll learn, the more you'll practice, and then

554
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:22.720
in turn.

555
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:24.880
After doing it a couple of times wrong. I'm sure

556
00:32:24.920 --> 00:32:26.599
you'll you'll figure it out, you know.

557
00:32:26.720 --> 00:32:29.599
And and so that's kind of why I think that

558
00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:33.519
group setting works, because you're encouraged to just try because

559
00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:36.240
everyone else is doing it, you know, and it's it's

560
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.200
a it's a community thing. You feel more connected and

561
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:40.039
more accepted.

562
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:43.799
Absolutely, absolutely, thank you so much. And again for my

563
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.279
listeners out there, please share with us how they can

564
00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:47.160
get in touch with you.

565
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:48.799
Yes, of course.

566
00:32:49.359 --> 00:32:53.119
Again, my email and my direct email if anyone wants to,

567
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:56.880
you know, apply to any position, or if you know

568
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:59.960
of a facility that might be interested or might benefit

569
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:03.759
it from this program. My direct email is my name,

570
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.920
which is Andrea A N d r e A at

571
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:12.319
Mind and Melody dot org. That's m I n d

572
00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:17.680
A n d n E l O d y dot org.

573
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:18.480
Uh.

574
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:20.799
And then you can also find out some more information

575
00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:24.440
on our website that's Mind and Melody dot org spelled

576
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:26.000
like in my email, uh.

577
00:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.160
And our social media platforms were.

578
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:31.920
Keeping updated with pictures and videos from sessions and our

579
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:33.279
musicians and everything like that.

580
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.000
That's Mind and Melody AK. M I N d A

581
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.079
N d m E l O d y I n

582
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:40.079
c and.

583
00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:43.400
You are a nonprofit organization, and you know what, I

584
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.480
don't even know this. When did you begin?

585
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:45.960
When?

586
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:47.680
When did you start this movement?

587
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:51.880
Yes? Uh so, our co founders Christina and Lauren actually

588
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.880
started this as kind of a passion project back in

589
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.839
twenty fourteen. So the organization was founded in twenty fourteen.

590
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:02.960
Uh So it's been almost twelve years now that the

591
00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:07.319
organization has been around, and it's been an exponential amount

592
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.880
of growth, which is really really incredible, even over the

593
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:15.559
past I mean since COVID like six years, seven years,

594
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:17.840
it's been a huge growth.

595
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:22.039
Wonderful, wonderful. And You've been mentioned several times about playing

596
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.559
and I love to play, and I have fans out

597
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.599
there that love when I play, and being in my

598
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.559
second season, I made this promise from day one that

599
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:33.400
I would play a little bit more than talk. So

600
00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:35.559
if you don't mind, I'm going to just play a

601
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.960
song and then I have a bunch more questions for

602
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.679
you before we tune, before we finish our show for today.

603
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:47.000
Excited Now, I don't have anything.

604
00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.239
Written or memorized. I'm just kind of feeling what I'm playing.

605
00:35:24.119 --> 00:36:47.639
Oh, thank you.

606
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:49.920
Think that was just a little a little something.

607
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.440
It's always so fascinating to me. The fact that you

608
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:54.840
just play what you feel. I think that's I.

609
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:59.440
Mean, I love that, and that's exactly what music.

610
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:01.480
Is, right, It's real colection of what we feel. So

611
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:04.239
to have just that streamline is such a beautiful talent.

612
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.000
Congratulations, thank you, thank you, and I love doing it.

613
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.280
I used to play for like two hours straight every

614
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:13.679
week for three years. I did that, and it's just

615
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:17.639
it's a joy, a pleasure to do that. What I

616
00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:20.519
wanted to ask you, you know, I've been focusing more

617
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:24.320
so on the Alzheimer's patients. You mentioned patients that have

618
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:27.320
had maybe brain injuries or I'm bringing up the fact

619
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:31.239
of mental health because that's something I think most everybody,

620
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:33.079
if you're a human, you're dealing with some kind of

621
00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:37.639
mental health or we're always improving ourselves. That's why we're here, right,

622
00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:43.400
So you know, we all question like is it our

623
00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:46.840
food that we're eating, is it our the medications that

624
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:50.360
people take? Is it our environment? Is it the air

625
00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:54.280
that we breathe? There are so many different little factors

626
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:56.320
that we could just strip everything away and be like, oh,

627
00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:57.960
it might be this, it might be that, it might

628
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.039
be this but then when we when we do take

629
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:04.800
it all away, all that questioning, I'm honing back into

630
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.800
the music. And music is all about vibration, and we

631
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:12.719
as human beings, we're like ninety percent water. And I

632
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:15.599
don't know. There's that book I can't say his name,

633
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:21.719
but it's the book about water and how vibration affects

634
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:26.239
water molecules, and how if we think of it as

635
00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:29.400
being a human being and we're ninety percent water, Like

636
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.960
everything around us has a vibration, and how is it

637
00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:36.000
affecting us? And do we need to make better choices

638
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.280
to be in a better health and a better environment.

