In this epsiode, Steve Grace and Hugo Richard cover business, startup, entrepreneurship and how all of it work with dyslexia.

Steve Grace Having successfully built and sold two profitable businesses from the ground up, Steve Grace, dyslexic knows a thing (or a thousand) about what makes a business successful.

Steve’s new venture, The Nudge Group, was born from a genuine desire to help businesses grow from start-ups to unicorns. After months of research and testing different methodologies, Steve has developed a new and original recruitment model that gives early stage and rapid growth businesses direct access to top-tier talent and specialist expertise without the traditional price tag.

Steve is also the founder and host of the Give It A Nudge podcast. Talking to founders, CEOs and investors on the show, Steve enables them to tell their unique stories. The Nudge Group’s mission is centred around your story: understanding it, showcasing it, and finding talent aligned to it, to achieve long-term goals for everyone.

In this epsiode, Mark Francis Long and Hugo Richard cover living with dyslexia, and how to work efficiently as a dyslexic in the workplace.

Mark Francis Long At the age of 6, I was diagnosed with dyslexia while growing up in California, Bay Area. I went through many hard years of training and learning to overcome my disability. Through hard work and a lot of spell check, I have graduated with a BA in Media & Communication and have been working as a strategist in global advertising agencies for over ten years. Unfortunately, during this time, I have kept my greatest strength hidden from my peers out of fear of potential judgment.

Then last year, amid the first coronavirus lockdown 2020, my wife Tereza and I embarked on a venture we have been contemplating for many years — a modern dyslexia awareness campaign to empower the global community, especially the young working professionals (Millennials and GenZ). And therefore, I AM LEX was born.

As a LEX millennial myself, hiding throughout my career, I wanted to come out of my shell with something creative, something all LEX like myself would proud to identify with. I felt so uninspired by the lack of innovation around dyslexia awareness and the many misconceptions the topic has been ridden with, so I decided to change it.

The LEX movement aims to educate the general public, break stereotypes, and shift paradigms with a clean slate. A cutting-edge new identity that focuses on genius over inability and adapts to the trends of the 21st century. It’s time to make us visible and heard, it’s time to entice and empower the future working force and the world!

No more hiding!

In this epsiode, Lydia Allen and Hugo Richard cover dyslexia in the US, and how school can better support struggling students.

Lydia Allen A dyslexia interventionist, certified by International Dyslexia Association, Lydia also holds certificates from The Academy of Orton Gillingham, and Bright Solutions for Dyslexia.

Distinctions include being appointed to the State Campaign for Grade-Level Reading in 2019, joining the committee’s Conceptual Framework subcommittee in 2020, and co-authoring the Conceptual Framework – Science of Reading statewide resource for parents and educators. In 2020, Lydia launched JUMP Reading, an online reading clinic that serves struggling and dyslexic readers.

JUMP Reading is dedicated to helping children become independent readers and learners by bringing the parents, teachers, principals to the table to create team. By creating a support system while providing reading intervention, we create a supportive environment for our children!

Lydia is passionate about improving literacy and establishing accessible dyslexia therapy.