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Ralph Preston

Ralph Preston

Founder and CEO of Stroke Buddies nonprofit; stroke survivor and advocate who created 400+ recovery videos to support stroke survivors with aphasia and post-stroke rehabilitation.

Jun 25, 2026

4:50
But let's talk about what was the mindset? What was the kind of thinking that got you there? You had said, I know from your stroke story, that you came home in a wheelchair and you were not willing to settle with that.
5:13
no no it was not like my mindset was i'm pretty intense so my mindset in the rehab hospitals i signed up for more therapies i found out i could go to different things that i wasn't pool therapy and stuff so i signed up for anything and everything i could i didn't want to watch sit in bed and watch tv but i could get better and i carried that right home and I started, I got home five o'clock one day and started the next morning doing, I literally did 10 hours a day of therapy for about 15 months.
5:43
Every hour on the hour, every other hour on the hour, I would walk and the other hours I would work on my hand and my arm and shoulder.
5:54
Like I said, I'm pretty intense.
5:55
I don't expect people to be able to do that.
5:57
But I learned that the more you put in the more you get out.
6:03
And so I encourage people in basically as running a group and doing videos, I'm basically coaching a lot of people at once.

7 MINS LATER

12:45
that can act as a distraction, that can work as something to put their focus on till they get through a moment.

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