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August 25, 2025 • 15 mins
What happens when life throws you a curveball so hard it changes your voice forever? For most, it would mean the end of a dream. For Drew Lynch, it was just the beginning. 🌟

In this inspiring episode of Amazing Women & Men of Power: Legends and Icons Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Raven the Talk Show Maven welcomes the unforgettable comedian who turned tragedy into triumph. From a freak accident that left him with a stutter to becoming a Golden Buzzer sensation on America’s Got Talent, Drew’s story proves that resilience, humor, and authenticity can transform setbacks into superpowers.

🎬 Hear how Drew built a worldwide fanbase with viral comedy, his hit Dog Vlog, and his raw, hilarious, and deeply personal latest special The Stuttering Comedian.

💡 Discover his perspective on life’s unexpected challenges and the lessons they teach us about surrender, strength, and self-acceptance.

😂 Plus—plenty of laughs along the way! This episode will uplift, entertain, and remind you that sometimes the very thing that breaks us is what makes us unforgettable. 💪
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Sometimes the very thing that breaks us, you know what
guys ends up making us unforgettable. Yeah, imagine losing your voice,
not metaphorically but literally after a freak accident. For most,
that would end a dream. Before today's guests, it sparked

(00:29):
one of comedy's most inspiring Did I see inspiring? Oh yeah,
I did, most inspiring journeys. Welcome to amazing women and
men of power, legends and icons. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
I'm your host, Raven the Talk Show Maven. And today
we're rolling out the red carpet for a comedian who

(00:50):
stole America's heart on America's Got Talent, became a golden
buzzer sensation.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
And now entertains millions online with his dog blog and
hit specials with millions of fans across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok,
and YouTube. He's taking his story worldwide. His latest special,
The Stuttering Comedian, is his most personal, yet funny, wrong
and powerfully real. Oh yeah, so give a virtual round

(01:23):
of applause. You know what I like to say, y'all,
if you're standing, you is better sit down, And if
you sit you better stand up. Because the man, the
one and only Drew Lynne is here.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I don't know that the interview is going to be
as good as that intro. I was wild.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh my god, well I told you I'm ready for you.
I'm super excited. Drew. First of all, congratulations, Oh my god,
on all bat you done? How does it feel?

Speaker 3 (01:55):
He was really good?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I feel even better though, because of that intro. People
don't even know we were talking about technical difficulties just
before this.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
We were like, what about your camera? And she's like,
what about what about your camera? I was like, all right,
I'll work my camera, what about yours? And then Ravens
isn't even on She's wearing a beautiful hat. She's like,
I know she is. I can't even see it, but
we know she's in an awesome outfit.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
You guys were losing such quality stuff here because of Zoom,
and Raven got all dressed up for this. I feel bad.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Oh, don't feel bad, but I get it. I get
it because I was looking forward to seeing you too.
And just so you know, the head is blue and
it got a little sparkled too.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Oh oh that sounds awesome.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
What does it mean to you, Drew to share this
side of your story because it's so personal, it's so
touching with the world, and share it in this way.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, I think stand up has a bit of a
perception that it's just it's always silly, it's always fun,
and it is supposed to be those things. But I
feel like the way I got into this career is
pretty unconventional, to say the least. I had a softball
injury when I was twenty, and it was a freak

(03:11):
accident that left me with a stutter, and and I
I couldn't control a lot of my motor skills because
of it, and I couldn't get hired anywhere because of it.
And so there's really something special about being able to

(03:31):
just go on stage and say this is who I am,
this is my this is my this is my raw me,
this is the raw narrative of my raw story, and
here's here's what makes me human. And stand up as
a as a vehicle is very is very involved because

(03:54):
you write, you act in it, you direct, your how
you edit, the whole process. It weighs is just it
rests entirely on your shoulder, on your shoulders, and so
it's it's definitely been a journey.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah, I can imagine boy, and I heard a little
bit of your story, but let's kind of catch the
audience on a clipnote version if you don't mind. Okay,
So I know you had a brain injury, right, a
traumatic brain injury, And let me just get that right,
did that cause the stuttering was their studtering before that?

