Most people have experienced some type of isolation during CO-VID. This is what it is like for those with mild to profound hearing loss daily. The Helping the Hard of Hearing during the Holidays and Beyond podcast, you will hear 15 Tips for Hearing Awareness Effective Communication help those with hearing loss feel included, listened to, loved, cared for, and even get a big boost in self-confidence.

For those of you in the service or sales business, this knowing these tips can dramatically increase your sales, Yelp reviews, and patient or customer service. Yes, hospitals are paid by the Federal government with positive patient reviews. So, as Mr. Sam Walton said, the customer is in charge.

Hard of hearing is the legal term and human resources are not allowed to address if you have a hearing loss. However, your employer is supposed to accommodate if you have hearing loss. Sometimes the different managers address this disability differently.

A lot of this discrimination could be changed with Hearing Friendly Business Traning.

Hearing loss is as complicated as physics. When one develops hearing loss affects whether the adaptation is easy or needs to be a learned skill set.

Today's episode shares tips on what to do if you are new to hearing loss, how you can help your family, team member, or even a stranger with this third-worst chronic health condition in the United States.

1 in 3 newborns has newborn screening due to Dr. Marion Downs addressing this health issue 40 years ago. The sooner someone can get medical prosthetic devices if they need them then it will help with their listening skills. '

For a newborn, it will help develop the language center in the brain for greater success in a world that predominately depends on auditory communication.

If one loses hearing later in life there is a support group called the Association for Late Deafened Adults and also the Hearing Loss Association of America. Where others share their experiences on what they have found works for them.

Sam Walton said, that the customer is always the boss. Therefore, remember you have the ability to change the insurance services by asking your physician for a yearly hearing test, to have newborn screen paid for, and to have these medical devices paid for just like any other medical device that replaces a broken body part. Let's join together to get this done.

Soon to be online as part of the Hearing Awareness Academy is a membership opportunity as well as courses that will help you navigate this new social and health hearing loss issue.

Whether it's your first experience working with someone as an employee, a student, or an associate in your community.

It's all about Upping Hearing Awareness™️ for the 21st Century.

Today's episode shares with you what you can do if you are just patient when communicating. Especially, if you have a hearing loss. This is a disability that we who have it need to own it, as people usually want to help us with hearing loss. We just need to speak up to let them know.

Today, I was on three Zoom meetings, and this episode will fill you in when how you what you can do as a customer service representative, manager, or consumer to enhance your experience for greater success.

Hear about the new Hearing Awareness Academy that will be online via Kajabi and how RJ, JohnB, and Mylene made my business life so much easier just by being kind, respectful, and resourceful.

Today's episode was recorded on Zoom just for fun. So, will be available soon on TeresaBarnesRN YouTube Channel.

Hyperacusis is a noise-sensitive hearing loss disease. People who do not wear their hearing aids are noise sensitive. Because often time their lives are like living in a fishbowl if they don't refuse to wear their hearing aids. Yep, isolation, depression, and problems with relationship connections.

October is National Audiology Awareness Month. Ask your audiologist for a free hearing test like what's done for cancer awareness. Learn more inside the podcast.

What can business owners do? Here is just one idea. There are many more inside the Sound Advice: Hearing Friendly Business Podcast.

Create Hearing Friendly Spaces by just using the plexiglass COVID-19 separators to keep sound around 72 decibels and have your staff Hearing Friendly Business Trained and Certified. Attract the multi-trillion-dollar market of the baby boomers and beyond.

What prompted this topic for a body case. Sir John Shin sharing with me that Napoleon Hill's son was born without ears then he could hear at 100%. So, I did my research to discover...Listen in to learn more about how Blair got his 100% hearing ability.

Boundaries came up because someone called me crazy and I realized I need to tap back into boundaries and how a Lady Gaga's Granny helped her go from being a victim to the rockstar she is today.

We are not out of the woods yet, but keep on moving the pedal till you are flying in that helicopter to your private yacht.

