Overcoming Academic Hardships & Creating Your Edge With Coach Willie Blake

Today, I sit down with Coach Willie Blake to talk about dyslexia, neurodivergence, and what it really looks like to stop seeing a diagnosis as a disadvantage. Coach Blake shares how being diagnosed as a child affected the way he saw himself, interacted with others, and moved through school while carrying the weight of feeling different. This conversation covers the emotional side of dyslexia, the labels people carry, and the importance of changing how we define ourselves.

We get into the bullying, isolation, and internalized shame that can come with learning differently, especially when those struggles begin at a young age. Coach Blake explains how dyslexia is far more than simply mixing up letters and numbers, and how it impacts processing, communication, and confidence. I also talk about how what we hear in childhood shapes the way we view ourselves later in life, and why support, listening, and honest conversation matter so much for anyone facing a hidden struggle.

This episode also explores growth, discipline, and the power of small steps. Coach Blake shares how personal development, reading, writing, and speaking begin to transform his life, even when those things once feel far out of reach. We discuss how real progress is often built through small daily wins, how acknowledging a challenge is the first step toward working with it, and why asking yourself what you truly want is essential if you want to build a life with direction and purpose.

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 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode, a couple of nukes. As always, I'm your host, Mr. Whiskey, and I am in my final episode of post Japan traveling podcasting, which means just in advance, I apologize for the lighting and audio not being the normal standard. I'm not in my studio, but still making these episodes happen because they're about impacting and saving lives.

And today we're gonna dive into what some would call a niche, but I think it's so important that every topic gets covered. You know, there are so many people suffering in silence and not getting the resources and help they need because, quote, they're too small a percentage of the population. Today we're gonna be talking about dyslexia, turning it into your edge, and we are here with Coach Willie Blake, a speaker and a, you know, a guest on these shows who shares amazing insights and how he overcame, uh, seeing dyslexia as something that.

Holds you back and makes you different in a negative way. And I am super excited to have this conversation. Coach Blake, could you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Yeah, of course. Uh, my pleasure being on the show. Glad that we have this opportunity. I'm excited for it. So I'm Coach Willie Blake.

I help dyslexic entrepreneurs and professionals to be able to stop second guessing, to get clear and to build a system that works with their dyslexic edge. So I grew up as a dyslexic since the first grade I got diagnosed, and it's simply the way I process information. So whether that's me reading off a piece of paper or the way that I speak really made me struggle and made me feel like a broken kid.

'cause you can only imagine as a kid going and being with friends, then all of a sudden you get this diagnosis and then you gotta go to these special classes and your friends who are. Seven, eight years old are just like, wow, Willie's this, uh, special kid. 'cause he's now goes to doing different stuff in different classrooms and I guess, you know, we'll go play football and Willie hey, we'll play with you next time.

We just wanna do our own thing during this recess. And so that, and amongst a bunch of other experiences that you, that I had as a kid, it's like, man, am I the one that's broken? Am I the one that got left behind? I didn't ask for this thing called dyslexia. What the heck is going on, so, right. That's how it felt like.

That's the challenge that it faced, and it was a habit that I built for decades. Mm-hmm. From elementary to middle to high school, and then it was in college where I had more of that turning moment. I was, I found this statistic, and this was when I was switching from, I did Generals in accounting, but then switched over to business management for my bachelor's and I.

I came across the statistic that said 95% of CEOs read 50 or more books a year. Mm-hmm. And I'm like, that would be really cool to be a CEO. Ain't no way I'm gonna read 50 books in a year. Ain't happening for someone who read, maybe an average of one before, but 12. 12 didn't seem too bad. So I got a little note card wrote one through 12 on it, and went to my bookshelf, grabbed a, the smallest self-help book I had.

Little purple one called Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiosaki and started reading. And from there it introduced me to this whole personal development world. This whole like growth mindset, business, finance, entrepreneurship. From there, I went from reading one to then a few to a dozen, and then up to, and I read now about 60 books a year.

And then from that, then it went to, well, I also want my other childhood dream, which was to be an author. So then I started to write, and it took me years to get the words down. I was able to be co-authored in several best selling Amazon books and right now I'm currently writing my own. And then I was like, I wanna help more people out 'cause I had to go through a lot and the decades that I've had with my experience, I wonder if there's a way I could break that down so that other people get the systems they need.

