I also have ADHD, and I was never been diagnosed.
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You can live your dream. Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Living Your Legacy Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Tyler, and today I am joined by Floor Brea. How are you? I'm very good, thank you.
Thank you for the mind, it's pressure to be here. Welcome to the show, it's a pleasure to have you. So you are going to be filming your episode today. We're kind of just going into it, just getting started.
“First of all, how are you feeling so far about the process?”
I'm very excited, it's like Wonderland in here, I love it. It's Willy Wonka, it's very, it's very, you know, fantasy factory S. Yes, love it. So talk to me, Floor, a little bit about just how you got started. I know you and I spoke a little bit off camera, you're in education.
How did that journey get started for you? Wow, I started super young, I was like 18 years old when I decided, actually, I started when I was 15, baby seeding all my cousins and everybody's kids, I love to, I just love kids, you know, and at 18 years, I jump into the world of daycare centers. And that's when I think started, I just love around children and be around the kids.
It's just being my passion since I was born, but this is all I want. So at 18, you got kind of your, your foot in the door with the daycare centers. Talk to me a little bit about like how your business is currently running. Yes, right now I was, we have four centers right now in Virginia, located in Virginia. And we're just rocking and rolling, you know, because I created my own curriculum like
a Blender curriculum because I understood that children's need different options of learning. We talked a little bit about this off camera, but, you know, I feel like autism and, you know, learning disabilities or even, you know, being neurodivergent. That's kind of something that societies like really focused on right now with our youth, you know, kids are being exposed to a ton more information than they ever have been in human history.
What sort of you're taking on that? Yes, that's one of the things that make our programs so unique because we're not only teaching neurodifficult childrens, but we also implement in our lesson plan, things to help them also for the neurodiversities childrens as well. So that's one of the things that parents love and they trust because they see the progress.
It's it's time for everybody to start including the childrens with different different type of needs.
“And so for those kids with different needs, how important is that sort of developmental stage?”
Because, you know, in my family, I have a ton of educators and the family and the developmental stage for especially for neurodivergent kids is super, super important. How important is that? Yeah, it's extremely important because it has to be a connection between schools, parents, and the system. So if we're not all together, things cannot work. Childrens cannot progress.
You cannot be able to make those children successful because they're the future.
day, we had to consider that they are the future and we have to learn and we have to have the
“people ready and prepare to learn different ways. They learn differently. And that's the first”
thing like we need to understand. We had to come up with tools that help childrens learn differently. They think differently. There's smarter than all of us that, according to the world, where they're neurotypical right now. But at the end of the day, neurodiversity childrens are the future. I don't know, coatings. I don't know anything about it. There are the ones that are going to be
creating all this amazing programs and system out there. So it's time for the system. It's time for
everybody to be on the same page and make work. It has to, they need to make a work. So I want to talk specifics here for a second. Talk to me a little bit about what are some of the specific parts of your curriculum that you're implementing to help some of these neurodivergent kids that are going through your program? Yes. I created a blender curriculum. I implemented the Montessori and the typical traditional curriculum. So we implement it all that way because Montessori
is all about independence. They work on their own. They don't have the pressure of the teacher. It's just like they learn on their pace pace. And then we also has to include the traditional way that we learn, like you know, like you sit down with the teacher. One, plus one is two. So things you know, that way we have two combination to help them and not make the pressure of learning just one way. I went through gifted programs, my entire life,
growing up, only to then later on, find out that like, oh, I just had ADHD. Like, I was just hyper focused on certain things. And then that my creativity in getting into film and getting into this production industry, my ADHD thrived on that. The ability to just kind of hyper focus on one
“task. And this is the only thing I'm focused on and nothing else really matters. But that's where”
you kind of have to play a balancing act. Talk to me a little bit. What's your take on like the traditional learning, the traditional schooling system as we've built it out, right? You have your traditions. You're going to go into a classroom. There's going to be about maybe 20 kids, 25. And one teacher is going to teach 25 kids the same curriculum. And it's going to just be this sort of flat flat line of how we teach things. How can we change that to make it better for the future?
Yeah. And that was that's why I created the system that I created because I understood as a teacher, as well, because I used to work at the police schools. And I noticed that children's doesn't, doesn't succeed. They get they lock just because like you said, a lot of childrens are being diners, ADHD, but sometimes like they don't know that they have ADHD as a matter of fact. I didn't know, so I was like 28. Well, don't, don't give me the, I was about to tell you this.
