Bonus 13-Lynne Roe-Twice Gifted: The Challenges and Triumphs of Educating a Unique Learner

Guest Bio - Lynne Roe

Lynne works with entrepreneurs and small business owners to develop a strong foundation to lead their business. She guides business owners in developing strategic action plans and sound decision-making that leads to dynamic business growth. She takes business owners from Entrepreneur to CEO of a successful and profitable business. Lynne is the author of “Leadership In Action: Inspiration for Intentional Leadership”

Lynne Roe, a business coach and devoted parent, shares her inspiring journey of navigating the educational challenges faced by her son with learning disabilities. The heart of the conversation revolves around the concept of "twice gifted" children—those who excel in some areas while struggling in others—and the unique hurdles this creates in traditional educational settings.

Lynne recounts her hands-on approach to supporting her son's education, which involved balancing remedial work with intellectually stimulating tasks that catered to his strengths. The discussion highlights the importance of finding time for family amidst the demands of entrepreneurship, emphasizing that parents can successfully integrate their children's education into their busy lives. With practical advice and personal anecdotes, Lynn illustrates how strategic planning can empower parents to create a fulfilling and enriching environment for their children while pursuing their own professional goals.

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Hello.

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Lynne Roe. We don't necessarily have a bio, so, Lynne, I'm going to let you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do.

So I. I am a business coach, but I thought I'd talk with you today about one of my children. I have four kids. They're actually all grown at this point.

But one of my children had learning disabilities. And he was one of these kids who, when he was tested, he was in like, the third percentile in some things and in the 97th percentile in others.

And the school could only handle so much. You know, they could only do the rem, the remedial. But he also really needed to. To have. Be challenged mentally and emotionally.

So that left me with the challenge of. Of how do I keep him and.

And inside doing what the other kids at his age are doing, Remediate the problems that he was having and still challenge him intellectually.

Yeah. Thank you for sharing that. And what the new term is, or the term that a lot of people use right now is twice twice gifted. Not twice.

Yeah, twice gifted, really? Or, you know, twice labeled. Right. Because you have the lower and then you have the upper at the same time. And it does.

It presents major challenges, especially in a classroom when there's like one teacher and one assistant and things like that.

So, yeah, this is super important for all of the families who are listening to Bringing Education Home, because this is what we want to help them with.

Give them tips, ideas, what can they do if they're in that situation, or what kind of services and things can they seek out to help with that situation? So here we are in this situation. Your child's in this classroom. It's not quite fitting their needs.

What's something that you did to help bridge that gap and help it make. Make it better?

So I did a couple of different things. One was, obviously I worked with the school on the remediation of what he needed to learn. But my son actually did three sets of homework.

He did the remedial homework, he did the classroom homework, which I really had to support for him because he could not read and he couldn't write at the time. And so I would read to him what he was supposed to be reading, the story, the book, whatever was supposed to be that at grade level.

And then he would respond to me verbally and I would record it, what he said. So that was just to keep him on grade level, but then I also needed to challenge him, and that.

That required a lot more Research until he got old enough to challenge himself, which was wonderful when he got to that point, right? Yeah. But I would take my older children's books on history and philosophy and psychology. Those. Those were the he really loved.

And I'd read those things to him, and then he would verbalize back to me his understanding of what he just learned. So he was way above grade level in some things and way below in others.

So one of the things that we kind of talk to our parents about is the myth that they don't have enough time to homeschool their child.

How much time were you spending with your child doing this homework, doing this work with him, going to school and trying to figure out how much time are you actually spending working with the school to help your kid? And had you decided basically just take it over on your own, do you think it would have been that much different?

I actually wish that I'd had the resources at the time. You know, this was back before there were so many resources available. I think it would have been much quicker.

His learning would have been much faster if I'd had those resources to be able to bring it into the home.

Because he ended up going to school for six hours or however long he was in school, and then he'd come home and we'd have to do the homework, and that would take quite a while because he was not at grade level for the homework, and then we'd do the. The challenging things with him. So it was.

