Thank you for joining us for On a Positive Note.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and each month I'm sitting down with a songwriter,

recording artist, or music insider to learn how music can lift our spirits and heal our hearts.

Music education programs are usually designed to teach students who want to be musicians or music teachers,

but today's guest sees music education as a way to teach many other valuable life skills.

Nadine Levitt is a mother, former opera singer, and the founder of Worley EDU,

which uses music to teach social emotional learning skills to children.

She sees music as a vehicle for teaching empathy, collaboration, impulse control, and so much

more.

And today, she's going to tell us how music can help change the way young learners look at the

world.

Nadine, welcome to On a Positive Note.

Thank you so much.

Thanks so much for having me.

Oh, this is so exciting to have you on the show because you're a perfect fit for everything

that we're talking about and everything that on a positive note represents.

And so before we dig into that, let's tell the people a little bit about you.

And I really am interested in knowing how your background as a music artist has led you

into the path of music education.

Yeah, it really is the example that your career these days doesn't have to be a straight line,

right?

I've been a meandering journey. I've been on a

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