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Podcast: ListenUp!
Episode: Jenni Ahtiainen - Making Hearing Aids Fashionable and Unique
Description: Jenni Ahtiainen is a successful Finnish designer working in the fashion, beauty, and hearing aid industries. Her designs are sold internationally and she’s designed stage costumes for musicians like Marilyn Manson, Snoop Dogg, and Bono. She started her own brand, Deafmetal, which sells fashion-forward jewelry created and designed for hearing aid and cochlear implant users. In this episode… Hearing aids and cochlear implants have historically held a stigma. One of the greatest contributors to this hesitancy is the appearance of the technology. The cold, medical appearance has a social impact that many go to grea...