We recently connected with Gayle Fisher and have shared our conversation below.

Gayle, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

Every day, my son of developmental delays and I take small but life-changing risks: away from safe harbor and yesterday’s habits. It doesn’t sound like a big thing, because it’s more like many little things. If you are a parent with a child who is not keeping up with peers, then maybe you have something on your parental radar that scares you, and you aren’t sure what to do.

For nearly 14 years, I have tried my best to document the benefits of these small risks taken and the collective good from it. Let’s call it a roadmap of interventions. Every day we make new neural pathways, prune bad decision paths, and test every possible intrinsic motivation so he can earn the life he wants.

If your child is stuck in their learning, it doesn’t have to end that way. Let’s find today what they love, what they are good at, what they are willing to earn. Today. Not waiting, not delaying.

Some of these decisions are EasyWay, others are HardWay. And we always “start over”, and use humor in every possible redirect. All this sounds good, and yet it’s a slippery slope. So, if you are stalled out, seeking some new ideas on education, behavior, eating, immune system, siblings, parenting, workplace prep, and learning in general, maybe some of these risk-taking outcomes can give you some ideas to try.

In our story, the decisions are the hero.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers?

I share what I learn from my children, who have pushed and shoved on me on the paths of autism, educational shame, developmental delay, anaphylactic reactions (near death), mental health awareness, co-parenting and gender identity. Over the years, I moved from business to education, and still love both.

We call some of this “neurodiversity”. A different brain.

I also show examples and integrate old-fashioned stuff like holding family boundaries and psychology.

So, start at GettingSorted.com and explore the multi-media tools and a rich array of risk-taking ideas to try. Because, you see, our story we hope becomes your story, your progress.

What progress John has been making and all the effort in interventions is worth everything. Worth it all. And that is the hope I offer to you, as long as your child still has a beating heart. Be brave, intervene.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

Back when I was still hoping others would “solve this problem”, do the work, do the detective work, I found myself fleeing a school district meeting. Out in the back of the building, in the dark, in the cold, in the dirt, on the ground, near the plants. Brokenhearted that such an administrator was in charge of broken parents when she should have been working in a prison.

I will never forget eventually realizing there was no one to save my son but me and the team I assembled. No where to hide.

It all became my job. And I have been digging and sharing every day since.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Learning and sharing. Not anything of perfection. Education, reading, attending conferences, asking smarter people than myself, sharing, laughing at myself, always curious, always 2 ears and 1 mouth.

I also believe in documenting the process, and I like technology. So I have built eBooks, videos, blogs, podcasts, workshops, teams, posts, websites and whatever else our kids will need for the futures they build.

I am excellent at laughing at myself. I don’t tell people what to do. I will tell you all I have done, in case it gives you some ideas.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://gettingsorted.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaylefisher/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GayleYessFisher/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayleyfisher/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/GayleFisher
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9ZRR7XSOGnp5qZ5YwVanQ

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