Oct 6, 2026 · 44 min · 10 segments
In this episode of lethal venom, I chat with Pamela Cass. | Guest Highlight | Pamela is the co-host of the popular podcast Reignite Resilience and co-author of The Quiet Gift, a powerful new book…
Pamela CassGuest
Noah MayHost
And so we lived in a v- very rural town outside of Boston, Massachusetts, um, surrounded by apple orchards, and we had no mall, no fast food restaurants, and we did, uh, town hall meetings.
Well, because of that, they didn't have a lot of resources for kids that had disabilities, and so I was tested in Boston, and at the age of seven they, um, determined that I had dyslexia.
And for those of you who don't know dyslexia, it's, your brain just processes information a little bit differently.
And so I basically was pulled out of class, and that meant that while everybody else was making friends and learning, I was making cookies with a teaching aide.
And so it kind of started this, um, belief that I wasn't good enough to be with the other kids, and I became incredibly shy.
And it wasn't until I was probably in junior high that my parents got a tutor for me.
By then we had moved to Colorado, which is where I'm n- at now, and this tutor, um, came to the door and she had a limp, and she had paralysis on one side of her body.
And she sat down with me and started asking me questions about things I could and couldn't do, and I kept saying, "Well, I can't do that.
I don't know how to do that." And she stopped me and she said that when she was a very young child she contracted polio, and her parents were told that she would never be able to walk.
And her mother told her what the doctor said, and she, her mom said, "The only person that's gonna prevent you from walking is you, and so you have to want it." And so she said the same thing to me.
She goes, "The only one that's preventing you from the things that you say you can't do is you, and so I challenge you to try to overcome those." And so I was on a mission at that point where I wanted to be like the other kids, and so I Doubled down and I worked harder, and I can't say that I know that for a fact, but in my mind I probably worked harder than most kids in junior high and high school because I didn't wanna be in special classes.
And so that just led to this fierce determination to work really hard, and, um, when you do that, it leads to other problems.
So once you were kinda able to really double down and kinda find, um, your voice and really kind of be able to pinpoint, how did you go from being invisible and, um, having dyslexia to becoming a really professional coach, speaker, as well as a really successful author?
And so we lived in a v- very rural town outside of Boston, Massachusetts, um, surrounded by apple orchards, and we had no mall, no fast food restaurants, and we did, uh, town hall meetings.
Well, because of that, they didn't have a lot of resources for kids that had disabilities, and so I was tested in Boston, and at the age of seven they, um, determined that I had dyslexia.
And for those of you who don't know dyslexia, it's, your brain just processes information a little bit differently.
And so I basically was pulled out of class, and that meant that while everybody else was making friends and learning, I was making cookies with a teaching aide.
And so it kind of started this, um, belief that I wasn't good enough to be with the other kids, and I became incredibly shy.
And it wasn't until I was probably in junior high that my parents got a tutor for me.
By then we had moved to Colorado, which is where I'm n- at now, and this tutor, um, came to the door and she had a limp, and she had paralysis on one side of her body.
And she sat down with me and started asking me questions about things I could and couldn't do, and I kept saying, "Well, I can't do that.
I don't know how to do that." And she stopped me and she said that when she was a very young child she contracted polio, and her parents were told that she would never be able to walk.
And her mother told her what the doctor said, and she, her mom said, "The only person that's gonna prevent you from walking is you, and so you have to want it." And so she said the same thing to me.
She goes, "The only one that's preventing you from the things that you say you can't do is you, and so I challenge you to try to overcome those." And so I was on a mission at that point where I wanted to be like the other kids, and so I Doubled down and I worked harder, and I can't say that I know that for a fact, but in my mind I probably worked harder than most kids in junior high and high school because I didn't wanna be in special classes.
And so that just led to this fierce determination to work really hard, and, um, when you do that, it leads to other problems.
So once you were kinda able to really double down and kinda find, um, your voice and really kind of be able to pinpoint, how did you go from being invisible and, um, having dyslexia to becoming a really professional coach, speaker, as well as a really successful author?
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