 I'm happy for, you know, your interests and your focus. I'm glad that you all didn't like fall asleep after lunch. That lunch was excellent. And I tend to get like the itis after lunch. I don't know if anybody knows what that is, but most of us, you know, feel a little heavy. So hopefully we'll get a little light to finish out the day. And I wanna thank everybody for just hanging in there. So just wanna talk about song, the power of song and singing and just getting our brains reactivated. So I was a child of divorced parents, abusive parents. And I think it was because of their conservatism that they were raised with. So I've had to learn to kind of get over my past and my trauma through the power of singing and song. So when I approached Kimberly to come and talk about trauma and how it affects women with their money, I really thought that it would be great to help us to do like a release instead of talking about, you know, bad, bad, bad, but also channeling the positivity and the good so we can kind of float out of here when, you know, cause that is possible. How many people here do affirmations daily? I do affirmations like very inconsistently, but I'm learning the one positive affirmation that I do for myself is I sing Monday nights with the Montpelier Community Gospel Choir and that really raises my level of creativity, productivity, awareness. And I float out of practice on Monday nights because we are just singing so intensely and intentionally that it's really, it really gives me joy, it takes me to that happy place. And so today, Kim is gonna talk briefly about a word called epigenetics. And epigenetics is powerful because it transforms your DNA cells, okay? So what did my answers just do with all of the oppression and racism? Rejection, they sang, they sang, they hummed. They, that was the way that they were able to change their brains, change their bodies in order to get through that pain of slavery. When they marched, Martin Luther King marched, they sang, they sang their way through their pain, their trauma. So trauma affects so many things and it affects our ability to really just absorb knowledge, to really just move past whatever, but it also affects our trajectory, our money, our healing. So if you don't know how to heal and singing is one of those forms of healing, then you can't, you can't move to the next level. So that's why we decided to do Money Matters, a woman's therapeutic journey to financial freedom to take you on that journey. So when we look at singing, what does singing do? It's healing, it helps give you a creative boost and also like when you listen to classical music, you can't read, it's kind of small here, but something called the Mozart effect. It enhances your performance in cognitive tests. Okay, so music is very powerful. It actually changes the brainwaves. So it also can tap into primal fear, like low tones can actually make you feel a little bit more afraid, like they've done studies with rock music, rap music, low tones actually can cause people to have a more negative, it can have a more negative effect and also babies. Babies know happy sounds. The high tones are a little bit more lighter and babies actually have been known to respond to that. So this is how music affects our brain. It can actually wake us up, gives us those happy endorphins and it also can improve our sleep and it releases the dopamine in our brains in order to make us feel lighter, happier. And it also creates a feeling of well-being and positive emotions, such as background music. I don't know if you notice the music when you're shopping in the grocery store. When you go to the gas station now, they play it at the pump. It's just really, to me, it's kind of annoying, but yeah, you just find yourself, you're singing along. Oh yeah, that's a song that I know. Yes, it is the worst. So you might wanna bring those earplugs or just that's why I guess a lot of people wanna shop online. They don't wanna feel like they're being controlled, but still you're still being controlled as a consumer. Kind of seems to be no way around that. So just wanna talk briefly before we do a small chant that I wrote, just talking about the energy of intentions. It's basically a force of your will, okay? And you wanna act with a clear mind and Ray touched on a little bit about clarity. You have to believe in your worthability. Does everybody here believe that they're worth it? Are you sure? Because I really can't hear you and shifting your belief through repetition. So continuing to do those affirmations daily, those positive affirmations, and then projection of positivity, the people, places and things. So thoughts do become things through the power of manifestation, I do believe that. And I know personally from my own story, I came to Vermont 2017 in a very toxic relationship. And through the power of joining the gospel choir two years later, I'm here now. Yeah. So my story is I was in a very toxic relationship. I had had a nervous breakdown. And I knew if I could just start singing again, I would be healed. So I was like, oh, I heard there's this gospel choir. And then I started meeting the positive people that I know now. So I'm very grateful for that. So I don't wanna get all emotional. But yeah, hopefully this'll be you today. You'll be floating out of here. I'm really hoping for that. And you'll be singing tomorrow in the shower. I really want this chance to resonate with you. If I could just get a little water before we start. Can I have my, oh, she went to get it, thanks. Yeah, so my Peleur community gospel choir people. One, two, three, four, possible five. All right, cool. All right, so we're gonna just do a small chant. And I'm gonna ask everybody to give their best effort. It's a call and response. We're gonna sing it a couple times. And then I'm gonna introduce Kim in the essence of time. We wanna get everybody out of here on time. So the power chant that I created is just very simple. I am powerful. I am beautiful. I am loving. And I'm going to rise to the top, top, top. Do you guys believe that? Yeah. So can you all like stand up? Yeah. Really just get into it. Everybody enjoy it. Turn that to what you sing. Woo! And you don't have to be the best singer. You know, just put forth as much effort as you can. And I promise you, this is gonna wake you up and it's gonna carry you through the rest of the day. Are you guys ready? Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah. I am powerful. Rising to the top, top, top. To the top, top, top. So I just want to thank you for that. You guys did a beautiful job.