S2E34: The Roots of Dyslexia - Going Deep to Understand Embarrassment and Support

In a raw and unfiltered conversation, a casual chat takes a profound turn as Juliet and Brent delve into the intricacies of dyslexia and its impact. But amidst the banter and laughter, a startling truth emerges - the depths of embarrassment and struggle faced by dyslexics. What unfolds is a candid exploration of dyslexia's profound effects on self-esteem and the daily battles waged by dyslexics. The unexpected twist? A revelation that challenges preconceived notions and leaves you pondering the hidden struggles of those with dyslexia. Stay tuned for this episode, as Juliet and Brent uncover more eye-opening insights.

In this episode, you will be able to:

• Understand how dyslexia can lead to embarrassment and learn how to overcome it.
• Discover effective strategies for dyslexics to thrive in the business world.
• Realize the importance of support in building a strong foundation for dyslexia empowerment.
• Explore the impact of dyslexia on self-esteem and learn ways to boost confidence.
• Uncover the pivotal role of belief and support in overcoming the challenges of dyslexia.

Transcript:

00:00:05
Welcome back to Word Blindness, Dyslexia Exposed. I'm Juliet Hahn here with my co host, Brent Sopel. How are you? I can't believe it's the holiday season already. We're recording the week of Thanksgiving.

00:00:18
Just the American Thanksgiving. Sorry, Thanksgiving. You guys aren't thankful for shit. But we recorded on also the Elizabeth this morning. Like you American.

00:00:28
Thanks. She goes, where are you guys? I'm like, yeah, we're. We're thankful for the long weekend, right? Because in Canada we get a long weekend.

00:00:38
May, June, July, August, September and October. You know, we had a long weekend, right? People like, were the long weekends or. I don't know, the long weekend. So we're thankful for the long weekend.

00:00:47
So never mind. Because when is Canadian? October. October. Yeah.

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I think it's all. You guys have the same weekend, long weekend that day. I don't know, is it President's Day or Martin Luther King something? Yeah, there's just something, something day in October where it's a holiday. Yeah.

00:01:12
What is the date? And I'll tell you. Columbus Day. There it is. Oh, Columbus Day.

00:01:15
So your. Your Columbus Day. Indigenous Day now it's called.

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Yeah, I call it Columbus Day too. I'm from Canada. You know, we have, you know, Native Americans everywhere. Obviously, that's a big portion of Canada. So I grew up with them and know kind of them and the reserves and stuff and played a lot of them.

00:01:37
So we know that, you know that. That well. But so that's our. Our Thanksgiving. Right.

00:01:44
So we're thankful for the long weekend, Right. Thank God. And you guys are all thankful. You know, Black Friday, you know, you know, I've actually. Which I'm.

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This is where like my women friends are like, okay. You're so. Like. I don't. I don't even.

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I'm like, no, I. That's like. Sounds like a fucking nightmare to go shopping where a million people are. To get. To save money.

00:02:09
Okay, great. The saving money thing. Great. I cannot think of anything worse than to be in a place where there's a million other people shopping. Since I hate shopping period.

00:02:22
And so I. My friends are all always like, okay, that's. Yeah. So I do not. I'm not thankful for Black Friday.

00:02:28
I don't give a. About that. I. I agree. I would never go with stand.

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Yeah. Oh, no, it sounds. It actually just makes me. I agree. Gives me anxiety.

00:02:38
No, I agree. You know, it's, you know, just, you know, things that get away. You know, it's obviously. We just had, you know, Veterans Day recently You know, and we call it Remembrance Day in, you know, in Canada. And in Canada, we all, you know, everybody wears a little poppy.

00:02:54
Yeah, yeah. Never remember. I remember. You know, I have a bigger problem with schools giving that day off, you know, than not sending the kids back to school on Black Friday. Like, it should be in school to honor them.

00:03:11
Like, we're. We're here at school. We're here whatever, because of these people. And you give them the day. You know, we give kids a day off school.

