058: Dyslexia Is Not Your Weakness | Turn It Into Your Superpower

0:08 SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Warriors Haven Podcast, the place where discipline meets purpose and everyday people become unstoppable. I'm your host, Jaisha Sutherland, a retired Army drill sergeant, single mom, and the founder of the Warriors Haven. Around here, we talk fitness, mindset, and the mission of building a stronger you, mentally, physically, and financially. Because this isn't just about the gym. It's about life, leadership, and living on your terms. So gear up, lock in, and let's step into the haven where warriors are made.

1:03 SPEAKER_01: I have a special guest joining me. But y'all know I like always asking with a question. So, what if the thing you've spent your entire life trying to hide is actually one of the things that makes you powerful? Think about it. Maybe you were told you weren't paying attention. Maybe you were told you weren't learning fast enough. Maybe you compared yourself to everybody else. Maybe you started believing something must be wrong with me. And here's where today's conversation gets powerful because my guest today knows what that feels like.

1:36 SPEAKER_01: Coach Blake Willie was diagnosed with dyslexia in first grade. And for years, he didn't see dyslexia as a strength. He saw it as something he had to hide, something that made him different, something that made him feel behind. Today, Coach Willie is a dyslexic career and high performance coach, helping professionals and entrepreneurs turn self-doubt into confidence, overthinking into clarity, and stuckness into momentum. And we're gonna make this conversation extremely simple. I'm gonna ask Coach Willie about seven questions.

2:15 SPEAKER_01: Let's see who's counting. And I believe it's gonna help somebody listening, not just someone with dyslexia. Because maybe your limitation isn't actually your limitation. Maybe it's the story you've attached to it. Coach Willie, welcome to the Warriors Haven podcast.

2:35 SPEAKER_02: Ah, thank you for having me.

2:37 SPEAKER_01: Yay. All right, are you ready? I have a couple questions. You want to dive in?

2:40 SPEAKER_02: Yes, let's see if it's seven, less more. We'll see.

2:43 SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right, let's go. So, Coach Willie, what was it like growing up with dyslexia?

2:50 SPEAKER_02: When I first got diagnosed, it was in the first grade, age six or seven. I could care less about it. Like I could care less. It was just a word back then. My my uh teacher or the third party that we went to told my parents about it. My parents told the school, and I was just like, cool, I'm gonna go hang out with my friends still. But then years went by, and then I would be that kid who you make sure to watch Willie. The teachers and the parents would say, make sure to watch Willie. We got to make sure that he gets his attention and that he's watched over.

3:24 SPEAKER_02: Except who else gets watched over as a kid? The bad kids, the ones who are making trouble. So you have me who is this just a fun, adventurous kid loving to go out, all of a sudden is now being watched more by adults. And then as I kept going up in fifth grade, would read at a second grade reading level, all of a sudden the textbook started getting harder. And it's not that I didn't know the information, it was just hard to read it out of a textbook and a book and all the other things. And then when it came, oh my goodness, when it came to essays and when it came to tests, heart rate elevated, most stressful thing in the world.

4:03 SPEAKER_02: And it wasn't even be again, I knew the information, but it was we put this pressure and this time limit on. And it was like, if there's a time limit, I have to get it perfect. Because if I don't get it perfect, people are gonna make fun of me. People are gonna all of a sudden say, Hey, Willie's not as smart as he is, and oh, he's he's behind in reading. Oh, he's a special kid, we got to take care of him. Well, on the other side, they're just like, Who's this willy that in high school would get extra time on tests?

4:37 SPEAKER_02: Would get extra extra resources of the powerpoints the teacher would send, or anything as such, to where I in high school I didn't use the resources that much because either it's either I go to the front of the room in the middle of the test, say, Hey teacher, can I have some extra time or and if I did that, oh Willie's special, you'd hear from all the girls, and then all the guys would just be like, Why does Willie get some extra resources? Right, I don't want to hang around that guy, so it was very lonely.

