If you’re an adult just having been diagnosed with dyslexia, if you’re a parent whose child has been diagnosed with dyslexia, there is often a lot of confusion and questions that need answers. It can also feel so isolated and lonely.
Where do you turn?
How do you know the advice you’re getting is legitimate?
Who can you trust to talk to to seek answers?
Our Guest in this episode of the podcast is that person who, as a person with dyslexia, has seen it all. He was written off at school and at work and through grit and determination and lots of self-belief, he completed a Masters Degree and went from a failing child in school to advising businesses how to grow. He managed this through leaning into his dyslexic strengths.
Our guest is the brilliant Philip Long!
Having his own success story with dyslexia, Philip wants to share his story so that no child can go through the trauma he did through school and early career. Now Philip shares this with the community he set up to ensure parents and children got all the support in the early days/weeks/months and years of a dyslexic diagnosis.
Philip has set-up a free dyslexic community ‘Success with Dyslexia’ as a safe space for parents, children and adults to come to get answers they desperately need by utilising the power of community to support one-another.
As well as offering support, Success with Dyslexia also contains resources and coaching so that everyone can find support in a way that works for them.
In this episode you will hear an inspiring story from being discarded by school and and discriminated at work, to achieving a masters degree, leaning into your dyslexic strengths, and creating a community to support other people with dyslexia!
Dyslexic Strength:
- Grit
- Entrepreneurial
- Empathy/Listening
- Communication
Dyslexic Hack:
- Software and AI (Assistive Technology)
Key Topics:
- Struggling at School
- Bullying
- Early days of a career and the discrimination
- Getting a masters degree
- Founding a dyslexic community
- Helping others to thrive with dyslexia
Keywords
- Dyslexia, dyslexic, success, masters degree,