00:03:19
They don't know. Parents don't, you know, they're not going to sit there and teach them or it's, you know, honoring guys like your dad, you know, who was injured. Vietnam was it. You know, it's like, I have a bigger problem with. But you're going to give them off for Black Friday, for all the shopping, you're thankful.

00:03:39
Should be thankful for those guys that we're about to have the Thanksgiving. So, you know, I obviously go down, you know, a little bit of rabbit hole. Well, I told you that in Connecticut, they did the most beautiful. We had an assembly. We were allowed to invite the veterans.

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So when my kids were in elementary school in Darien, they. We had. We had school on that day. And one of the things that was so amazing is that my kids and I haven't filmed. I actually need to, like, put.

00:04:07
Put it together. But so my dad would come and my kids would write something, and they got to stand up in front of, like, the school, introduce their. They, you know, call them pop up. And the thing that was really cool is that a lot of the kids would have. So like, the same kids would obviously have their fans.

00:04:24
So, like, my dad over the years also got to meet some of the other guys of the years. This is actually a crazy story. So my uncle, my godfather actually is also a veteran and he was in Vietnam. So one year we had him come because my dad. So my dad has a paralyzed leg.

00:04:42
He got. Has the Purple Hearts when he was in Vietnam, his platoon got there. There was a they. Someone stepped on a landmine in the rice patties and mo. Most of his platoon died.

00:04:55
My dad had shrapnel go like, so close to his eye, like, but then in his arms and then in his legs, and he got nerves cut. So, like, one of his legs is paralyzed and he wears a brace. It's called drop foot. Like, you wouldn't know if he had his brace on. But when he was.

00:05:10
And I think we've talked about this when we were. When I was little, I used to, like, pinch him, be like, can you feel this? Because I thought it was, like, the craziest thing that this leg couldn't feel anything. And it was a lot smaller, like the skinniest leg. But, you know, he ran marathons and, you know, really could do anything.

00:05:27
But if he took that brace off. Yeah, the. Like, his. He would have to make sure he's picking it up. So the leg had to go.

00:05:33
Like, he would have to pick it up all the way here. So it was almost like kind of walking like this without it. Yep. So one of the years on. And so, you know, I know social media sometimes gets, like, a bad rap and stuff.

00:05:44
There's things that I love about it because connecting and me, you know, finding people from your childhood and all these different things. And this is a really cool story. So his name is Joe Smalls. And my dad actually was hit in Vietnam, I want to say, because your birthday is what, the seventh? Yep.

00:06:02
My dad was hit in the fifth. My dad was hit 1-5-68. So through Facebook, Joe Small's family found my dad. So one year he couldn't be there because he was going to meet them, and he was. I totally get choked up.

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And they actually. My kids wrote about it, like, why my dad couldn't be there. He was able to tell the family that Joe died. Like, there was no pain. Like, he died immediately.

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So it was like a niece or like a great niece, like a great, great niece that found my dad random through Facebook and was able. So he went and met the whole family, and they were like, down south, super, super Southern. And he was able to go and, you know, and just give them stories of, you know, when they were together and stuff like that. So that was, like, super cool. So my kids literally stood up the entire auditorium.

00:07:09
I mean, the young kids, not a lot of them cried because it was elementary school, but all the teachers, we were all. And the parents were like, sobbing like, you know, Truman and Penelope got to do it. Montgomery didn't go to. I think one year maybe my dad was able, like, kindergarten, third or second grade. And then he went to.

00:07:26
You know, he went to Southport. But they did a. The most beautiful assembly pictures. Like, you know, grandparents, parents, whoever it was got to stay. And it was really cool.

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See, that's awesome. You love to hear that. I don't. You know, to me, you don't hear enough of that. Right?

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You know, it's. Is it a half a day for. For all schools, whatever. It is not. I don't care if you're in middle school or high school.

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You're, you know, you're there. Let's. Let's go. You know, that shouldn't be a day off, right? That should be, you know, I think it fell on a Monday this year, you know.

