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Dan Macqueen

Oct 21, 2026

4:30
I would like to ask, what did taking control actually look like in that beginning? Can you give us a picture of what it was for you?
4:44
Yeah.
4:44
Well, for instance, I'll tell you a story about how the nurse got me talking again.
4:49
So initially after the brain hemorrhage and the tracheotomy I had, my vocal cords were fried.
4:53
They told my parents I may not be a talker again 'cause the vocal cords look, they're pretty shot.
4:57
I had a cubie nurse and she was a mean old gal, and she, uh, read my charts and she goes, "Oh, I'll get Dan talking again." Wheeled me down to the park in the wheelchair, some kids playing football, soccer across the park.
5:08
She goes, "Dan, those kids across the park, they don't think you're good enough to talk, Dan.

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23:28
So on the point of AI, what's your thought on what AI can offer? Do you think AI will make agency more important for employees?
23:07
So how did you embrace those walks? Because, you know, I think walking is one of the best ways to clear our mind and help us heal through the things that we think through.
23:25
Well, I embraced those walks so I knew that every time I was getting bumped into, it was making me better.
23:30
I was training myself to get better.
23:32
And better than yesterday is what I live by.
23:35
That mantra is very simple.
23:36
It just means I try to improve myself from how I behaved and conducted myself yesterday to today.
23:45
Ratchet things up slowly, right? That aim small, miss small, and ratchet mentality is there.

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30:02
in agreement.
BlessedHOST
4:27
And I carried on my day.
4:29
The next day, I went storming back into A&E.
4:31
Now, A&E is actually an emergency in the UK, like ER in the county of the United States.
4:36
I told them what's going on here.
4:37
I was blind on a tube station in London.
4:39
This is not normal.
4:40
They ran some more tests, and again, they thought it was vertigo.

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BlessedHOST
11:40
How should people start looking at setbacks differently?

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