In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show Matt is Talking to John Rinaldo, he is an author and works in sales. He had always wanted to write a book but felt that his dyslexia got in the way, this is also reflected in his career starting in a manual job before injury changed his life and he went to university and has never looked back. Hear in the podcast how John worked it through university and got to grips with his dyslexia. How is after isolation due to Covid-19 he found that having som...
Jan 18, 2023•49 min•Ep. 42
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Armelle McGeachie, founder of Girls with Dyslexia. During this podcast you will find out that Armelle had a feeling that she was dyslexic from a very young age, but did get a diagnosis until age 21. Interestingly, she had already been employing lots of dyslexic, friendly tactics that she had found through self-discovery during her time at school, particularly during her GCSEs. But having the official diagnosis allowed her to get...
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 41
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show Matt welcomes Alex Onalaja, he is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. He has been featured in Forbes and been voted on of the top 50 influential black voices in tech by Tech Nation. In this podcast they talk about Alex’s education in Nigeria and how as a dyslexic he struggled in school, this was made more painful as he watched his younger brother thrive. His time at university once he had moved to the UK and how as a keen young person he wanted t...
Dec 21, 2022•50 min•Ep. 40
In this Episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Natalie Brooks, the founder of Dyslexia in Adults, which has the mission to increase the conversation around dyslexia in adults. Part of this includes The Hive, which is an online membership program that includes monthly masterclasses, tips, and advice, and as access to a community. Natalie has over 60,000 followers on TikTok and has a big Instagram following too. In this podcast, Matt and Natalie talk about her background at sc...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 39
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show Matt is talking to Jacquelyn Davies, she is the Founder, CEO and Mum-In-Chief of Clever Noodle. Clever Noodle creates tabletop games to help children to read. Their first game Kangaroo Cravings is currently on a Kickstarter campaign which ends on 30th November 2022. During this podcast Matt and Jacquelyn talk about her career in politics, how her passion for education grew, and why she decided to leave her politics and law career to pursue a succes...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 38
In this episode of a The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Lisa Heleniak the founder of The ZOOM Genie. The provides co-hosting, support and coordinate online virtual events, leaving the host to focus on their course or presentation. Lisa, as most dyslexics struggled at school, but found that her abilities in sport and other creative subjects, helped her to have a positive experience through education, although as you will hear during this episode, her boarding school peers have taken...
Nov 09, 2022•57 min•Ep. 37
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Andy Barden. He is the founder of Think Unconventionall that provides inclusive social media social media management, training, video editing and coaching. There is also a clothing brand unconventionall apparel and he presents The Unconventionall podcast where Matt was on episode 8. Andy’s business is inspired by his autistic son Jacob. During this podcast Andy tells of his experience of how he and his wife had to work through g...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 36
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Joseph Pack who manages his ADHD drug free. The founder of many companies and now the editor of the drug free ADHD newsletter and has recently started being the host of the War On Attention podcast. Joseph, realise he had ADHD until a major life event happened in his 20s, and he realised that he been self-medicating his symptoms of ADHD. This was the catalyst that lead him to going on a journey researching the latest thinking be...
Oct 12, 2022•59 min•Ep. 35
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talk to Toni Horn, she is the founder of Think Differently Coaching which provides workplace coaching for the neurodiverse. She grew up in a neurodiverse house hold as a dyslexic herself and alongside her brother who is autistic. In this podcast Matt talk to Toni about growing up in a house hold with a neurodiverse sibling and how their life panned out, how she found her way into banking before working her way up trough the to a senior pos...
Sep 28, 2022•58 min•Ep. 34
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Dr. Helen Ross who is a Special Educational Needs specialist and Dyslexia expert. She has founded Helen's Place where she delivers support for businesses, schools and families through research projects, professional development, and one-on-one tutoring. Alongside this she is a trustee for the British Dyslexia Association and Wilshire Dyslexia Association. She has also published and been featured in peer-reviewed papers and guest...
