Freeze your kids credit with a Child Credit Freeze for protection. Protect their identity, their credit and their financial future with a temporary freeze.
Freeze their Credit… not telling you to freeze the kid!
Protect your child’s credit and their identity with a Child Credit Freeze.
Credit freeze for kids is a great move because it prevents any new accounts being opened up under their social security number for as long as the freeze is in place.
In a day where it’s been reported that identity theft hits a record high, it can be even scarier for a child. The reason is that in most cases, no one in a family is checking on a four years credit in most usual cases. They feel they do not have to worry about credit. This is something that is not worried about till student loans, auto loans, credits cards and usual credit requests that do not occur until 18.
This comes down to being a part of your personal stability and security as well as protection. By going through the protection elements that are telling your story online, you are not giving away information that can make your family or child easier targets.
Your kids are all the more vulnerable, so freeze your kids credit.
While no one is looking, this makes kids the perfect target for those trying to steal credit and identities. Where many people today are checking and getting updates from their Discover Card, Capital One Card, other credit cards that track credit and their banks, most are never checking their kids credit.
Why Freeze your kids credit in 2025?
Prevent “Ghost Credit”:
Thieves target minors because families rarely monitor credit reports for 4-year-olds
Close the 18-Year Gap:
Most thefts go undetected until college loan/credit card applications at 18
Modern Threat Vectors:
Social media quizzes, gaming app signups, and school form breaches expose kids’ data.
(Please, stop doing these, it is click bait the majority of the time phishing for your keywords,
then applying AI and figuring out passwords over time.)
Freezing remains the only FTC-recommended method to fully shield minors from synthetic identity scams.
Step-by-Step: How to Freeze your kids credit (All 3 Bureaus)
Key Requirement: No online options exist for minor freezes. Mailed documentation is required.
Credit Bureau
Required Documents
Mailing Address
Experian
Written Request & Copies of
Parent DL, utility bill; Child birth cert, SSN card
Brand Communications and Optics Strategist travel to you. Travel information for bringing Brand Communications and Optics Strategist to you for speaking or in person or on site sessions.
For bringing me to you for in person strategy or speaking. Basics on flights, hotels, food, etc.
For Driving or events with in a three hour radius:
Mileage rate is 70 Cents a Mile accordingly for the full round trip as per the IRS 2025 Mileage Standards.
All hotel, parking, tolls, and food costs are to be provided if venue is over two hours or more away.
For Flying Events
Consequently, if you are bringing me to you, here is the info to book flights.
Also, please add stipend for baggage check as well as agreed upon handling of food, location transportation, hotels as well as any miscellaneous, otherwise, add that to the budget.
All Overseas Flights: business or first class.
For domestic, if you can get me an exit row, business or even 1st, class, my knees will love you and so will I.
(Not required, but doesn’t hurt to ask.)
I do not require non-stop and like to get up and stretch. Do not waste the money on a direct if it costs too much!
My Booking Information for tickets:
I will send my Flight Booking Card directly that includes:
Full Name
Date Of Birth
Address
Drivers License Number/ Expiration Date
Email
Phone
TSA Precheck Number
and American AAdvantage Number
(American is preferred Airline when possible)
I’m a very easy traveler and low maintenance.
If you are bringing me to you, here is some of the basic info for booking flights.
Please add a stipend for baggage check both ways or have added directly to the ticket.
Food, local transportation, and miscellaneous will be agreed upon on advance.
Weisman is not responsible for a card or cost for room hold.
Client either uses their card or advances the total hold amount for all days and nights of the stay.
All overseas flights must be business or first class.
For domestic, if you can get me an exit row, my knees will love you.
Brand Communications and Optics Strategist travel to you…
Stops are cool.
I do not require non-stop and like to get up and stretch.
Do not waste the money on a direct if it costs too much!
Points account numbers:
DELTA: 9254007082
UNITED: PB043723
AMERICAN: 2XV03U2
SOUTHWEST: RR20882304155
SPIRIT: 1000922972
Brand Communications and Optics Strategist travel to you.
Brand Optics Quotes and insights from Brand Communications and Optics Strategist Loren Weisman.
Brand Optics Quotes and insights from Loren Weisman
Consider looking into that person or company that might be stock full of the tools to fool and pitch themselves in a way that is far from the truth.Consider standing in honor and transparency whether behind closed doors or if those doors are open to the world at large.