5:10 SPEAKER_02: It was very I always had to do double the work just to catch up, but even then, still felt like I could never really be myself. I had to continue to serve other people because kind people serve other people. And if I'm serving everybody else, at least that means I can hide from the problem, which I call dyslexia.

5:30 SPEAKER_01: Oh wow. So, Coach Willie, did you ever feel embarrassed?

5:37 SPEAKER_02: Yeah, quite a bit. Because you, I would I would be sitting there during a test. It was it was in chemistry class. I vividly remember this, sitting there, front row, left side. I had all the math perfect of all the equations and the molecules and the atoms and all the fun jargon that you put into it, had the answer and looked around. Everyone else was still writing. 10 seconds go by, 15 seconds would go by, and it'd be, and usually what I'd do is I'd wait until other people gave the answer. Then when other people gave the answer, they'd say the right answer and I'd beat myself up because I gave the wrong the right answer.

6:19 SPEAKER_02: Or if it was the wrong answer, then it'd be like, Oh, I'm glad I didn't raise my hand. But today, this day I felt courageous. So I raised my hand. Teacher called on me, and I gave and I read out the answer on my paper, and the teacher said, incorrect. Oh wow. So I sat there, I looked at it, and I was I was looking at the math. What did I get wrong? This this wasn't a hard question, it was just one that took like five minutes to do. Yeah, 30 seconds go by, and this dude named Nate, he was kind of my friend, kind of not, he was like more of an acquaintance, but not as a stranger as everybody else in this class.

6:59 SPEAKER_02: He rose his hand and he gave the exact same answer that was on my paper. And the teacher said, Correct. And so I looked at my paper and I connected in my head the words I said out loud was different than the answer I had on the paper. Oh, wow. I had the right answer, and even the teacher's name is Mr. Beanick, one of my favorite teachers. He looked over at me and said, So, Willie, did you find where it was that you messed up at? And him and I had the relationship where he could ask me that. And I said, Yeah, I that was that was the exact same thing that I wrote down.

7:37 SPEAKER_02: I just didn't say it in the right way. Class continued, but in my head, I was beating myself up. Saying, How could you get that wrong? It was it was right there in front of you on a piece of paper, and you just said one thing wrong. Willie, don't raise your hand again. Not for a while. And those weren't, and that wasn't the first time or first thoughts that ever came to my head. So yeah, that was a very embarrassing moment where I read the answer wrong, and it continued with more thoughts that you can see from different times.

8:16 SPEAKER_01: Oh, wow, that is so fascinating. So honestly, Willie, I think a lot of people listening can really relate to that. And even if they've never had a dyslexia diagnosis, um, somewhere along the way, you know, our our brains, we may have had the right answer and then just said the wrong thing and then just been like, oh, right. And then we just kind of brush it off and kind of move on to the next. Um, and one thing I really want the listeners to hear, our friends all over the world, is sometimes you don't need someone to tell us that we're broken.

8:50 SPEAKER_01: We tell ourselves. And that leads to this next question that I want to ask you is when did you stop thinking dyslexia was a weakness?

9:02 SPEAKER_02: It was about a year or two after halfway through college. Now I know that was a lot of words. So halfway through college, I was switching from accounting to business. I knew how to do the numbers, but didn't want to sit behind a desk. Wanted to get out and talk with people. So I was switching degrees. And it's around that time to where I came across a statistic that said 95% of CEOs read 50 or more books a year. And I said, Okay, I'm going into business. Being a CEO would be really cool. Ain't no way I'm reading 50 books, though.

9:35 SPEAKER_02: Right. Impossible. Ain't no way I'm doing it. But in my head, I just it just connected of okay, CEOs read, so I should probably get to know how to read or at least read a little bit more than I am. So I'll set this still impossible goal for me at the time, but 12 books. I'll set that one book a month. It didn't seem too bad. It broke down to like 10 pages a day. I can knock that out in third other people do it in 10 minutes. Me, it took like 30 minutes, but 10 pages a day, I can do that. So I went to my bookshelf, literally grabbed the smallest self-help purple book I could call Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki.