00:08:05
I think so. Yeah. You know, so then the people use it as a long weekend, right? They. They weren't doing what you honoring or, you know, then you got people lining up at 2am or whatever, midnight or Black Friday and doing this.

00:08:19
And they're thankful we're here because of them. Where's the route? You know, and so it's. I have, you know, you know, remember high school, we always black out from, you know, Blackout Wednesday. Yeah.

00:08:33
Right. So it's, you know, it's. It's those stupid things. Right. But, you know, obviously, you know, you look at things, but I just, you know, see it a little bit differently.

00:08:46
And we are recording. We did not decide to talk about that. Well, because. Oh, I said it was a long weekend. I mean, Thanksgiving, six long weekends we're thankful for.

00:08:58
But yeah, thanks. I think, you know, our members day, I. We had a lot of things. Obviously, we're on cameras at Canada. What do you have?

00:09:07
I know we got like two tugboats and a canoe and, you know, a couple of hours, so. But it's that Poppy, you know, when you. You will see. I would probably say 95% of Canadians have a Poppy on, you know, so it's kind of like, you know how the Salvation army, you know, that ringing the bells outside, Literally, they have the same kind of stuff in Canada for poppies and everybody's gone, you know, on their jacket. You know, if you ever watch any NHL games, you know, building up to that.

00:09:39
Every coach had a pop beyond, so it's, you know, they. Yeah, you guys do. Yeah, you know, they. They do. You know, not.

00:09:49
Obviously, I don't know about all the schools and going that stuff, but there is a massive push or for every person to having a pop beyond, you know, the, the weeks leading up to, you know, up to that day. You know, I saw kids with your little poppy stickers on their helmets on hockey. And, you know, so we do do a pretty good job. Yeah. Again, to honor those guys.

00:10:13
Yes. We're not as big as us when it comes to that stuff, but still. Well, but it's an important thing. I mean, my kids every, you know, they text their grandfather, you know, thank you for serving Pop Up. You know, I always do a post, and it's actually a post of him getting the Purple Heart.

00:10:31
It's a picture. It's like a snapshot. It's, like, all crooked, but it's like, you know, so cool. Back in the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:10:39
I mean, it probably totally was, but it is those. It is those things that. And whenever we see sir anyone in the service, we always thank them. My kids, even someone's in line, you know, thank you for service. And they.

00:10:51
A lot of times they're like, oh, my gosh, thank you so much. And it is. They're shocked. You know, let's. You know, I don't mean to jump in is, you know, the shockness of it, obviously, you know, for the golf events, you know, we had five.

00:11:04
We had, you know, five veterans there, and we surprised them all with a set of golf clubs. You know, I want to say Drew is the last one. He's getting. His clubs are being made, and he picks him up on Saturday. So all five of them got a set of customers made golf clubs for, you know, thank you for the service.

00:11:28
And they. They were just blown away by. By that. Like, should. They shouldn't be.

00:11:37
No, I know. I know. You know, it's. They shouldn't be. And where.

00:11:42
That just came from me, as you were just saying, as you guys always, you know, thank people from the surface. You're like, oh, what do you mean, oh? No, they're all excited. Thank you. Don't get.

00:11:51
They don't get enough of that. No. And it's sad. Well, and it's also because people are in their own world, and it is what it is. Like, you know, that you don't talk to strangers, whatever.

00:12:01
It's all these different, you know, silly things in my mind, and it's kind of like a good segue because we were talking yesterday, and one of the things that we talk about a lot is when you have a foundation, when you have a charity, when you have a mission, a Miss I can't even speak. A mission based. That's the right word, right? Mission sounds weird. A mission based.

00:12:30
Cause you need people to support and believe in you. Right? And we had just kind of an interesting conversation, and I brought it back to one of my. One of my first. My first season of your next stop.

00:12:47
I interviewed this woman. Wow. How far back? How far back? You know, just.

