Michael Caprio
Author, Speaker & Rare Disease Advocate
Michael Caprio is a published author, speaker, and rare disease advocate who uses storytelling to help audiences reframe adversity, build resilience, and find meaning through life’s most unexpected challenges.
Drawing from his family’s four-generation battle with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP), a rare inherited colorectal cancer condition, Michael shares a deeply personal journey shaped by surgeries, uncertainty, and fear—and how discovering gratitude transformed what once felt like a nightmare into a source of strength, perspective, and fulfillment.
In his memoir, A Bump in the Road: My Medical Journey over Potholes, Detours and the Bridge to Gratitude, Michael chronicles this journey with honesty and hope, offering insight into how resilience is built not through avoidance of hardship, but by learning how to move through it with intention.
Michael’s talks resonate with audiences navigating health challenges, personal setbacks, or periods of profound uncertainty. Through a blend of lived experience and reflection, he helps listeners reconnect with gratitude in a way that feels grounded and attainable—providing perspective they can apply long after the talk ends.
As a passionate advocate for rare disease awareness, Michael actively collaborates with organizations such as Fight CRC and engages with patient and medical communities to raise awareness of hereditary colorectal cancer conditions like FAP. His work bridges lived experience and education, helping audiences better understand the human impact behind research, care, and advocacy.
Whether speaking to healthcare professionals, advocacy organizations, universities, or general audiences, Michael brings an honest, relatable, and uplifting presence to every stage—inviting listeners to view their own challenges through a lens of resilience, gratitude, and possibility.
