Welcome to the 1000 Hours. I feel like I should sing this. Welcome to the one that's not working out for me.

Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urich. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And for the first time ever, we have a father, daughter duo today. We're going to be talking about music. I'm so excited about it. Mort and Sarah Sherman. Welcome.

Thank you for having us. Jenny, your energy is so infectious in the best way. I'm excited about

me. And Ginny, I was telling you this more. Yeah. Well, we're excited about being with you. I told you

you, like, filled my morning with research and going down rabbit holes and kudos to you for pushing this, this question out about parenting and about all of us getting outdoors and connecting with one another through nature and just breathing outside. Congratulations. It's really an important conversation.

Thank you. Thank you. Well, I'm especially excited to talk about this because actually, I would say that the thing I identify most with is being a pianist.

And I've played the piano since I was four years old and have done all sorts of things with it, weddings.

And I took lessons at the University of Michigan at the School of Music for a bit in my teen years, and I taught private piano lessons for 20 years.

And we don't talk about that much on here, because we're, you know, getting kids outside.

But this thought of music and having music in the home and it's hands-on and it's real life

and you listen to it.

And you have this incredible book that you wrote

together called Resonant Minds, The Transformative Power of Music, one note at a time. You're talking

about how this is good for executive function. It's good for community. It's good for so many things.

Just like how getting kids outside is good for so many things. And so I just, I'm really honored and excited because this

is near and dear to my heart to have you both on. I would love for you to introduce yourselves.

And it's really a cool, if you could just kind of weave in the fact that this father-daughter duo

writing a book together, how did that happen? Sarah, go ahead. You could tell the story about how it got

to this point. All right. So, Jenny, I love that you, do you still play the piano? I have to ask. Yes. Oh, yes. Absolutely. I totally do. I don't play it as much as I would like to. But my goal is, okay, I started doing this once a day practice where you practice every day for 20 minutes. I mean,

I haven't hardly done it since I was, you know, a lot younger. And my goal is to play on stage

someday with Sean Diedrich. He doesn't know that that's my goal, but that is my goal.

I love it. You're putting it out there.

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