00:12:51
Just to give a Conte text to it. How far back is that? So it probably was in 2019 or 2000. I started in, like, early 2019, you know, 2019. So you're bringing it back, what, almost five years?

00:13:12
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So right so I'm in my fifth season now. And so. And it always stuck with me because I thought it was really interesting her name is. And I always got it right.

00:13:22
I always flipped it Halatala. No, Hala. Taha. Halataha. And she's got a great podcast.

00:13:31
It's like, all about entrepreneurs. She's actually, like, always in the 1%. Really? It was a. It was an awesome interview.

00:13:37
Like, I was really excited. It was, like, actually one of the first ones that I was a little bit nervous, and I was like, oh, this is so weird. I'm nervous. Why am I nervous? It's because I couldn't say her name.

00:13:44
One of it was like, again, early, surprise, surprise. Early on. It was actually right before I rebranded, she. She was one of the people that said to me, have you ever thought about changing the name? And I was like, I was thinking about it, but I don't know, because this, like, what.

00:13:57
What do you bring in? And she gave me some really great advice. And one of the things that, in her story that was really cool, she had a lot of people that always kind of wanted to tear down, which is kind of shitty. But she was always like. Like, I always had women in companies that, like, didn't want to promote her.

00:14:15
She was very strong, like, very pretty, confident woman. And so she worked on the radio and she did these other things. But one of the things that she said is that as she grew her own business and the different things that she had in her business, she had people that always supported her. And she's like, there would be like, I don't need to be paid. I know you'll take care of me if that even happens, but that's not why I'm doing it.

00:14:43
Right? It's not. When I'm doing it, I want to be able to help you because I believe in what you're doing. And I said to you, you know, I mean, we've talked about this a million times on the podcast, but, like, we met for a reason like that. It's the dyslexia.

00:14:57
I mean, it was just like, when we look back on it, it is kind of crazy. And it's interesting how it's happened and then where things are now. I mean, March, I think, is going to be two years. The realist things are going to be two years. And the reason why we're also talking about this is season three is going to be coming up after the holidays.

00:15:16
So it's kind of like a. Let's go back to some of the stuff and kind of reminisce, but like, talk about some of the points that we do talk about often. And I don't know that everyone completely understands them rightfully so sometimes that some people are never going to understand the way that we talk about things. No right or wrong, it's just not it. But a lot of times if you hear something like five or six, seven, eight times, sometimes it's like all of a sudden that thing clicks and you're like, oh, that's what they've been saying.

00:15:50
Or, oh, that's interesting. So what when she said that, I was like, that's so interesting. And I remember when I started my business and I would hire, like, I hired someone to help me with editing. I hired this. And I, you know, it was, it was always that I knew I needed to, like, get to the next level.

00:16:06
You, you put money in. And anyone that starts a business or has a foundation can kind of relate to these kind of things, right? You, you have to put money in to start making money. There's like this whole kind of like, dance that you have to do. And sometimes it's like, is this the right thing?

00:16:20
Should I be, Should I be, you know, putting finances towards this? Is that going to get me to that next level? And so you're always constantly kind of playing, you're educating yourself. And so it's not so much different having a foundation than having your own business. Right.

00:16:34
It's just, I mean, it really is. Is very similar. Do you want to jump in on. No, no, I was just. The similarities are you kind of have to have the same kind of mindset.

00:16:44
You know, you need money to build. You need money to build a foundation. So the similarities are almost no, side by side. Right. And so when we met and I said to you, I really want to.

00:16:57
I really, you know, obviously it has embedded me the 5Ds now I have two kids that have the 5Ds. If you miss that, go last, last week. And that's probably when it's come out. And family members, obviously myself. And I was at a point in my life and I said this to you where I was helping my community.

00:17:25
I was, you know, advocating for my own kid. I would help parents by, like, talking them through stuff. This is, you know, my experience. So in my head, which I was, I was helping, I was making a difference. But I always knew I wanted to make a bigger difference and that I could make a bigger difference.

