Jean-Jacques is a strategic health facilitator. He’s a fully qualified personal trainer, a sports massage therapist, a swimming coach who’s worked with paralympic athletes and a director and co-owner of the Sports Therapy hub in Liverpool. He’s worked for Liverpool City Council as their health and wellbeing lead practitioner and exercise specialist since 2020. Jean did’t receive support at school for his dyslexia, and it wasn’t until he studied a foundation course after his GCSE’s that he received any kind of help. After a couple of higher education attempts, he entered the fitness world, settling in Liverpool City Council as a fitness instructor and embracing his abilities to communicate with people verbally and emotionally. He re-entered higher education in his early 40s with two children when he started his full time BA course, for which he earned a first class degree in Sports Development from John Moores University, Liverpool, in 2021. He’s currently studying for his MPhil. This podcast was funded by the National Lottery Community fund and EPIC Projects or Ecumenical Project for International Cooperation EPIC is a USA-based, non-profit organization. EPIC creates bonds among caring people devoted to solving global challenges of poverty, food insecurity, environmental degradation, human rights, and making peace. Go to their website epicprojects.org Head to www.epicprojects.org to learn about the valuable work they do in South America supporting community education, human rights, promoting peace and ecological farming. www.dyslexiafoundation.co.uk

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