(04:30):
Can you kind of just give us a short version
of that?

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Sure, Yeah, it wasn't. I didn't grow up with a stutter.
This wasn't something that I had since I was younger.
It happened to me when I was twenty and I
it had a just a freak accident playing a softball game.
A grounder had hit me in the throat and I
had fallen and hit my head on the ground. And
at the time, everybody had thought that it was like,

(04:54):
you know, like a non thing. It was just like, oh, like, yeah,
he just he's a bit My teammates are telling me,
you know, he's a bit dazed. And then I went
into work that day and my coworkers were like, you're
not making any sense. Go home. So the next day
I woke up. So I had had a apparently I
had a concussion and a vocal contusion, but I went

(05:15):
to sleep and woke up the next day and was
my speech was different and I was disoriented and still
and uh, and my roommate rushed me to the hospital
and everything everything from there was just like changed. Every
you know, doctors were telling me that it was uh,

(05:36):
it was, it was gonna be fine. Other doctors were
saying like that, we we gotta we got to run
some some brain scans because we've not we've not seen
anything like this, and it became just an undetermined sort
of thing. And I always I was always under the
impression that that that my speech would get better, like

(05:57):
they had said. But it was it was years.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
It had been year.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, it's it's been it's been a process of
you know, fifteen years of me getting to speak the
way that I speak now, because before it was very
very slow, staccato and just just dissonant.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, well, while you sound great now, I know you
still have those moments. But what would be the lesson
that you would pass on to others drew that are
facing some kind of unexpected challenge like you, You didn't
grow up with this, right, this is something that happened.
So I guess there's twofold questions, how do you feel

(06:38):
you push, pasted it and moved on, and what would
be the lesson you would want to pass on to
our listeners tuning in.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Sure, I think the lesson that I learned from it
is that it's it's always a lesson in your plans
versus whatever the universe's plans are. If you're a spiritual
or God's plan, you know these are things, these are
things that you know you can't you can't foresee, you
can't see it at the time, and you just have

(07:07):
to hold on. That's really what it is. You just
have to kind of weather the storm because you can't
see it at the time that it's happening, and so
when it's happening, it's it feels like the worst, it
feels like you just want to react. You just want
to do what you can. And at the time I
did like, I did what I did what I could

(07:27):
by trying to combat what happened to me and compensate.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
For for for for this.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Whole life change by taking it into my own hands.
And I think you can do that to a certain degree.
I absolutely think that that no one should be able
to tell you what it is you can or cannot do,
but at the same time also understanding that maybe there's
a reason why things happened in the way that they
happen that you can't see it at that time, and

(07:55):
and being okay with that, being at peace with the
fact that that that there are things that happened that
you can't control. I mean, even the act of stuttering
is not something.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
That I like.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Even as as much control as I have over my
speech now, it is still something that I can't always control.
And that to me is like a lesson is that
the more I've let go and the less that I've cared,
the better it's gotten. So it's just that lesson it's

(08:29):
zoomed out or blown up is kind of what's taught
me that, like, just less resistance can sometimes lead to
more of an impact.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, wow, and you are making it impact on people.
You certainly are okay. So were you doing comedy before
then or did that lead you into comedy?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I had performed my whole life. I wanted to be
an actor growing up, my whole life, and so I
had been on stage and I always felt comfortable in
front of people. So the idea that just because I
was stuttering was not going to be something that kept
me from being being in front of people. In fact,
I think being on stage and working through it has

(09:17):
been something that has really expedited my my recovery and
helped me feel more accepted too, and more at peace
and more at peace with it. So I had always
been in front of crowds, but never never really never

(09:37):
did stand up prior to my injury.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
And the moment, the moment, the moment, the Golden Buzzer, moment,
God Talent, oh MD, how was that experience?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
It was? It was actually pretty pretty crazy because that
that that show, Like I didn't know what a golden
buzzer was. I didn't know what that was. That was
the first one that they ever did. Was was the
one that they used for me on that season, and
so I guess what it was is it was like