00:17:39
It just. There was nothing ever, like, I'm like, I don't even know how to start any of this. So it really kind of was just one of those things that was like, I'll do my job in my community by always talking about it, right? Not letting teachers and administrators, you know, go. I mean, I've sent podcasts to them, articles like, if they don't understand dyslexia, like, you know, let's sit down and talk.

00:17:59
Like, I've always been that person. So when I met you, it was just that I wanted to help. And you're skeptical, right? Because you've had so many people say, I want to help and then not help. And I've witnessed it the last.

00:18:13
I mean, it's going to be two years. I've witnessed it, like, tenfold. And people that. And it's not that they're not good people, bad when they're not. I mean, just sometimes people say, I really want to help because they want to, but it's not top of mind.

00:18:29
It's not priority for them. It's not something that fits into their life. A lot of times, I think it's just not the time. And so I take it the personal part out of it. Like, I've said this to you a million times, and I know you always are like, huh?

00:18:40
Like, I never think, oh, someone's not helping because of me. I know you do that. But I'm always like, oh, it's just not the right time for them. It just didn't line up. And so I like the way I live because it definitely makes me not have to.

00:18:53
You know, I don't get down on things because I'm like, oh, okay, it just wasn't the right time. But when you've had it happen time and time and time and time and time and time again, where also, because of your previous profession, people also, like, want to be involved with you because they're like, oh, he's, you know, professional athlete or whatever. You don't. You can't find out if people really have the right intentions or they have the wrong intentions. And so you have to be skeptical, right?

00:19:23
You can't have an open heart that's like, let me just let it know. You would get absolutely crushed. So there was a time in your life where you shut that heart down and you're like, okay, I have to make everyone that you meet. You have to be like, what is the reason for this? Right?

00:19:38
Like, why do they want to help? Are they going to help? No. So that's how you approach, like, nope, they're not going to help. They're.

00:19:44
They're they're not. Right. They don't have good intentions. That's why he said no to the podcast six times. Now, unicorn will say, I believe that God, universe, whatever it was, gave you.

00:20:00
Just say yes, right? Just say yes. And that's how this. You know, and I'm sure there was times over the time like, okay, this is not gonna. She's not gonna stick around.

00:20:08
This is not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. I'm sure that, you know, went through your mind many times because of. Of your past experiences. And so one of the things that we really talked about is, like, when Hala said this, I was like, it's so interesting.

00:20:24
And I've always had it in the back of my mind. It's always, like, at different times in my life have, like, played where I'm like, interesting, interesting. But this is such a this moment and that, what she said and some of the things that are happening behind the scenes with the foundation, I was like, this is a perfect example of people's intentions on wanting to help versus actually doing the right thing. Well, you know, yesterday you said something, you know, and you said what she said, people believe in you. Right?

00:21:12
I think that is not. It was not the words that she. Right. She said people believed in what she was doing and her cause and what she. What she wanted to do, like her business, like her business model, what she wanted to do.

00:21:23
And they believed in their business model, believed in her, believed in what she was doing. And that's one thing that gets me every day, Every day, because I have very, very, very small people or small. A small amount of people that believe and believe in me, believe in what I'm doing. So am I always skeptical? 100.

00:21:57
Every single time, I'll leave without skepticism. There's a very few people that I believe in me. Yo, I text million people, you know, how you doing? Think about you, y'all. There's, as you said last week or whatever, how many people are dying?

00:22:16
You know, I've heard so many people, you know, die of cancer, you know, blah, blah, blah. You know, I'm thinking about you. Hey, how you doing? You doing okay? I hope you're all, well, like, all.

00:22:26
All those things, right? Checking on people around, you know, kind of around the world, never get that back, right? So there isn't a day where I feel like a solid group of people that, believe me, there isn't. There's a few 100, but that's few and far between. And as you said over the last couple years, I've been shocked.