Sep 14, 2022•56 min•Ep. 33
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Philip Burgin who is ClaroRead Product Specialist at Claro Software. He has had a varied life and career, starting as a brick later before heading back into the education. There are some fun stories about the early days of home computing and how the DSA were providing the new technology to people that need it. Phil really takes his time to get to know the individuals that he is training and coke up with various methods for them ...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 32
In this episode of the dyslexia life hacks show Matt is talk to Rossie Stone, founder of Dekko Comics . They are educational comics the are aimed at 8 to 12 year olds, as you will hear in the podcast, Rossie inputs his Beano inspired style and humour lead stories that makes the comics and engaging read. Rossie was struggling with his school work during his early years and into his Scottish Highers, until one day with nothing to lose he used it love for art, illustration, and comic books, he put ...
Aug 17, 2022•46 min•Ep. 31
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show is part 2 of a 2-part series with NoticeAbility . In part 1 Matt spoke to Bodhi Bragonier who is a teenager and the inspiration behind NoticeAbility, and currently serves as there International Youth Ambassador. Now in Part 2 Matt talks to Dean Bragonier the Founder & Executive Dyslexic, they talk about his younger life in the american school system and the differences they may or may not be from Bodhi’s experience. Dean saw something in Bodhi ...
Aug 03, 2022•55 min•Ep. 30
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show is part 1 of a 2-part series with NoticeAbility . In part 1 Matt is talking to Bodhi Bragonier who is a teenager and the inspiration behind NoticeAbility, he currently serves as there International Youth Ambassador. Hear how he came up with a business idea at 7 years old that with the help of his Dad Dean created a business plan, this help grow his self-esteem and Dean took this idea to start the company more on that in the next episode with Dean. ...
Jul 20, 2022•39 min•Ep. 29
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show Matt is talking to Maggie Souter and Sally Ashcroft who run Handy Spelling , a company which produces ingenious stationery to help children with dyslexia. There products include, pencils and rulers which help you remember tricky spellings and write the date. Tattoos and stickers to help you remember left/ right and b/d reversals. Bookmarks to explain homophones/ verbs/ adjectives/ nouns/ adverbs. In this podcast we talk about how as mothers’ mother...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 28
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is a talking to Kirsty Heap who specialises in coaching dyslexic leaders. In this podcast we talk about Kirsty’s time as school where she had supportive parents that got her the help she needed. Thought to the beginning of her working life where she came to a point in her career where she realised, she needs a master’s degree to progress further. She had to balance having young children and a job with her studies. Kirsty now has set up her ow...
Jun 22, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 27
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Phillip Ruddock who is the founder of Our Dyslexic Connection. His day job is working as an english teacher at Middlesbrough College where he applies his lessons learned during his own dyslexic experiences to help people who have failed their GSCE's to get the grades they need. In this podcast Phill talks openly and deeply about the experiences some of these teenagers are having and the negative thoughts they have in regards to ...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 26
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking to Kate Gladstone who has developed a program and published a book to help people with reading and writing in cursive. In this podcast you will hear Kates story of struggling to read at school and the horrible thing she was told when she voiced her struggles, including being told to copy lettering of a board and then being told she did it wrong as she a copied the type font perfectly. This leads her research the history and origins...
