About

My last ambulance shift, the call came in for me.

I was 22. I had been a member of Magen David Adom, Israel's national ambulance service, since I was a teenager. The doctors who met me at the door were friends. Twenty minutes later I was a patient.

Almost seven years in bed followed. Then relapses, and two and a half years of rehabilitation. Almost a decade in all. I collected diagnoses. Twenty-something by now. POTS is one of them.

I used to tell this as a triumph. It never fit. So I'm telling it the way I'd tell it to a friend, with the jokes left in.

Chronically is the name for all my work: talks, workshops, books, courses and the weekly note.

Since then: more than 200 keynotes, and books.

I live in Vienna. Booking goes through A-Speakers, or write to me.

I am faculty at IMC Krems, a Dell Pro Precision Ambassador, and on the board of the Ruth Vrobel Foundation in Israel.

Please excuse Roi from being motivational.