Overcoming Communication Barriers: Angela Beyer's Journey

changes, but now it's more for health reasons.

Okay. Yeah, because as you know, I'm pretty sure you know as well as more than I do how big a health issue is right now just in the States and worldwide, period. You know, the health thing. So Angela, going to another question. So what were some of the biggest obstacles have you had to overcome and how did you overcome them?

Oh my gosh, another good question. Um, the funny thing about the whole transition was in Germany, I was in management in, in the finance world, and I had a lot of responsibility, and I was always a very good speaker, and I was very clever of using words. And then when I came to the States, this one skill was taken away from me, and it is so funny how people treat you when you're not a good communicator. And it was, uh, very eye-opening to me, um, how, how you get put in a, like, category, or if they treat you— they treated you differently because you weren't able to express yourself the way you wanted to. And, um, that was an obstacle by itself where I'm like, oh my gosh, this is bizarre. Like,