00:22:55
And what has transitioned with people said, you know, would say they want to do this or they want to help out or they want to go here or this or the foundation, and that just falls flat in your face. I'm like, oh, just, just watch where this goes. No, no, no. You know, you always, you always put the unicorn hat on. Because I want to believe people are good.

00:23:13
Innately good. Yeah. I don't. Right. Because proof is until you prove to me you are, which a few people have absolutely majority haven't.

00:23:25
Right. And. And what. What I also said to you. So I said to you, I don't think it is as much that people don't believe in what you're doing, but I do think as we continue with this, I think there's so many people that actually don't understand the depths of dyslexia and the five D's, right.

00:23:51
They have. And, and they can hear it and hear it and hear it, but actually in their heads, they're like, that's not true. Right. That's an exaggeration. That's exaggerated.

00:24:02
And no. And not, you know, rightfully so. Like, you know, that's, that's not. I mean, the things that have happened to you because of your five days versus someone else's, it's different. Right?

00:24:13
I mean, yours, like being a professional athlete and then having to go in the real world and that how that transpired, like, as we've talked, you know, about a million times, that again, your gift was playing professional hockey. That was amazing for so many things. But then when you had to, at 40, go into the real world, it was like, okay, this is, this is not going to go. It's not going to go smooth. The hard part about dyslexia, we talk about the embarrassment that goes with it, you know, and that's what is probably the biggest, I don't know, the misconception.

00:24:56
The hardest thing to understand is, you know, we can't do the simplest things. And you start struggling when we grab that first book. So that's one years old, two years old. So that's how long. So the embarrassment that goes along with it.

00:25:13
There's nothing else in the world that has the amount of embarrassment wrapped part of it in anything else. Right. You always. Autism, you know, again, in the hereditary, the hereditary portion of it. So it gets passed from somewhere.

00:25:30
But that's the biggest misconception is how much embarrassment goes along with this whole dyslexia. Think goose egg or think of. Think of an egg. Right. That we're trying to crack that shell so, you know, more people can get in there for understanding or more information can.

00:25:49
Can be absorbed. But there's that goose egg or egg around, you know. Well, and I think. And as what you just said, like, I know. I'm sure there's a lot of people that are listening and are like, what is it?

00:26:05
Like, what do you mean? There's embarrassment and. And we've. We've talked about it. I mean, we've talked about it many times, and it's not.

00:26:19
It's even hard to explain. But I was. I was trying to think because there was something the last couple days. Well, you know, I was in a meeting last week, you know. Yeah.

00:26:26
While you're thinking, I'm in the room with. There's four of us. Two of us are dyslexic. And what did he say? He goes, yo, I think I said something, y'all.

00:26:40
I tried to Google a word. I was so far off. There was nothing came up in the English dictionary. The one guy that is just like. He goes, I know, yo, I do that all the time.

00:26:52
Then I gotta change the whole sentence because I don't know how to spell it. And then he looked to his right. And the other. He's like, hey, you know, so and so do you do that? He like, what are you talking.

00:27:02
Absolutely not. And it kind of. It took him like a. Oh, I thought everybody did shock. Right?

00:27:13
And that's. No, not too many people Google how many times you Google Word. It happens so many times, thousands of times. Where I've been so far off that. No, you know, everybody probably has Google tried to Google a word and are way off one or two times.

00:27:30
Right. Not thousands. Oh, it happens every single time. Yeah. And he was like.

00:27:37
He caught up. Like, you could see kind of the startledness of. Oh, I thought everybody did. So it was in last. I think last Wednesday in that meeting, he was just like, huh.

00:27:50
It kind of, you know, again, if you weren't on the dyslexic side, you would never caught the startledness that he got right going. Because you also knew, like, you. You knew the feeling. I mean, 100. Because talk about all the time and get it all the time.

00:28:08
Like, what are you talking about? No. And when you get that. What are you talking about? No.

