Enhance Life with Music

Discover how music transforms everyday life – health, happiness, and beyond! Enhance Life with Music explores practical ways music improves our health, happiness, and wholeness – whether or not you consider yourself a musician. From science and wellness to sports, education, and business, discover how music shapes everyday life – and how you can harness its power to enhance your own.

Ep. 217: Bridging Medicine and the Arts – How Music and the Arts Shape Better Physicians; with Olapeju Simoyan, MD, MPH 09/09/2025

Micro 42: Create a Practice Nest – 3 Elements for a Back-to-School Boost 09/02/2025

Ep. 216: Your Fall Reset – Enhanced Focus, Mindfulness, and Productivity with Music at School, Work, and Home; with Sara Sherman 08/26/2025

Micro 41: What I’ve Learned After 200+ Conversations About Music 08/19/2025

Ep. 215: Building Brain Capital and Preventing Dementia Through Arts Integration; with Genein Letford, M.Ed 08/12/2025

Micro 40: What Springsteen Taught Me About Living My Values 08/05/2025

Ep. 214: Neural Resonance Theory – What the latest groundbreaking research shows about your brain on music; with Edward Large, PhD 07/29/2025

Micro 39: Glensheen, Billy Joel & How Music Brings History to Life 07/22/2025

Ep. 213: Songwriting Decoded – What the Brain Loves & Why Lyrics Matter; with Mike Errico 07/15/2025

Micro 38: From Plato to Bono – 10 Quotes About Music’s Power to Say the Unspeakable 07/08/2025

Ep. 212: Red, White & Relaxed – How Music Can Calm Your Pet This 4th of July; with Janet Marlow (re-run) 07/01/2025

Micro 37: Master the Art of Daydreaming – A Summer Spark for Creative Thinking and Unexpected Solutions 06/24/2025

Ep. 211: Music, Speech & the Brain – A New Way to Help Kids Communicate in 10 Minutes a Day; with David Sonnenschein 06/17/2025

Micro 36: Help Solve This Real-Life Rock ’n’ Roll Mystery – The Worldwide Search for Marty McFly’s Guitar 06/10/2025

Ep. 210: What Makes Great Nonprofits Tick – Interdisciplinary insights in nonprofit practice; with Thomas Morris 06/03/2025

Micro 35: Summer Reading: My Favorite Books Across 10 Life Topics 05/27/2025

Ep. 209: Making Music Practice Easier – Support, Strategy, and Joy; with Barbie Wong 05/20/2025

Micro 34: Musical Adventures Beyond the Lesson – Creative Ways to Explore Music 05/13/2025

Ep. 208: Choral Communities of Joy – Music, Belonging, and Living Well with Dementia; with Eyleen Braaten 05/06/2025

Micro 33: One Nation Under a Groove – A musical microadventure at NMAAM 04/29/2025

Ep. 207: Decoding Musical Taste – How Music, AI & Culture Shape What You Love to Listen To; with Nolan Gasser, PhD 04/22/2025

Micro 32: Not Just Music: 5 Podcasts That Fuel My Whole Life 04/15/2025

Ep. 206: Re-Stitch the Soul – Using the creative process to heal and empower traumatized voices; with Darcy Ataman, M.S.C., O.M. 04/08/2025

Micro 31: House of David: How Music Shaped Ancient Lives – and Still Shapes Ours Today 04/01/2025

Ep. 205: Music as a Tool for Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Intervention; with Bryan Kohl 03/25/2025

Micro 30: This is the true joy in life... Use it or lose it 03/18/2025

Ep. 204: What does my cat think of music? How music can help your cat live its best life! with Janet Marlow 03/11/2025

Micro 29: Music as internal chiropractic and its relationship to astronomy 03/04/2025

Ep. 203: Functional Music – Music powered by science for improved sleep, focus, or relaxation on demand; with Kevin JP Woods, PhD 02/25/2025

Micro 28: Jumpstart Creative Thinking 02/18/2025