Music Therapist Tim Ringgold’s New Podcast Demonstrates How the Power of Music Reduces Pandemic Stress

Tim Ringgold on TODAY and BuzzFeed

In April 2019, 1,790 people texted the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Disaster Distress Helpline. In April 2020, that number skyrocketed to nearly 20,000. The Pew Research Center reports that one-third of Americans have experienced high levels of psychological destress during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent large-scale community lockdowns.  And a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation saw a jump in adults reporting that the coronavirus has had a negative effect on their mental health. In early March it was 32 percent; only two weeks later it was 45 percent.

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Sacramento Real Estate Investor Sara Jung on Investing in Senior Living Facilities (Podcast)

Sacramento Real Estate Expert Sara Jung joins the Business Innovators Radio Podcast to discuss investing in senior living facilities.

Sara Jung, Sacramento real estate investor and founding member of Legacy Bloom Investments, LLC, joins the Business Innovators Radio Podcast with host Rick Brown to discuss the passive income real estate opportunities available by investing in senior living facilities and why now is the perfect time to consider this commercial real estate niche.

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Sacramento Real Estate Finance Leader Sara Jung on Building Wealth with Multi-Unit Investing (Podcast)

Sara Jung - Sacramento Real Estate Finance Leader Featured on the Business Innovators Radio Podcast with Rick Brown

Sacramento real estate expert Sara Jung, owner and property acquisition manager of Legacy Equities, LLC, says multi-unit real estate investing is more viable than most investors expect.

Sara has an extensive background in the Sacramento real estate finance industry, having specialized in underwriting, specialty loan programs, multi-unit financing, and more.

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Harnessing the Power of Music to Stay Sober – Tim Ringgold (Podcast)

Business Innovators Radio Podcast Guest Tim Ringggold

Tim Ringgold is a board-certified music therapist and Director at Sonic Divinity, LLC, in Orange County, California, where he works with thousands of teens and adults in residential treatment, using music to help them stay sober.

As a sought-after speaker, he has shared the stage with some of the top minds on the subject of music and the brain, and in 2012, Tim became the first person ever to give a TEDx talk on music therapy.

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Body Language & Communication

Edward R. Murrow

“A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts… the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.”

– Edward R. Murrow

This, from a man who was originally uncomfortable with the idea of television because he thought it placed too much emphasis on pictures - read: body language - rather than ideas. He went on, though, to become a pioneer in television news reporting, and appeared to settle in quite comfortably in front of the camera.

Murrow understood the power of the body language and the role non-verbal communications play in the overall message. In fact, he seemingly understood this long before the infamous study by Dr. Albert Mehrabian came long. More on that in a minute.

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How to Sell Your Home – Diane Donnelly (Podcast)

According to the National Association of Realtors, in 2017 alone, more more than 5-and-a-half million homeowners in the U.S. found themselves conducting a similar online search: how to sell your home. And 91% of those sellers were ultimately assisted by a real estate agent.

In a 2018 poll, asked whether or not they would use the same realtor for another transaction, 69% of sellers said they would definitely would use same agent again.

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