In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we talk to Ben Hurst who is a racing driver. He has raced for Aston Martin Academy and BMW. Like fellow racing drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jackie Stewart, dyslexia assists him when racing. Having only started racing at 16 he a quickly started winning and has rose through the ranks, hear how dyslexic visitations skills helps him learn the car and set it up. We also talk about how these skills help Ben be a better driver coach and the business side o...
Dec 01, 2021•50 min•Ep. 13
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt talks to Nicola James the founder of Lexxic . She started it in 2007 and it has grown to over 50 employees. They provide psychologists that assist organisations in making environments that neurodiversity can thrive. In this podcast Nicola shares how she found out she was dyslexic in her last year at university. This lead to a big change for her as having access to the right support turned studying and writing things down, from a arduous task ...
Nov 17, 2021•53 min•Ep. 12
In the episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we take a deep dive into dyscalculia with Marni Spicer, co-founder of dyscalculia.me and Table Fables . Dyscalculia can be thought of as dyslexia with maths. As you will hear throughout this podcast there are many similarities with dyslexia. Marni explains the difficulties dyscalculics can face and how her and her business partner Rebecca have developed Table Fables to teach children maths. They are on a missions to remove maths anxiety for all for ...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 11
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we talk to Stuart Marsden product manager at Claro Software . After finishing his PHD, he worked for the NHS designing assistive equipment, this experience would become inviable when he later moved to Claro. Stuart who is not dyslexic is able to apply his epithetic design approach to provide technology that fulfils his mission to level the playing field for all. In this podcast we talk about Stuart’s path from his PHD to working with the neurodive...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 10
In the episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt talks to Delwyn McKenzie from Accent Music School in West Melton, New Zealand. She comes from a musical family being the youngest of five and both her parents play instruments. They taught her how to play a variety of interments from a very young age. Struggling with sight-reading she excelled in the practical playing and along with her husband has written musicals. She found out she was dyslexic at 45 when her daughter was being assed. Having...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 9
"When your dyslexic and you got to keep the flow, it was so tiring. Physically I was exhausted, because I has stay on the focus, I had work so hard to try and read the sentence." The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show welcomes on Alison Edgar MBE, twice voted one of UK's top 10 business advisers and author of two best selling books. She has come along way form leaving school and taking a job in a hotel reception, she soon found that she could turn her hand to all aspects of running a hotel. This lead to a...
Sep 22, 2021•58 min•Ep. 8
""When I came to the UK at 14, I went around with my grandma visiting peoples houses. There's always a picture of someone in there cap and gown. "" Having struggled through school and her early working life, Keisha Swaby wanted to full fill her dream of getting a degree. It was during her degree, when she was getting some of her work prof read she discovered she is dyslexic and dyspraxic. This certainly has not stopped her. She has fulfilled her ambition to have a degree and is now studying for ...
Sep 08, 2021•49 min•Ep. 7
"Dyslexia is not a visual condition, but your much more likely to have visual problems." Bhavin Shah is a Behavioural Optometrist who specialises in understanding the visual problems faced by dyslexics. Although dyslexia isn't a visual condition, dyslexics often have difficulties with visual stress, visual tracking, words moving over the page etc.. In this episode he goes into detail on what is happening with the visual system, why it could be the eyes moving that makes reading difficult, not th...
Aug 25, 2021•51 min•Ep. 6
"On my first driving lesson and I was turning a corner, BANG a cyclist hits me. My instructor you need to be aware that the car pillar is a blind spot. That has always been with me" Jock Boyle left school with no qualifications and label as slow. Having spent most of his adult life as a lorry driver his brain worked away in the background, if there was a problem Jock would think up a solution while he was out driving. One of these is a new type of lens that can improve road safety by reducing ve...
Aug 11, 2021•51 min•Ep. 5
“I'm never going to read this I'm dyslexic! I told him I'm dyslexic, he said but you can read and write, and you’re doing the job you're doing.” Dyslexic barrister Sam Forsyth has succeeded in the world of law where words and language are important, had to read her final university law degree course work out to the senior staff as they could not read, her hand writing. She did not find out she was dyslexic until her daughter was stamaneted dyslexic, she provides her insight to this has assisted ...
Jul 28, 2021•50 min•Ep. 4
"I remember getting quite emotional, watching you be able to do things, not only you didn’t do before, but had resigned yourself to fact you wouldn’t be able to do" Following on from last week’s episode Matt interviews his partner Rebecca Keeves was trained to assist him with the Davis Dyslexia Correction program. They talk about her experiences with dyslexia people at school, university, in the court room working as a barrister and being in a relationship with a dyslexic. This is a wide-ranging...
Jul 14, 2021•54 min•Ep. 3
"I’m trying to think, is there a voice going on in my head?" In this episode, Matt and Richard take a deep dive into the book The Gift of Dyslexia and Matt's experience with Davis Dyslexia Correction program. Richard being a non dyslexic provides a curios voice as he works to understand how a dyslexic person thinks and process information, compering such things such as how they both read differently, process problems and spell words. Matt has benefited a lot from this book and the program and pr...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 2
" Sometimes you have to remember, I'm the one running this meeting" In the first episode, old school friends Matthew and Richard explore Matthew's dyslexia and how it impacted him in school, university, and as a blue and white collar worker. Get the benefit of a few of Life Hacks along the way. Matthew has was stalemated with dyslexia at 6 years old, after getting through the education system he was completely burnt out with it all and when on to be an HGV mechanic for 8 years. As time when past...
Jun 16, 2021•37 min•Ep. 1
