Words Fail Me: A podcast about thriving with dyslexia
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
38 - Steve O’Brien
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jude chats to Steve O’Brien, the CEO of The Dyslexia Foundation to address FAQ’s that Dyslexic people have when they reach out t...
37 - Omari McQueen
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have a very special guest - Omari McQueen.Omari is a 13 year old vegan chef and founder of dipalicious and mcqueens takeaway. Omari started ...
36 - Peggy Stern
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peggy Stern, is an Academy Award-winning film Producer/Director who has been working for more than 30 years in the film industry. She is Founder, and...
35 - Amina Atiq
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is the Scouse-Yemeni poet and performance artist, Amina Atiq. She’s a talented, imaginative, and eloquent poet, creative practitio...
34 Jean-Jacques Sillito
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-Jacques is a strategic health facilitator. He’s a fully qualified personal trainer, a sports massage therapist, a swimming coach who’s worke...
33 - Adelle Tracey
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is the athlete, make-up artist and BDA Dyslexia & Dementia Ambassador Adelle Tracey. She has represented GB at different age lev...
32 - Oscar Armendariz & Lorea Acebes
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Este es un episodio especial de Words Fail Me, Las palabras me fallan, grabado en español ¡para nuestros oyentes de lengua hispana! Presentado por ...
31 - Oscar Armendariz
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is the founder and host of the Consejo de Varon Podcast, Oscar Armendariz. Oscar’s schooling is a very familiar story for dyslexic...
30 - Nadine Clarkson
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this week’s episode is the Solicitor and first-tier Tribunal judge, Nadine Clarkson.In school Nadine received very little support for...
29 - Jack Churchill
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Churchill is the CEO and co-founder of the assistive technology supplier, Scanning Pens. Jack and his university friend Toby Sutton started Scan...
28 - Margaret Malpas
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prior to Margaret's work within the dyslexic community she studied as a HR and training manager. Her company, Malpas Flexible Learning, trained the l...
27 - Jodie Steele
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We are blessed to have Jodie Steele as our guest this week. Jodie is a titan of the West End musical scene. Having played Elphaba in ‘Wicked’, Ka...
26 - Matt Hancock
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matt always suspected he was dyslexic, struggling at school with words and specifically word placement. He excelled in numbers however and was sure h...
25 - Dean Bragonier
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dean Bragonier is the Founder and Executive Dyslexic of NoticeAbility Inc, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students with dyslexia ident...
24 - Glenn Young
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Glenn: Author, historian and disability activist. By using the skills he learned from radical politics in the fire of 1960s America, he rose to becom...
23 - Tasha Kacheri
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tasha is a highly experienced broadcast journalist and reporter. She has recently become one of Granada Reports' newest reporters, having previously ...
22 - Harvey Hubbell V
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Harvey’s media company, Captured Time Productions, has For almost three decades, created feature length documentaries and short form projects which...
21 - Anna Devin
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Her extensive credits in the highest sphere of the Opera world are too extensive to list. Suffice to say she has worked all over the world with some ...
20 - Dr Tracy Johnson
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ep 20. is with the CEO of Vessels of Hope, Dr Tracy Johnson. Tracy is a self professed lover of learning. Now a teacher and lecturer herself it was ...
19 - Joan Bohan
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is with Finance Executive and Social Innovator Joan Bohan. While working at Disney Joan set up the Dis-Ne Network to help dyslexic emplo...
18 - Dr Ailie Reid
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a classically trained singer Ailie has toured the world. As a teacher and singing coach she has pondered the most effective ways to teach music an...
17 - Charlotte O’Leary
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some actors love film. Others, TV, but Charlotte’s heart is in the Theatre. She loves all the work she has done - you may have seen her on the fant...
16 - James King
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
James King is a Physio, Personal Trainer and co-owner of Sweat Society in Surbiton, in Southwest London. James found fitness at a young age and it q...
15 - Rory Cowlam
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rory knew he wanted to be a vet from the age of four. It was the advent of his first dog Lulu to the family which was the seminal event in Rory’s y...
14 - Steve O’Brien
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve O’Brien is the Chief Executive Officer of the Dyslexia Foundation. We talk about his life’s work - founding and leading the The Dyslexia F...
13 - Claud Williams
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Claud Williams is an entrepreneur and CEO of Dream Nation. A self professed ‘practical dreamer’ he credits technology with helping him deal with ...
12 - Miranda Cromwell
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Miranda started as the young company director at Bristol Old Vic Theatre and since then has directed at the Bush, Soho Theatre and recently won an Ol...
11 - Ross Linnett
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ross is the CEO and creator of Recite Me. Recite Me is a personalised toolbar for people with disabilities or learning difficulties to help them acc...
10 - Jenna Russell
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jenna has enjoyed an illustrious career over four decades in film, TV and her love - the theatre. She has worked with the RSC, played leading roles i...
9 - Dr. Jonas Hayes
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jonas has had the unexpected challenge of a global pandemic to content with in his first eighteen months as as Doctor. We talk about his funniest and...
8 - Emily Kier
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ultramarathon runner, nutritionist and one half of ‘Twice the Health’. Emily Kier studied Sports, Biomedicine and Nutrition at Cardiff University...
7 - John Hoke
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Hoke is Nike’s Chief Design Officer. Chances are if you have worn or purchased a Nike product in the last ten years you have worn something he...
6 - Mads Johan Øgaard
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mads Johan Øgaard: An artist, illustrator and educator, Mads fuses his artistic talent and vision with his drive to help and empathise with fello...
5 - Philip Schultz
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize winning poet and the founder and director of the Writers Studio in New York talks about the social upheavals and protests of the 60s i...
4 - Peter Kyle
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The MP for Hove and Portslade and Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice, Peter Kyle, discusses his beautiful friendship with Alan Rickman, be...
3 - Chris Robshaw
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Record breaking England and Harlequins Captain Chris Robshaw talks lock down life, the value of failure as a necessary step towards success, and purs...
2 - Sally Gardner
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With author Sally Gardner we talk creativity, the challenges of writing a book with dyslexia, the versatility of the English Language and much, much ...
1 - Theo Paphitis
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Talented entrepreneur Theo Paphitis discusses leaving school with no qualifications, developing what he calls 'work arounds' to problem solve as a dy...
Introducing Words Fail Me
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Words Fail Me is the inspiring new podcast from the Dyslexia Foundation. Each episode you'll hear actor and fellow dyslexic Jude ...