What's up, everybody? This is Paula Phelps, and you are listening to on a positive note.

As we head back to school, there's no better time to talk to Marcia Goodman, a cognitive neuroscientist

turned popular children's singer, songwriter, and recording artist who performs under the name

Marcia and the Positrons. As the name implies, her music is imbued with positivity and

teach us listeners about things like kindness, friendship, and taking care of the planet, as well as the

people who live on it. She also throws in some science and makes learning as fun and easy as listening to a song.

Her third album, Energetic, is being released September 1st, and she's here today to talk about her music and what she hopes we all can learn from it.

Marcia, thank you for being with me here today.

Thanks for having me. It's nice to chat with you.

Well, you're the perfect guest to have on for

Back to School because I think you might be the first artist I've seen that combines science

and positive social messaging and music. So tell me how you draw all three of those things together

to create Marcia and the positrons. Yeah, I'm actually a former scientist.

So I find science really fun and interesting. My goal is to kind of like make science fun for other

people, make science fun for kids and families. And I write for all ages. So, you know, all of my

stuff is kid appropriate and aimed at kids, but it's also aimed. There's like different levels to it. It's also aimed at, you know, older kids are grownups. And so like I think that anybody can listen and find something fun in the music. And then and that's a key goal for me in my song writing too is making it fun. I don't want people to like come to

my music to learn a lesson, even though there's facts in there. But I want them to come in

and have fun with science. And then I think it's really important to connect it to our humanity.

Science is about like learning about the world, learning about ourselves, learning about

others, learning about,, learning about other creatures,

learning about the environment. And so I think it's important to kind of like bring that big

picture in and think about what's important to our humanity, what makes us humans. And so it's

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