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.

In this epsiode, Michal Ricca and Hugo Richard cover dyslexia, literacy and how student with dyslexia should be empowered.

Michal Ricca With research validated practice and over twenty years of experience, Michal G. Ricca, M.Ed. has supported over 1,000 students gain 2-5 grade levels in their reading and writing skills. Michal is the Founder & CEO of NowICANread and her new and exciting venture of ReaDefy Learning. She holds an Advanced Teaching Masters of Education from Northwestern University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary and Special Education, and has over twenty years experience working with students with all types of learning styles and differences.

Michal pulls from many sources to individualize instruction, but her foundation is the Orton-Gillingham technique. Orton-Gillingham has been utilized for over 50 years and is multi-sensory, systematic, structured, sequential, cumulative, and success-oriented.

Michal believes that every child has the fundamental right to read and write well. Quite simply put, she loves what she does. Being a parent of a child with dyslexia and being engulfed in the world for the last 20 years has led her to her next great venture!

In this epsiode, Dr Lutza Ireland and Hugo Richard cover Psychology and learning disorders.

Dr Lutza Ireland Lutza is a psychologist, designer and author of the multi-award-winning “Stress and Anxiety during COVID” graphic field guide.

She uses design thinking and co-design methods to develop innovative resources, services and systems for mental health and neurodiversity.

You can explore Dr Lutza research on Research Gate.

In this epsiode, Carol Blumenstein and Hugo Richard cover how Carol and her children started her organisation.

Carol Blumenstein Carol Stein Blumenstein struggled to learn to read in school. An undiagnosed Dyslexic, Carol was labelled stupid by her teachers. With her mother’s guidance, Carol went on to study computer coding at 13 years old and, at age 16, was one of the first women to be accepted into the University of Pennsylvania Management and Technology Program. There she received the General Motors scholarship and graduated with a B.S. of Economics from Wharton and a BSEE in Electrical Engineering. She received her MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Carol worked as a consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton and Bain and Company. In her spare time, she was an Adjunct Professor of Management and host of Entrepreneurial Life, a radio show that interviewed successful entrepreneurs worldwide.

Carol has five children with learning challenges including Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, ADHD, Severe Anxiety and Selective Mutism. Under her guidance, her children founded KidsRead2Kids, a Parents’ Choice and Creative Child Magazine award-winning nonprofit that brings the joy back to the struggling reader. KidsRead2Kids is in over 60 countries worldwide and provides teachers, librarians, parents and kids free video/audiobooks of abridged classic novels, interactive early childhood read-aloud, lesson plans and creative activities – all designed to make reading fun!

In addition, KidsRead2Kids runs a Book Club on Facebook with almost 2,000 members – including New York Times best-selling authors, librarians, teachers, parents and kids. There, members can upload videos reading their favourite books to help inspire others.

KidsRead2Kids also runs local KidsRead2Kids Book Clubs where high school students are paired with K-2 students to mentor and inspire a love of reading.

In this epsiode, Lauren Crystal and Hugo Richard cover the experience of Lauren running successfull startups while being dyslexia.

Lauren Crystal Lauren Crystal, Dyslexic & Dyspraxic, is the Managing Director of award-winning agency Your Creative and co-founder of project productivity tool Hassl. Lauren was named the 2019 Telstra Business Women’s Victorian Emerging Leader of the Year and her business was named in the Top 30 Australian Companies Giving back.

She leads digital strategy projects for a broad range of clients including The Australian Red Cross, Australian Aid and Afterpay. She is an ongoing contributor for the Entrepreneur Magazine, Hackernoon and Smart Company, with a combined readership of over 500,000.

In this epsiode, Dean Bragonier and Hugo Richard cover dyslexic lifestyle and personal story about lived experience of being dyslexic. They also offer lots of inspirations.

Dean Bragonier Dean Bragonier is the Founder and Executive Dyslexic of NoticeAbility Inc, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students with dyslexia identify their unique strengths and build self-esteem.

Shaped by the challenges associated with his dyslexia and after struggling through the traditional secondary education system, Dean became a diligent and successful college student who developed a true love of learning at Bates College. Upon graduation, Dean embraced his entrepreneurial instincts and acquired a small seasonal restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard Island that he transformed into a successful full-scale enterprise. It was through this endeavour that he was able to contextualize his years of laborious academic learning and discover the true gifts of his dyslexic mind.

As a social entrepreneur, Dean has founded his own nonprofit organizations and served as a board member and advisor to a number of others. NoticeAbility is the culmination of Dean’s passion for education and his conviction that the advantages of dyslexia far outweigh its associated challenges.