639
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:44.360
And for those out there that are battling or are challenged,

640
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:48.800
or whether it's Alzheimer's or anything else that you're dealing with,

641
00:38:50.119 --> 00:38:54.039
how can we make it so that music can heal

642
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:58.079
you at a cellular level? How can we create some

643
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:01.679
kind of world where where I don't know, I go

644
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:04.199
back to Close Encounters of the Third Kind that was

645
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:06.760
like that was that movie was so powerful to me

646
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:09.960
When they're playing like that, we we we have the

647
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:14.320
Simon says, you know, spaceship that we play that makes

648
00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:17.760
those sounds. But it's like, how can we research has

649
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:20.840
not gotten far enough, and why not, Like, how can

650
00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:25.079
we create a world where we're more like in control

651
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:28.559
of our healing and that we can have sound be

652
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:34.199
that background foundation to not medication but sound. How can

653
00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:37.079
we make sound the medicine we need?

654
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:42.360
I think, I mean, I agree with you a thousand percent.

655
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:48.320
And it's it's all vibration, it's all frequency, and I

656
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:50.400
I'm not sure what that answer is. That's kind of

657
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:53.960
what Mind and Melody is also trying to solve for.

658
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.079
It's the you know, it's the the problem, right, it's

659
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:02.239
the it's what we see and it's what we're trying

660
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:08.119
to find a solution for. So as the organization goal

661
00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:12.239
is just to bring music to as many people as possible,

662
00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:16.039
to make sure that the individuals and these environments have

663
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:20.039
access not only just to music, but to the enrichment

664
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:21.559
aspect of it, right, the.

665
00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:24.599
Connection that it brings.

666
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:28.960
Right, the things that the organization focuses on at its

667
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:33.599
core is not just spreading music, but it's empowering people.

668
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:38.840
It's restoring dignity, right, and that comes with passionate musicians

669
00:40:39.039 --> 00:40:42.760
who share their talent. Yes, to make music that makes

670
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:46.199
people feel good, but to also connect with these people

671
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.719
in those environments and create moments of joy with them,

672
00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:53.360
create moments of play by playing an instrument, and of

673
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:56.480
wonder by showing them an instrument that they've never seen before,

674
00:40:56.679 --> 00:41:01.679
and of you know, reminding them of what their life was.

675
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:05.920
I think that music is something that reminds us of life, right,

676
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:10.239
It's something that gives us the same feeling that staring

677
00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:14.559
out into the ocean or into a beautiful mountain landscape

678
00:41:14.639 --> 00:41:15.280
might give us.

679
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:15.559
Right.

680
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.599
So I think just having more people understand the power

681
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:26.239
that it has and really making sure or people like you,

682
00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:31.119
Lisa that are spreading this understanding that are almost I mean,

683
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:33.159
we think of the work that we do with Mind

684
00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:36.400
and melodies is we're empowering people, right, We're giving them

685
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.800
a sense of their personality back, We're restoring a little

686
00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:46.119
bit of dignity as well, and not only empowering the participant,

687
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.920
the person who the musician is playing for, but empowering

688
00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:53.920
musicians to know that they have a very powerful tool

689
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.400
in not only I don't want to say controlling, but

690
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:01.480
influencing the way that they feel through the sounds that

691
00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:04.800
they produce, but influencing the way that others feel as well,

692
00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:08.400
and then just doing what they can to spread it.

693
00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:10.199
You know, there's going to be a lot of people

694
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:12.639
that don't understand it and are resistant to it or

695
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.440
don't value it, which I think is something that's very common,

696
00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:17.639
a very common problem that we run.

697
00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.679
Into, that people don't value it. You know, why do.

698
00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:23.760
You think that? But I believe what you say, and

699
00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:26.159
it's and it's true if you're not a musician, if

700
00:42:26.159 --> 00:42:29.159
you're not in this world, it's hard to explain it.

701
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:32.960
But what would you say? What do you think?

702
00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:37.599
I think that it's something that is so simple, and

703
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:41.199
it comes down to as far as music, right, it's

704
00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:44.800
something it's that simple to play and be in an instrumentalist.

