How Mandy Harvey Turns Tragedy into Triumph
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Even the best-laid plans hit snags from time to time. What do you do when you feel like you've lost control of your plans? Today we're talking with Mandy Harvey, an award-winning singer and songwriter who lost her residual hearing at 19. Even after her hearing loss, Mandy pursued an incredibly successful career in music. She performs around the United States, has released four albums, and was recently featured on America's Got Talent. Her story looks different than what she had planned for herself, and it is such an inspiring and powerful example of what it looks like to overcome obstacles and pivot so that you can still chase after your why.
What's In This Episode:
Mandy's story and the journey she's been on to get to where she is now
How losing her hearing has allowed her to communicate more & feel more connected
Dealing with having to change your plans while still staying true to your why
What to do if your dream gives up on you
Getting over fear by permitting yourself to fail
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 8 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity not just to do more, but to achieve what's most important to you. |
| 0:11.9 | Join Tanya this season as she focuses on planning for success using proven productivity strategies. |
| 0:17.7 | To get her free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to |
| 0:21.8 | inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is |
| 0:34.1 | episode 103. Today's podcast is a special one because we've been talking an awful lot about making plans. |
| 0:42.4 | But what do you do when you lose control of your plans? |
| 0:45.9 | Even the best laid plans and dreams hit snags from time to time. |
| 0:50.0 | So when I met Mandy Harvey recently at an event that we both spoke at, I absolutely knew I had |
| 0:55.7 | to have her on the show. I knew her story would be incredibly inspiring because, you see, |
| 1:01.8 | Mandy Harvey is an award-winning singer, and she's a songwriter who lost her residual hearing |
| 1:07.2 | at the age of 19. Yes, Mandy is deaf. But even after her hearing loss, |
| 1:14.5 | she has been able to pursue an incredibly successful career in music. She's an in-demand |
| 1:19.3 | performer. She's released four albums. Mandy performs around the United States, and she's won |
| 1:25.4 | the VSA's top young soloist award, and she's |
| 1:28.8 | even lived out a personal dream of performing at the Kennedy Center in D.C. You might recognize |
| 1:34.6 | her from her appearance on America's Got Talent, where she earned the Golden Buzzer from |
| 1:39.1 | Simon Cowell for performing her original song Try. She has done an amazing amount after becoming deaf. |
| 1:47.3 | So I know, you might be wondering, how was I able to do this interview since Mandy can't hear? |
| 1:53.7 | Well, we used a different program than I normally use for interviews. That way she could use a talk-to-text |
| 1:59.3 | feature, essentially turning my questions into written |
| 2:02.3 | form for her. And this worked great for us to communicate. But it did cause a few problems for the audio. |
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