What's in a voice? You wake up one morning, and when you try to speak, your voice is very hoarse. You think to yourself, it must be a cold. After all, you have been healthy as a horse for your entire life. You drink lemon water infused with honey, maybe take some cough drops, and if you are particularly invested in your health, you go to the doctor, who peeks down your throat with a bright light and a puzzled frown. It's not an infection. But months later, your voice is almost completely gone, reduced to a hiss. You see more doctors, but even they cannot say what is causing the voice loss and the accompanying shortness of breath. Amid this voicelessness, you graduate with your Bachelors' degree and get a job with an internation firm. After many years, your job transfers you to a different country, one with more advanced facilites and there, someone finally tells you what it is, this thief of voices. You undergo so many surgeries, it becomes a blur, but at the end of that dark tunnel, you finally see the light - you have a voice again, but it doesn't sound like your old voice. This new voice is foreign, like wearing someone else's clothes. But it now belongs to you. This new voice causes people to judge you, because it doesn't match what they think you should sound like. Imagine all this happening while you are pursuing a demanding international career involving high-stakes client facing negotiations. Would you continue to walk through life unbent by the weight of it all? Angie does. Every. Single. Day. Here's her journey of unbowing resilience, available wherever you listen to Podcasts