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What are some common needs of parents with special needs children-By Denise Carbon · Rock My Finances

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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, I'm so glad you're back for another show.
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  Speaker 1: This one is going to be great. As you can
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  Speaker 1: see behind me, I have some happy birthday stuff, so yes,
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  Speaker 1: celebrating my sixtieth birthday this week.
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  Speaker 3: Very exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And I have one of my besties to be on
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  Speaker 1: the show today, so I'm very thrilled about that. I
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  Speaker 1: have not been able to really dive deep into interview her.
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  Speaker 1: She is part of the Soul Sister series, so check
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  Speaker 1: that out. I have a lot of shows on the
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  Speaker 1: Soul Sister series where all four of us get together
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  Speaker 1: and chit chat and dish about all different types of things.
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  Speaker 1: So today is going to be about Denise and Denise
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  Speaker 1: and what she does and her community and all about her.
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  Speaker 1: So her and I have done some Law of Attraction
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  Speaker 1: shows as well. You want to check those out, And
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  Speaker 1: this one is going to be all about Denise and
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  Speaker 1: her special needs community and her career and her company
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  Speaker 1: and everything that she does. So without further let's welcome
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  Speaker 1: miss Denise Carbone.
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  Speaker 4: Hi sweetie, Hi sweetheart, and happy birthday week to you. Woo.
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  Speaker 1: Denise, actually set me these signs and she's like, hey.
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  Speaker 3: Where's there someone like, oh, yeah, we go.
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  Speaker 4: We can't already rate someone's sexy sixtieth year, and so
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  Speaker 4: this is a big thing.
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  Speaker 1: I love that you say that, especially since I had
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  Speaker 1: carbs and not feeling.
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  Speaker 3: At all it's sexy. But thank you so much because
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  Speaker 3: that is my goal, right, the.
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  Speaker 4: Sex feeling internal thing doesn't matter what you eat.
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  Speaker 3: This is true. This is true. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So, miss Denise Carbone, I'm going to read a
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  Speaker 1: little bit from your your bios and your website and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to interview you and ask you questions and
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  Speaker 1: I just want to get to know more myself as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe what you do is so important to
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  Speaker 1: be an ex about the special needs community and you
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  Speaker 1: actually being a parent coach helping parents deal with this
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  Speaker 1: entire lifestyle that has their heart connected, that has their
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  Speaker 1: finances connected, that's part of who they are.
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  Speaker 3: Like this is not just.
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  Speaker 1: The writing a book career or you know, start even
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  Speaker 1: starting a company, which is crazy, hech but this is
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  Speaker 1: like you are so enveloped with their love and their
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  Speaker 1: emotions for their children that you are an amazing parent
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  Speaker 1: coach for them and.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not forget, but you are. You are a.
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  Speaker 1: Powerhouse in this community in the Bay Area, Like you
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  Speaker 1: have been doing this for so long, Like you have
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  Speaker 1: experts coming to you for questions and answer more and
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  Speaker 1: training right, Like there's so much she gives, talks, just
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things. So I can just imagine how
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  Speaker 1: frustrated the parents would feel. I mean, my son a
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  Speaker 1: d d ADHD some learning disabilities.
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  Speaker 3: Say hello and Alona, because you'll know, she's a freaking
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  Speaker 3: zoom queen. She just has to crawl on my keyboard
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  Speaker 3: when I'm on zoom.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder you can know who to give her to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, gosh, thank you. I love it. I know I
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  Speaker 3: know you love her.
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  Speaker 1: So being with Parker and having to do the special
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  Speaker 1: classes and fight for his rights for his small, little
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  Speaker 1: tiny disabilities in your stream of things, and to do
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  Speaker 1: his I e. P. And to fight every year to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that he got the things that he needed
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  Speaker 1: in order to be successful in school, and then he
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  Speaker 1: had all kinds of other issues as well.
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  Speaker 3: I have this much experience in dealing with wor Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're okay.
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  Speaker 4: My support I just want to interject how that is okay?
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  Speaker 4: She and I like Jennifer said, right, love direction, direction.
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  Speaker 4: So basically what just happened, for those of you who
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  Speaker 4: aren't watching this, her background just totally fell apart and
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  Speaker 4: fell on the floor. The surfboard fell off the wall,
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  Speaker 4: one of the sixty Happy Birthday sixty signs fell down.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's not that's not a coincidence, because
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  Speaker 4: I was thinking in my mind, yeah, you're saying Parker's
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  Speaker 4: Parker's thing was just so little. I can only imagine
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  Speaker 4: what other parents are dealing with. And I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 4: that's baloney, because your child's special need or delay or issue,
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  Speaker 4: whatever it is, behavior, you know, whatever you label, like
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  Speaker 4: you said, ADHD, doesn't matter the diagnosis. In my mind,
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  Speaker 4: if your child is struggling, so is the parent. Right.
