S4 E9: Interview with Etai from Etai’s Corner

Today Martha is joined by Etai, an empowerment and communication coach, disability advocate, and passionate language enthusiast. Together, they dive deep into what it means to truly connect—with ourselves, with language, and with others. Etai shares his lived experience as a multilingual speaker born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, his journey from Israel to the U.S., and how language and communication have been central to his life.

Topics We Cover:

• Etai’s story and how disability advocacy and language learning shaped his life

• Viewing communication as an intuitive, deeply personal process

• Why grammar and vocabulary are just tools—not the full picture

• Creating a shared language and “consensus reality”

• The power of defining terms and slowing down in conversations

• How intuitive coaching and deep listening foster authentic connection

• Language as play: how joy and curiosity fuel lifelong learning

• The importance of emotional resonance in language learning

• Understanding your own “bubble” before expecting others to

• How most communication is repair—and why that’s okay

• Etai’s #1 piece of advice for mental health and language learning

Quotable Moments:

“Communication is all about the repair.”
“If it doesn’t excite you, why do it?”
“The fact that people can communicate at all is a miracle.”
“Every single person has their own language—the question is, how do we build a shared one?”

Connect with Etai:
🌐 Website: etaiscorner.net
📺 YouTube: Etai’s Corner
📷 Instagram: @etaiscorner
💬 Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn: Etai’s Corner
☕ Support: Buy Me a Coffee & PayPal donations available via website