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th my good news. In 2006-ish I lost my voice, most of you know this story, to something called spasmodic dysphonia. Which meant that I could make noise in my mouth but I couldn't form proper consonants and sentences without my vocal cords clenching and making it incomprehensible. So I was told that that was a permanent problem and that there was no cure. And therefore the rest of my life I would…
← Previous segment →just by connecting people to the very, very hard to find solution, I may have cured I don't know fifty people, a hundred, I don't know. But I do hear from a lot of people who heard about it from me and have gone through with some kind of surgery.
So I just want to say there are very few things that feel better than knowing that years ago you were chanting a specific, literally impossible seeming goal in your car all alone. It's the loneliest process in the world. And I don't think there was one point that I thought I wasn't going to do this. I don't think there was ever a point I thought I would fail to get my voice back even though there was no way to do it. So here we are. I've got a Periscope that 3,300 people are watching, probably a hundred thousand people will watch this in replay eventually. And I'm doing all of this when I started with not being able to talk
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. But I am one stubborn mofo. If there's one thing you could take away from me, you know one thing that you in my own, this is my own opinion of myself, the one thing that defines me is I don't like to lose and I don't like to be told I can't do something. And it's motivating as all hell. And even when it's like really, really bad stuff like the voice problem was, I just get more motivated. So th…
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