This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way.
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Hi, it's Karen in Georgia from My Favorite Murder. We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ionic 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedy Lamar. Want the full story? Take a listen. She starts dating Howard Hughes.
And in fact, she helps him design a faster plane.
So she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius. Check out our new episode, Spotlighting Groundbreaking Innovators like Hedi Lamar and Billie Jean King. Presented by the Hyundai Ionic 5.
Goodbye. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories. Mike Zandel is a husband, father, and successful Iowa-based founder and CEO of Legacy Bridge Private Family Office. He also lives with a disease that you might know all too well. Alzheimer's.
The astonishing thing is Mike's lived with it for six years. Mike joins us today to share his story of resilience and why he made it his mission to change the narrative around dementia in Alzheimer's. Take it away, Mike. I think, and this is going to sound really, really strange. I think Alzheimer's may have been a blessing for me.
My first experience with Alzheimer's was with my father. He had a very tough course of Alzheimer's. We took away the keys from his car without him knowing. He had hallucinations, thought people were in his room. He had to fight them off.
One time I was walking with him in the parking lot looking at cars because he used to be a Chevrolet automobile dealer. And he reached over and he grabbed my hand. My dad was a man's man, so to speak. Played football at Notre Dame in the 1930s, and he played with a leather helmet. My dad would have never walked through anywhere holding my hand in public.
So he had a very difficult course. He eventually broke a hip and then after that he went downhill pretty fast. Mom's course was much different. Her progression and my dad's progression were just about completely opposite. She was a happy person.
She had a wonderful personality. She loved to laugh and tell jokes. And her motto that we put in her obituary was, have fun while you can. It was hard to watch both of them. Um It's a long disease.
It's not like you get some really bad cancer, and nine months later, you know, you lose your life. It's a long, slow. Haul, your body kind of loses control.
So people don't like to hear this, but basically, what happens is they both wound up starving to death. It's very heartbreaking. It's extremely heartbreaking, I can say that. And anybody who's been through it knows exactly what I'm talking about. After they passed across my mind.
I started getting really worried about myself, okay? I've always had what I feel some memory issues. I probably have a little ADD in my makeup. I wonder is this is this ADD or is this Alzheimer's disease? But I was afraid to know.
Because I've had depression in my life, I was afraid that if I got that diagnosis, I would go into that dark hole. And I did not want to do that.
So I put off my diagnosis until One day I was walking around my house and I couldn't find My Phone. My iPhone. I walked upstairs. No phone. I walked all the way downstairs.
No phone. Went into the garage, looked at car. No phone. Went into my office. No phone.
Went back upstairs to the bedroom. And I asked my wife, I said, would you call my phone so I can find it? She called my phone. And it rang. It rang quite loudly.
Because I had been holding. my phone in my hand. the whole entire time. And so that for me was my moment of truth when I had to say, okay, Mike. We've got to do something here.
There's something going on.
So I really got to figure this out. I had a 23andM test taken, and that revealed that I had both APOE4 genes, which meant I was 15 times as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than the general population.
So that certainly spurred me on. I wound up at a very good institute down in Phoenix. They diagnosed me with memory loss. But they wanted me to come back to do further inquiries as to really what this was. And the results from the neurocognitive exam.
Said that it looked like I had the cognitive status that may be due to Alzheimer's disease.
Okay. I had been diagnosed. with Alzheimer's disease. That was a long weekend for me. There are a lot of tears that weekend.
I was kind of expecting it, but I'll tell you, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I got my family around them and I told them, I told them. I do not know how. but I'm going to defeat this disease. I'm not going to let this disease control me, change me, or push me into a corner.
My geriatrician. When she diagnosed me, She said, you've just been diagnosed with the disease for right now is terminal. We have no. treatment for it. I want you to find gratitude in your everyday life.
And I said, well, you know, okay. She goes, no, you have to find gratitude and you have to give gratitude.
So I thought about that. And it's proven that when you show gratitude and give gratitude, there are biochemicals that are increased in your own brain. I also took it to heart. That's the other little, tiny little silver lining of getting Alzheimer's disease. As I've learned to embrace gratitude, not only find gratitude, but express liberty has never been just a word to we Americans.
It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues.
Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q. That's usmint.gov/slash S-E-M-I-Q. This July 4th, come celebrate at America's Block Party, hosted by America 250. America's Block Party is a Camp Miss Fourth of July concert happening at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Experience music performances by major artists, patriotic tributes, and The kickoff to Giving Forth, helping to make July 4th the largest day of giving in American history.
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Hi, it's Karen in Georgia from My Favorite Murder. We cruised around LA in the Hyundai Ionic 5 and dove into the fascinating life of actress and inventor Hedi Lamar. Want the full story? Take a listen. She starts dating Howard Hughes.
And in fact, she helps him design a faster plane.
So she finds the fastest bird and the fastest fish and sketches out a drawing of what the two would look like as a plane. And that becomes the plane that we know today. And he calls her a genius. Check out our new episode, Spotlighting Groundbreaking Innovators like Hedi Lamar and Billie Jean King. Presented by the Hyundai Ionic 5.
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