It was actually a lot longer than it would have been if I'd just been able to bring it all in house and get him, know, teach him at his level for each of those things. I think it would have been much faster.

So. So you're not alone there. So our. Our oldest son is autistic, and she was a teacher, and I was working in corporate America at the time.

So even as parents with a teacher, you know, our. Our child, it was kind of the same way.

We.

We didn't. We didn't do that either, and it was a lot more work. And.

And so there was times where it's like, even as a teacher, we'd have wished we'd have taken our kids out and homeschooled them at the same time. So we didn't know better at that time. And that's kind of why we're out helping people now. So. So you did the best you could.

You are an involved parent, and you actually did. You went way above and beyond what most people do now. So. So thank you for your effort. And thank you for sharing what, what you've learned.

So tell us about the success now. Where is your son now? What does your son do?

So I wasn't sure where he'd end up, but he is. He's in computer science and he's very happ. Working and, you know, it's. It's been a good thing. And he's. He's still very involved with.

On his own, on his own time. Politics and philosophy and psychology and economics and. And all of those kinds of things.

And he's now working on a podcast for himself on those areas that he's interested in that are not the things he learned in school.

Yeah, exactly. Wow. And see, yeah, Whenever. Whenever we let our children follow their interests. Right. Whenever they can really dive into.

I am so glad that he didn't lose his love of learning, was still interested in so much to continue that learning.

And I think that had a lot to do with you because even though you spent a lot of time on the homework and things like that, you still encourage those other things that he wanted to learn about.

So.

Good job, mom.

So as a business coach, you're going to be working with, with parents with children. How do you help the parents work with the children? Is it.

You know, because one of the things that we, we actually try and help with is entrepreneur parents realize that they'll actually have a lot more time to work on their business if they have their kids at home because they're not running back and forth to school. They're not trying to do all of the stuff at school. So do you work with parents with children?

And does that come into it at all inside of your business coaching?

It comes into it a lot because a lot of entrepreneurs are trying to do everything themselves in their business. And so they say, I can't support my child at home.

But what that ends up, what I end up working with them on, is finding time in their lives so that they can work with their kids at home if that's what they need to do. So it's. It's a matter of designing their business to give them the time that they need.

Absolutely. Yeah. When we talk about it, we talk about three legs of a stool. Of a stool. Right.

All of our entrepreneurs, entrepreneur families, they have their business development that they're doing, and then they have their personal development that they're doing.

And what we're trying to bring and help them with is that third leg that keeps the family up, the family development that is just very part of that natural progression.

Like you said, setting a schedule, making the time for each thing, making sure that the family is involved as much as possible so that they aren't falling away or being left behind, and making.

Sure that the business is solid so that they. They can leave it for a few hours a day and. And work with their kids. So that's important to a lot of entrepreneurs.

And they just say, oh, I don't know how I can leave it. I've. You know, but if they build the team for themselves, if they. If they make it so that it's not 100% relying on them, then they.

They have the time to do that kind of thing. I started doing strategic planning with my clients because I needed it for myself.

One of my other children, she fell when she was in college, and she got a severe concussion. Of course, they. They sent her home. She came home. We wanted her to come home. And they said, oh, she'll be. She'll be better in two weeks to two months.

And she did not get better. And after, you know, two months, they said, well, maybe two months to two years. And in the meantime, she couldn't walk without assistance.

She was bumping into walls and falling down, and she couldn't eat. She's this teeny, tiny little thing Anyway, she's. She's 105 pounds when she's healthy, and she was losing weight like crazy. So you can imagine. Yeah.

Wow. It was. It was really tough.

And I had just started my business, and I was like, how do I grow a business and still have time to be here for my daughter? And since I'd spent so much time in strategic planning for other organizations, not for profits, major corporations, things like that, I.

I knew, okay, I know how to do strategic planning. So I developed a process for strategic planning with entrepreneurs so that they could have time to do what matters to them.

For me, that was being home with my daughter.