00:28:16
And then you look like, what's wrong with me? Why me? You know, and that's where that dumb comes into play. Or I'm stupid. And those are.

00:28:27
Those are the automatic feelings, you know, that you get no matter how successful you are, you know, and success was determined in many different ways. Yeah. You know, I'm just saying, you know, it can be financial, it could be spiritual. It could be what, you know, emotional, whatever that is. It's just to be successful, you get knocked down and you feel alone and taken back.

00:29:00
And the one thing is, how do I stop being that kid? You know, when you talk about being, you know, in, in the classroom, oh, you're that kid that's got to go pull her on this kid that got to do this. It gets, you know, it gets a lot. And then when you're trying to build, you know, the foundation and, or company of whatever that is you're trying to build, you're that guy, you're that kid, you're that weird kid, or you're, you're the, you know, weird guy who comes into the boardroom or the weird woman who comes in to that boardroom and it's, you know, trying to presents the weirdest things ever. You know, it's, it's.

00:29:40
It's a dark, lonely place for many, many years sometimes. Sometimes and a lot of time never. You know, we don't get out of that dark, lonely place. And that's kind of why the foundation is. Self esteem is always number one for me.

00:29:57
Yeah. I mean, there's a couple things. The Google thing, because I will, A lot of people will ask me, well, can't you just voice text it in? And the thing. And I'm like, yeah, I voice text everything in Siri's.

00:30:10
Siri's racist. She doesn't listen to Canadian accent. Well, no, but I, well, the thing is that I, it actually as much as I speak and everyone's like, you're, you know, you. I can't believe that you struggle because you speak so well and you have such great vocabulary when you're speaking. If you don't know how to spell something and you're trying to then figure out how to spell it and you're saying the word, you're not going to pronounce the word like phonetically the way it's spelled, because you can't.

00:30:42
Like, so it's this, it's, it's a, it's a real mind. So like, it does not always work if the word is not like a simple thing. Like so speaking into it, I always will get the wrong thing and then it still, it won't find. Even if it looks right or even if it is right, it looks wrong for us. Well, how many times I've heard this number of times Hey, I.

00:31:01
I know I have a foreign language. You all Spanish or Italian or German, whatever. In school, how many times I've heard. I can. I can.

00:31:08
I can hear it. I can understand it. I can speak a little of it, but I can't write it. Right. Yeah, well, because that's the.

00:31:16
I mean, that's the dyslexia part. Right? I mean, that's. Yeah. You know, and not even a dyslexic.

00:31:21
I mean, I've heard. Oh, just even first from people. Right. Yeah. You know, normal people.

00:31:26
You know, that. Who's taking. You know. Or I can understand it, you know, my dad. You said I can understand some of the, you know, some of the polls you're talking about, but can't write any event so that, you know, not dyslexic, but the transition into.

00:31:41
Right. You know, writing it. So it's. That's us every day. Yeah.

00:31:49
And then also in. In the business world, or you having support, like going into these meetings. Right. One of the things that I also find interesting that a lot of people don't think about is, okay, you have someone, like. Let's say we're putting together a PowerPoint presentation, and I'm like, okay, this is how I know I need the PowerPoint presentation done.

00:32:12
I just actually had this conversation with someone that I work with, and I said I could, like, it doesn't matter what's on the PowerPoint presentation. I'm not going off the PowerPoint presentation. That's for the audience. I have to go off of my mind. Yeah.

00:32:28
If I have some cards in front of me to, like, bring me back. It's, It's. It's. It could be like, if my attention deficits a little tweaky that day, that's gonna. Me.

00:32:38
So it's. It's this, like. It's almost like this eloquent dance that I have to do things very, very different. So having someone supporting me sometimes it also doesn't really help if they can't completely. Even.

00:32:52
Even having a couple different dyslexics. Right. Everyone finds their own way to do things, dyslexic or not. And when you have a support person trying to help you figure it out, sometimes it's like I just have to do it myself because I can't. I can't.

