769: Meg Zucker: Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Meg is an attorney and leader in anti-money laundering and financial crimes on Wall Street. She is also the founder and president of Don’t Hide It Flaunt It® (DHIFI), which is a non-profit whose mission is to advance understanding, tolerance, and mutual respect for people's differences. It provides “flaunt it” Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and anti-bullying programming to public and private schools, universities, community service organizations, and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at Fortune 500 companies. Meg is a high-demand speaker and activist who has been featured on the TODAY show. Meg’s writing has appeared in Parents Magazine, USA Today, Scholastic Storyworks, The Jewish Forward, The Mighty, Motherwell, and Scary Mommy. The Zucker family was also the subject of a TLC special, “My Extraordinary Family.” Meg recently released her first book, Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities. Listen in to hear Meg share: Her experience being born with ectrodactyly - the absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot The difference between the labels of “difference” and “disabilities” and how to use them appropriately How she has taken on the attitude Let Go and Let Live in order to let her kids with ectrodactyly figure out their capabilities The gift of her husband accepting her unconditionally before she accepted herself unconditionally How her son being bullied led her to start her non-profit, Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It. The fine line between cruelty and curiosity when it comes to interacting with people who are different than yourself Why kindness is a great goal, but not sufficient on its own when it comes to teaching your kids about being inclusive Links mentioned: Connect with Meg: www.megzucker.com Meg on IG: @MegZucker and @justflauntit_ Meg on FB and Twitter We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://shamelessmom.com/sponsor Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 769 with Meg Zucker.
0:05.9	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to
0:09.9	shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 769.
0:17.9	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:20.1	I'm your host, Sarah Dean.
0:21.9	I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources,
0:27.7	and a little bit of humor to help you lead more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day.
0:33.9	One of the best things about the Shameless Mom Academy is our community.
0:36.7	So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other
0:40.7	shameless moms just like you.
0:42.5	You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook.
0:47.1	All right.
0:47.7	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:59.8	Meg Zucker is an attorney and leader in anti-money laundering and financial crimes on Wall Street.
1:10.3	She's also the founder and president of Don't Hide It, Flont It, which is a nonprofit whose mission is to advance understanding, tolerance, and mutual respect for people's differences.
1:16.0	It provides flaunted social emotional learning and anti-bullying programming to public and private schools, universities, community service organizations, and diversity, equity, and
1:20.8	inclusion programs at Fortune 500 companies.
1:24.1	Meg is a high demand speaker and activist who's been featured on the Today Show.
1:28.3	She's also had writing appear in Parents Magazine, USA Today, Scholastic StoryWorks, The Jewish Forward, The Mighty, Motherwell, and Scary Mommy.
1:37.5	The Zucker family has also been the subject of a TLC special, My Extraordinary, Family.
1:43.4	Meg recently released her first book, Born Extraordinary,
1:46.5	empowering children with differences and disabilities. I love this conversation. I am so grateful
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