I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

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Welcome to slow more. Do you have a dyslexic friend? Are you dyslexic yourself? I would probably say you very likely know someone that has dyslexia. It's a lot more common than we think it is.

Statistics will say between 5 and 17 percent. It could be up to as high as one in every five people that you know is dyslexic.

One of my absolute best friends, one of my very, very valuable coaches declared dyslexic and she teaches me so much.

And I got interested in the topic and so when I came across the work of today's guest,

I was completely overtaken by it.

I really needed to talk to her.

So today we're going to be spending time

with Kate Griggs, who is a social entrepreneur.

She's an award-winning campaigner and she is a best-selling author.

All focused on the topic of dyslexia. She has founded a charity, a global charity

with the objective of alerting the world to dyslexia called Made by dyslexia, which basically is campaigning to show the world

how brilliant dyslexic people are

if they are given the right attention, so that they can go through the nuisances of

dealing with the simple things that we need to deal with in school.

She is also the best-selling author of This Is Dyslexia, her book that came out in the UK and in a

digital format but coming out in the US on March 1st.

So by the time we aired this episode, it will be out already globally, which basically has the same objective of making sure that you understand what dyslexia is and how you can deal with have gone to change our world,

whether through entrepreneurship,

through art, through even authors and storytellers, it really is quite eye opening because most of what you see about dyslexia in the mainstream media is focusing perhaps on the negative side, the positives.

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