You are now tuning in to discover your potential. So listen, participate, be inspired, know that you can discover your potential. What I think is really exciting about this, right, is when I started this Neurotek company, I, you know, it came out of a situation that started in my years at Amazon Alexa. So if you just indulge me for just a second, because I think the story of where this started and the aha that I had around, we can talk about frequency, but where fundamental frequency became important was actually during the pandemic, my dad was at the end of his life. He had truly struggled with diabetes for three decades. You know, he had gotten it in his 40s. He was hitting his 70s. And towards the end of his life, he was on dialysis. And, you know, he just really fought it like a champ. But at the end of his life, part of what was complicating the end of his life was the diabetes. Everything, this chronic condition was this underlying condition. If you knew anything about my father and for all the listeners out there, you know, I am a Space Nerd. I mean, he just put up with my wonderful, and I say wonderful, I'm that's actually, for those of you who are only listening via audio, I'm winking because I was a horrifying teenager. So he put up with my teenage years, got me through my teenage years. I always think about us as women. It's like we are like a fine wine and our greatest age and transformation comes in puberty. Sometimes it comes in puberty at 50. So, but that greatest age and transformation was pretty wild and wacky. And you go from being the little girl, the imagination little girl to you're trying to figure out what it means to be a woman in this world. And you have that tug of the relationship with your dad. And I was actually really close with my dad because he came into my life. He's actually my stuff, father who adopted my sister and I. And, you know, really brought into our lives a life force that was hardworking. It was all about working hard, being honest, following your dreams, but did it with a clear eyed practicality. And he was an attorney and he started his career in the prosecutor's office. And he actually his earliest work was on behalf of the state fighting child abuse cases. So if you were an abused child, my father was the attorney that represented you on behalf of the state, right? Because the state comes in and can that. And so I was so incredibly fortunate to have that life force in my life. So what did that mean about him? He was an orator. He could, he could like, there was no AI that could summarize things the way he could summarize things. He could just summarize it into like a sharp rebuttal. And so when you work with communication skills like that your entire life, when you get to the end of your life and those communication skills begin to fail you becomes a sense of lost dignity because it's the very part of what makes you you. So we set this time period of, you know, it's the pandemic. He had had some chronic conditions both underlying diabetes but a heart condition as well. So, you know, really had struggled with those towards the end. But one of the things I started noticing was in our weekly calls because we would talk, you know, often was I started to notice that he was struggling with speech. The, the evidence was during the pandemic quite literally he would go from like full strong speech to unintelligible speech. I mean, it sounded garbled and then he would come out of it. And the reality is he didn't know it was happening. Right. So on the, you know, at first you're like, was that a broken connection? Wait, is that me? The second time you hear it, you go, that's not me and that's not a broken connection. This is starting to show a pattern. And being the design, you know, the consummate design engineer, what do we do first? First principles. Why is this happening? Right. I go really after the why is this happening? And lo and behold, after doing a significant amount of research and talking with two or three different neuroscientists because I am in the world of neuro linguistics. That's what Alexa or her core is, right? It's the programming of human communications. I go to start talking with folks and what we found was my dad had what they were calling type three diabetes and it was a form of dementia that's linked to long-term diabetes. And so the early warning signs were there. They were actually hidden in the changes in his voice. And they just hit me. Said, we have all the right tools. You know, you don't, you shouldn't need a daughter who, you know, leads a team of PhD level neuro linguistics to find this out. And had we caught it earlier, it would have given him more time, more independence, more dignity at the end of his life because there were things, there were lifestyle things that we could have modified. And he could have been a part of the 40% of people that can actually fight dementia. Wow. That was the crux of here I am in the place of voice. I can actually do something about this. Yeah. And I realized he, it wasn't just him. He represented so many people who have diabetes, who are getting early on set dementia and their caregivers, like the impact of their care, caregivers. And so that was truly, you know, the impetus of where we started the name. You know, everybody thinks, oh, it's like, it was really cool. You know, everybody's talking about a vibe and what is it like, but actually to get really nerdy with your, with the audience here today for it. What effectively happens is, you know, vibes AI