Jonathan Oliver
speaker
397 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jun 2019
Jonathan Oliver’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You have too much energy, all these things.
And no knock on my teachers, okay?
Where I am in my life is because I had three teachers that particularly
believed in me.
I had a second grade teacher named Mrs. Dodge who made learning fun.
So I knew that it was possible to have fun while you were learning.
I had a AP chemistry teacher when I was a senior in high school that was not amused when he knew I was wearing the class clown mask.
And he would simply just kind of pull me to the side and not shame me and just say, Oliver, I think you have more to offer that you're not giving us right now.
And then I had a AP English teacher that has passed on who said, when you get to college,
She already spoken to my life places where she knew that I was going to go beyond where I was at that present moment.
Just that little message of when you get to college connected with me.
So Abraham Lincoln once said, I didn't try so hard because I believed in myself.
I tried so hard because I didn't want to let the people down that believed in me the most.
And these are my big three that I knew that believed in me when I was on academic probation, things of that nature.
But where I am now, where I give back is, you know, I'm a speaker.
So dyslexia is a superpower for me because literally I'm a visual learner.
I'm an audio type person.
So I connect with stories.
I'm a storyteller.
That's a gift that when I speak and share with people, that resonates with them.
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