269 - Zach Tidwell and Me
The Jeff Macolino Podcast
Jeff Macolino
5.0 • 104 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Zach Tidwell is a completely blind Marine Corps veteran. He lost all of his sight and Hearing in one ear to a suicide attempt six years ago, when he shot himself in the face. He had to relearn everything, and struggled with rampant alcoholism. Despite being diagnosed with a deadly, incurable, genetic disease along the way, he's now a sober, award-winning, self-taught software developer and entrepreneur, making the digital world a more accessible place for everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.1 | This is an awesome podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | This is one of my favorite ones. |
| 0:09.9 | To the Jeff. |
| 0:11.2 | There's a lot of whiskey, Jeff. |
| 0:13.4 | McAulino. |
| 0:15.2 | Jeff McAulino. |
| 0:17.0 | Macalino. |
| 0:17.6 | Macalino. |
| 0:19.8 | Podcast. |
| 0:26.6 | All right, all right, everybody. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:29.0 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:30.8 | Sorry, looking at my computer. |
| 0:36.6 | Second episode of 2026, trigger warning on this one. |
| 0:37.5 | No pun intended. |
| 0:39.1 | This guest, we talk a lot about mental health, including suicide. |
| 0:45.1 | So if that kind of thing is jarring to you, I know that even though word people try |
| 0:50.7 | not to say on YouTube, but I don't care so much because it's a real thing I don't |
| 0:56.5 | think censoring it is is there's much point in it so if that sort of thing is sensitive to you |
| 1:03.9 | don't watch this episode or listen to this episode but there's some important mental health |
| 1:09.9 | stuff I recorded this episode back in October. |
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