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Music, as a cultural pastime, often aids in the promotion and protection of other human rights and emotions. It can be the driving force  in the healing process, dismantling walls and boundaries, reconciliation, and education. Around the world, music is being used as a vehicle for social change and bringing communities together.  Casey Cavaliere knows all about the connective tissue and bonding ag...

About 3.5 million workers are “missing” from the workforce, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. That is how much bigger the labor force would be if the number of people working or looking for work returned to pre-pandemic levels. Employment: neurodiverse people are more likely to be unemployed than people with any other disability. Unemployment for neurodivergent adults runs at le...

Life equips all of us with the knowledge and understanding we have the capacity to make a meaningful contribution and difference to the life conversation of progress.  However, only a select few of us take advantage of the opportunity to be a transformative difference maker of impact.  Life is a fleeting chance to plant seeds of consequence in the sand.  Those who take advantage of the platform to...

Overall, 17% of U.S. adults say they have ever invested in, traded, or used a cryptocurrency. This share is mostly unchanged from previous Pew Center surveys conducted in 2021 and 2022. Tonya M. Evans is a global leader, accomplished academic and administrator, renowned speaker and crypto policy and education advisor, with over twenty years of experience in law, academia, technology, innovation an...

In 2020, approximately 39 percent of adults in the United States aged 40 years and older stated to Statista   they don't exercise due to being tired or lacking energy, while around 27 percent of adults cited health problems as their reason for not exercising. Clarence Ferguson is an accomplished Fitness Professional, Podcast host who has written several blogs and written articles for fitness magaz...

A recent study by Gallup revealed that 93% of employees don't feel their internal communications are accurate, timely, or transparent. And yet, miscommunication costs companies about $420,000 per year, according to other recent studies.   Wondering how you can get in front of your buyer and be seen as the go to expert? Be the speaker at the meetings and conferences your potential clients attend. A...

How much money do student athletes really make from NIL? According to the NIL marketplace Opendorse, the average compensation for student athletes on their platform was about $1,300 per deal in Year 1 of NIL. It should be clear that averages can be inflated due to very large deals by a handful of student athletes when analyzing data like this.  For Ryan Schachtner he is an “Award Winning Name, Ima...

According to a January survey in USA TODAY  which measured the safest places to live in the world, the United States ranks at 129th with a score of 2.44, marking the country's score "low." Just above the U.S. is Azerbaijan, and just below is Brazil.  “Civil unrest continues to be the primary driver of the deterioration,” the GPI report says about the U.S., noting rises in the political terror and...

Research from the National Institute of Health shows that plant-based diets are cost-effective, low-risk interventions that may lower body mass index, blood pressure, HbA1C, and cholesterol levels. They may also reduce the number of medications needed to treat chronic diseases and lower ischemic heart disease mortality rates. Olivier Mankondo is a keynote speaker, author, weight loss and wellness...

In just the first three months of Fiscal Year 2023, over 7,000 migrants per day on average were apprehended after illegally crossing the border. Those numbers don't include hundreds of thousands of aliens who evade apprehension entirely estimated at almost 600,000 just in Fiscal Year 2022, according to the US House Oversight Committee.    Illegal immigration touches every fabric of American societ...

If you lead a life rooted in your faith you can use it as a source of strength to propel yourself through adversity and celebrate the promise of prosperity on the other side. Susan Welch-Rodriguez is an extraordinary woman whose life story is both fascinating and inspiring. With 44 years of experience as a Deputy Sheriff, she currently serves in the Dallas Sheriff Posse, riding on mounted horsebac...

The current divorce rate in the United States is 3.2 per 1,000 population according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This means that approximately 827,261 divorces were recorded in 2019, with the total number of divorces since 2000 topping 8.3 million.  Andy Heller is a successful businessman and not a divorce professional such as a divorce attorney, mediator, therapist, co-parenting counselor, or the h...

