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What Owning a Franchise Has Taught Two Deaf Brothers About Communication

For these brothers, business is a second language.
Source: John Clark

Waylon and Jerrel Mathern are like any small-business owners: They know how important are. But the brothers have had to work harder than most to get their across. They were born profoundly deaf, a term that means they’re unable to detect sound at all, and so have spent their lives reaching out in a hearing-impairment-unfriendly world. In succeeding, they’ve defied

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