Brandon Sawalich

You have one in six teenagers right now have hearing loss.

It's a quiet pandemic because they're blowing out their ears for their headphones and just loud music and a lot of reasons.

It's a health issue, but it's not one that's alarming people because it's quiet and it's invisible.

Hearing connects you with people.

It connects you with your environment, your day job, your kids, and it's the fitness for the brain.

Hearing is essential.

If you want everything to be balanced at work, you got to feed that brain and exercise the brain.

And that's how you do it.

They talk about the solutions to treat the hearing loss.

And it's the two words that always gets everybody because of the stigma associated with it.

And that's

Thank you, Gary.

Honored to be here.

This is exciting because you're right.

It's hearing and healthy hearing and

There's so many stigmas around it and hearing aids and today's technology.

And let's clear some of these myths up.

We've been in business, Starkey, outside of Minneapolis for 59 years.

I've been president and CEO for the last seven.

And been at Starkey for 31 years.