10:15 SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and opened it to chapter one and started to read. And it was there that I learned about business and psychology, personal growth and finance and everything that goes in between.

10:25 SPEAKER_03: Yeah.

10:26 SPEAKER_02: And that's when the thoughts that I had started to change. And entrepreneurship now just wasn't all this hunky-dory, all this cool stuff. I was also learning about the bad side, the not so good, the problems and challenges that happened. But that also got me thinking of what if what I thought before was good and bad wasn't, and dyslexia was one of them. So I thought, okay, dyslexia 100% bad for me. I do not like it. It has not served me in the least way. At least that's what I thought.

11:00 SPEAKER_03: Right.

11:01 SPEAKER_02: So is there any good advantage to it being in my life? So I went onto Google, typed in what good things come from dyslexia. Article popped up and said, Nine superpowers dyslexics have. And I say, This is a bunch of bull, but let's click it anyway. So I click on it. And I was so intrigued by the answers because some of them were creativity. Dyslexics are great when it comes to being able to be creative and just imagine things in 3D and color a lot more than other people can. Perspective was another one, problem solving, recognizing patterns, communication.

11:43 SPEAKER_02: We don't like the big jargon words, so we're able to explain things simply. And when it comes to empathy and sympathy, we're able to relate to a lot more people because we know what a challenge is like. We know what it's like to be in the trenches when we do it. And so all of a sudden, it wasn't just this black and white, it just wasn't good and bad, but it was this real gray area and more just like it was like a rainbow type area, a lot of different colors, a lot of different sides and shadings to it, to where at the end of the day, you just get to choose.

12:31 SPEAKER_02: And that was the day around that time uh when I was in college to where that shift from dyslexia was bad to now dyslexia is something that I can take as my edge or my advantage.

12:45 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that. That was very powerful, what you just said. And I hope our friends that are listening all over the world were able to follow along with that story and everything you just shared and that transition of that thought process in the mind. So this is something I want everybody that's listening to write down. Your label does not have to become your limit. And I'll say it again. Your label does not have to become your limit. So, Coach Willie, how can someone turn self-doubt into confidence?

13:25 SPEAKER_02: Best way that I've seen is to get into motion. Start moving. If you want to change your mental state, change your physical state. And it could literally be as simple as if you are just sitting on the couch, those depressing or anger or sad thoughts start going in your head, those anxiety and worries. You're usually sitting down, your legs are crossed, your arms are crossed, your heads down, and you're just like maybe you're scrolling on your phone with your thumb. That's usually like the position that it's in.

13:51 SPEAKER_02: So it's literally stand up as quick as you can, change your physical state, maybe go for a walk for a few minutes, or do a hundred jumping jacks. I know that's a bit, that's a bit for quite a lot of people, but if you do it, I can tell you, you're you're not gonna be your heart's gonna be pumping. You're not gonna want to sit back down. You're gonna be like, okay, I'm in motion. So it's to get into motion. So people who are have self-doubt and they're just like, how do I start? How do I go? I always say start to do something.

14:23 SPEAKER_02: Start to do something. Because when you do that something, that's then going to be able to carry it forward into the next thing and into the next thing. But that hardest push is going from zero to one percent.

14:39 SPEAKER_01: Oh, beautiful advice. Yes, and I have to agree. I think when you're in kind of a rut to disrupt, disrupt the thought pattern, disrupt the thoughts, the emotion, you know, think of something completely wild, right? The unicorns that might be in the sky that don't even exist, like something completely out of the ordinary to just disrupt that thought process and that pattern. And then, like you just said, really get into that movement, get moving, start doing something, right? Wash the dishes, go outside, take a walk, you know, something.

