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

Science is increasingly giving us more information about how sound frequencies can not only change our mental state, but change how we feel physically, too.

As you're about to hear, after seeing how sound frequencies were helping

her wellness clients reduce things like stress and anxiety, Laura Whitney set out to find a way to make

sound therapy more accessible. She has done that by creating an app called Soak that provides

sound therapy on the go. And she's here with me to talk about how sound affects

us and how we can use it as a daily wellness practice. Let's have a listen. Laura, thank you so much

for coming on the show with me. Yes, thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here and talk with you.

I love what you're talking about today because it's sound and all the ways that it affects us. And to kick it off, I want to know your story. How did you get so interested in this topic? I was a hairstylist for the first part of my life. For the first 16 years of my life, I did it professionally and I own different salons. And so through a series of events, I had a really good

friend of mine that was a naturopathic doctor. And me and her talked for years about natural

wellness and what I did in the kind of beauty industry was basically like an honorary therapist

where, you know, I listened to my clients all day. And I just really had such a

heart for helping people. And I felt like I was helping people in what I was doing because when you

look good, you feel good. And so there was a component to that in what I did. But after years of really

kind of wanting to make a change in my life, I went towards the holistic wellness profession. I sold my salons

and I kind of dove off a cliff, so to speak, and went into this holistic health. And that's when

I really started studying everything I could get my hands on as far as energy medicine and

holistic modalities, everything from IV therapy to body work to

chiropractic, just everything, everything that helps heal the body. I really dug in. And so I

opened a wellness clinic. And I had that for about five years. And that was really where Soak was

born because we did frequency therapy in clinic.

And so that was one of my favorite modalities was that sound vibration therapy because it's

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