You made it here for a reason.
Maybe you’re a cochlear implant recipient who finally found someone who gets it. Maybe you’re an audiologist or surgeon who went into this field because you genuinely believe in what hearing technology can do for people. Maybe you’re a caregiver, a parent, a friend, someone sitting in the waiting room, hoping for the right words.
Whoever you are, you belong here.
The Frequency is where the patient and the provider sit at the same table.
Not across from each other. Not talking at each other. Together — because the gap between hearing technology and human outcomes only closes when we close it together.
Here’s what you can expect from me:
Every issue of The Frequency will bring you honest conversation about what it really means to live and work in the hearing healthcare space, the breakthroughs, the gaps, the moments that change everything, and the ones we almost missed.
I’ll bring you my perspective as a cochlear implant recipient, a patient advocate, and an emerging Hearing Instrument Specialist. I’ll challenge the field with love. I’ll celebrate the providers who show up for the human part. And I’ll give patients language for experiences they’ve never been able to name.
This is not a newsletter about hearing loss.
This is a newsletter about what happens when we truly listen.
I almost didn’t make it to this side of the story.
I was in denial about my hearing loss for years. When I was told I was a cochlear implant candidate, I was overwhelmed, scared, and completely alone in the decision. I didn’t know a single person who had been through it.
What changed everything wasn’t the technology. It was the people around it-a surgeon and an audiologist who met me in the fear, addressed the financial reality, and stayed in the room long enough to make me feel like a human being making a life changing decision.
That experience is why I’m here.
That experience is why you’re here.
Welcome to The Frequency.
We have a lot to talk about.
Live Unmuted.
— Megan Goncher
Founder, The Unmuted Life
P.S. — If this landed in your inbox and you’re not sure how you got here, it means someone who believes in this work thought of you. I’d say that makes you pretty special. Stay a while. 😊