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  Speaker 4: So if your whole heart in your mind and everything
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  Speaker 4: was on Parker and helping him succeed, whether in your
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  Speaker 4: instance like you're saying with the IEP in the school district,
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  Speaker 4: you are going to do everything that you can for Perker, right,
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I love about supporting parents that have
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  Speaker 4: kids with special needs or developmental delays or behavioral issues
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  Speaker 4: or neurodiversity, which is like the hot buzzword now doesn't
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  Speaker 4: matter what the issue is, and oftentimes parents come and
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  Speaker 4: minimize it like they're like, well, this is just a
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  Speaker 4: little thing. Well it's not a little thing, or you
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't be worried about it, or you wouldn't be losing
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  Speaker 4: sleep over it. So back then it was a big
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  Speaker 4: thing for you, and it probably took a lot of
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  Speaker 4: your time and your attention and your focus because he's
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  Speaker 4: your heart as your kids.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much. You are one hund
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  Speaker 3: percent right.
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  Speaker 1: The universe definitely has my back all the time making
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  Speaker 1: sure that I stop going down the rabbit hole of
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  Speaker 1: things that don't need to be going down. So you
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  Speaker 1: are one hundred percent correct. Thank you Angels, Thank you Universe.
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  Speaker 3: So you are correct.
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  Speaker 1: So I have that much experience in fighting for my child,
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  Speaker 1: and I I did. I'm looking at your website right now,
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  Speaker 1: Special Advantage dot com. And yes, the frustration and the worry,
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  Speaker 1: the stress, the anxiety, the overwhelm, exhaust exhaustion, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: is your biggest.
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  Speaker 4: Thing, right, this is the biggest thing that my parents
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  Speaker 4: struggle with like they and I'm blessed. Okay, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: just grab your microphone Jennifer or take over you go girl.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so passionate because, like you said, this is you
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  Speaker 4: know about it because of your experience with Parker. I
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  Speaker 4: have been around special needs my entire life. Okay, I
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  Speaker 4: was born and had a special need of my own.
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  Speaker 4: I was born into a family where we have ten
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  Speaker 4: family members that have one form of special need or
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  Speaker 4: another right. So I'm not new to this. It's been
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  Speaker 4: my entire personal life and my entire professional life. I'm
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  Speaker 4: a special needs expert, developmental specialist, therapists, and parent coach.
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  Speaker 4: And my parents are coming to me, parents and children
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  Speaker 4: with special needs because they're wondering if they're doing all
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  Speaker 4: the right things, the right things right, Like I got
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  Speaker 4: do the right thing to help my child.
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  Speaker 3: We have no idea what that is.
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  Speaker 4: They have no idea what that is. And what I
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  Speaker 4: find is that they're super frustrated and exhausted, just like
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  Speaker 4: you were reading on my website. They're frustrated. They're exhausted
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  Speaker 4: trying to navigate these broken systems, whether it's the school
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  Speaker 4: district or the medical system or whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 4: And they're struggling with knowing how to balance their time,
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  Speaker 4: Like they don't put themselves first. They put their child
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  Speaker 4: first in absolutely everything, and then they're getting stuck in
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  Speaker 4: anxiety or stress or overwhelm and all they really want
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  Speaker 4: is a greater peace of mind knowing that they're doing
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  Speaker 4: the right thing to help their child make progress so
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  Speaker 4: that their child will grow up and live a happy,
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  Speaker 4: independent life because they're so worried that what's going to
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  Speaker 4: happen when I'm gone? Yeah, and it affects the whole family.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't just affect the mom or the dad, Right,
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  Speaker 4: Like dad's worried about maybe in traditional like traditional older
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  Speaker 4: families like red winner and stay at home parent, Right,
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  Speaker 4: they're worried about their finances, which is where you come in. Right,
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  Speaker 4: They're worried about the siblings and how to help the siblings.
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  Speaker 4: The grandparents are worried and maybe giving mom and dad
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  Speaker 4: grief about why aren't you doing an off or why
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  Speaker 4: do you need that therapy? Or you know, so the
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  Speaker 4: whole family's effective and if you don't know that, you
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  Speaker 4: kind of sweep it under the rug and pretend like
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  Speaker 4: it's not there. So when the siblings acting out, it
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  Speaker 4: must be the siblings fault.
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  Speaker 3: That's so true.
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  Speaker 1: And also denis it kind of sneaks up on you,
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  Speaker 1: like we're just getting through the day, right, there's small
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  Speaker 1: babies and we have them, and then you start adapting
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  Speaker 1: to whatever you need to be adapting to. And then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're ten and you're exhausted, or
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  Speaker 1: five and you're exhausted, right, and it's like right, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, but oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I don't know if I'm doing and they
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  Speaker 1: start school and it's a whole other thing.
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  Speaker 3: So right, it's so much. How did you get into this.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting story? Like my why? I got into this? It
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  Speaker 4: was actually listening to you know me, I don't even
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  Speaker 4: know if you know my why, but that that always
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  Speaker 4: hits my emotional button. My why is hearing the stories
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  Speaker 4: of how hard it was for my mom to parent
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  Speaker 4: my brother through his needs because she had no idea
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  Speaker 4: how to help him. She didn't know what was going on.
