DJ Hesta Prynn\u2019s Music is Therapy<\/span><\/a>,\u201d she will give podcast listeners the unique opportunity to use music as a cheat code to change how they think, feel, and embrace life.<\/p>\n\u201cResearch shows it takes 400 repetitions of a new thought or behavior to form a new neural pathway \u2014 anyone who\u2019s ever tried to make a significant change in their life knows how hard that is,\u201d says Slavin. \u201cHowever, studies also show that when pairing play with a new thought or behavior, the number of required repetitions drops significantly. For adults, play is music and movement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the course of the 52 episodes, Slavin will speak with leading voices in entertainment, music and wellness, and pair each episode with a bespoke playlist that will help listeners \u201crewire their brains\u201d to improve their lives. Guests will include her mentor Questlove, as well as Devi Brown, and Dan Savage, among others. In the series, Slavin will also talk with wellness experts across her personal \u201c12 Areas of Life\u201d \u2014 her personal wellness framework \u2014 to give the audience actionable takeaways. Listeners will learn to set the intention \u2014 new job, new relationship, whatever the goal is \u2014 use the wisdom from the experts, and pair it with a song to hardwire it into their brain.<\/p>\n
The series kicks off with January\u2019s theme: money. After a solo debut episode introducing her approach and the story of how Jay-Z changed her net worth, listeners can expect expert insights from financial leaders Jean Chatzky, Kate Northrup, and New York Times journalist David Gelles about money identity and the songs that are wired for financial success.<\/p>\n
\u201cDJ Hesta Prynn\u2019s Music is Therapy\u201d is a joint production of iHeartPodcasts and the New York podcast studio Audiation. New episodes will be available weekly on Fridays. \u201cI\u2019m excited to launch this show in partnership with iHeartPodcasts and look forward to leveraging their massive scale and reach to improve the lives of music lovers everywhere,\u201d Slavin says.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.insideradio.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As radio listeners have long known, music can help better their mood. But there is plenty of science behind the connection between music and mental health. New York-based DJ and licensed therapist Julie Slavin \u2014 known to fans as DJ Hesta Prynn \u2014 will explore that connection in a new podcast. Taught to mix vinyl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22009,21738],"class_list":["post-2252525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-free","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DJ-Hesta-Prynn-Turns-Music-Into-Mental-Health-Tool-In-New.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252527,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252525\/revisions\/2252527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}