A lot of success stories skip the messy parts. We don’t. Michael Leung, founder and CEO of the Flow Group, walks us through what it actually looks like to lose your footing and still find your way back: immigrating from Hong Kong to Canada as a kid, watching his mother battle bone cancer, and then spiraling into years of rebellion, street life, addiction, and deep grief that still shows up as PTSD.

From there, the conversation shifts into the reality of disability and health. Michael explains living with retinitis pigmentosa, the shock of a retinal detachment, and the brutal recovery process that follows eye surgery. We also talk about the hope and limits of emerging gene therapy for vision loss, including why some treatments depend on specific DNA matches and why eligibility isn’t always straightforward.

What makes this story land is how he turns pain into purpose. Michael shares how ADHD shapes his work style, why he chooses therapy and sobriety, and how discipline becomes a daily practice instead of a personality trait. That drive leads into his mission: building a stigma-free assistive hearing device using bone conduction headphones to help people, especially seniors with hearing loss, feel confident, connected, and less socially isolated. If you care about resilience, mental health, hearing loss solutions, and real-world entrepreneurship, this one stays with you.

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