A Tribute To The Women Who Made Him What He Is

Jarrett Bauer co-founded Health Recovery Solutions with Rohan Udeshi and Dan Priece. It seeks to reduce hospital readmissions through a platform that helps patients, and family members, monitor their recoveries. What he learned from his grandma and mother made it all possible.

- Emily Canal

I’m not known as Jarrett Bauer. I’m known as Jayne Gilbride Bauer’s son.

I grew up with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. My test scores were bad and I hated school. My mom knew that had to change. She got me into a special school called Windward in White Plains, New York. She tricked me. She said, “You’re going to try this out”—but she’d already paid for it.

We lived in New Jersey, so she would drive me an hour and a half to my grandma’s house and I’d live there Monday to Friday. That was how it was, from second grade to eighth grade.

It was a huge burden on my family. It was just like, “This kid has something special, and we have to make sure that he’s able to reach his potential.” My mom would drive me three hours every week, and we would study vocabulary words, go through math problems, and listen to the Lion King soundtrack.