TPP 160: J.O. Oliver on Being a Differently-Wired, Stay-at-Home Dad
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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where I feel like dyslexia is an absolute God-given brilliant gift as well as ADHD. But at the time, I didn't feel like that. I had so many horrible messages that I say to myself that I've thought about myself. And I wanted to go back and get down on one knee and put my hand on this little boy's shoulder and look him in the eye and say, man, you are brilliant. You are beautiful. These things that we struggled with when you were younger are now actually gifts that people pay us for to come and share and connect and just give encouragement and inspiration to. So you are a champion. Nothing inside of you needs to be fixed. Nothing inside of you is broken.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Reber, and I'm the host of this show. And my guest today is Jonathan Oliver, who goes by the name of J.O. J.O. is a personal development coach, motivational speaker, author, and a coach for stay-at-home dads. After struggling greatly through his school years, J.O. was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD as a young man. With a better understanding of himself, he learned to use what had been a source of great struggle as a catalyst for growth, seeing his diagnoses as the two best gifts he has ever received. Now a husband and a father, J.O.'
's mission is to help parents and families, particularly stay-at-home dads, redefine family according to what works best for them. So in today's episode, we get into J.O.' 's mission work as seen through the lens of a differently wired dad who is looking to break stereotypes, help dads become more connected parents, and inspire other parents to consider the way their narrow differences can be used as strengths to bring to their parenting. And now here is my conversation with J.O. Hey, J.O., welcome to the podcast.
Hey, thanks for having me, Debbie. I appreciate it.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to having this conversation. I I want to kind of go in depth into your personal story. But before we do that, could you even just give us like, you know, the elevator speech, you know, the quick description of who you are as a speaker and a writer and a dad?
Oh, appreciate it. Absolutely. So I am a professional speaker. I used to speak with an organization particularly called Rachel's Challenge. And that's unfortunately the first person to lose a life in the Columbine student on April 20th, 1999 was Rachel Joy Scott. So for 250 days out of the year, I was on the road traveling as a speaker in schools and families and communities. From there, I transitioned to becoming a stay-at-home dad. I'd written a book before that called Impersonation for my journey from boyhood to manhood. Then I decided to write a book about my experience of being a first time stay at home dad.
Who is J.O. Oliver and what are his roles as a speaker, author, and stay‑at‑home dad?
So that book is titled Join the Journey. First year chronicles a stay at home dad named after my oldest daughter, Journey. But in the meantime, I have always been known on this book about dyslexia and ADHD that I just had the birth out of really feel like I was sharing my honest wholeness with the world. And that's what I'm in the process of launching right now is to the little boy me learning with dyslexia and ADHD. So I'm a stay at home dad of two beautiful daughters, Journey and Justice. I'll be celebrating my 10 year wedding anniversary on May 1st. And I'm a guy that has a lot of positive, great things going on in life that I'm very fortunate to have.
What a great introduction and congratulations on the 10 year wedding anniversary coming up.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Yeah. And I didn't realize that your speaking was surrounding that foundation related to combine. So that must have been really powerful, important work.
Oh, absolutely. Now with that being said, I speak beyond that. Like just last week, I did a presentation to a group of athletes about suffering to become stronger and I'm doing a leadership speech coming up, so I'm a quote-unquote speaker. But my main focus for six years was Rachel's Challenge.
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