Eric Kolb Co-Founder of Songs & Smiles
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton welcome Eric Kolb as a guest to the show.
Eric Kolb and his wife, Sheryl, founded Songs & Smiles in 2020. Building on lessons learned during their own experience caring for Sheryl’s mom, Trish, the couple started the nonprofit organization to help families navigate the challenges of the Alzheimer’s journey. Eric and Sheryl met and got married during college in Illinois. They have lived in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1994.
As the organization’s Executive Director, Eric oversees day-to-day operations. He has presented more than 800 in-person singalong shows at care homes, and his online singalong videos are enjoyed by people around the world. Eric has been singing his whole life: in choirs, in musicals, at church, at weddings, and at numerous sporting events.
Eric previously worked in public relations and publishing, including positions at ClubCorp Publications and the Texas Rangers Baseball Club. He brainstormed with former co-workers to develop Joyful Memories, a dementia-friendly magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions |
| 0:06.8 | on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care matters. If this is your first |
| 0:27.4 | time visiting us here to show we want to say thank you for taking time out to be |
| 0:30.7 | with us today. We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is and |
| 0:34.4 | that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:37.6 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today I am honored to welcome Eric Kolb. Eric is the co-founder of Songs and Smiles. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome Eric, how are you? |
| 0:51.0 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:53.0 | Good to see you, Lance. |
| 0:54.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:55.0 | Our pleasure, Eric, our pleasure. |
| 0:57.0 | I want to start with what does it mean when I say you're the co-founder of Songs and Smiles? |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, it's my wife and I are the co-founders. |
| 1:09.0 | She's the president of our board now and I'm the one who does the day-to-day operations and I'm the one who gets on camera. |
| 1:18.0 | Cheryl likes to stay behind the scenes more, but she's involved with the vision and the planning. |
| 1:25.0 | We're co-founders because it started directly related to caregiving with her mother, my mother-in-law, Trish, so that's why we're both very |
| 1:38.4 | involved and it was a joint effort even though I'm the one doing the day to day now it's very much a joint effort from the beginning. |
| 1:47.0 | Yeah, I it's kind of the old saying behind every great man is a better woman is that kind of what we're |
| 1:54.1 | yeah I can relate I can relate you know but you got into this because of your mother-in-law |
| 2:00.1 | what walk us through what because oftentimes when somebody becomes a what? What, |
| 2:03.0 | Because oftentimes when somebody becomes a family caregiver, |
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