Recode Decode: Ted Baxter

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Writer and health advocate Ted Baxter talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his book, Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better. Baxter, a former managing director at the hedge fund Citadel, had the stroke when he was only 41, and recounts how doctors initially misdiagnosed his symptoms; he also discusses the recovery process, which accelerated after he accepted that he couldn't return to his investing job, and shares advice for people who have recently experienced a stroke or other life-changing event themselves. Read a full transcript of this interview here. Featuring: Ted Baxter (@TedWBaxter), health advocate and author of Relentless: How a Massive Stroke Changed My Life for the Better Hosts: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: Subscribe for free to Reset, Recode's new podcast that explores why — and how — tech is changing everything. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode.
0:03.8	You may know me as someone who will stop and smell the roses right after I finish sending
0:07.4	these tweets, but in my spare time I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Recode
0:11.2	decode a podcast about power change and the people you need to know around the tech industry
0:15.9	were part of the Vox Media podcast network.
0:18.5	Today in the red chair is Ted Baxter, a former managing director at the hedge fund Citadel.
0:23.7	In 2005 he experienced a massive eschemic stroke and has spent the past 14 years speaking
0:28.8	out on strokes, aphasia, inspiration and motivation.
0:32.7	He also wrote a book about the process of recovery called Relentless, How a Massive Stroke
0:37.0	Changed My Life For The Better.
0:38.9	It is a particularly personal episode for me because I myself also had a stroke, not
0:43.3	as massive but very troubling for me and my family.
0:47.1	I'm so excited to talk about this.
0:48.8	I've written about it in the New York Times, Ted.
0:50.2	Welcome to Recode decode.
0:51.2	Thank you for having me on the show.
0:52.8	So why don't we just get started as fellow Stroke survivors, I guess everybody call ourselves.
0:57.7	What do we call them?
0:58.7	I don't do we have a name, a club.
1:01.4	I think aphasia club or a stroke club.
1:05.2	Stroke club, okay.
1:06.2	All right.
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