So that what took me 10 years, they can do in 10 minutes. So I wanted to create that. So I just freaking love, not just dyslexics, but just the, the world that we have and dyslexics actually cover. There's so many different research. They say it's between five and 20, but for the ease of it, about 10% of the world has some form of dyslexia.

Mm-hmm. So that's like 8 billion people that we got right now. 800 million of them have some form of dyslexia. Yeah, that's quite a bit of people that if I can just be an adult resource for them, then I can make at least a few people's lives just a little bit better. So that's what I do. I help business and professionals.

I also love teaching kids and teenagers my volunteering and stuff. But just all around just want people who have neurodivergence and people who just have challenges realize that it's not the disadvantage that you think it is. It's actually an advantage. Can actually be your best edge, right? And to do a little myth busting, for lack of better words.

Something I found out through this podcast actually was that most people, because of mainstream media, social media and the story we've always kind of been shown. Thing that dyslexia is just a rearrangement of letters and numbers in words and sentences. However, what I found out, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that that is just a symptom, a single symptom of dyslexia, which is actually a completely different brain setup on the neurological level, correct.

Yeah. Yeah, you nailed it. Just the way that, the way that our, our brains are wired, just a different way of thinking. Other people can go from like their house to Walmart, point A to point B and just take one road. Ours is full of traffic, full of construction. Ain't in a way we can do it, so we gotta take that route.

C more, more scenic route. But we always eventually get there. Right. And so along those lines, to clarify for anyone to not be misleading, this is not about the elimination of dyslexia, but total, uh, management of it. Correct? Yeah. Yeah. You, it, I'm gonna have it my entire life. Everyone who has it, it's not something that you can change.

And I've learned that because it's not something you can change. It's also is not something that I am, because when I label it as I am this Mm, well, then it's like, well, I, I can't control it. Nothing I can do about it, but if I just say, I have this, I have dyslexia, well then you regain that power back, right?

Same thing with someone who's trying to lose weight. I've had my experience, I've been working, I've been doing a 75 hard lately and trying to lose some weight. I don't, I'm people who label themselves as I have, or I am fat. Knock that off because instead it's, I have fat. So if you have fat, that means you can take it off.

Same with people who say that they're lazy. You're not lazy, you just do lazy things. And so that means that you can just change the things that you do and then that'll help you not be lazy. So taking off that label of I am this to, then I just have it and so I get to control. It helps us re-get that. We get to choose what we want in our life.

Right from that permanent and inevitable mindset to we can do something with this. I think that's so important. And one of the things that we will get into is, you know, just speaking of neurological science and the way the brain works, we know, especially with all the new studies coming out in years of research, that what we hear as a child, uh, profoundly shapes our brain.

You know, when it comes to that scientific level, when it comes to. Our feelings and beliefs around alcohol, around religion, around most importantly ourselves. So you talk about the, I don't even wanna say kids maliciously do it. Some kids do. But the outcast men, you felt the, uh, difference you felt. And I know we've done a lot of work as a society to change the way we speak about people, uh, with those mental and physical disabilities.

We've changed the way we talk about them, but there's still, of course, a lot of bullying and, uh, unintentional outcast men. You talk about being diagnosed very young. How did that feel like, I mean, at that age, do you even understand what's being said to you and how do you process that? You know, did your parents help you or were you kind of left to your own?

Yeah. Uh, my, my, my, my parents did help me. My parents were great, awesome people who helped me, but man, it sucked. It sucked because you're, I, I remember being out on the playground, playing with my friends, and then they're just like, yeah, I don't, I don't really care about what you have. Like, why the heck do you read so slow?

Why when you stand up. Why, why does it take you forever to say a sentence when I can read several paragraphs? By the time you read a sentence out and in a kid's mind, you're like, well, that, that's just how it is. That's just how I am. I can't do it. But kids are kids and they say things without filtering, so they just say what's on their mind.

And when you are living in an experience where, or it doesn't matter if you're a kid or, or an adult. The way that you internalize it is based off of the experience and the knowledge and the thoughts that you've had before. So a lot of people who are walking around being like, man, I am an addict, or I have trauma.

