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Jay Giddens

Jay Giddens

Dyslexia advocate, Sales Manager at ReadSpeaker, and host of the Thick No More (The Neurospicy) podcast on neurodiversity.

Oct 27, 2026

Jo Lee
Jo LeeHOST
11:28
And these are qualities and attributes that are almost impossible to capture in words and texts even if you were a lexic a written thinker so how does someone with dyslexia communicate themselves in what's still a very written process
11:48
yeah and that's a really really good point you've made there because my life changed when covid happened as well in in a way that So like if I look at your rooms now, so if I was to come and visit you, which used to be the days of face-to-face sales, okay, when you would go and visit people in schools or in universities or wherever it may be, I would always kind of like – Call it nosy, I guess, but I would make a point of looking at someone's background.
12:24
And if I saw, I don't know, a set of golf clubs or an award or a picture of a family on a skiing trip, I would scribble it down either on my hand or on a piece of paper, whatever it may be.
12:38
And the next time I visited that person, I would bring it up.
12:43
And I would say, I know it's last time we spoke, last time we met.
12:47
You've got a picture of, whereabouts was that? You've been skiing.
12:50
Oh, did you see that? And it's the fact that you've paid attention.

7 MINS LATER

Jo Lee
Jo LeeHOST
19:57
what do you think you know i suppose you touched on it with the videos there but if you could wave a magic wand and you could design a recruitment process that was really designed for someone with dyslexia you know what would it look like now that you're 30 job applications in over three weeks

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