061: How to uplevel your parenting with Brian King

Brian R. King, MSW teaches compassionate parenting to parents raising all kinds of children. Including those with ADHD, Asperger’s or chronic illnesses. He has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and is the father of three sons with Asperger’s & ADHD. Two of his sons also have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). Brian lives his life while navigating the challenges of his own diagnosis of ADHD, Dyslexia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis. As a Coach, Professional Workshop Facilitator and Keynote Presenter who has been wowing audiences since he was 17 years old, Brian has become increasingly known for his story of resilience in the face of Learning and Physical disabilities to become a #1 Best- Selling Author and successful Entrepreneur. In his popular keynote presentations, Brian reveals key decisions we all must make in order to be consistently successful regardless of our challenges. Find his website Here: http://CompassionateParents.com Transcript: Hi, I’m Betsy Pake. I’m a reinvention strategist and NLP coach, author and speaker. But really, I feel like I just work with people all over the country to help them be happier. And to help them have a little bit more ease in their life. Today, I hope to do the same for you. Thanks for listening. Now let’s go live. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. This week. I’m really excited because this is gonna be an awesome topic. I have my friend with me today, Brian King. Hey, Brian. Hey, how’s it going, Betsy? Hey, it’s good. I’m so glad that you had some time to jump on Skype with me today. Tell everybody a little bit about yourself and what you do? Well, you know, some people have bumps in the road of their life. I think it’s fair to say that my life has been an unpaved road and continues to be so professionally speaking, is I am a parenting coach. And what I focus on is teaching parents how to raise their kids to be more compassionate and resilient. And the first step to doing that is you must be compassionate, resilient yourself. Because if you’re a hypocrite instead of a role model, you’re not going to teach your kid anything of value. Now, how the heck did I get here? I grew up with undiagnosed ADHD and dyslexia, which made school very, very hard. I was always the one sitting on the outside looking in, I was bullied by teachers and students who thought that I was a wimp was you know, every derogatory name you can think of to emasculate a young man. And I struggled through school thinking I was stupid, I was worthless. I didn’t have any friends. Because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t produce any meaningful results. Well, I managed to get through all 12 grades, and my graduation present from high school with stage three testicular cancer. Oh my gosh, yeah, you’re right about the road. And so I spent the summer in chemotherapy. A lot of my friends, you know, kind of a stopped talking to me, either because they didn’t know I was in chemo, or because they move down with their lives, or they were afraid to see somebody their age in such a Well, yeah, I mean, I think that that age, especially like, you know, and I’ve talked before on the podcast, my mom died when I was a junior in high school. And I remember the day I came back to school, there were a couple of my friends that like kind of looked away when I went by. And I remember that even then, recognizing that it wasn’t me that it was really that they, they were so afraid that that might happen to them. Right. I think there is that fear when you’re that age, like you don’t know how to handle stuff. And you’re afraid that might happen to you too.