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  Speaker 4: And he okay, so a little bit of background, like
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  Speaker 4: my brother was speech to has like in today's world,
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  Speaker 4: he may have gotten diagnosed with ADHD or sensor integration issue.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly communication delays, you know, my mom used to say, well,
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  Speaker 4: he couldn't communicate what he needed how he felt or
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  Speaker 4: what he wanted. He was nonverbal until after age two,
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  Speaker 4: and wow, and he was a risk taker, so he'd
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  Speaker 4: get into all kinds of things which led them into
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  Speaker 4: the emergency a lot. And he was inconsolable and cried
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the time, and she didn't know how
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  Speaker 4: to help him. And so there was one day in
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  Speaker 4: Lucky's grocery store where she was shopping for groceries to
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  Speaker 4: put dinner on the table that night, like she did
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  Speaker 4: every night to stay home mom, and a man came
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  Speaker 4: up to them out of nowhere, and he which, which
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  Speaker 4: is such a big thing for my family, please going
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  Speaker 4: out in public with your child? Right, So he came
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  Speaker 4: up and my brother was crying and was not consolable,
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  Speaker 4: and so he got right in her face and said,
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  Speaker 4: my god, woman, can't you stop your kid from crying?
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  Speaker 4: That point, she was so on her last nerve that
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  Speaker 4: she picked him up out of the cart, shoved him
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  Speaker 4: in front of the man's chest and said, no, I can't,
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  Speaker 4: But if you think you can do better, please feel
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  Speaker 4: free to try. Oh my goodness, which is so uncharacteristic
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  Speaker 4: of my very subdued, non challenging mother, right, like very quiet,
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  Speaker 4: saint like mom. She she checked out of the store,
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  Speaker 4: put the kids in the car, sat down in the
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  Speaker 4: front seat and sobbed. Sobbed, and made dinner and put
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  Speaker 4: the kids to bed. Both my brothers to bed. That night.
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  Speaker 4: I was she's pregnant with me, so like I was
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  Speaker 4: there but not quite there yet. And she got home
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  Speaker 4: and she I mean later that night she said, art,
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  Speaker 4: if I don't get help with him, I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to end up in the funny farm, which back
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  Speaker 4: then meant I'm going to go crazy. And so knowing
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  Speaker 4: her journey and how much she was suffering alone right
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  Speaker 4: not knowing what to do to help her son, feeling
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  Speaker 4: like I'm the only one who's a failing parent who
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  Speaker 4: doesn't know what to do, you know, And it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so I want to help the child make progress, learn
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  Speaker 4: to speak, and that's what I do, right, Like, I
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  Speaker 4: help the child make progress, whether it's communication or gross
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  Speaker 4: motor or social or cognition or learning to body train,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know whatever. And it's also helping the parent
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  Speaker 4: feel more confident in their parenting, reduce their stress and
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  Speaker 4: overwhelm and fear of the future, like it's it's helping
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  Speaker 4: them know what to do so they can support their child,
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  Speaker 4: go back out into public and be armed like the
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  Speaker 4: Mama bear or the Papa bear that I want them
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  Speaker 4: to be. And so my why like touches me every
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  Speaker 4: day and I feel the parents that are out there
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  Speaker 4: suffering alone, and it's just it's it's criminal because our
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  Speaker 4: systems are so broken with leaving parents on their own,
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  Speaker 4: if then for themselves. And you said, and feel like
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking a lot, but you said, oftentimes, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they get to school, which is true, they get maybe
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  Speaker 4: they're five or maybe they're ten, and that's when they're
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  Speaker 4: getting a label or a diagnosis or an assessment, or
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  Speaker 4: maybe the parent was worried about something, but the pediatrician
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  Speaker 4: wasn't listening. So it's yeah, frustrating for me knowing that
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  Speaker 4: parents know that something's not right, and when they finally
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  Speaker 4: are heard and acknowledged, or when they're finally ready to
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  Speaker 4: take action to support their child and their family, their
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  Speaker 4: whole family and themselves, that's what I love to to do.
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  Speaker 4: I love to come in.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you pop in, Mary Poppins and swoop in
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  Speaker 1: to help them get some type of normalcy to their
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  Speaker 1: life and not be exhausted with that.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you right now that I had four
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  Speaker 1: children and I knew within the first week that Parker
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  Speaker 1: was going to be different. So moms, no, moms, no,
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  Speaker 1: they just know. Moms just know he was. He was
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  Speaker 1: the absolutely happiest baby. But he was happy on my
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  Speaker 1: hip for two years like that was just where he
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  Speaker 1: needed to be.
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  Speaker 3: And he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was absolutely hilarious. He was so cute with his
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  Speaker 1: big old grinned and laughing all the time. And Journey
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  Speaker 1: made a laugh all the time. It was so cute.
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  Speaker 1: But I knew he was and I knew he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be different. So and moms just no, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I totally get that. Okay, So I did not know
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  Speaker 1: your why was your mom and your brother.
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  Speaker 3: That touches me. I love that of that. And we
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  Speaker 3: all have a why.
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  Speaker 1: And if we don't have a why, get a why now,
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  Speaker 1: because there's no reason to wake up if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a why.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Oh, you got to have a why.
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  Speaker 1: But it keeps us going, right when when the world's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: it keeps us going. So I know that your career
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  Speaker 1: has evolved and your business has evolved, and I know,
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  Speaker 1: you just keep adding new things and new things for
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  Speaker 1: your parents and your children, and with COVID happening and
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  Speaker 1: not being able to see them in person, and then
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  Speaker 1: you know, doing your parents support groups and now being
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  Speaker 1: able to go back and work with the kids and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us, as an expert in this field that you've
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  Speaker 1: been doing for so long, how do you take care
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  Speaker 1: of yourself?