Uh, that stems for the way that we thought in that moment of when it all started. That's why I'm a big advocate for, if that is the case, take time to go back there. And heal from it. And there's like this whole exercise that I do, I don't need to get into it unless we want to, but man, going back to, as a kid, you internalize it based on just what your thoughts are at the time, and that's based off of what your parents taught you and the way that your siblings talk to you.

So me as a kid, my friends going off and walking off and me standing there being like, what did I do wrong? Like I was, I was, I was just loving, I was just sharing my love with my friends. I was sharing a good time. And then all of a sudden. They're just like, Willie, you're kind of strange. You're a lot slower than we are.

And my, my mom says not to hang out with the slow people and hang out with the good ones. Yeah. And so I'm just gonna, right. Just gonna go and do it. It's like, well man, I didn't, I didn't choose this path. I didn't choose to have this thing called dyslexia or the, the challenge, am I broken? Mm. Am I, am I doing something wrong?

You can just imagine as a kid just how that would affect the rest of your life. Right. I know this is not just for medical disabilities, but to speak from my personal observation. Obviously not on the same level necessarily, but. I was judged because my father was a police officer. This was long before they were, um, disliked to the degree that they are now.

But there's always been some, you know, hate and resentment for that. And I lived in a town where people had been arrested by my father or their parents had dealt with them. Uh, rule one is don't raise your family in the same town you work as a police officer. Uh, that's been my best advice to them. But.

You know, I dealt with that and it's like, I didn't choose to be born to a police officer for my father to go into that line of work, but I was labeled as the son of a police officer, not as who I was. And of course that goes to people who are in wheelchairs, people who have different medical conditions, learning conditions, and it is a true shame.

And you talk about not just, uh, as a child, but you talk about bringing this into your adulthood, to your young adult years. I mean, how did that shape your high school and uh, college experience? Uh, same feelings go by. Like, even though I started having friends who didn't really care about it, like you still carry those feelings.

It's dyslexia specifically, like it's a taboo topic. You don't talk about it unless there's this random time with your friends that you randomly are just like, Hey, I'm dyslexic. Other than that, you, it's, it's not something you talk about. And so, uh, in high school, I remember during lunchtime. Bell would ring.

We're walking down the hallway. All of us are just having a good chat. We're laughing, talking about the weekend. And then my friends would walk into the honors class and I'd stay in the hallway, and as they took their seats, I walked three doors down to the normal English class to where kids didn't wanna be there.

They didn't wanna do any work or that, and just thought it was a joke. They felt like they weren't going to be achieving much in life, so why even try and man, I fell outta place. I'm just like, I feel so smart. I know I have the answers and the knowledge to be able to do what anybody in honors class is doing, but because I can't communicate it that well, I'm stuck in the regular one from there.

And so as it just like, it just, it just continued, like it wasn't anything of, yeah, because of my friends, I was able to boost my confidence and I was able to have a life and laugh and have fun, but there's a still itch in the back of my mind saying I still have to catch up to everybody. Right? I still have to work.

My friends can go out boating, but I still need to work the weekend so that I can still be at the same pace as everybody else. Because in my mind, if. If I don't, then I'm gonna be left behind. And that goes back to when I was alone at that playground and I don't wanna be alone again. Yeah, I think, uh, immediately about the naval nuclear pipeline, one of the most, uh, difficult academic programs in the world.

Uh, high suicide rate, high stress rate. You know, I went through that pipeline with people and there. If you are falling behind or struggling to keep up, it's not like, oh, I have to stay here and do extra work, or I can go hang out. It's mandatory. You have hours assigned to stay in the building and study Y.

Everyone you know, gets to leave this window list cold military building and go and do what they can do in their very limited free time. And so, you know, that academic divide can be so damaging, wondering if people are secretly. Disliking, uh, us for our academic abilities. You know, like, oh, that so and so couldn't join us this weekend because of X, Y, Z.

And one thing I wanna talk about, at least because of all the podcasting I've done working with helping people, serving people, I have the mindset now that if someone in my friend group came out with dyslexia, and I, I don't wanna say it came out like it's a, a bad thing, but they decided to, yeah, be vulnerable and share that with us.