Brand Optics Quotes Continued:
Even though you are not required to… consider holding yourself accountable for what you say online and on social media.Are you humble enough to state something as an opinion and educated enough to deliver a substantiated defense as well as a sound reasoning why it should be considered to be a fact?
In humility, subjectivity and in the ability to see a series of elements from a distance; it may help you to focus your messaging in order to create a much stronger of an impact.
Keep an eye out for the healpreneurs that may have healed themselves, but perhaps are not ready, equipped or experienced enough to help others heal; much less charge for it.
Healpreneurs. Are they healed enough to help you heal? And are they healed and organized enough to charge you for that help?
Dig deeper to see if there is any true validity and authority… or if it is just another hype claim.
Sharing the same exact content…
I do not disconnect because I disagree with someone on something, some view or some opinion.
If I disconnect, it is because of how they chose to disagree.
More Brand Optics Quotes Continued:
Differentiate your opinions from facts. Honor your audience with messaging that clearly defines when you are sharing truth and when you are sharing an opinion.
Watch out for those business coaches that learned a little about something, then in arrogance and pride,
claim to know a lot about everything.
Watch out for the 1x expert. They had 1 successful experience… but now claim to have the expertise, answers and ability to help everyone else become successful. This can be a dangerous path to go down and a dangerous person to work with. While their intentions might be true, their experience and expertise is limited.
Just because you have not been questioned, caught, or fined for it yet, does not mean that what you are doing is acceptable or ethical or legal.
Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softness of your voice on the phone and in person.
You volume speaks volumes..
Gen U?
Instead of claiming to be the answer, consider stating that you may be an answer.
Brand Optics Quotes Continued:
Is it for a private diary or is it for public distribution?
Take the time and apply your patience, discernment and wisdom before posting anything.
What might seem right in the moment, could end up be very wrong in the long run.
Pause before you post.
Do your morals, honor, and ethics only come across in your words?
Or do they also show up in your works, your actions and your deeds?
Consider choosing the “here is how” over the “I know you can” types.
Consider connecting with those that have the authority and ability to show, educate, and help you create what you want….
Instead of those that only focus on vague directions, hearsay instructions, empty motivation and scripted hype.
Brand Optics Quotes Continued:
Consider being more of a prudent detective when it comes to the statements and content online that is shared with you online.
Give your audience a change to experience the content first before you ask them to like, share and subscribe.
“If some hunted as hard for information as the do for inspiration, they might find themselves in a better situation.”
Before you shout from the mountain tops…
What alliance of actions…
Are they only addressing your symptoms or are they working with you to find cure. And, do they have the knowledge and ability to assist you in the healing with a plan for the long run?
Music Business ghost drumming. Being a ghost in the machine is the title of The Brand Communications and Optics Podcast Wait What Really OK S6.E09.N112 hosted by Loren Weisman who was a former ghost drummer at one time.
Music business ghost drumming? Yup.
Music business ghost drumming occurred very often as well as a number of other session players that were paid to track parts, be silent and have another name credited on a song or album.
On a completely different level, these ghost players not only served to help the recording, but they also served to help the messaging, the brand and the optics of the band or artist.
It took humility and it took honor. It is hard to have a whole bunch of people asking you to prove your work., For others, friends would play the guessing game. I would just stick with the, I can not confirm or deny and leave left it at that.
A centered graphic with the episode cover over the background of a recording studio.
There was also the nasty side of it. Walking in to a toxic zone where someone had been told they were not going to play on the track or album. Then you are the one showing up to do the work and while the producer, engineer and label people are happy to see you, there was some pretty raw feelings coming from the band.
In most cases for most session artists, it as never about trying to take the gig away. It was a one time job. Many session players and ghost players had that duality of being creative but also clearly understanding the music business is a business.
A recording studio int he background with 40 podcast site icons and the podcast episode graphic in the center.
Not being credited on the album did not mean you were not getting credit and building your resume.
The producers, studios, and labels were quick to learn about and keep names on files of those that could handle the work and keep their mouths shut.
Listen to the Music business ghost drumming episode here on Pandora
Your mistakes arent learning experiences if you arent learning from them.
Being a ghost in the machine.
And I noticed in replacing some of the players that just played it off like it was a simple mistake and not a big deal… that I would some times be called back for the next album under the same circumstances. It was a common occurrence of arrogance that tied to motivation. Artists making excuses for mistakes as learning experiences and yet they never learned a thing from the last time.