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  Speaker 4: Good question. I have a lot of things that I
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  Speaker 4: do to take care of myself. Had I have to
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  Speaker 4: practice what I preach, right, because that is actually one
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  Speaker 4: of the secret sauce things that I tell parents, Like
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  Speaker 4: if a parent tells me, how do I help my kid?
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  Speaker 4: That's the number one thing is they actually have to
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  Speaker 4: take care of themselves or they won't be able to
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  Speaker 4: take care of the rest of their family. Right oxygen Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: put your own oxygen mask on first. So, so I
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  Speaker 4: have to practice what I preach. And you and I
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  Speaker 4: have been friends for a long long time, and so
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  Speaker 4: you've known when I do that and when I have
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  Speaker 4: fallen off the wagon, so to speak, and kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Which we all do.
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  Speaker 4: We all do. Yeah, yeah, but for me, there's many
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  Speaker 4: many ways. It depends on what I'm what I'm doing like,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm needing to advocate for myself, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: use certain tools for that right if. But for my
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  Speaker 4: regular day to day stuff, I have a very solid
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  Speaker 4: morning ritual that I absolutely love that grounds me and
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  Speaker 4: sets me up right for success for the day, because
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  Speaker 4: I'm a firm believer that you have to let you
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  Speaker 4: have to figure out how to manage your own emotions.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise your emotions are going to manage you, and then
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  Speaker 4: you can end up going down the spiral right downward
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  Speaker 4: spiral instead of it up spiral. So it's set me
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  Speaker 4: up for a good day. And as you know, I
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  Speaker 4: just got to go to the beach again, or chose
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  Speaker 4: to go to the beach again yesterday in the midst
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  Speaker 4: of all the stuff I needed to do, because being
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  Speaker 4: out in nature absolutely also grounds me and helps me
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  Speaker 4: take care of myself. It feeds my soul.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to have our glass fell in order
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  Speaker 1: to help other people, and I know Denise and I
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  Speaker 1: are very alike that way. My whole life is set
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  Speaker 1: up to be able to be there for my clients
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  Speaker 1: and family and friends and myself. I put myself first
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time. How I feel how
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: help sleep, eating everything is all first, I am first
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent selfish as heck, and I'm very happy
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: And in order for us.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: To be that way for our clients and what's happening,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: we do have to have parameters around our lifestyle that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I think comes with confidence as well, well, which is,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I know what you give to your your parents and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: your mama's and papas and the kids as well.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Right, we have to.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Show them we don't know what we don't know. Thank
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you Maya Angelou, like we don't know what we don't know,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and once we see someone else living this and going,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: oh wow, I can actually do this, That's why I
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: love your support groups. I know that after losing my children,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I would not be here if it wasn't for support groups.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm so happy that you have support groups so
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: that other parents see that they're not alone and that
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: they're not insane like the feelings that we have with
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: that can actually, like your mom, make you go to
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the funny farm. First of all, you do not want
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to be in this situation, and this is me speaking
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: for me. When I got to a certain point where
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I do not want to be in this situation and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it's my child, So how much guilt do I have
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: And then right, oh my god, huge, Well, nobody's thought
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: up to be in this camp, right or in this
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: in this group. I mean, it's not like, Ooh, I
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: want to have and or I want to have a
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: child in my dream. My vision is to have a
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: child in a wheelchair or to have to have a
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: child or you know, have a child who's nonverbal and
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: using a talking device, right, or or I want to
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: have a child who is going to eventually be labeled
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: with autism or cerem a policy, or Down syndrome or
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Angelman syndrome. That's a new one. I haven't heard of.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Sign me up for that. You don't want to be
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: in this camp. It's not something that you sign up for.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: In fact, most people don't know anything at all about
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: the special needs community until suddenly they have a ticket
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: and they're on board exactly right. And and the thing
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: about the groups, thank you for mentioning the groups, Jennifer,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: because I'm with you a hundred percent, Like I fully
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: believe in support groups for families that have kids with
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: special needs, right because they're so valuable, But parents don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: know that they need it, and most of the time,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: when they first start their journey, they're like, oh, hey, no,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be in a group, like I
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: don't belong with Sorry everybody, but I don't belong to
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: those people. Those people My kids not like that kid, right,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: And the reality is, you guys have the same fears,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: the same worries, the same stressors, and the kids are
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: more alike than different. And that's the thing too that
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I love preaching, because kids with special needs are more
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: alike than different than their typical peers, right, And everybody
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: wants to believe that, And yet they don't want to
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: believe that their kids, Like I don't want to be
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: in that special class because then my kid's gonna pick
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: up behaviors like the other kids in that special class. No,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: we actually do so much better when we're recognizing the
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: strengths that these amazing kids have and the amazing gifts
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: that they are here to provide for us. Like most
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: people don't focus on the strengths. They focus on what's
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: wrong or what's.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Right and how to fix it right.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: And so the group for me groups for me because
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I have different ones, I have free parents, sport and
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: discussion groups. And then I have a very low monthly
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: membership which is like a it's a coaching program and
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: parents poorkrop ball rolled up into one, which I absolutely
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: love because it's such an incredibly uplifting, productive group of parents.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: But once people are in it, they're like, oh my god,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: why didn't I do this sooner? Because your family doesn't
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: get it right. Your your parents or your friends that
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: have typically developing kids, they don't understand what you're going through.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: They're not on the same journey that parents that have
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: kids with special needs are on. So it is that
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: secret sauce, just like you said with with when you
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: lost your kids, you know, or for me I've had
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I've been in trauma groups, like when I had the blockage,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: you know, the disability, what was it my third disability?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: You know, Like I was thrust into a support group
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: and wasn't sure I was gonna like it, but it
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: was the best thing I would have I could have.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: You were one of those that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Don't. I don't belong here. These people are different, you know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: I'm different.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It's like, so I have one rule when I'm around
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: people that were doing things around food, you have to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: try it. If you don't like it, that's fine, but
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you have to try it. Same role with this, like
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: if someone recommends something to you and you see something,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you have to try it, Like it's crazy not to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: it's just ego centric not to try it, or your
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: fear is just way too big.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Ye fear. It's usually fear, right, Like I'm not gonna
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: like that slimy thing.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Right right, But it's like, okay, just try If you
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: don't like it, that's fine.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: So let me ask Let me ask you this.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: What is one of the most asked questions that you get?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Kind of alluded to it a little bit. I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: the number one question often is how do I help
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: my kid?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: What do I do?