I think a lot of us don't know what to say or we don't acknowledge it, or we kind of just acknowledge it and in a way that doesn't make the person seem like you're pitying them or that they're powerless. I think it would be great to, my mindset is to say, thank you for sharing that. You know, is there anything I can do to help or to support you?

Um, and I think that goes a long way with any, any condition that if anyone is sharing something vulnerable like that to you. I know it can be awkward or uncomfortable. Uh, acknowledgement and listening is a huge, you know, great thing to do. And then to go a step further and say, what can I do to support you or help you, you know, I think that is really powerful and something we need to instill in our children to do for one another.

And as adults, something we need to work on doing. Exactly. You're right on the money. Like that's why I love podcasts like these, that's why I love individuals like yourself. 'cause we just talk about the hard topics. The way for us to feel, to get that emotional breath, for us to finally feel this relief, this burden take of all taken off of us is to actually share it.

Like there's a reason why we read scriptures in the light, but watch porn in the dark. Mm-hmm. It's because we're trying to hide ourselves from the bad that we're doing. But man, in the light, we'll share, we'll share scriptures, we'll share everything, but we gotta keep our secrets hidden. And Mr. Whiskey with the people that you, with yourself and the people that you know.

You've probably seen this too. The best way to overcome addiction. The best way to be able to start moving out of this challenge, whatever it may be, is to first acknowledge it, but then talk to someone about it. It can be a, it could be a religious leader, it can be a therapist, it could be your friend or your neighbor next door.

It could be the taxi driver who you are probably never gonna see again, but you just gotta share it. But getting it out into the light, that's what like starts to, to weaken that quote unquote darkness in some, that's what weakens that secret. So I'm, that's why I share with people. It's like, as we talk about this more and more, and again, that's why I love platforms like this.

It gives people a chance to be like, okay, I'm not the only one that's going through this, and if other people are out there dealing with this and actually doing successful things with it, well then maybe I can too. And that not opportunity, what's the word? Uh, starts with a P. The perspective. Your perspective.

There's another word I'm looking for. Possibility. There we go. Mm-hmm. Even that, even though how small it is, the possibility starts to expand and grow and you're like, even though it's just like, maybe this can be for me, that little seed, we plant it and it starts growing into now I can be myself. Now maybe I can recover from my addiction, whatever that is.

Or maybe I can start using this thing, whether it's neurodivergency or cancer or a miscarriage or you know, those hard topics. Hmm. Well now I, now maybe there's something for good that I can use with it. I agree a hundred percent. Something we've said on this show and on many shows, uh, myself as a guest and many guests on this show, we recover loudly so others don't die quietly.

And I think that's a very powerful quote. You know, like you said, shedding the light on it. And if you are someone who is struggling to share it with someone, whether it's a stranger or someone close, I highly encourage writing it down is a good first step. You know, it's not the. Entire same as sharing it and having that dialogue for being heard or having conversation, but even writing it down, like there are studies around it, like how powerful that is.

Like it really changes the motions in you. Even if you throw it away, maybe you publish it into a book later on in life that helps people, but just write it down. If you can't, uh, share it aloud. I, I highly recommend that for everyone. And if it's a different medium, such as art or comedy or singing, whatever.

You got to do, you know, expressing it in whatever way only reaches more people. So that's why I appreciate what you do in, in these conversations, as you mentioned, and you talked about getting into wanting to help people, serve people speaking on stage. I mean, how was that for the first time? How was speaking on stage for the first time?

Right. Nerve wracking. So like, my very, very first stage was while I was at my church, they love to call people, uh, they love to call youth. So I was about 12, 13 years old to give like a little five minute snippet of just, uh, what they believe. And so I stood up there and literally I had my speech written out from saying, hello everybody, my name is all the way down to, uh, amen.

Like that the whole thing was written down and I, I remember. Going through it, reading the, the body of it. And then I got to the last part, which is like my testimony, my beliefs on it. And I remember looking up. There was probably, probably like maybe a hundred people that were in the congregation. I remember looking up and then looking straight back down and just feeling like this impact in my heart.

Just like, oh my goodness, I'm actually standing up here talking, and then had to read my own beliefs that I put down on paper to, to finish the speech. And so it was, uh, yeah, that first one was. Uh, in a sense, uh, nerve wracking and definitely an experience for sure. You know, I've also spoke on stage, but before I did that, I actually did standup comedy.