is born out of this because. Think about it this way. I took everything that I learned from the decades in AI and neuro linguistics and voice tech and focused it on that single mission of making cognitive decline detectable and preventable for everyone, like not just of those people who can afford it and afford the clinical tests, but vibes. The reason we call it vibes is because what we are doing is actually measuring the vibrations that your vocal folds produce. Yeah. And inside those vibrations are 500 acoustic biomarkers that frankly, you know, we didn't know that we're always there, but if you can decode them, right, and how, how might we decode them? That really became kind of the thesis is, is can we decode it? Now we know we can with 85% detectability. And what that does, why is it such a disruption? Okay, let's say you're a caregiver like I was, and you see your parents aging and what gets really scary about being a remote caregiver to somebody who's aging, you know, your parents, all they want is independence. Mine were baby, my, and our baby boomer. So my dad has passed, but my mom is still alive. And they do not want their children living with them, being overburdened. But they certainly need your help. So you have to figure out what the right way of being a caregiver is. That's a whole nother episode. Oh, I know almost a whole nother company. I know it really well because I took care of my dad in the end and my dad really just wanted to go because he didn't want to be a burden. So I get it strong independent person and the dignity was just gone overnight. Right. And I can't stress enough what dignity means. Dignity seems like such a easy word. But in reality, when you cease to have the freedom to speak, to communicate, to go to the restroom, to do the basics, you begin to question why you are still here. Oh, I think it's something that every child goes through. And we're seeing it many, I'm seeing it a lot of generation Xers like me who are, you know, taking part in their parents transition to this thing that we call aging in place. And when my dad, you know, he was very much just a fierce independent guy. Yeah. So, you know, was truly, truly not having, you know, like, didn't want nurses and didn't want like, those things were great. And by the way, before like, he could afford those nurses and we were, we're in an incredible, incredible privileged space because of all the work that he and my mother did that we could afford these things at the end of his life. But the reality is to him, that was not the definition of independence and it wasn't the definition of dignity. 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The what now needs to happen right is I think the beauty of what's happening right now in the field of neuro is the functional science, right, the, the, the neurology side of that has begun to emerge and we're beginning we have the tools to start measuring these things. And so in a world where we're measuring everything. Guess what our brains have become a black box because I measure my steps. My weight. I'm like, we measure what we care about. So how is it that we're not caring about our brain but two times in our lifetime. Think about it. Our parents really cared about it at the beginning like right at childhood. I always look at it as the precursor to meditation. Because it certainly was mine. I was having so much trouble clearing the mind and like quieting the mind. And what this these audio sessions did, you know, we started at it was like on day one, I did the five minute guided what I love about what toy does is she guides you through what the music is supposed to do. Then the second, you know, then during week one, I started doing them just five minutes daily. So unguided we give our unguided for free for five minutes. And that's like the simple thing. And I started doing that in the mornings that became a new behavior on the way to work on the train. Nice. Then in week two and three, that expanded to 15 minutes. By the time I was at week four, you know, you want to make that habit. Then you commit to doing it. I actually put it on my schedule and it was like a week four to five. I that turned into 30 minutes week six. I was at you know, I jumped. Most people go to 60 minutes. I jumped to 90 minutes. The beautiful thing is you can listen to an hour, which we have found people beginning to do the average listen time for most people is about 22 minutes daily. Wow, which is an incredible engagement. And so it's really beginning to take off with our listeners. So one, Anna, thank you for listening to but to your brain is going to thank you for listening. Because I think what we really try to do is take people on a progressive journey. So we started out in platforms where it was reachable to people. So that we could learn about what made sense. What were the pain points in the existing platforms? What are the missing things that we needed to build into our current product set and make it more accessible. And I think one of the important parts that we found was that the thing that the app is going to do is be able to give you the brain readiness score that then gives you a recommendation because most people don't know where to start. That's what we found. They might choose something that just sounds good to them, but it may not be the right thing for their brain makeup. This is Cindy Gilman and you're listening to Discover Your Potentials. So until next time, do something nice for yourself, but do something nice for someone else.