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: How do I help my kiddo? And for me, it's
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: obviously it's very individualized, Like there's no cookie cutter answer
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: for any parent, because your child's an individual child with
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: their specific wants, desires, and needs, and they're in your family,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: which is also an individualized family, which is different from
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: your neighbor or your you know your friends, and so
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: you want specific things. So for me, there's no cookie
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: cutter approach to serving a family or serving a child.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I look at where they're starting or what they're dealing with,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: and then what we need to do next to reach
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: where they want to go.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Right, So you do consultations with them because yeah's individualized.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Okay, well yeah, yeah, absolutely, Like I have, every program
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: that I have is very individualized with families, and it
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: starts with the conversation. It starts with a complimentary you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: accelerate your child's progress discovery session.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I start with. But like, in a nutshell,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: if I were to drill it down to what's kind
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: of core to every parent, what every parent needs, it's seriously,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: it's like refill your your cup, like, let's address store
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: needs to because when you're depleted and you got nothing
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: in your cup, you can't give to them, right. And
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: you know this, like in thinking about Parker, if you're
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: not your highest best self, you can't support him the
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: way that your best self would support him.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Or when there's no way that I could have been
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: my highest best self at that point because I wasn't
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: reaching out for help. I didn't know I needed it really,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: so I definitely was not my best self going through
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that whole experience. And so yeah, anybody listening right now,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: please definitely reach out, ask for help, check out, denise
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: anybody that knows someone that could be suffering from anything
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: at all around any disabilities whatsoever with their family, Like
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: we have to ask for help, like we have to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: reach out to just to see.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: That we can't do we can't do it alone.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: And why do we think we My.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Mom that I thank god my mom had the smarts
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: to go home and ask my dad to say, look,
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: we need help, and thankfully he was able to say,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: you know what, Yeah, okay, I can see how you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: supporting our family, so yeah, let's get you some help.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And how do you do you have single parents in
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: your groups?
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah absolutely, Like I
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: make everything doable for whether there's single or whether they've
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: got support or family whatever or not. It's funny because
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I just want my brain, as you know, Jennifer, my
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: brain pops like popcorn, and I go all over the
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: place depending on where I need to go in the moment.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: And I also like, I'm I started. You know, I've
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: been doing this for thirty years and so it's not
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: about me. It's about supporting the families. And I started
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: as an early interventionist, which is birth to three, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I do I serve families in their home. I do
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: home visits with families locally, but I also have been
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: doing virtual services for years, way before COVID, right because
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: I support medically fragile children and sometimes if they're going
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: to have a heart transplant, you can't see them for
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: a while because you don't want to bring in the germs.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: But I was thinking about my mom with me because
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I had issues when I was born. She had a
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: home visitor that taught her exercises to do with me,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: to support me every time she did a diaper change,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: like she had these certain exercises great or like it
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: was a nurse home visitor back then, right, But I
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: became the home visitors that my mom had to support
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: my issues.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: That's so cool because I.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Came out feet first and I got stuck right and
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: so I had to have my leg in a cast
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: for the first you know, I can't remembers three weeks,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: three weeks, four weeks of my life and had all
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: kinds of issues when I was born, and so I
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: don't remember where I was going with this, but like
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: it just it definitely, Oh, I know It definitely stems
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: from let's address the parents. So my mom was worried
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: about me, So let's give her something to do to
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: help decrease the worry. Now she feels empowered. Oh, exercise,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I can do these exercises. Oh, I can embed them
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: in the regular routine of the day. Fits easy, peasy.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: I can deal with the other two children and Denise's
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: needs because you know, you put it into the diaper
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: changing or a meal or you know, dressing skills. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: don't know, whatever. It's easy. That's not hard. So over
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: the year hard, but.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: It's I love the way you integrate it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: So what did you do after that the early years?