May 25, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 25
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talking Jason Flinter. Since 1996 he has been working on building brands. Jason has self-diagnosed with dyslexia; you will hear during this podcast how he finds out more and more about what dyslexia and how is life and career has been positively shaped by it and we look into how things were different for his much younger sister. Despite only having good grades in his art subjects, Jason got accepted onto university and studied graphic desi...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 24
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talk to Eric Cheung who current works as the Relationship & Partnership Officer for the British Dyslexia Association. He has had a varied life after find out he was dyslexic at university, he went on to set up his own event and marketing business while studying the final years of his degree before going to moving into a roll as an events coordinator. It was in the employed roll he started to struggle and after reaching out to his super...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 23
In the episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, Matt is talks to Cassandra Rollett-May who runs Rollett Ed , that provides one to one support for 6- to 13-year-olds in maths and literacy. Cassandra had a dream to be a teacher from a young age, having set her sights on this goal she had to take a longer route through the education system before qualifying as a school teacher. In the podcast we talk about her time as a teacher and some of the challenges she faces being a teacher and dyslexic. Work...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 22
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we talk to Ian Sudlow-Mckay, he works as site librarian for the University of Chester . He has always had a strong interest in history but he was told by a career advisor when at school, that he should go get a trade job. Ian managed to gain the confidence to obtain not just one degree but 3 master degrees including on from the University of St Andrews. In this podcast you will hear how Ian found his love of history and ignored that careers advisor...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 21
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we talk to Emma Downer, who is the founder of DIY with Emma which provides DIY hacks, how-tos and follow along projects across social media, with regular video uploads too TikTok and YouTube. Emma has long had the entrepreneurial spirit when as a child she decided her pocket money was not enough and starting cleaning cars for her neighbours. This carried through to the start of her career running her own textile business before moving into working ...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 20
In this episode of the Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we are talking to Deborah Leveroy PHD, who is neurodiversity and inclusion lead at Dyslexia Box . Deborah has worked as an actor performing in both London and Edenborough Fringes. As she continued with her acting career, she devolved an interest in how dyslexia can affect actors, this led her to take a PHD where her thesis called Enabling Performance: Dyslexia and Acting Practice. In this podcast you will her hear the challenges that dyslexic actor...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 19
It this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, I talk to Rachel Morgen-Trimmer, she is a Neurodiversity consultant providing training through her company Sparkle Class . She is autistic and has ADHD, Rachel has won a Rose Award for her poster on Autism. In this podcast we talk about the relationship between dyslexia (Matt) and hyperlexia (Rachel) and how people with different neurodiversity’s can combine their strengths when working together. This can be a benefit to organisations and highligh...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 18
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks show we talk to Arran Smith who is the founder of Dyslexia Show , this is a live event happening in the Birmingham NEC with the Inaugural event happening on the 25th to 26th March 2022. This event had many exhibiters and speakers on all thing’s dyslexia including Matt who is speaking on the Saturday at 3pm. As well as understanding the idea and drive behind the Dyslexia Show. We also talk about in this podcast, Arran’s background, and his work with the ...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 17
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we are talking to Kelly Monday, who works for Microsoft and has recently been promoted to Consumer Channel Sales Director (at the time of recording she was the Global Account Manager for WPP). She discovered she was dyslexic at 19 years old during the early stages of university studies, this allowed her to get the right support during her studies. Kelly then took a graduate position at IBM and tried out many roles in different parts of the company...
Jan 19, 2022•52 min•Ep. 16
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show we talk to Wes Baker . He has had a diverse career, starting off as a biomedical scientist were he found could put his dyslexic talents to good use, in particular pattern recognition when looking at test results. He realised that he wanted a new challenge and moved in the NHS graduate scheme and retrained as an accountant, gaining his chartership. He now hold a strategic director position where he get to combine the skills as a scientist and accoun...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 15
This is a bonus episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, in this podcast is the audio of an webinar on Dyslexia in Engineering that Matt did along with the IET Derby/Notts local network, which is part of the IET East Midlands network. IET stands for The Institution of Engineering and Technology which is one of the professional engineering institutions in the UK a person who is a Chartered Engineer will be a member if the IET or similar institutions. In this webinar Matthew chats about his own ex...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min
In this episode of The Dyslexia Life Hacks Show, we are talking about reading pens with Lauren Jeffery Area Sales Manager for OrCam . OrCam have been developing reading cameras for the blind and visual impaired since 2010, there latest product the OrCam Read provides a portable reading pen that dyslexics can use to help with reading problems. In this podcast, we talk about how OrCam moved into the dyslexia market, the operation of OrCam Read and best practices for use. How different do the blind...
Dec 15, 2021•59 min•Ep. 14
