I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudette. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Now let me give you a fan boy alert. My guest today without exception is my absolute

hero my top number one absolute hero. I cannot think of anyone that has affected my life

more than Jill Balti Taylor in the last seven years of my life.

Most of my actions, most of my ability

to seek my feminine side, to live in flow,

has been triggered by her unbelievably emotional touching, informative, connecting

TED Talk, which was titled My Stroke of Insight which has received now well over

26 million views. Every time Jill gets to the point where she said,

I found nirvana.

I cry like a baby every single time.

Because she describes it so well. Every single single time and I've listened to this

tens of times already.

Dr. Jill Balti Taylor is a Harvard trained and published neuroscientist. In 1996 she experienced a stroke

that basically disabled the left hemisphere of her brain.

She lost her ability to walk, to talk, to read, to write or recall any of her life.

And she documented it all in a memoir, a New York Times bestseller that was titled My Stroke of Insight.

My Stroke of Insight spent 63 weeks on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list and it's still today

routinely the number one book about strokes on Amazon.

After her TED Talk Dr. Jill was chosen as one of Times magazine 100 most

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