You Should Know: Bill Flanagan

At the intersection of science and cultural healing sits Nashville startup HUSO — short for human sound — which draws harmonic frequencies out of Tibetan healing songs and uses them for deep relaxation and antistress treatments.

The four-year-old company is run by acupuncturist Bill Flanagan and Lily Whitehawk, who can best be described as a Swiss army knife of sound healing and therapy. Whitehawk created the technology used by HUSO today and united her decades of experience in sound healing and indigenous cultures for this venture.