S5E14: Reflecting on the Wins - From Events to Articles

In this episode, Brent and Juliet discuss the foundation's recent events, the impact of media coverage, and personal stories about dyslexia and community support. They highlight how awareness and understanding can transform lives and foster a sense of belonging.

 

Chapters

 

00:00 Introduction and recent foundation events

02:39 The foundation's golf event and its success

05:02 Media coverage and the October magazine feature

08:53 Impact of the magazine article and personal stories

12:19 Brent's new coaching role at the college

13:22 Discussing dyslexia and early diagnosis

14:42 The 5D collective and community support

20:13 The impact of Dyslexic Star Boxes

22:43 Parents' gratitude and the importance of support

23:24 Brent's experiences with dyslexia and autograph signing

25:13 Resources and upcoming initiatives for dyslexia awareness

 

Transcript

 

00:00:11:01 - 00:00:32:13

Unknown

What did I just ask you? Excuse. I'm very husky. I sound like a man today, and I'm obviously not in my. I have not been partying. We were. Our room was right below the fucking gym. Now, I also want to say. And this is going to sound. It was the presidential suite. It wasn't like. So we could have moved.

 

00:00:32:13 - 00:00:53:13

Unknown

Yes, but we had like a 2500 square foot really amazing room that we were doing meetings and we were doing photos like it was it was a needed room. And I don't know why. I lived in New York City. I lived literally used to live with like my windows open, like on Christopher Street. It was like this boom that for some reason.

 

00:00:53:15 - 00:01:18:13

Unknown

So I woke up every morning between 415 and 515 and I could not go back to sleep. So and then I was at the conference. So then I was like just talking and mingling all day, which was fine. But now I'm, I don't know, I'm not a it's like that travel.

 

00:01:18:15 - 00:01:30:20

Unknown

I was, did I today's Monday I come home tomorrow and then I'm home for a week and then I'm in Florida for another week.

 

00:01:30:22 - 00:01:44:03

Unknown

And then it's Thanksgiving and then it's Christmas I know. Did you have a good turkey?

 

00:01:44:05 - 00:02:06:19

Unknown

Oh, it's called indigenous diet. We're not going to even get into that. We still call it Columbus Day and some. It's still in my calendar like 38 times. I don't know what I subscribe to on Apple, but literally it's like all day. And it doesn't say Indigenous Day. There was years. It did say Indigenous Day.

 

00:02:06:21 - 00:02:20:05

Unknown

It's interesting. Who in in Charlotte. My sister never there a Catholic school. They never get off. And this year they did. But they called it Teacher and Service day.

 

00:02:20:07 - 00:02:45:02

Unknown

I know right. So we have there's a lot of momentum around you, which is kind of fun. I don't know if it's as fun for you. It's fun for us. So I want to take it. And I know this is, like, your favorite thing, but this is going to be the best show today since I'm new, since I'm in a new studio.

 

00:02:45:08 - 00:03:09:02

Unknown

So we started with the golf event, and this is all meaning, Brant, I'm going to take it in a serious note. The foundation. So like that's one encompassing, but it's just fun to make him annoyed without him saying anything because he's he's saying things in his head and I know that. So I can do it that way. But this is all encompassing for the foundation.

 

00:03:09:04 - 00:03:41:08

Unknown

So, I mean, we can go back to May with the hockey event, but I was going to start like when school started. So that's like my seasons. So we had the golf event, which was another incredible event. I've been involved three years. And the smoothness, the amount of volunteers, the happiness, the pep in your step like it was all it was a it was a it was like one of the, the best ones.

 

00:03:41:08 - 00:04:53:10

Unknown

All of them are the best. But this was just like the ease. There was a lot of ease to it. Do you agree?

 

00:04:53:12 - 00:05:10:22

Unknown

Totally. So then we had your article and tell me if my order is off. Since my brain is and the sun is like coming in here, I like pale on this side. Right.

 

00:05:11:00 - 00:05:24:14

Unknown

October.

 

00:05:24:16 - 00:05:28:12

Unknown

And

 

00:05:28:13 - 00:05:30:08

Unknown

she's such a good sport because.

 

00:05:30:10 - 00:05:49:03

Unknown

And she said she's like I used to. Well I'm not going to get into it. What we talked about privately, but what she said was, I know how good it is for the foundation. So if I know that I'm game, she's like, it's not my favorite thing. It's not anything that I would have ever thought I would be doing, but I'm game.

 

00:05:49:03 - 00:06:27:15

Unknown

And she was such a good sport and that article was great. That article really talked about where you are and what you've been doing from the foundation and all the things behind the scenes, which is awesome.

 

00:06:27:17 - 00:06:58:00

Unknown

something big happen, you know, very drastic happened to one of her kids, and.

 

00:06:58:02 - 00:07:15:19

Unknown

with definitely some.

