This article is a part of the March/April 2025, Volume 37, Number 2, Audiology Today issue.
American Academy of Audiology President Patricia Gaffney, AuD, MPH, spoke with Nadene Cherry, the AAA 2025+HearTECH Expo keynote speaker, about the impact of meditation on her life, her connection to audiology, and her upcoming speech in New Orleans. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Patricia Gaffney (PG): Tell us a little bit about your background.
Nadene Cherry (NC): My background is in enterprise technology sales, corporate America, hustling hard. About four years into the job, I had one of those moments that knocks you on the ground and you ask, “Life, is this what’s it all about?” That’s when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was the big wake-up call for me that I wanted to live life more presently, with more intention, and that I was missing out on so much of my life, the connections with people…because I was so caught up in my own world at the time, focused on business.
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