15:13 SPEAKER_01: Um, but move yourself from where you currently are, and then kind of get that momentum going. Oh, I love it, I love it. So, friends, confidence isn't something that you wait for, and it's something that throughout, I think, the Warriors Haven podcasts and these series, I think you guys are kind of picking up on this message. You have to build it, you keep a promise to yourself, and then another, and then another. And that's how evidence starts building in our minds. I said I would do it and then I did.

15:46 SPEAKER_01: So, Coach Willie, this is something uh in my research for for you, and and I was just really kind of fascinated with your work, is you have a 2% rule. So explain the 2% rule like you're talking to a fifth grader.

16:04 SPEAKER_02: Yes. All right, fifth grader who is in front of me that is not the listener because you are well, maybe you're a fifth grader. Who knows? There's some cool fifth graders out there, right? The two percent rule is taking two percent action every single day to get to your goal. And it's more, it's not as much as just like, okay, if my goal is to reach the certain amount of steps in a day, 10,000, that's just like my 2% right now is literally 2% of that, and in 50 days I will hit my goal. It's less about the percentage and more just about the consistency that comes with it.

16:43 SPEAKER_02: And what you said earlier, Jay, about the evidences that appear, and that's where confidence comes from and builds. I I heard it from Alex Ramosi, I'm not sure where he got it from, but it's the way to build confidence isn't about shouting affirmations. Maybe it'll help, depends on the person, but it's not about shouting affirmations, it's about doing what you say you're gonna do and building an irrefutable stack of evidences that you are who you say that you are.

17:13 SPEAKER_01: Right.

17:14 SPEAKER_02: So it's you and your words match your actions. That's how we build confidence. Because now we don't have these two versions of ourselves of this is what I say to other people, and this is the persona that I have to hold. And if I get knocked down off my pedestal, well then crap, I'm screwed. Right. Versus the version of ourselves that's within us that's sometimes we call our inner child, but is the one that likes to draw dragons.

17:39 SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

17:39 SPEAKER_02: The one that likes to play the piano or the tuba, the one that likes to sit down and read a good fiction book. Like it's it's combining those two together and not being afraid to talk about it. If you heard me years back, I was not the person that would be on camera saying, I love dyslexia, it has helped me done so many things. And yes, it has helped me not get a lot of things and has hindered me in some ways, but I'll take the advantages with disadvantages every single day. That was not the same person a couple years back, but it's as I've been thinking about it, and as I've done 2% each day that has gotten me there.

18:20 SPEAKER_02: And why here's why I like 2%, because it'll go more in depth of what that is. It felt like we were just like touch the the top of the iceberg with 2%. It's whatever your goal is that you're aiming for. That's 100% check off the box item. It's 2% of that, which it's the consistency of doing something each day. What is one thing you can do today that leads you to that goal that moves the needle? Reason why it's 2% is because if you focus on 100%, my perfectionist friends, you're with me. I've been here, you'll understand this.

18:55 SPEAKER_02: When you focus on 100%, there's way too much going on.

18:59 SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

19:00 SPEAKER_02: Just like at a buffet, your plate is too big and there's still cookies and brownies down the line that you have to give. And you're trying to figure out do I take the second plate and look fat to everybody, or do I go back and sit down and finish the food and come back for seconds hoping those good things are still there?

19:14 SPEAKER_01: Right.

19:14 SPEAKER_02: Right? There's just so much going on that we get paralyzed, or something that's called analysis paralysis. Yeah, so much going on we can't move. So 2% is small enough to where it doesn't, to where you're able to at least still move. But then what about the flip side? What about the one percenters? They're just like, no, one percent a day. One percent.

19:36 SPEAKER_01: Give me one percent.

19:38 SPEAKER_02: It's great, but for some people, it doesn't get them out of their comfort zone. True. Because if I'm building the business, it's easy for me to record videos, and that's my one percent. It's easy for me to be able to go to AI and find the perfect thumbnails and build those. But calling up a potential client or sending a LinkedIn message or an email, no, that's too uncomfortable. So I'm gonna I'm gonna stay with my one percent. So that one percent tends to stay in the area that's comfortable, but the two percent is just a little bit more, just out of that comfort zone of okay, now I'm doing something uncomfortable, but isn't that hard?

