The Hearing Center Presents: Hear Us Out

Conversations about how sound shapes the human experience

Hear Us Out: Where Hearing Meets the World of Sound

Created and hosted by The Hearing Center audiologists Dr. Eric Sandler and Dr. Michelle Schechter

Hear Us Out explores how sound shapes the human experience.

As practicing audiologists, Eric and Michelle bring a perspective to these conversations that goes beyond the typical interview. Their clinical expertise in hearing, combined with a genuine curiosity about music, performance, communication, and technology, allows them to explore not only what their guests do, but how they listen, create, communicate, and experience sound.

Extraordinary Guests. Conversations You Won't Hear Anywhere Else.

Hear Us Out has welcomed an extraordinary range of guests from the worlds of music, Broadway, television, audio, science, medicine, and hearing.

Guests have included Grammy-winning and internationally touring musicians, Tony Award-winning Broadway performers, actors, producers, sound engineers, audiologists, scientists, and innovators—people whose careers and lives are deeply connected to sound.

Among our guests are Warren Haynes, Jeff Coffin of Dave Matthews Band, American Idol winner David Cook, Matthew Morrison of Glee and Broadway, Tony Award winner Lauren Patten, Grammy winner Robert Randolph, Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket, Marc Roberge of O.A.R., Paul Gilbert, and Tommy Emmanuel, along with leading audiologists, scientists, producers, sound engineers, actors, and innovators.

What connects these conversations isn't celebrity. It's sound.

Each episode goes beyond the traditional interview to explore the experiences behind the work: creativity and performance, life on the road, hearing conservation, communication, technology, listening, and the moments when sound becomes personally meaningful.

Audiologists Asking Different Questions

Because Hear Us Out is hosted by audiologists, conversations often go places traditional entertainment interviews don't.

What does a musician actually hear on stage? How does years of performing affect the way someone thinks about their hearing? What makes a great listener? How does sound influence creativity, communication, memory, emotion, and human connection?

These are the kinds of questions Eric and Michelle explore with people who have spent their lives creating, studying, performing, engineering, protecting, and experiencing sound.

From The Hearing Center to Hear Us Out

For nearly four decades, The Hearing Center has helped children and adults hear, communicate, and connect more effectively. Hear Us Out expands that mission beyond the clinic—bringing conversations about hearing and sound to listeners everywhere.

Whether the guest is a world-renowned musician, Broadway performer, audio engineer, scientist, physician, audiologist, or advocate, every episode begins with the same idea:

Sound is more than something we hear. It's part of how we experience life.