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: After the early years you mean of like my career
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: kind of thing, Yeah, you did one to three and
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: then yeah, well I started, I mean I probably started
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: before that. I mean, I'm working with kids with special
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: needs my whole life, really, but I ran the high
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: risk infant program at Stanford, decided I wanted to go
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: back for my master's degree in early childhood specialists so
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I could be providing the services to families in their homes.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: When I realized the systems were broken, like the federal systems,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: were broken and kids weren't actually getting what they needed
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: to get. It was probably around the time I started
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: to do my own private work too, which expanded to kids,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: you know, beyond age three and you know five six.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Now I still work with kids like birth to ten ish,
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: depending on the child is my favorite age to work
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: with in the home still and providing services for families.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: But I have clients right now that have adult children
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: and I'm supporting the parents, like I'm a parent coach
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: in therapist, so I can help their children through helping
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: them And that's usually more virtual work right or through
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: the Special Needs Connection membership program because I can help
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: them through the group program. But yeah, it just depends
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: on what the family is looking for, what the family needs,
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: because sometimes it's helping the child make progress. Sometimes it's
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: helping the parent make progress or work through the parent
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: to make progress for the child. That's wonderful.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I love that. I love that.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: And you're in the Bay area and they can reach
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: you at special Advantage dot com. Can they sign up
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: for that complimentary check in thing from that website?
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, they can reach out to me to connect with me.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: If they peek at my services page, they could look
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: at the variety of stuff that I offer and see
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: if anything fits for them specifically. And if it does,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: like if they know, oh my god, I'm totally living
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: in fear. I can't even go outside or even think
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: about how to go outside right now with my child,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: then maybe it's a you know, parent empowerment VIP program
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: that we talk about, or if it's you know, like
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: my favorite ideal client is a client who's brand spanking
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: new to this world in this journey and they're like,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I'm new to all this, I don't know what I
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: don't know and help exactly so you know, they'll find
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: whatever's right for them. But yeah, we can talk, like
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: have a complimentary you know session. I do that because
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: if I'm the right fit, great, and I'm going to
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: tell parent exactly how I would sport their child in
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: helping their development, or how I could support the family
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: to move forward and get out of whatever they're stuck in.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: And if I'm not the right fit, I'm not going
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: to offer a family anything. I'm going to tell them
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: this is not the right I'm not the right person
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: for you. Here's where you should go and contact this
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: program or go to these people instead. Because I don't
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: want to waste anybody's time.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. I love that. So give me
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: an example of.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Like a home visit, Like what what would you do
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: when you walked into a home.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: My day is so unique and so different every single day,
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: which is what I love. I'll think of a couple
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: that I have going on right now as a way. Yeah,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: So I have a little girl that I'm working with
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: right now, and I usually visit with the little girl.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: With her mom. Sometimes the sister joins us too. But
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: she has down syndrome and I actually I think she
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: has a dual diagnosis down syndrome and autism. But she's
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: ten and we've been working. They hired me for the
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: year actually through Regional Centers Self Determination program, which is
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: totally awesome and new for me. So the family isn't
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: out anything. But I have been helping them potty train
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: her and I've been working on helping them teach her
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: how to use fork and an actually self feeding rather
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: than just spoon feeding right our fingers. So part of
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: that was also learning to sit at the table and eat.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Her favorite way of sitting was to kind of crisscross.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I'm a low tone too, So I get it. These
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: kids with down syndrome typically or low tone kids like
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: she'd sit with her feet across and on the table,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: so part of it was to help her learn to
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: keep her feet down load.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: What does low tone mean?
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you for asking that question. So we all
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: have tone in our body. Tone is what drives us
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: to be able to use our muscles to pick up
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: a glass and drink. If I have high tone, like
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: a child maybe who has cerebral palsy for example, everybody
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: can kind of have a picture of what that looks like.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: I might be more like Barbie or Ken, or my
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: arms are tight, or my my movements are more stiff.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I might pick up a glass, and it's a little
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: harder to do. Low tone is more like a raggedy ann,
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: a raggedy andy doll. So I'm still gonna want to
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: pick up that glass, but it's harder because now I
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: have a lower tone, Like my muscles don't. My muscles
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: are different, right, you can see the difference typical muscle.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: I want it. And it's also the eyes too coordinating,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Like I see the glass, I'm gonna go get the glass.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: I got the glass. I picked up the glass and
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I put it to my helth there's a lot that
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: motor skills involve your everything's together, like in my world
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: is a developmental specialist. This is what I love about this,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Like developing the ability to speak to someone isn't just speech,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: it's also cognition and social skills blended. So I want
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: to look at the whole child's development. So motor skills
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: is going to impact how you eat or drink or
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: walk across the room and interact with your brother or
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: your mom, right right, And so looking outside the box
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: of just my child can't talk helps a parent recognize
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: what's really going.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: On, right, So further than that, Okay, so now you're
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: with that's what I do.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's kind of what I do home visit.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: It's like I might get now, are.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: You also helping the parent to continue that training when
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: you're not there, kind of like any type of training
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that we all need, it's a it's a daily thing.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Right right. So that's what I love about what I do.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: And then that was just kind of one example of
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: a home visit that I totally went off on a
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: tangent because there's so many things like I would say,
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: ninety eight percent of the families who reach out to
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: me want help learning, want help with their child's communication skills.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: I want my child to talk, okay, great, so let
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: me help you with that. And it's going to be
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: it's always going to be what does your child like
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: to do, because I always want to work through whatever's
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: fun for your child. So it could be if it's
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: an older child, it might be video games, right, Like,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I've got a twenty one year old right now that
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: I'm working with and it's video games or pugs is
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: her favorite thing, so we work with that. For another child,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: maybe it's blocks or trains, So we're going to do
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: something with blocks and trains to help with communication skills
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: or social emotional skills. Like whatever our goal is, whatever
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: the parents' goals are or what we feel are the
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  Speaker 4: right goals, we're going to I'm going to teach through
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  Speaker 4: something fun because in my my core belief is if
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: the child's not having fun, they're never going to participate
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  Speaker 4: in whatever it is we're trying to do, right, They're gonna.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Always way I push you away, right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: And if the parents not having fun, they're never going
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: to follow through either with whatever it is right. So
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: I don't give homework because I think that sets a
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: parent up for failure if they don't do it, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: for feeling guilty if they don't do it. So I
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: try to think about and ask, well, what does your
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: child love to do and what do you love to do?