If you wanna make speaking seem easy, go try, do standup comedy first. See if you're speaking, giving a talk and. You know, people are just sitting there quietly absorbing it. You can tell yourself like, okay, they're just listening. You go up there, tell some jokes, and no one laughs or says a word. You're like, oh no, they're not getting it at all.

I mean, talk about. That was like, I, I had, you know, at least a couple jokes in the past that didn't land right. Because of the audience or my delivery. And it's just silence and it, it is killer. Like I prefer talking a hundred percent, but worse than comedy, I think is, at least in my case because of my vocals, is, is singing, you know, singing in front of people like comedy.

You can kind of like. Improv, make it up, you know, recover. Do a good enough job singing. Like if you mess up, you know, for the most part, people are gonna know, but some people say they prefer singing because if you did good or bad, you're leaving the stage. By the time anyone can express it, you know, you're like, you're out of there.

But you know, I'm sure you feel the same way as me, which is. You know, going up there on stage, whether it goes well or does it meet our expectations or, or what we wanna do, as long as we impact that one person, you know, that's what matters. You know, I've had some people write out to the show and say, thank you.

This episode changed my life. And I've also had a lot of people write negative things that I won't share, you know, about everything they can possibly degrade for no reason, my hat, my appearance, my speaking, my topics, whatever they can. You know, but you and I both do it for the same reason, you know, is to help other people.

And it's all about that one person sometimes. So I encourage everyone, if you want to passionately pursue something and, and you're afraid, you know, you gotta focus not on the negativity. We are biased in our brains to focus on that, but you gotta focus on, what's that one life I could save? Uh, you know, and when I say safe, sometimes it is from a suicide.

A single conversation can stop a suicide. It could stop an addiction. It can change the way someone learns and believes about things. It is true. It was the, one of my good friends, I'm a partner with him in a business that we're doing, and he focuses on people who commit suicide and people who take their lives, and he told me about that.

The best way, well, at least one of the best ways to be able to talk people down from where they're at, you can say, is to actually talk about it, to ask them what's going on in your mind. Tell me, tell me why, why you're sad. Tell me why you're depressed, and to like genuinely sit there and listen and let them talk about the thing that could have put them over the edge.

And, but that's so counterintuitive to, to what we think because we're just like, oh, if something bad happens, let's just not talk about it. Let's just avoid it. We wanna focus on the silver lining, we wanna talk about the good stuff that's going on. And if we focus on the good, well then the bad will just melt away.

Cool, cool. For some, but for most things, talking about the actual problem, talking about, and I even just, I, I don't even want to use the word problem, but just talking about the actual thing gets people down from the edge and helps people, again, take that emotional breath from themselves to where they realize that really it's just a small step that they can take.

To start recovering, you know, quote unquote recovering from it. And that's, that's what it is. And I love how, as you were talking, that it really came up of we do simple small steps. Simple. Like what is the next natural step that you can take to whatever direction you're aiming for? If that's all you gotta do, if you're, if you're better than you were yesterday, then let that be enough, right?

Just do something, just li little small thing. If you're working out, do a pushup. If you're trying to get more spiritual, take a five minute walk or read one scripture. If you're trying to like work on your finance out of your paycheck that you have, save $1. That's it. It's about, it's, it's a small things that help us get the results that we want, not these big, huge moments.

Big, huge moments are awesome. Just like the standup comedy going up on like a big stage and having those big moments, they're awesome. But the ones that get us the, the confidence to go forward are the wins that we have each day. And I always say, let's break it down as small as we can so that instead of just saying, yeah, we had one cool win today, it's like, no, I had 20 wins within that one big win.

And man, I, I'll take 20 wins over one win any day. Right. And you know, just with the comedy analogy, it sometimes it's not that big performance on stage, but it's the small joke you tell to someone that cheers them up on a bad day. That changes everything. So I want to go through kind of the blueprint, you know, a 30,000 foot overview.

Obviously you have books, you have speaking, you have a website for all of this, but let's just go over, uh, you know, a brief guide to, you know, working with your dyslexia, making it your edge. We started with, you know, step one, being acknowledging it and changing how you see it, how you label yourself. Where do we go from there?

