Founder of The Flow Group on Reinventing Hearing Tech, Accessibility & Turning Trauma into Purpose
Hacks and Hobbies with Junaid AhmedShow Notes
From near-bankruptcy, vision loss and addiction to door-to-door breakthroughs with seniors — Michael Leung’s story is messy, human, and relentless. In this episode he pulls back the curtain on how lived hardship became the catalyst for building The Flow Group: affordable, stigma-busting open-ear hearing tech that’s changing how people connect.
Description: Michael Leung, founder of The Flow Group, reveals the grit behind his mission to make communication stigma-free and accessible. He shares candid moments about sobriety, retinitis pigmentosa, and the real-world, heart-level work of earning trust in senior communities. This conversation blends tech curiosity — bone conduction, noise reduction and product design — with a moral one: how to build businesses that restore dignity.
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