TPP 057a: Using a Strengths-Based Approach to Support Differently Wired Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What inspired Giselle to create Strength Clusters for differently‑wired children?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Every Friday, I'll re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, you just may get something completely different listening to it this time around.
I am aware about these recommendations. Many of these or most of these we have already been doing and following and things are not working. Where are the strengths in this report? I asked. And the psychologist at that time looked at me and said, strengths? We don't look at strengths.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and today I'm talking with Giselle Marzo-Segura, a designer, teacher, mentor, writer, and solutions thinker based in Miami, Florida, who's also the parent of a differently wired daughter. As a result of her journey with her daughter, Giselle was moved to create a venture called Strengths Clusters, which is all about helping people understand and connect with each other through the language of character strengths. I'll let her tell you her whole story because it's very inspiring and personal. But for now, I'll let you know that we're going to be talking about this idea of why current systems aimed at supporting differently wired kids do so by focusing on the deficits and
And we'll get into how truly transformational it can be, not just for the child, but for the whole family when we flip that on its head and focus on an individual's strengths. And before I get to the show, I want to invite you to participate in my Differently Wired 7-Day Challenge if you haven't done so already. When you sign up for the challenge, you'll get an email every day for seven days featuring a tweak that you can make in your day-to-day life to change the way you think, feel, and experience raising your Differently Wired child. And now here's my conversation with Giselle. Hi Giselle, welcome to the show. Hi Debbie, thank you for having me. Before we even get started, I wanted to give a shout out to the fabulous Pamela Slim for connecting us.
And just for listeners, Pam is a amazing author and coach. She's all about supporting small businesses in building community and bringing their big visions to the world. And she was really involved as I was developing Tilt and helped me get it kind of launched and off the ground. And that's when she actually first told me about you, Giselle. And so I'm excited to finally be bringing you to the show. I've known about your work for a long time. And so this is very exciting. Thank you so much. Yes, I definitely I
am so thankful and grateful that Pamela introduced us and she's been such an inspiration in so many ways in my life. And it's just so wonderful what she does for a small business and for
people. And for people. Exactly. Awesome. So let's dive in. So you and I have talked before, so I kind of know this, but I think your story is so connected to everything that you're doing right now. So would you mind kind of telling us a little bit about your personal story and how what you're doing grew out of that experience? I would love to. I have
two wonderful children, and one of them is one of those children that has been the inspiration behind my work. And that's my daughter. She's currently 15 years old, but she's differently wired. And we've been visiting different psychologists and evaluating her since she was around five when we started noticing that there was something different in her capacity for academic performance and having troubles at school in general. And Since that time when she was five years old, we've evaluated her. We had one diagnosis that for us didn't seem to match her personality or her behavior. So then we... Tested her again a couple of years later when she was around in second grade and then in third grade. And at that time, she was really having a difficult time in school.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired Giselle to create Strength Clusters for differently‑wired children?
0:00–5:03
2
How did Giselle’s daughter’s school experience lead to homeschooling?
5:03–9:06
3
What is the difference between deficit‑focused and strengths‑focused approaches?
9:06–13:17
4
How can parents identify and use character strengths with the VIA survey?
13:17–18:51
5
What are Strength Clusters and how do they shape a family’s learning plan?
18:51–23:30
6
How does viewing a child through a strengths lens change family dynamics?
23:30–28:14
7
What resources and tools does Giselle recommend for families?
28:14–33:01
8
Why is learning through body, emotion, and senses important for differently‑wired kids?
33:01–37:47
Speakers
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