Once we've done that, which again, can be a difficult and timely process. Yeah. So after that part, after you see that possibility, well then you ask yourself one question. What do you want? What is it you actually want, and I'm not talking about the one that you share in network meetings. I'm not talking about the ones that you share with your parents that you're just like, I'm gonna make them happy.

I'm talking like, what the heck do you want? The one where like if you were asked that as a kid, you'd be like, I wanna get that like kid energy and smile on your face. Like, I wanna be an astronaut, I wanna be a Pokemon master. I wanna be like right next to Chef Gordon Ramsey, like cooking a meal with him, right?

Like those fun things, like that's like, what do we actually want that for? A lot of us, we have forgotten. And when you've, that next step is asking yourself, what do you want? And when you figure out what you want. Then we can go into the more strategies of awesome. Let's reverse engineer that backwards.

Let's take the 2% action to be able to get there each day. Let's make sure you're adjusting and adapting. But that next step is just asking yourself what is it that you want? Because when you know what you want and you know where you're at, and we're in our minds a lot, we know where we're at. Then just like Apple Maps or Google Maps, when we have those two things, we'll now know the direction that we need to head.

Right. And like you said, sometimes it's a scenic route. Sometimes we gotta sit through the traffic. We hate that, you know, but yeah, we gotta get what, where we're going and I agree a hundred percent. You know, I wanna talk about, you know, your books, especially the solo book. Uh, could you tell us a little bit about that and the impact you hope it will have?

Yeah. So yeah, I, I've been a part of 11, 11 bestselling Amazon's bestsellers from three different series, and I'm freaking grateful for that. I'm so excited about the solo book because we're, uh, it's been about, it's been several years in the process that I've been doing this, and it's really just the manifesto of everything we're talking about, and we've touched a lot of different points on the, on, on here, but it really comes down to.

A light in this world About five years ago, uh, one of my mentors I got to meet back in 2019, I guess that's more than five years ago, seven years ago. Uh, his name's Evan Carmichael and he had this book called Your One Word. It was to take your why and put it down to a single word. And this word is something that inspired you 20 years ago, inspires you today and 2040 years into the future is gonna inspire you.

And as I went through his exercise and I did my own, and this was before chat, GBT, I came up with the word light. And it was light because it was the opposite of darkness my entire life, I felt like I was in that darkness. Felt like stress, anxiety, depression, anger, especially, just always felt like I was in a reaction mode.

But I wanted to be a light to people. I wanted to share my passion with them. I wanted to see the light ignite in their eyes and like see within themselves, like the smile, the joy, the gratitude and everything with that. And so that's what the, the solo book is gonna be about. It's about lighting it up in our own lives.

There's gonna be the strategies in there, of course, of how to, how to do that. There's gonna be like the, the different lessons I've learned and the stories I've gone through, but it comes down to the acronym of what I put for light, which is love, inspire, gratitude, hope, and time. But that's what we get to control.

So that's what the, that's what the book's gonna be on. That is super awesome. And I wanna share a biblical parallel. One of the most famous Bible quotes, I'm gonna paraphrase it here, which is that we don't, uh, get a light, uh, sometimes into translations, a lamp, a light, whatever you wanna call it, and put it under a bowl, right?

We put it on display for people to see and to guide people. You know, I imagine being a lighthouse and you put a dome over it, all the ships are gonna crash, right? Because your light is necessary to help people, to guide them, to inspire. So I think it's so important that we not only. Uh, discover our light, fuel our light, uh, develop it, but we share it.

And that's what you're doing through this book and podcasting. So I appreciate you for that. Uh, when the book comes out, definitely, uh, let me know and we can promote that and hopefully make an impact. Like we said, that one life. And hopefully more than that, you know, as many people as we can serve until we're done.

Yeah, we just keep serving. That's what we want. That's what we love to do. We just keep serving and hopefully that our 10 years of experience can be short. Hopefully that our 10 years of experience, that they don't have to go through that and we can take the lessons that we've done over those 10 years so that they can be able to learn that in 10 minutes.

Right. I call it our look back, being someone else's look forward. You know, I, I think that's a great way to end this episode. Thank you for your time today for helping people, and I hope that we inspired someone today. Yeah, I do as well. Appreciate the privilege. I.