Today you will listen to Art Costillo of Expectation Academy & Expectation Therapy interview Teresa Barnes, RN of HearCommunication and Host of Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast. To help the Voice of Hearing get the word out better for advocating for the hard of hearing (HOH). Yes, we with hearing impairment of mild to profound are the majority with hearing loss. In 1969, we were classified as HOH and that is how we are legally classified. Most people think the HOH is old fashioned and call us hearing impaired. Art did have an ah-ha moment when he realized that there is a difference between Deaf and HOH.

Learn more inside the Podcast interview to learn about the difference between the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The Deaf have a lot of services like 711 for relay captioning set up. All the HOH has set up is assistive listening. Which usually is not volume controlled. With the wide verity of hard of hearing loss ranges. Captioning would work best for both groups. As so many people in the HOH range do not wear their hearing aids or just have a mild hearing loss.

Today's episode we are going to cover how important it is for communities to tune into hearing loss. After all, hearing is the base for all communication success and affects our everyday interaction. From going to school to how Telsa is traveling to the moon.

Here is what you will gain from today's episode:

1. The Spending Power of the Hearing Loss Community

2. Examples of Foods that can reduce and improve hearing loss

3. The National and Global Days to Recognize Hearing and Hearing Loss

Even a mild hearing loss can affect your job performance, career choices, career advancement, student learning, and personal relationships.

Today's episode Sound Advice: Tune Into Listening will have 5 Key Ways to Improve your listening skills even if you have hearing loss or serving someone with hearing loss.

"Richard Branson frequently quotes listening as one of the main factors behind the success of Virgin.

Did you know businesses are losing $560 million by not addressing the hearing issues in productivity cost?

Employability Skills and Customer Service Skills will be covered for the workplace environment for all to thrive. Good interpersonal skills and communication skills which include verbal, non-verbal, and listening skills will be covered today.

Did you know in non-verbal communication which those with hearing impairments are effectively proficient covers the 7% which is the word spoken, 38% is the tone and 55% is body language, hairstyle, stance, clothing, or accessories. Making 93% of communication non-verbal. There is a book from Kathy Buckley - "If You Could Hear What I See."

Malcolm Forbes said, " The art in conversation is listening."

Thanks for Listening, Teresa Barnes, RN Sound Advice: A Hearing Friendly Business Podcast, Author, and Hearing Business Awareness Expert.

Are your patients being served if they have hearing loss? In this episode, you will hear about Teresa Barnes, RN experience at Scripps Urgent Care as a person with the disability of hearing loss. As a former ED Manager, I observed a gray-haired woman with a hearing loss have to share her personal information with the entire waiting room, plus probably experienced embarrassment by not being able to hear to answer the check-in questions, being "yelled at" as this was the approach the Scripps employee chose to use. Listen to this Sound Advice: Hearing Friendly Business Podcast to hear how hospitals and private medical offices can improve their services and what rights you have as a person with a hearing loss disability.

Education is a BIG BUSINESS with $8.12 Trillion spent by the federal government. So, why do 1 in 5 Americans like students or teachers still suffer from hearing loss discrimination, because the school system refuses to provide transparent mask giving those with hearing loss equal access for a greater learning curve? The National School Board Association states that "public education exists to serve the following purposes, among others: Prepare students for college and the workforce, including preparing them for jobs that may not even exist yet due to the rapidly changing technology. Helping children fulfill their diverse potentials." Imagine your child or grandchild having a mild hearing loss which is just not being able to hear a whisper or the vowels/consonants like the a, e, i, o, u or the th, sh, f, g, h. Did the teacher or the student say, hay, day, fay, way, kay, lay, may? Some students and even some adults may not be able to process the hearing which only takes 0.05 seconds to process in the brain by the time the ear hears the sound and the brain figures out what it is saying in language. A person with hearing loss may take a moment or two to figure out what the other person said. So, they are not slow, deaf, or dumb. It's just a disability where the ear organ is a broken body part. Yet until one learns the cues for hearing loss then it passes by the majority.