 

00:07:15:21 - 00:07:23:21

Unknown

So, that's why I, she did a pretty good job writing the story,

 

00:07:23:23 - 00:07:38:02

Unknown

Okay, I love that. Yeah, because it was good. It was really good.

 

00:07:38:04 - 00:07:46:20

Unknown

how the article was written and,

 

00:07:46:22 - 00:07:54:07

Unknown

Until.

 

00:07:54:09 - 00:08:14:04

Unknown

I should say I yeah,

 

00:08:14:06 - 00:09:02:01

Unknown

I love that, I love that. You could tell it was definitely a great article. And if people are like, what are they talking about? I want to see it. If you go to our Instagram page and it will be also on the website when updates are made, but it is on the Instagram Social Foundation and I'm sure on Facebook.

 

00:09:02:03 - 00:09:23:23

Unknown

Oh, I kind of thought I thought you knew I anticipated you were gonna be on the cover.

 

00:09:24:01 - 00:09:27:04

Unknown

Yeah.

 

00:09:27:06 - 00:09:34:11

Unknown

So someone did comment. I think it was someone that you knew. It was like interesting that soaps is on the woman's bower. Yeah.

 

00:09:34:11 - 00:09:58:01

Unknown

like, oh,

 

00:09:58:03 - 00:10:49:13

Unknown

Right. That's so funny. But again it highlighted your career. And then the foundation talks about the podcast. It talks about a lot of different things that you're involved with which is awesome around.

 

00:10:49:15 - 00:11:05:22

Unknown

And as you said like you could tell there was understanding. But I also it's a good story. Like I read it front to end in one sitting like it was, it was easy to, to read you know like sometimes you get things and you start and you're like oh I got put it down. And then especially being dyslexic, right.

 

00:11:05:22 - 00:11:16:11

Unknown

It's not like, oh, I can't wait to read this long article. But it was the way she did it. It was very easily digested. So definitely check that out. It's what is it? What's the title?

 

00:11:16:11 - 00:11:19:21

Unknown

Country.

 

00:11:19:23 - 00:11:33:03

Unknown

Oh I knew it had Barrington in it. Okay look at that.

 

00:11:33:05 - 00:12:28:03

Unknown

Well whoever said that is a real asshole. No one needs to comment on that. Then, so after the article, you were in conversations, you have just taken a coaching position for a university. Which a college, which is awesome because.

 

00:12:28:05 - 00:12:58:20

Unknown

Yeah. And they're they're lucky to have you and have your and again it's, it's when we talk about that being for the foundation. But it's not only it gives you something that you're so good at coaching and teaching as we talked about teaching. Right, is what you're doing. And to have this kind of fresh new group of that age with staff that support you, that's just, again, another place that you can touch more people with your your gifts and how you show up in the world and talk about dyslexia.

 

00:12:58:21 - 00:13:30:00

Unknown

So that's another really exciting, fun thing.

 

00:13:30:02 - 00:13:31:16

Unknown

Yeah.

 

00:13:31:18 - 00:13:45:19

Unknown

it's good to hear that he had their early

 

00:13:45:21 - 00:13:49:18

Unknown

what you got to start doing your nicknames.

 

00:13:49:20 - 00:14:12:07

Unknown

Yeah. You got to start doing your fun old nickname stuff. But again it's just yeah I know you all I can't wait. So it's just another touch that you get to give to others and share the dyslexic world. And then we had well we also had our second five D meeting. We have our third one coming up.

 

00:14:12:07 - 00:14:32:21

Unknown

I think this is this is already going to be out. But so we'll we'll be coming up on our fourth one. But the third one was all about, adults like daily life with dyslexia, the things that we run across. I mean, this weekend someone was asking me to take notes on something or like writing down their name, and I started writing their stuff and they're like, oh, and I go, I can read it.

 

00:14:32:21 - 00:14:43:12

Unknown

I was like, listen, I'm just thinking they're like, yeah, but that's not. That's not what I said. That's not my name. I was like.

 

00:14:43:14 - 00:14:56:11

Unknown

like, you know, when this goes over a couple of weeks ago I had an autograph signing. And Neal, you know, obviously helps us at all our offense.

 

00:14:56:13 - 00:15:15:07

Unknown

I, I love that, which is tough.

 

00:15:15:08 - 00:15:42:16

Unknown

That's amazing that he does that because that that right there is like it's I wasn't obviously signing anything, but someone was giving me their name and email because they were potentially new customer, a doctor and I, I couldn't spell any of it. And even I think it was like the name of their practice was like average. It was words that a 50, almost 53 year old typically would be able to spell.

 

00:15:42:18 - 00:16:00:10

Unknown

But I couldn't. And I just was like, I'm just like sick. I was like, I know what this says, but I'm going to hand it over to my colleague who inscribe that and do that. But those are the kind of things, right? Like autograph signing.

 

00:16:00:12 - 00:16:16:00

Unknown

Probably my mid 20s still, still hadn't been diagnosed. I was out of signing

 

00:16:16:02 - 00:16:42:14

Unknown

Let's remember this story, George, is a hard word.