(10:16):
it's it's a thing that advances you to the live shows.
But what I saw at the time, so I was
there on stage with Nick Cannon and he's, you know,
I just did my audition, and Howie Mandel's talking to
me and he's saying really powerful things to me. He's
saying like just like I just felt like he understood
me as a human being, like, regardless of the fact

(10:37):
that we were we were on TV, and we were
we were on a huge stage, and there's all these
other judges, and regardless of the fact that he is
who he is, He's just talking to me, and it
just felt like just like comic to comic, like person
to person. And he ends up like hitting his desk
and there's a buzzer, I guess on this desk and

(10:59):
all this all this confetti starts to come down. Right
after my audition, all this confetti starts to come down.
But I didn't know it was confetti. Raven I thought
it was It looked like cash, like you know when
people like like when stuff falls from the ceiling. So
he was like, and I want to He was like,
and I want to do this, and he hits his
desk and all this stuff comes down. I thought, like,
in my for a very short second, I thought I

(11:21):
won the show. I was like, this is the I
just did it.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
I did it.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
All it took was one audition. That's how good I was.
I was so good that all the cash is come
in and I'm gonna collect it. Get out of the way,
Nick Cannon, move, I gotta collect all my cash and
it was it was just confetti, but still special, but
it it was something that could let me go to
the Yeah, I CT they did not take it that

(11:47):
wells Fargo, they didn't take it at all.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Us looking at things like that on TV, that golden
buzzing moment is pretty exciting. I mean, just pressing the audience.
We're like, yeah, you know, I'm talking about an virtual audience,
so I can even imagine how the the audience. Then
you must have belt in your family and stuff. Now
we I'm looking at the clock and I got like
a couple of minutes with you, So let's get into
this special. Uh, the shuttering comedian. What do you want

(12:13):
us to know about that? What can you tell us
about that?

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Sure? So, I for a very long time was not
really known at all by my name, And that's okay,
but it just kind of like we were talking about,
I just kind of became written off as just somebody
that was like, oh, this is the stuttering comedian that
I don't know. Oh, you're the You're the shuttering good comedian,
you know, And that's fine, Like it's fine to feel like, oh,

(12:39):
you have a brand or you have a you have
a thing that is a defining feature. But at the
same time it's a little it's a little dehumanizing. It's
a little like you feel a little like a like
a like a product or just you know, kind of like,
you know, just do the you know, do your do
your thing. And and and so I made that in

(13:00):
a long time ago that I wanted to try to
improve my speech, to improve my quality of life, but
also to not be defined by any one moment. So
it's like, for the very reason that this whole thing
happened to me is the very reason that I wanted
it to not not be a thing that I was

(13:20):
associated with, you know. For for initially it was like,
when I had this thing change my life, I was like,
I'm not gonna let this thing define what I what
I'm not willing to achieve or not able to achieve.
And now it's like, I'm not going to let this
thing be a thing that is always on other people's terms.
So it's it. The special is about any question anyone

(13:45):
would ever have about my injury, my rehabilitation, my response
that I had gotten from people about it, how it.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
Made me feel over the years, all of that.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
I wanted to be put into one place. And that's
what that's what the Stuttering Comedian is.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh, I love it. I love it. Okay, if you
haven't yet, go watch the Stuttering Comedian on Drew's YouTube channel, right, Drew,
that's where they can go.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, and that is.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
At the Drew Lynch.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
At the Drew Lynch.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yup, okay, good. It's heartfelt, hilarious and already blowing up.
You gotta annoy it. You got annoy it, so run,
don't want You're not gonna want to miss this. You're
not gonna want to miss the man himself and Drew.
All I can say is this has been a super
pleasure being with you. I'm gonna take a picture of
me and my hat and find you on social media.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
And yes, please do What a what a what a
lost opportunity?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Well, thank you again, and thank you everyone for listening
to amazing women and minne power legends and icons yesterday, today,
and tomorrow. Let's give the man a hand again.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, thanks reaching, thank you, aving, good bye,
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