TPP 160a: 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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What inspired J.O. Oliver to view dyslexia and ADHD as gifts rather than deficits?
Hey there, it's Debbie. Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.
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 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 Rieber and I'm the host of this show, and my guest today is Jonathan Oliver, who goes by the name of J-O. JO is a personal development coach, motivational speaker, author, and a coach for stay-at-home dads. After struggling greatly through his school years, JO 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. Received. Now, a husband and a father, JO'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 JO'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. The narrow differences can be used as strengths to bring to their parenting. And now here is my conversation with Jayo. Hey Jayo, welcome to the podcast.
Hey, thanks for having me, Davey. I appreciate it.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to having this conversation. I don't have a lot of dads on the show, but I know that we have a lot of dads in our audience and our community and it's a perspective that I think is important to share. And I think you have a really unique story um that also our listeners would find interesting. So I wanna kind of go in depth into your personal story, but before we do that, could you even just give us like, you know, the the elevator speech, the you know, the quick description of of who you are as a speaker and a and a writer and a dad?
Oh, appreciate 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 Colobine shooting on April twentieth, nineteen ninety nine, was Rachel Joy Scott. So for two hundred and fifty 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 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. So that book is titled Jordan Journey, first year chronicles of stay-at-home dad, named after my oldest daughter, Journey.
But in the meantime, I have always been 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 up 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 ten year wedding anniversary on May first.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What inspired J.O. Oliver to view dyslexia and ADHD as gifts rather than deficits?
0:00–5:01
2
How did J.O.'s early career as a speaker for Rachel's Challenge shape his later work with stay‑at‑home dads?
5:01–10:05
3
Why did J.O. decide to write ‘Jordan Journey’ and a book about learning differences?
10:05–14:06
4
What personal rituals and daily habits does J.O. use to manage his ADHD as a parent?
14:06–18:05
5
How does J.O. turn his childhood pain into a super‑power for parenting and speaking?
18:05–21:53
6
What challenges did J.O. face receiving his dyslexia and ADHD diagnoses as an adult?
21:53–26:03
7
How does J.O. address stigma around learning differences in the African‑American community?
26:03–29:47
8
What legacy does J.O. hope to leave for other differently‑wired parents and families?
29:47–34:58
Speakers
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