Russell Van Brocklen, known as The Dyslexia Professor, joins Rich Wright for a conversation that reframes dyslexia not as a deficit but as a differently wired brain with a creative advantage. Founder of Dyslexia Classes, Russell built a research program funded by the New York State Senate and owned by the SUNY Research Foundation, with documented results showing motivated high school students with dyslexia improving their writing skills seven to eight grade levels in a single academic year.

Russell breaks down the science from Dr. Sally Shaywitz's Overcoming Dyslexia: the back of the dyslexic brain shows little activity, while the front runs roughly two and a half times overactive. That overactive front is the engine of creativity, and it explains why figures like Steven Spielberg and Walt Disney produced work the way they did.

Russell walks Rich through the exact method he teaches, using word analysis followed by articulation, movie reviews, universal themes, and a writing tool called the warrant drawn from The Craft of Research.
You will hear the real student outcomes that make this method impossible to ignore. Casey jumped eight grade levels in six months. Reid went from the 11th percentile in reading to the 64th, and from the 4th percentile in writing to the 65th, in under nine months at home, avoiding years at a $75,000-a-year school. Grayson, a ten-year-old aiming to publish in a peer-reviewed journal, is being prepared to walk into a senior professor's office a decade ahead of schedule.

Russell also opens up his own story: growing up in upstate New York, being bullied until an eighth-grade growth spurt, entering law school at a first-grade reading level and learning to read in a month, arguing a professor to a standstill on day two, and later convincing the New York State Senate to fund his research. He shares how he uses AI at the highest levels to 10X his output, how he delegates through assistants and partners, and the customer service philosophy he learned from the dyslexic founder of Kinko's.
This one is for creatives, parents, educators, tutors, and any neurodiverse mind that has ever felt like they were grabbing fog. If you have ever wondered why your ideas fly at light speed with no organization, this conversation hands you a map.

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