00:33:10
I can't explain how I need it, but this is how I. My brain needs it. So again, it's like this exhausting sometimes, like time, because you know what you want, what you need and what you want to do. But you have to do it yourself. And so then you're doing it everything super backwards.

00:33:26
And if anyone else is trying to help, it's like, it just becomes this real shit show. So when people come to support the foundation and help and say, I mean, I really, truly believe, because I believe that most people are good. I really don't think that again, that someone's waking up and be like, I'm going to be an asshole today. Yes, I think there are people out there that do. But I think people that genuinely are like, I do want to help.

00:33:52
I think there's a couple different things. One of them is I think that they're like, oh, this could be cool. He used to play hockey. Maybe they're, you know, maybe they saw you play. And that's one of the things.

00:34:03
Another thing is they, you know, but they're like, you know, I believe in, in what he's doing, so I. I do want to help. And then life gets in the way and they don't follow through. It hits you hard. I mean, really hard.

00:34:18
If you know someone. Okay. Also was like, hey, I just want to, like, network. This is. I know happened to you a million times.

00:34:26
Like, I'm going to help you, so then I can tap into your network and see who you've got to help. And I mean, that is, like, helps. I mean, that happens to you all the time. Again, not saying there's anything wrong with the people that are doing it. Not like, okay, they're in, going like, oh, how can I go fuck Brent Sopol today and his foundation.

00:34:48
That's not what we're saying. But it's a very interesting thing when people constantly are like, yes, I want to be able to help you with this and help you with that. But then whether they're dyslexic or not, and we really talked about this in depth yesterday, and we've talked about this a lot on the podcast, is even though some people are like, yes, I'm fine with my dyslexia, I've dove in. I've, you know, done work. I.

00:35:13
I'm really fine. I'm successful. And da, da, da. You don't want to go back to the times where you weren't successful. And so it's almost this, like, again, a disconnect.

00:35:24
Even with a lot of people that have dyslexia that are super successful, it's this disconnect where they're like, well, no, school was fine. I don't remember. But every time we've had someone on the podcast Right. It's like, well, you know what? Now you just said that, you know, it's.

00:35:41
You know, you remember the old mama had a baby and her head popped off and pick a dandelion, and you, you know, you pop it off. That's most dyslexics or most people struggling or struggled.

00:35:55
Very few dyslexics go to the root of that dandelion, you know, so that. So that, you know, that D line is going to go back and some of the kids going to be able to kind of pick it, and mama's got a baby head popped up. Right. But for me, I live at the roots to pull out that roots. Right.

00:36:17
And most never get to the roots of what the full meaning is of the purpose or the feeling or the anxiety or the depression or whatever it is, because they're not down at that full root to have that full understanding. Mm. And it's just something, you know, it's really something to think about. I think a lot of people in life don't, you know, go down to the roots because they don't want to deal with. Is it fun?

00:36:52
No. A hundred percent. But if you don't pick out that, if you don't go to the roots again, there's that dandelion. Right. That dandelion is always going to come back.

00:37:02
Pull that root dining line does come back. So if you don't go to the roots, no matter what it is, it's all going to come back. Mm. I'm just gonna leave it at that. So again, season three is gonna be coming out after the holidays.

00:37:19
We'll have some. We're gonna have some. I mean, right now, we are, I want to say, like, almost 70 episodes in. Yeah. Crazy.

00:37:31
Which is. Which is awesome. I mean, it's really. It's awesome. See?

00:37:35
Aren't you so happy you said yes after you stalk me? Call it what you want.

00:37:43
So, you guys, you know what to do, like, rate, review, and share, and we'll see you. This might be the last one before season three, so we'll see you in the next season. If not, there's more moving one coming out, and we'll just. One of the two. One of the two.

00:38:00
But don't forget to, like, write rate. Now I can't even speak. Like, rate and review and share, and we'll see you for another episode of Word Blindness. Dyslexia exposed. Thanks, Brent.

00:38:12
Thank you.