For others, it might be a hobby or it might be their children who they're trying to homeschool, whatever it is, but developing your business so that you can do that, Right?

So almost most entrepreneurs are building their business for their family, and they're doing all of this for their family. And then what happens is they lose their family along the way because they're spending so much time in that business that they're.

That they forget what they're actually working for. And that's kind of why we started, too.

And we talk about that third leg of the stool so you can build your family with your business at the same time and put all of that together so that you don't lose what you're working for because you, what you start working for, you think is what you. Is what your business, but that's not. You're not working for your business. You're working for your family. And you need to take family with you.

And all of my strategic plans start with what's the lifestyle you want to be living.

So if the lifestyle you want to be living is I need to spend three hours a day or two hours a day with my children educating them, then we design your business around that. Yeah. So in my daughter's case, it was eight years before her personality came back. Wow.

Ten years before she finally went back to College As a 20 year old.

I suffered a traumatic brain injury.

I suffered a traumatic brain injury. I had a business, I lost my five employees. We ended up going bankrupt.

I didn't have the resources by the time I figured out it was a brain damage to deal with it. So I can completely understand and sympathize.

I don't know exactly what you went through, but I know what I went through and how devastating brain injuries can be on a family situation.

And really to be able to manage that kind of thing, and maybe it's a sick parent, I mean, everybody's got something going on. Right? But to be able to manage the family side and maybe it's just you want to have time to go see your grandchildren who don't live nearby. Right.

I mean, it could be that too. But plan your design your business so that you can live the life you want to live.

Absolutely love this. You know, this was, this was what we call a bonus match here at Pot of Palooza.

But you know, it's one of those things that was meant to be because parents, audiences, our families, I know that are listening to this podcast, they need to hear this information because they think that they can't do it or they don't know how it's even possible. But then just listening to your stories, as well as the kind of coach you are, it is possible.

And when we are working for the best of our, for our children, when we want them to be happy, healthy and successful, and we're being those good role models of setting the proper schedule, making priorities, etc. Then they get to learn to be wonderful little humans for the future. So Lynn is been amazing talking with you. Thank you for sharing with us.

Yeah. And it was awesome because right as we started talking, she's like, oh, I don't necessarily know what I have to contribute.

Oh, wait, hey, I did this little thing and it turned into such a beautiful conversation.

So on point for both of what we do and just, it's just amazing how, how when you're really concerned about the family and bring it home, that, that just. Are all these worlds just come together so beautifully.

So, Lynn, would you please make sure you share with our audience because we'll contact and get all the show notes down below. Share with our audience how to get a hold of you if they are that entrepreneur or that small business professional who's looking for some help?

Yes, absolutely. You can find me on my website, lsr consultants.com. so that's LSR consultants with an S on the end. Consultants.

And that stands for leadership strategy results.

Wonderful. Thank you so much.

And we will have that all below in the show notes, but we like for you to say it out loud so people can hear it as well.

Is there anything else that popped into your head? It's like, oh, I really want to say this before we go.

You know, with your business and also with your family, it's worth spending a little bit of time to plan it out. You know, even sometimes planning can, can be done in 30 seconds. Sometimes it, it takes a lot more time.

But even if you spend 30 seconds planning something, you, you'll get a better result. So I usually say there's three questions you want to answer.

What's the outcome I'm looking for, what might get in the way, what problems challenges might get in the way, and what's most important for us to get right. And when you answer those three questions, you can do it very quickly or with a big challenge.

You maybe want to spend a lot of time answering those questions, but you answer those three questions and you're definitely going to have a better answer.

Awesome. Love it. And you know what? I want to adopt that into family as well. Family planning.

Let's get those meals, get the education, get all, everything planned out like that also. Exactly. All right, Lynn. Well, thank you so very, very much.

All right, audience, you have been here with us at for another special episode from Podapalooza. We are so glad that Lynn joined us in the room with us and thank you for listening and hope.

Grab these nuggets, take them with you and then use them to help your family be happy, healthy and successful. Until next time. Talk to you later. Bye for now.