20:25 SPEAKER_02: Right, like just picking up the phone for 30 seconds might give me those butterflies and get my adrenaline pumping, but it ain't gonna kill me. I'm not gonna be destroyed at the end of that. And at the end of the call, whether it goes good or bad, if it goes good, maybe there's a new client. If it goes bad, I'm at the exact same place that I was yesterday. Right. There's only an upside to it, and then you learn and you grow and you accelerate the ability to be able to learn and grow. So that's why I like 2%.

20:57 SPEAKER_02: It's big enough to get you out of the comfort zone, out into different things that are going to help you, like I did with reading 12 books that then led to even more afterwards. But then not looking at the big picture for me, those 50 books, or doing 75 hard or losing 100 pounds or anything like that. But it's 2% every single day. And if I do it consistently, whatever that next thing is, it's going to lead me in the direction of my goal. And eventually I will get the result that I want.

21:31 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that, Coach Willie. And I can I can see that that thought process now with that 2%. Um, because I like I said, I'm I'm that 1%. Hey, just do 1% a little bit more tomorrow. But when you really look at it, you know, for me and my scope, my business, what does that really look like? So I love that 2% because it's that little extra edge, you know, and what does that look like for me and the Warriors Haven podcast? So thank you for putting that into a perspective. And I want to ask you so, what does 2%?

22:00 SPEAKER_01: Percent actually look like in real life to the corporate mom, dad, um, adult that is currently working the nine to five or the 12 hour shift? What does that two percent in real life actually look like for somebody like that?

22:16 SPEAKER_02: Yeah. It depends on the situation, right? Because everyone's different, depends on their life in a corporate setting. That's well, what are my actions doing? And are they leading me to the results that I want? And if not, well, then there's something to change. And that change doesn't have to be, oh, I gotta make 50 more phone calls. No, maybe it's just like I'm gonna pick up the phone one last time before I head to lunch. That's it. On the relationship side, you come home and you're there with your spouse.

22:46 SPEAKER_02: It's if they're the ones walking in the door, you drop whatever you're doing and you go give them a hug and kiss. If it's you walking through the door, you go to wherever they're at, if they're not there and give them a hug and kiss. Let them know they're the most important person in your life. And if you got kids and they're running towards you, by golly, if they're running towards you, that's like the biggest blessing there ever is in life. But give them a hug. Take that 45 seconds just to do it.

23:14 SPEAKER_02: And then as you go have dinner, put the kids down, it's before you lay in bed, maybe it's you need to go do a workout. Or maybe before you lay in bed for the next day, you need to schedule what's gonna happen. Or maybe if the weekend's coming, it's thinking about what are what has my this is me, what has my spouse told me this last week that I just haven't done yet that I probably should do. And if I can do it in two minutes or less, which there's usually those three or four projects, hashtag taking out the trash, that you can do in those two or three minutes, just do it before you go to bed.

23:53 SPEAKER_02: So it's really like before you go into your routine of what you usually do, finding that moment of doing one extra thing. Ah, one extra thing is going to be a gift that you give your future self, whatever that looks like.

24:12 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that. Thank you for breaking that down. I really appreciate it. So I want the listeners to pause for a second. And I and I want you guys to really listen really closely now. I don't want you to fix your entire life today. You need to fix the next small move. Not a hundred percent. Coach Willie literally just told us two percent, okay? Two percent. Let's get a little that edge, a little more uncomfortable. It's not perfect, just progress. So, Coach Willie, this was another thing I was really fascinated about.

24:47 SPEAKER_01: Um, because I love reading and it's something that I just really enjoy, and obviously my guests, right? So, what is the GPS goal model method? What is that?