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: And how can we blend the two so you're going
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: to actually do stuff. So with the child, I was
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: just telling you about mom loves art, but the daughter's
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: never been able to do artwork because of her special needs.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: So now we're making it. I'm so excited with this
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: because like she's painting, like we're making a lemonade stand.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: It sounds ridiculous, but we've put together a box, We've
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: created a lemonade stand. The little girl and her mom
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: are painting together. I've got great memories of Mom laughing
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: and doing this great activity with her daughter because she's
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: having fun and she's seeing the progress that her daughter's making.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: And yes, it's not about just the time that I'm
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: there with the family. It's for me to teach the
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: parents what to do when I'm not there. Right, that's key, Right,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: it's key. So I mean sometimes I use the sibling
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: and it's like I teach the sibling how to have
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: fun with their the little guy or the little girl,
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: So that way they're able to continue the therapy when
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: I'm not there, when mom's busy in the kitchen or
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: dad's you know, working, So it's it is more of
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: a twenty four to seven thing, but they don't have
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: to feel like, did I get the homework in today?
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Did I help my child today? Well? Yeah, you totally
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: helped your child today because you did the therapy, you
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: worked on communication when you were giving them a bath.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: You know that's awesome. Yeah, So how do they know?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this, how soon does it
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: take for your parents to usually tell you, oh my gosh,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad I hired.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: You, Oh my god. Usually the first session they're like.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: My child never ever, ever, ever does this with anyone.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: How did you get them to do that? Like, well,
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: kind of like the pipe piper with kids, And it's
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: a gift. I will absolutely I mean, whatever your belief
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: systems are, I get it. Everybody's different, but I absolutely
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: know that I have a from God and my gift
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: is to see people exactly where they're at, who they
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: are and all the gifts that they have that they
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: bring to this world. And oftentimes people who have a
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: child with special needs or the community doesn't see those gifts,
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: but I do, and so I can join the child
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: right where they're at in that moment and get them
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: to do things that maybe no one else did because
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: they weren't really listening. Not to say that parents don't
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: listen to their kids, but because I absolutely believe parents
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: are the experts on their kids one hundred percent. But
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: I think it's a partnership, Like it's a it's expert
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: parents with an ex special needs expert bringing out the
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: child's best. So yeah, if it's not the first session,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: it's certainly within the first month.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I love that I had the same exact experience as well, Like,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: because we can make so much change quicker, and we
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: just don't know what we don't know.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: I was just going to say that we don't know
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: what we don't know, and that's why it's so helpful
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: to ask for help when you need it, because you
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: don't know what you don't know.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: And I don't even know even if you don't know
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: what it is, right, Like, you're my coach, you're my
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: my financial planner because I don't know what I don't know, right,
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: I'm I'm gonna hire coaches to help support me with
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: what I don't know.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: So yeah, so if people are out there suffering, ask
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: for help. Yeah, just makes sense.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Sure. I love that. I love that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, So now tell me a story, because we love stories.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: So tell me a story. Maybe one of your I
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: know you love them all equally, but maybe a success story,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: just some type of success story.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: A success story. Oh my god, there's so many. Which
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: success story do I want to bring up? Gosh, there's
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: so many. Okay, I'm thinking of family that I worked with.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, this was such a fun family to
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: work with. So, and my example is from I got
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: a referral. I think I got a I think the
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: referral came from Stanford Children's Hospital. Many of mine do.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me interrupt you before you go to the story.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: How do people get your services paid for? I'm private
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: pay so, but you just mentioned the Stanford and then
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: you mentioned something else earlier.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a private pay program so, but I have
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: different price points. So there's you know, money doesn't have
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: to be an option if families want to connect. I
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: have a free parent support and a discussion group that's
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: an ongoing group that they can reach out and join.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: I have my special Needs Connection membership program that I mentioned,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: and I actually would love to offer your peeps something
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: at the end if possible. First, so they had to
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: say to the end thing for them, a guft ee
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: if you will. And then I have different programs, VIP programs,
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: or parents could pay for me privately, you know, per hour,
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: or hire me that way or whatever. I'm I'm I'm
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: a set price point and it's cheaper if they purchase
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: a program because I want to make it affordable.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: As a family, and you can do more good when
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: they are an appropriate und percent.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: But I'm not I'm I don't want people to think, oh, well,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: I can't afford it because you haven't talked to me,
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: so you don't even know what you need yet. So
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: so but yeah, but I'm not. I'm because I'm a
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: developmental specialist. Insurance companies don't reimburse typically for my services,
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: although some families have managed to have that happen. Usually
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: I get referrals from people who know what I do
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: and don't want to see a family struggling so Stanford
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: is one of those places that constantly refers to me.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: This was a family, and I was going to say,
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: it's just because it's an example of a young young kiddo.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Doesn't mean I don't work with older families. But this
