This is Preferred Company with Joel and friends! Today’s guest is Vincent James, musician and author of ’88 Ways Music Can Change Your Life’. The book features inspirational music stories about how music has changed people’s lives from all over the world. This has lead Vincent to more music advocacy, founding a non-profit and two international music holidays. He partners with a 1,000 music schools and stores to help celebrate “Kids Music Day” coming up in October. You’ll find out how music helps kids to develop soft skills like patience and perseverance and building math skills.