 

00:16:42:16 - 00:16:46:01

Unknown

Yeah.

 

00:16:46:03 - 00:16:58:11

Unknown

so I could took me

 

00:16:58:13 - 00:17:11:03

Unknown

Oh yeah.

 

00:17:11:05 - 00:17:51:14

Unknown

Yeah. Because the other thing is your brain shuts down but then you see the person watching you. So that's what was happening. I was like oh they're watching me spell this. Oh fuck.

 

00:17:51:16 - 00:18:06:11

Unknown

Right.

 

00:18:06:13 - 00:18:14:00

Unknown

Yeah totally.

 

00:18:14:02 - 00:18:21:22

Unknown

Yeah.

 

00:18:22:00 - 00:18:29:01

Unknown

Like a u n or something. Yeah.

 

00:18:29:03 - 00:18:34:17

Unknown

Yeah.

 

00:18:34:19 - 00:18:56:18

Unknown

Right. And someone that doesn't have dyslexia would ask hey can you spell that for me. Because you know I know there's multiple different ways. But when you suck at something you also when they start spelling it a lot of times they go too fast and then.

 

00:18:56:20 - 00:19:02:05

Unknown

Right.

 

00:19:02:07 - 00:19:12:01

Unknown

Oh yeah. Totally.

 

00:19:12:03 - 00:19:38:17

Unknown

Yeah. It's it's not easy. Yeah. Exactly. So we have that five D. We had the that collective. So we'd be going on our fourth when this goes out. We also had a number of Starbucks go out to select six boxes. And responses of people just thanking it. We also just had Dyslexic awareness month and we raised some money.

 

00:19:38:17 - 00:19:47:07

Unknown

I don't we're still in the middle of it, but we hit what I put on Instagram and I haven't checked to see where it is now, but.

 

00:19:47:09 - 00:20:14:05

Unknown

I love this momentum.

 

00:20:14:07 - 00:20:27:05

Unknown

Or the notes.

 

00:20:27:07 - 00:20:45:05

Unknown

They feel special.

 

00:20:45:07 - 00:21:12:17

Unknown

They're not different at that moment.

 

00:21:12:19 - 00:21:51:19

Unknown

the text messages back or the videos back, you know, we impacted a kid and every single person, and, you

 

00:21:51:21 - 00:22:17:15

Unknown

Yeah. No it's it's great. And just the thankfulness also from the parents. I've just thank you. Right. It's like a moment that they could breathe for a second because last episode we talked about you know when whether you're a parent with dyslexia or not, when your kids struggling and you see that they're struggling and you can't help, it's you're alone on an island and it really feels shit.

 

00:22:17:16 - 00:22:41:15

Unknown

Even if you have people in your corner that understand it's not the same thing. As someone that's been through it, right? They've been through it right there. You say something and you're like, yeah, let me tell you a story. And it's like, oh, wait, you really get it? Oh yeah, I've I've lost my shit. Right? I've cried, I've been up, I've researched, I've, you know.

 

00:22:41:17 - 00:22:48:12

Unknown

Yeah, I've been there.

 

00:22:48:14 - 00:23:26:23

Unknown

I'm still there.

 

00:23:27:01 - 00:23:29:19

Unknown

Right, right.

 

00:23:29:20 - 00:24:21:14

Unknown

Right.

 

00:24:21:16 - 00:24:38:19

Unknown

Yep. So I'm going to leave it there. But we have lots of stuff. I mean, the, you know, the dyslexic Starbucks, if you guys are again, like, what does that go to supply foundation.org. You'll see a tab. If your child is diagnosed there's going to be a form. That page is going to change depending on when you see it.

 

00:24:38:20 - 00:25:02:07

Unknown

It should be changed. It will be changed by the time this goes out. So you just fill out that email and it goes to the organization and we can send something in the mail. Again, it's really special. And then the five D collective, you know, so that's also on the under the community tab, you can put your information and we just send once a month just to let in.

 

00:25:02:07 - 00:25:16:20

Unknown

Its short and sweet, I don't I'm the one that's putting that together. I am not sending a long email. It's basically what the topic is. We can't wait to see you. If you want to be on camera, you can be on camera. If you just want to sit and listen the entire time, you can do that. There is no pressure.

 

00:25:16:20 - 00:25:25:07

Unknown

It is just a place that you can feel like you're a part of something and that people understand and you're not alone.

 

00:25:25:09 - 00:25:31:12

Unknown

Any other words of wisdom?

 

00:25:31:13 - 00:25:50:19

Unknown

Kimberly? It's mid-October. We got a lot of work to do today. I'm I well, it turns out the class, we're going to have another dinner, but I'm going to probably try to walk. But I've got since we've traveled on Thursday at a lot of stuff to catch up on. So I'm going to be sitting in the room, but you have a good day as well.

 

00:25:50:19 - 00:26:00:13

Unknown

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