Your mistakes aren’t learning experiences if you aren’t learning from them.
It was a challenge and yet at the same time, some of the best times of my career. In this podcast, I dig into the concepts of music business ghost drumming, but also how many musicians served as a ghost in the machine.
I also try to dispel some of the negative connotations and how in some ways, the ghost session players can relate well to messaging and the optics of today.
An image with a drumset in a large room with the text Wait What Really OK and the cover graphic of the Wait What Really OK in the right upper corner.
Brand Communications and Optics Podcast Music Credits 1:
Opening Theme Song
“Fully Licensed Wait What Really Ok Theme Song” by RKVC.
Copyright 2016 eMbloh Music (ASCAP)/ Cienzo Music (BMI).
Administered by Ass Backwards Music (ASCAP)/Bass Ackwards Music (BMI)
RKVC Website
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Brand Communications and Optics Podcast Music Credits 2:
Closing Theme Song
“News and Information Podcast Percussion Outro” by Doug Hinrichs.
Copyright 2016 Dig And Be Dug Music (BMI).
Administered by Bass Ackwards Music (BMI).
Doug Hinrichs Website
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Loren Weisman is a Brand Communications and Optics Strategist focused on building truthful, transparent messaging and optics foundations so authoritative experts and organizations can stand out authentically in competitive landscapes. His methodology centers on strategic blueprinting before marketing, aligning brand strategy, messaging refinement, communication optimization, crisis communication and optics, and digital media/marketing strategy to create clear, uniform, and effective presence. His background includes participation on 700+ albums as a drummer and producer, TV production credits with ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, and TLC, and authorship of Music Business for Dummies and The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business.
Brand interrogation for development. A series of questions to help find answers.
Brand interrogation for development.
All too often in the branding stage, many companies in branding and marketing only create based on the intended ideas and the public facing view of a brand. That ends up leaving a lot of holes in the story and in the foundation.
With all those holes, more problems arise in misunderstandings and misperceptions both internally and externally. This is why Brand interrogation for development can be a helpful element in learning about a brand in the early stages of development or redevelopment.
By going through a deeper process of brand interrogation for development, it can bring an understanding about he intention of the brand, an understanding of the business and a deeper dive of numerous touch points, a brand can be created with a greater authenticity and clarity.
Many of the questions below, while they might seem they have nothing to do with the brand, have everything to do with the story and the development of the brand, the brand messaging and the process architecture that can allow for better engagement as well as a greater understanding of employment engagement statistics that may be pertinent to you.
These are some of the questions I ask in full brand discoveries
These are questions that whether you work with us or not, you may want to look into and address. From the angle of partners to investors, clients to customers and marketing to advertising, dialing in these answers to your root foundation and messaging can create a healthy impact for your brand and your business.
Some brand interrogation for development questions
Who are you trying to reach?
What do you believe makes you stand out?
How is your product or service helping as a whole and broadly?
When did you start?
When were you first financed?
When are you looking to go full time?
How much have you spent on branding, marketing and advertising to date?
Where do you plan to service or sell your product?
Five competitors and Why are they competitors?
What influenced you to create the product?
Who influenced you inside or outside of the business field?
When did the initial ideas come into play?
Where were you and what were you doing before it all started?
How has creating this vision, product or service changed you?
Why do you need to see this through?
Who can make the decisions for the brand, the brand name, the budget, the development and the forward motion?
it allows for the tone, temperature and clarity of your brand, the messaging and the process architecture to all come together in harmony at the same time.
The result is a brand that is creatively and strategically sound with an awareness that can allow for greater impact, more engagement and better connection at every stage of that brands business.
Yes, it is a bit more work, a bit more time and a deeper dive that touches on many additional touch points… Still, in the long run, the clarity, consistency and architecture of the brand, its process and its foundation allows for greater results and understanding moving forward.
Paint the palette first, then bring the brush to canvas for the right results for you.
If you would like more information about the process of what I do with this information, and how I use it to align it with a brand, it’s messaging and its process architecture, contact me for an initial conversation and we can see what might work.
Or at the same time, consider filling out these questions for yourself and see what the answers bring to light for you.
Watch out for those business coaches that learned a little about something, then in arrogance and pride, claim to know a lot about everything.