Get this. I find out doing my career that I also have ADHD and I was never been diagnosed.
Hmm. And I'm 42 now. So I discovered this like two years ago, because I was like, wait a minute. Well, I was going through school. I was like, wait a minute. Why all these signs? I feel like I have this whole thing. So after I discovered that I was like, oh my god, and I was officially, I was notified of the ADHD person. I was like, now everything makes sense. Why I struggled so much when I was little and school. Why do I had to, like, I had to learn
on my own because I'm from the medical republic and forget about the system. Okay.
Not even close. You know, so I was never been diagnosed. They never tell me that I have anything wrong
with me. And I was like, I had to discover that what I was doing my undergrad here in the United States. I was like, I have everything, the person with ADHD has. This is crazy. I need to get this official because I feel like I have ADHD. You know, because it's, it's very hard for for people that have ADHD to, like, focus and it's a process. So I had to learn all this by myself without
“no medications, without anything. And that's what I noticed when I used to be in the classroom”
in the public school system that I see children struggle because children's thoughts and
Learn only one way.
that way, that way they know. Like, wow, I can get this. It's not that I can't. It's just like,
“I don't have the, they didn't provide me the right tools to be successful and move forward in my”
grades. It's like looking at, you know, looking at the system and being like, hey, the system wasn't built with the consideration of the way that I learned, you know, and I mean, like, as more and more information comes out about these different, you know, neurodivergent pathways that the brink can go down like ADHD autism, all of these different things. As more information comes out, you know, you start researching. I started researching ADHD and I'm like, well, that checks out,
that checks out. I do that. Yeah, I do that. Oh, maybe I do that. That was what five years ago that they kind of went down that checklist and looked and said, oh, okay, I guess I have that.
Yeah, and it's amazing when you discover like you've been struggling with something for so long
and then you'll be like, you feel like kind of like release because after 40 years, I was like, I feel released because I'm actually no, why did I use to have when I was little, when I was in T-Mayor when I was kids, I was struggling with school and I can actually benefit more people or how to do things differently and giving us strategies of how to learn differently, not just one way. So I want to take a second here to just kind of talk about the business aspect of things. You know,
our viewers, a lot of them are very entrepreneurial minded, their business owners talked to me
about just starting this, starting your business and what it's what it's taken for you to kind of
get it off the ground. Like I say, it's a lot of work. It took me a lot of work and a lot of planning to make things work and I'm very pleased of how successful my business are, the weight of programs, I design, that's working for our children some today's life and not only that we help inclusive children, we help everybody, neurodiversity, neurotypical children, it's like all mix that actually help everybody. I want to, you know, as we sort of wind down the podcast here,
guys, if you're still watching at this point, I want to make sure that you check out Florida's episode, which will be coming out shortly after this podcast drops. But if you could give one message to the viewers out there, anybody out there that has a business that's just getting started or maybe, you know, they got started a while ago, but now they're on kind of, because you know, business goes like this, maybe they're on like, it's a roller coaster. I'm telling you,
if somebody's just getting started or they're on a downturn, what's one piece of advice that you would
“have for them? First, you need to do your school. Like, preparation to me is the most important”
thing if you want to be successful in something. You cannot open a daycare or school if you do something different. Like, you have to know, what do you want to create? Be consistency, because at the end of the day, consistency, it's the key in life to be as successful. It's, and I wanted to piggyback off of that. It's the consistency, but it's also the discipline to stay consistent, right? I feel like so many people we can create as many systems as we want,
as we can plan for the future and life has a way, if you have plans, life is going to tell you, no, no, no, these are, these are life plans, actually. But the discipline to say, hey, I'm the type of person that gets up and does this every day. I'm the type of person that operates my business this way. I say no to anything that is going to keep me off of the path that goes to where my business wants to go. I just want to say it's been a immense pleasure having you here on the show. Thank you.
Guys, if you're still tuned in at this point, make sure that you're tuning in for her episode, which is going to be coming out shortly. Where can people find you on social media,
“where can they find your business, your websites, where's your address on the internet?”
Yes, yes, you can find us online and also on Facebook and Instagram. You can look at our Lucas rainbow.com and Mattels Blaze.com as well. Perfect, perfect. Well, that's another episode of the Living Your Legacy Podcast, guys. Again, I'm your host Jason Tyler. Floor, it's been a great, great joy having you on the show. Any final words for the viewers?
Just don't give up.
That's it. That's it. All right, guys. I will catch you in the next one. (upbeat music)