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: particular family, he was a micro PREMI, which is part
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: of my specialty, meaning he was born at twenty five
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: weeks gestation forty weeks is term, so he was very,
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: very very early, and he was at risk for many
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: many issues because of his complicated birth history. So I
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: started home visiting with this family and his older sister
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: and also their nanny because it was like a full
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: comprehensive like I worked with the grandparents, I work with mom,
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: I work with dad. And the reason what makes it
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: a success story is I worked with them on every
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: area of development for him. We worked on motor skills,
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: we worked on cognition skills, we worked on feeding, we
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: worked on communication, we worked on dressing skills, worked on
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: everything you could possibly think of. And they were told, yeah,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: your child's probably never going to walk, he may never
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: tell you I love you, don't expect him to be
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: able to speak, and he didn't even need any And
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: I mean like any special ed services by the time
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: he was three, and he ended up going to the
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: bing Preschool program, which is Stanford's preschool program, which you
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: have to have a certain level of ability to actually
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: be able to attend. So it popped in my head
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: as a success story because one this family was very
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: eager to learn how to support and help their child
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: and make progress, and they were following through with the
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: recommendations because it was easy to do and fun and
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: like both kids learned together, and yeah, it was just awesome.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: That is a great success story.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: Thanks. Yeah, like, that's my goal. My goal is that
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: kids don't need any help down the road.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: And is there anyone that stopped before you think?
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Well, if probably, I mean you can help them all
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the way through their life. So that's probably a difficult question.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: So give me another example. Let's see how much time
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: do we have left? I forget that I'm talking to
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: you on a time limit.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: That's true.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, left?
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Oh god, oh my god, okay, three minutes left. Well,
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: then let me give your your peeps a special thing.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: So anyone who's interested in learning more about who I
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: am and what I do, because I haven't really talked
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: well I've talked about what I do, but if you
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: want to know more about me, visit special advantage dot
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: com can also look at all the different things that
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: I have, and there's more that it's not even there.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: But but I really really love my Special Needs Connection
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: Membership group. I I'm about to do some launching, you know,
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: marketing work to kind of open up enrollment. And it's
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: such a fabulous program that I believe in, and I
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: have people finding me all over Like I don't just
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: coach in the Bay Area. I have families all over
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: the US and families and other countries that are finding
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: me as well and working with me. So I love
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: supporting families. And if anyone wants to join and try
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: out the Special Needs Connection Membership program at a reduced rate,
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: it's it's usually right now, right now, it's one hundred
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: and seventy seven dollars a month. And for your peeps,
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: if they type in and use a coupon code piece
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: of Mind all one word peace of Mind, then they
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: get a huge break and it's only eleven dollars for
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: the month.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm all about elevens or ones and sevens, So
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: they can try try it out and see if they
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: like that. Being supported and having guidance, answers and support
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: to help their child may progress for just eleven bucks.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: If they like it, great, stay in it.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: If not, bounce, no risk another Bucks. You got a
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: tryer for a month for sure, try it right.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: Try the food.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, try the food. Eleven dollars.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: I'm not the right fit. That's okay, find someone else.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: I love that, Denise, Thank you so much, Thank you
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: so much.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: I truly appreciate that.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: And I know that we we do need help in
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: this uh, in this community, and like I have obviously,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I'm grief support for people have lost children. I attended
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: a gala last night the Monique Wooley Foundation, a more
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: very good friend of mine that I met here in
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Beverly Hills and her daughter committed suicide and so she
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: has a foundation for her and that's my one of
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: my passions, right, So we had a nineteen twenties gala
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: last night. It was so amazing when feeling blue think
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: yellow is her thing, so cool.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: We definitely want to sport what's happening.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: And there's so many different, so many different aspects of life,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: and I love to send anyone to you in a
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: special needs community because you're so vast in your knowledge
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: and your experience and helping thousands of children and speaking
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: with thousands of parents like you get them, like you
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: get what's happening, and you can get them quickly.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, I say the same thing about money for help.
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, out of their struggle. So yeah, And it's.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: So I don't want to say easy for you, because
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: that's it's just that once we've done something for so long,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: we're actually really good at it.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: It's it's we can we can help people very.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: Quickly, right, very quickly. You're right, And I love it
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: so I I thank you for letting me join you here.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: I I know that everyone knows someone that has a
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: child with a special needs. So it's it's just nice
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: to have a platform to actually be able to share
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: it you and share about this amazing community of people.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Like I said that you never really want to be
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: in the club, but once you're in the club, you're
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: in the club for.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Life, and you need some help, and you need some help.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Well. I hope you all have an amazing day. Happy
• 50:09
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• 50:11
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• 50:16
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