The Journal of Clinical Nutrition has compiled data from a registry of volunteers, and here are some of their findings. After one year, 35% of people regain at least 5 lbs. 59% maintained their weight. Only 6% continued to lose weight.   Lizzie Merritt is a Martha Beck Certified Wayfinder Life Coach and professional weight loss coach specializing in helping people figure out why they don’t do the...

Leadership it’s the component of your life, which you lean upon in order to prioritize the events and objectives in your life which you hold close to the vest.  There your non negotiables the things in which you’re unwilling to compromise on at any cost.  Putting such a list in sequential order may cause you to seek some assistance in the matter.  If you fall into such a category today, you’re in...

According to www.zippia.com There are an estimated 12 to 24 million e-commerce sites in the world, with 2.5 million based in the U.S. Online businesses are growing every day. With easier access to the internet, especially through mobile phones, along with advances in server technology, the market for internet users is expanding.   Allan Miles is a father of 5 children between the ages of 5-14, hus...

College athletes earned an estimated $917 million in the first year of Name Image and Likeness (NIL) payments, which began in July 2021, according to new data from Opendorse. Opendorse, which provides technology to the athlete endorsement industry, projects the NIL market will produce $1.14 billion in NCAA athlete compensation over the next 12 months. Shawn O'Gorman is the Director of Name, Image,...

At least 1 in 7 children have experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year in the United States. This is likely an underestimate because many cases are unreported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For Kari (Fox) Kelley she is passionate about advocating for awareness and prevention of child abuse and “my life experience is such that I feel compelled to provide su...

Physical activity reduces many major mortality risk factors including arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer. All-cause mortality is decreased by about 30% to 35% in physically active as compared to inactive subjects, according to the National Institute of Health.  David Germeau  is a man who has spent more than 20 years of his lif...

Statistics from the IBIS World Landscaping Services Industry Report shows that the landscape services industry has a market size of $129 billion in 2022. The industry employs more than 1.2 million people and represents 633,481 landscaping service businesses and represents 633,481 landscaping service businesses currently. Between 2017-2022, the market size of the landscaping industry has grown at a...

Essence Magazine reports women make up just 23% of U.S. NFL agents, and of that, only 10.4% are Black (men or women.  Jill McBride Baxter The daughter of a Hall of Fame football coach (Ron McBride), Jill McBride Baxter was born into a sports family. She’s turned a love for the game and combined it with a passion for the law to become a leading sports agent and attorney. She’s been representing pro...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention There were 51,642 home births in 2021, an increase of 13% from 2020 (45,646). This increase followed a 19% rise in the number of home births from 2019 (38,506) to 2020. For (non-Hispanic) White women, the percentage of home births increased 10%, from about 1.9% of all births in 2020 to almost 2.1% in 2021.    Nathan Riley, MD, is a board-...

The American Academy of Neurology estimates that mild cognitive impairment is present in about 8 percent of people age 65 to 69, in 15 percent of 75 to 79 year-olds, in 25 percent of those age 80 to 84, and in about 37 percent of people 85 years of age and older.  Jimmy St Louis is a businessman, former competitive athlete, and family man. He is the founder and current CEO of Franchise123 and The...

The framework for your own personal development is incumbent upon your own desire to elevate the level of personal investment you’re willing to make in yourself.   Society tends to pull us in multiple directions and influence our thinking and the way we grow as people.  Making it imperative we construct our own roadmap and portrait of victory.  To ensure, we can write and control the narrative to...

Choosing to have a victorious mindset in life is a personal choice we all have to make.  To be aware of the version of our lives which define our most vigorous level of success. The great thing about life is such a definition is different for all of us.  The direction we choose to take it is ours to discover.   Because you see, maximizing your fullest level of potential starts by optimizing your t...

Only 63% of Small Businesses Invest in SEO, Despite Enticing Long-Term Benefits, according to Yahoo Finance.    Visual Objects, a B2B guide for choosing the best creative services, found that nearly half of small businesses (47%) don't have search engine optimization (SEO) efforts at their businesses.  Matt Gerchow, is  a leader in the content marketing space and developer of the leading SEO app –...