25:00 SPEAKER_02: Yes, GPS method. I like things simple, so I keep them simple for other people. When I was doing when I was reading those 12 books, and then I started my own weight loss journey, and I was writing my own book and starting my own business and all the other stuff that have happened over the last decade, I have found the common thing that helped me to get started, and that was this GPS method. So three three words to the three letters. G stands for get clear, P plan the route, and then S start moving.

25:38 SPEAKER_02: So if any of you have ever used Apple Maps or Google Maps on your phone, it is literally doing this, but for what you're working on. So the G for get clear, where is it you're going? And you got to, and not just like what you do every day to day, but like what is it that you want? What do you want? Sometimes you gotta go back, like in grade school when you were a kid, be like, I want to be an astronaut, I want to be the paleontologist, I want to be right next to Chef Gordon Ramsay, cutting up food and everything.

26:10 SPEAKER_02: Right. Like getting that in that moment of not about the parents, not about your coworkers, not about your friends, but just like, what do you want? And then setting that as something you're working toward. And then knowing where you're at. And we we pretty much know where we're at. Sometimes we've got to be a little bit more honest with ourselves. Like instead of saying, Oh, yeah, I have energy throughout the day, it's like, no, I'm sitting here with a keg and might need to lose a little bit of weight.

26:35 SPEAKER_02: Right. We gotta be a little bit more honest with ourselves. And when we know that, we know the direction, and that's what it means to get clear. Second one is the P plan the route. Now that you know where you're going, what you're gonna do is reverse engineer it backwards. Because if you start from where you're at looking forward, there are hundreds of options that you can take to be able to get there. But if you start from the end and work backwards and hit milestones, then it's easier to be able to now what is the next step?

27:09 SPEAKER_02: What's the next milestone I need to hit? Awesome. We just hit it. What's the next one after that? And it's a lot easier to be able to do then the third thing after plan the route, which is start moving.

27:21 SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

27:22 SPEAKER_02: And this goes into the 2% rule. This goes into something that's also called one minute, one thing, which if you do feel well overwhelmed, like I did when I came up with this, I was sitting on my couch, trash, clothes, room disaster, chair, chairs everywhere from my kids, put them in bed. Didn't want to do anything. I said, Okay, setting a timer for one minute. One thing for me to do. Look around, okay. I can pick up the trash for one minute. So went around, got grabbed the bag quick, put the trash in the bag, one minute.

27:55 SPEAKER_02: Timer went off. No expectation to do anything else. Now that I'm moved, it's like, okay, now I can I'll pick up the clothes. One minute. So I went around and picked up all the clothes, and that was like 95% of the room. It's like, well, now I can do maybe just maybe, maybe. No expectations, right? Just maybe one more minute of doing everything else. So then I do that. And then I'm like, okay, now I'm up, now I'm moving. Well, now I feel a little bit more motivated and less mentally blocked. So now maybe I'll do the dishes for a minute.

28:27 SPEAKER_02: And it starts to lead. So that start moving part is to again get into motion. 2% rule, one minute, one thing, whatever, really whatever works for you to get into that motion. And that's what the GPS method is. Get clear, plan the route, start moving.

28:43 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that. Thank you for breaking that down for all of us and for my friends that are on the other side of the world and you guys are listening. It's Waze. It's the Waze app that's over on the side of the world to get us going. And that's the maps over on that side. So I want to include you guys too, because we have have you guys listening and we appreciate all of the heartbeats that listen to the Warriors Haven podcast. So, Willie, we're gonna get ready to kind of close up our time together here.

29:09 SPEAKER_01: But I had one final question that I do want to ask you. And if you could talk to your younger self and the the young Willie today, what would you tell him?

29:25 SPEAKER_02: I would tell him he's a pretty cool kid. And he should go find some other pretty cool kids to hang out with. Because this world is not for normal people. It's for the weirdos to be able to do it.

29:37 SPEAKER_01: It is, right? Hey, I think I'm pretty normal in this world, even though I am a little weird.