705
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:47.920
It's very hard work, but listening to music is simple,

706
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:49.679
Dancing to music is simple.

707
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:52.199
It's something that I think someone.

708
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:55.800
Who's not making music, who isn't really necessarily interested in

709
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:59.559
that world, which we all have our interests in that right. Right,

710
00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:04.199
there's people who are mathematicians, which I could never understand.

711
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:06.039
But you know, there's people who are out there and

712
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:08.800
they're doing that job and they're passionate about it, and

713
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:12.119
that's what a musician is in their world. Right, Music

714
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.639
is something that everyone can relate to and so I

715
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think that's part of what almost takes away the value

716
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:21.199
of it. Right, people are just like bull, it's just

717
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:24.280
music in the same way that it's just play right.

718
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:27.400
Kids play, Yeah, they're just playing. It's important to play

719
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:34.639
as an adult. It's important to pain keep that curiosity

720
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:37.960
and that wonder that you used to have as a

721
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kid when you played right.

722
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:42.960
And that's a very simple thing. But through play you

723
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:43.880
learn a lot.

724
00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:48.320
When you roll on grass and when you run up

725
00:43:48.320 --> 00:43:50.920
a mountain or whatever it is, when you even play

726
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:54.079
play frisbee with your friends and stuff, that's restoring life.

727
00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:56.199
Right, It's a that's also.

728
00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:59.480
A feeling, and I I am a firm believer that

729
00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:03.840
feeling is also frequent frequency, which is what music is influencing, right,

730
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:08.239
the frequency inside your body. But that's a feeling, and

731
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.920
that's something that's elicited also through point of the beach playing.

732
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And so I think because it's something that society oversimplifies,

733
00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:20.079
it's looked over, I think that's.

734
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Where where my understanding of it.

735
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And that's why I think that partial solution is for

736
00:44:26.559 --> 00:44:28.519
the people who do value it, for the people who

737
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:32.440
do acknowledge it to continue to do so and to

738
00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:35.599
continue to spread it, because you know, it's one thing

739
00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:39.119
to be a musician and understand that, and it's another

740
00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:42.360
thing to go out as a musician and spread that.

741
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:46.039
And that's what you're doing, That's what we're doing. That's

742
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:48.480
what the musicians who are part of Mind.

743
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:49.039
And Melody are doing.

744
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:52.360
And I can guarantee you the majority of the musicians

745
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:57.960
who are a part of this team can testify or

746
00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:00.719
can can say how much does experience.

747
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:01.880
Has changed them and.

748
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:05.639
How much value they see and what they do, or

749
00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:08.119
how much more value they see in what they do

750
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:11.039
as musicians, because it's not just playing an instrument.

751
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:13.280
You're influencing the way that somebody feels.

752
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:17.440
You're engaging. Yeah, you're engaging. We're almost at a time,

753
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:19.119
and I'm sorry to cut you off, but I want

754
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:23.039
to just mention what you're sharing with us. No matter

755
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:27.920
we're all human, we are all creative, we are all talented.

756
00:45:28.320 --> 00:45:31.480
And even in my show last week, we mentioned talent

757
00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:33.880
is not something you're born with. It's something that you

758
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:38.159
advance towards and that you grow into. And so no

759
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.920
matter where you are in life or what level, I mean,

760
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:45.559
I wasn't born playing piano you know. It was something

761
00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:48.199
I've learned. I'm still a student. It's something I've learned,

762
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:52.920
but that set aside. Andrea, thank you so much for

763
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:55.800
taking the time today, and one last time, please share

764
00:45:55.840 --> 00:46:00.400
with our audience that's listening how they can reach your website.

765
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:05.280
Yes, absolutely, Our website is mind and melody dot org.

766
00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:08.039
That's m I N D A N D M E

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00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:10.360
l O d e y dot org.

768
00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:15.039
And my email is just Andrea at minded melody dot org.

769
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:17.159
Well, thank you so much, Andrea. I will be in

770
00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:21.039
touch with you. We have, I guess yes, I will

771
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:24.239
be in touch with you. We've spoken before and yes,

772
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:26.719
so thank you so much. And for my listeners out there,

773
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:29.079
thank you for tuning in. Tune in next week to

774
00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.920
find out who my guest will be. It's kind of

775
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:34.119
every week. I already know who it is, but you

776
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:36.199
got to tune in to find out because every guest

777
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:39.800
I have is super special and has so much to share.

778
00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:44.039
So thank you everyone for tuning in and have a

779
00:46:44.039 --> 00:47:03.480
blessed week, enjoy your Monday evening and be safe a