Mike Strausbaugh is a TED speaker, music mentor/professor with three Master's of Music, survivor of a 12-year medical nightmare, award-winning composer and guitarist. He lived with a terrible disease for more than a decade until he was finally diagnosed with Common Variable Immunodeficiency.   After grad school, Mike returned home to Colorado and started teaching guitar and music again, both privately and academically at a small college in Denver.

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