29:43 SPEAKER_02: It's normal to be weird and weird to be normal. So stop being normal and be weird.

29:48 unknown: Right.

29:48 SPEAKER_01: What fun is it to be normal? Oh, I love that. I love that message. That's a beautiful, beautiful message. Um, and if there's someone that's listening right now, and they're this person that's kind of in the season or has been for years, maybe with the dyslexia or some other diagnosis that you know that they have received. Like I received my ADHD diagnosis as I was retiring out of the military, and it literally opened up the book. Like it was just like this revelation, and it was just a beautiful, it was a beautiful diagnosis to receive because it it all made sense.

30:28 SPEAKER_01: Um, what would you tell the person listening who feels like that little boy?

30:39 SPEAKER_02: I'd tell that person that people believe in you, that you can do whatever it is that you want. And with my light philosophy, which I know we didn't talk about, but with love and inspiration, with gratitude and hope, and with using the time that we have each day for what we want, we can create the life that we want. And it's just doing 2% at a time.

31:02 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that. I love that. So, friends, before we finish wrapping up, I want to give you guys a dyslexia to strengthen challenge. So I hope you have your notebooks. And if not, listen to this episode again to take this challenge. I want you guys to write down, I used to believe, and then I want you to write, now I'm choosing to believe. Then I want you to find your 2%. I want you to ask, what's the smallest action I can take today? Not tomorrow, today. Then I want you to use your GPS the same way that Coach Willie just described to us on what to do.

31:45 SPEAKER_01: I want you to ask yourself, where am I? Where do I want to go? What is my next step? And then I want you to tell yourself, I don't need to feel ready, I just need to move. So every time you take action, friends, you're proving something to yourself. I'm perfect. That's not what we're saying here. You're saying I can trust myself. That's confidence. So, friends, I want you to also have another takeaway. Dyslexia, for the purposes of this episode, or whatever diagnosis that you were given, for me, it was ADHD.

32:31 SPEAKER_01: It's not the villain of this story.

32:36 SPEAKER_01: It's the belief in because I learn differently, communicate differently, or think differently, that doesn't make me less capable. So, Coach Willie, I really want to thank you. And I just appreciate you taking the time to get on this episode with me to really kind of touch on some of the bigger points of your your coaching, kind of what you do explaining the GPS method, the 2%. Um, and I know you go a little bit deeper in your light method and your philosophy of your light. Um, really quick, can you just tell us again what light actually stands for?

33:21 SPEAKER_02: Yes. L is for love. I inspire. G, gratitude. H hope. And T, time. For that's all we had, truly have.

33:34 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that. I love that. So, Coach Willie, again, thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your story because somewhere in the world, someone's listening to this episode and has spent years believing that they're behind as well. Someone thinks that they're not smart enough. Someone thinks that they're too different, someone thinks that they're too late. Someone is hiding. And maybe they needed to hear this that you are not broken. You might simply have been trying to win a game using rules that were never designed for you.

34:08 SPEAKER_01: And maybe your job isn't to become more like everybody else. Maybe your job is to learn how you work and then rebuild your life around that. Coach Willie, if someone wants to continue learning from you, really kind of dive into the light uh philosophy, where can they go? Where can they find you really quickly?

34:28 SPEAKER_02: Yeah, simple plays made it real easy for everybody. My website, coachwillieblake.com, there to connect with me. If you want to work with me, place the schedule a call there. And then I have a free resource called Break Free, what the 12 limitations are and how to shatter them that people can just grab right on my website.

34:47 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love it. I love it. And I'll go ahead and put all of that information also in the show notes as well. This has been such a pleasure, Coach Willie. Thank you for all of that information, that knowledge. I think it's gonna serve our friends all over the world. So thank you, Coach Willie. And for my friends listening all over the world, I want you guys to please take all those takeaways from this episode. And like I always end, stay strong, stay focused, stay ready.