Feeling Ashamed of Being Dyslexic and Getting Past That in Business and in Life: Scott Ballard

<p>Coach, author, and speaker</p> <p>Show notes and links: <a href="https://www.markgraban.com/mistake106">https://www.markgraban.com/mistake106</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #106 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/">My Favorite Mistake podcast</a> is <a href="https://www.confidencecoach.org/about-scott/">Scott Ballard</a>, a coach, speaker, and author, based in Portland, Oregon. His company is <a href="https://www.confidencecoach.org/">Confidence Coach&nbsp;LLC</a>.</p> <p>From his bio, Scott “has used that superpower [of encouragement] to help create insight and breakthroughs for hundreds of people to take their life and their business to the next level. [Scott] can do this because his dyslexia blinded him from seeing his own genius for many years, so he became brilliant at seeing the genius superpower in others.”</p> <p>In today's episode, Scott shares his “favorite mistake” story about feeling shamed for having dyslexia. How did he learn that it wasn’t shameful? How did he decide to share his dyslexia with people?</p> <p>We talk about that and other topics including:</p> <ul> <li>Joking about “being dyslexic” in a meeting — inappropriate?</li> <li>Learning from business failures, wife’s encouragement</li> <li>“Fail fast”</li> <li>New business – learned not everybody is an ideal client</li> <li>Coaching dyslexic leaders?</li> </ul> <p>Find Scott and his firm on social media:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-ballard-a3250422/">LinkedIn</a></li> </ul> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/favorite-mistake/support</a>