TPP 007: An Interview with Founder Debbie Reber About Her Vision and Plans for TiLT
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of this interview and who are the hosts?
It's been really cool. It's really fun that we have this project to do together and that he feels he does. He feels like an advocate, like he has something important to say. He feels very he feels like protective of other kids like him. He wants other kids to feel as good about themselves as he feels about himself. And so He kind of like wears this badge, like it's part of my job is to help other parents realize how awesome their kids are. Welcome to the Till Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rever, and today's episode features an interview with well, with me. Since the launch of Tilt and the crazy viral response of the little launch video Ashra and I made to announce it, like seriously, the video has been viewed over twenty-five thousand times, which is so cool.
And kinda crazy. But since that launch day a few weeks ago, I've been getting a lot of emails from people curious to know more about me and Asher, as well as the impetus for creating Tilt. So today, my dear friend Gia Duke, an entrepreneur, change maker, and coach who's been supporting my developing of Tilt since day one, and has also been an incredible support for me as a friend while I've been figuring out my way, parenting Asher, is going to interview me. me as a way to share a bit of my story. My hope is that our conversation will give you more of a sense of where I'm coming from as I interview other guests on the show, and also shed some light onto why I felt so driven to create Tilt in the first place.
I hope you enjoy the show and to learn more about Tilt, the revolution for parents raising atypical kids, visit www.tiltparenting.com. Hello Gia. Thank you so much for being my interview today. Oh, I'm so excited. I can't wait. Let's uh let's just dive in then. How should we get started here? Alright.
Well I'm just gonna start off with my first question for you. So I know that you've had lots of different kinds of jobs and been involved in many different kinds of projects over the years. So maybe you could start off with telling us a little bit about your background, where you've worked, what you've created before starting Tilt. Sure.
So my background is kind of all over the place, so I will summarize it so I don't bore people listening here. But my background started in video production and working in children's media. So I spent many years in my twenties living in New York and I was working for some nonprofit organizations and relief organizations like UNICEF.
How did Debbie’s early career in media and nonprofit shape her path to TiLT?
I worked with UNICEF headquarters for four years, with Care, which is a relief and development organization. Organization. And then I moved on to working for Nickelodeon, where I worked on the show Blues Clues. So I was always kind of in the, I guess I called it the pro-social media space, kind of doing work that felt important to me from a social perspective, but also creative and production-oriented. And after Blues Clues, I took a job with Cartoon Network. I had just gotten married and my husband and I wanted to try a new city and try LA and and I I got this job with Cartoon Network Studios that brought us to LA and I developed cartoons for them for a couple of years. It was a little bit of a a different job and different role for me.
But it was super fun to be in that creative atmosphere. I can imagine. Yeah, it was it was fun. It was definitely fun to do the LA thing for a couple of years. And while I was working at Cartoon Network, it was when I really started developing my writing career on the side and doing a lot of volunteer work with teen girls. And so I I was kind of a founding Staff member for a nonprofit in Los Angeles called Write Girl, and I was super involved with that organization. It paired women writers with teen girls to kind of learn positive life skills and things through writing as a medium. And I really started becoming passionate about supporting teenagers, specifically girls. And so when I left Cartoon Network and I had already written my first book, which was about
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this interview and who are the hosts?
0:00–2:34
2
How did Debbie’s early career in media and nonprofit shape her path to TiLT?
2:34–6:43
3
What moment sparked the idea to create TiLT for differently‑wired children?
6:43–12:06
4
Why does TiLT use the term “difference” instead of “disorder” and how was the language chosen?
12:06–22:46
5
What is the long‑term vision for TiLT and how will it serve families?
22:46–35:00
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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