We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Bryan Wright. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Bryan below.

Bryan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you talk to us about a risk you’ve taken – walk us through the story?

One of the biggest risks anyone can take is to start your own business and venture out completely on your own. When you commit yourself to going all in and are willing to fully invest and believe in your vision, passion and purpose you have to remove all other options. You cannot go fully in if you still have a plan B or C option on the table and all focus, time and energy needs to be dedicated to what you are creating.

When you give yourself no other options, go all in and you are willing to take full accountability and ownership of what you are creating that is as high of a risk as you can get. This is the position I found myself in after working fifteen years in the fields of domestic and sexual violence as a Prevention Educator. Working with families and youth who have experienced, endured or were still going through the most traumatic times has changed the entirety of who I am.

How I think and view things within life have changed so drastically that I knew more needed to be done which is why I started my business Dynamic Family Solutions. This has been one of the biggest risks I’ve taken and couldn’t be any more invigorated and passionate to continue and keep building, growing and helping.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

Working in the fields of domestic and sexual violence for over 15 years now has taught me how absolutely intertwined abuse and trauma are to a vast array of social/environmental and health issues. Adverse Childhood Experiences or (ACE’s) “The original ACE study and decades of research since have linked ACEs to an increased risk of developing chronic diseases and behavioral challenges, including obesity, autoimmune disease, depression and alcoholism.” ncsl.org.

Additionally, 38% of all victims of domestic violence become homeless at some point in their lives reported by the U. S. Conference and the National Coalition for the Homeless. These are systemic and generational problems that are to some extent preventable.

Dynamic Family Solutions designs and develops educational programming and curricula to help educate and address these topics and help offset the devastating ripple effects that ACE’s can have. When it comes to the struggles families and youth endure every day there seemingly is no shortage of things that need to be addressed and worked through. We are dedicated and committed to creating the most impactful, engaging and thought provoking curriculums possible to educate and provide 2nd chance opportunities for youth.

We have developed our Family Dynamic Series to work directly with families coming into domestic violence shelters, developed the Beyond Drugs and Alcohol curriculum, Social Media Sexting curriculum, Healthy Relationships programs as well as Truancy and Life Skills programs.

These curriculums have been able to spread throughout Wisconsin and the nation with over 217 trained facilitators running the curriculums throughout ten states and internationally in Barcelona, Spain. With these accomplishments and achievements, Bryan has received several distinguishing awards including, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Distinguished Alumni Award October, 2023 Academy Leadership and Innovation Award 2022 Recipient and also the MCJA Practitioner Award Recipient in 2021.

I am absolutely the most proud of the fact the curriculums are able to benefit so many youth and families and are spreading in a way that continues to help serve more individuals in need. Also we are now taking on one of the biggest most daunting and challenging projects to date which I am quite proud and elated for. I am now currently working on developing a docuseries on Finding Peace and what does this even look like or entail. As we work with more families, youth and the communities it is seemingly harder to find individuals at peace.

As we have higher rates of anxiety and depression than ever before and more families struggling to get by than ever before. We stated to ask ourselves what in the world can we do to help. This questions has sparked the idea to create a curriculum and documentary on helping to answer the questions of Finding Peace and how do we even do that in a world so divided, always at war and seeing more negativity than positivity all around us. We have 8 episodes that we are working to create and I just finished Episode 1 this Month in Nepal at at a Buddhist Monastery. In February I am off to Poland to begin Episode 2 and throughout the year will be traveling the world to explore and discover answers to all the questions of what it entails to find peace.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

I started Dynamic Family Solutions, LLC literally months prior to COVID I took the leap and jumped out completely on my own taking the risk of a life time. I had presentations and trainings booked solid for the entire year things were looking very promising and then BOOM. I started to get one email and call after another with things being canceled or not able to happen all rescheduled till next year.

I invested my money into the development of so many different things to get the business started, the website, logos, branding everything added up so quick but I had everything lined up already so was worth the investment. One year turned into two and in-person trainings now pushed out to 2023. This made for quite the exciting time to start a business. I am still very blessed and fortunate though as this time has continued to teach me to pivot a few hundred more times than I would have anticipated or liked but I have been able to get my trainings all online, doubled down and invested more money into developing online self-paced courses and training tools.

I have been now doing a lot of eight hour Zoom trainings for counties which yes I know firsthand Zoom Fatigue is real not getting to be live in front of an audience it does take that moment and energy away. I developed the student platform and have the Journey.Do app to help with drugs, alcohol and the vaping issues amongst youth. I have been able to endure and stay afloat and continue to keep doing what I love even amongst all the craziness and continue to get to bring what I’ve created to individuals and agencies around the country and internationally.

I feel through all of this you learn that if you believe in something so much so more than anything else and it is something you feel to your core so passionate about, that is not driven by profit but instead purpose it allows you take the hits and to look past the short term pain and to keep moving forward regardless of the pits and downfalls you encounter and endure. I have always said as a company we will never put money before mission, profits before purpose and money and possessions over our own morals and values.

When you have a strong enough conviction and belief system that you grow into from all the experience we go through it allows you to see what is truly important and how to help add more value into a world that feels so broken. You find ways to better serve and put yourself out there and use your talents for the benefit of those around you. When you begin to do that you find that everything else will continue to fall into place and work itself out the way it is meant to.
You have to be able to pivot, adapted and be as flexible as possible as this world will throw every curve ball possible at you and try to detour and knock you off path or course with the vision you are trying to create.

You have to be able to take the hits and to not give up and to become so persistent and determined that nothing can stop you. You just don’t quit no matter what you continue to see the vision and what you are doing more than anything else and allow that to be the light to continue to guide you. Seeing, knowing and believing in what you are creating really is what keeps you going but if you can’t or don’t have a clear vision, passion or purpose for what you are doing of course it’ll be easier to become unmotivated to give up more and more little by little and to inevitably just quit. It is one of the easiest things in the world to do that most people succumb to as they don’t see or have a clear enough purpose or vision for WHY.

My best advice is that you need to be crystal clear with what you feel the most conviction towards. What is it that you feel is calling or pulling you more towards than anything else what makes you the most upset or things that if you could change right now that you feel as though this would help to make the world a better place. Ask yourself right now if you were to change these few things about the world what would they be? How do you yourself contribute or help towards improving or making these things better? Are you yourself adding more positivity or negativity into the world? We all have different things and areas in our lives that pulls or calls out to us more than others and learning to follow those feelings and callings and to develop those areas in ways that no one else has or could and then bring those talents and skills into the world and helping to add more value in those areas. So many things to help with or improve upon and it does take everyone of us to be involved all of us not just a few or some EVERYONE.

Any thoughts, advice, or strategies you can share for fostering brand loyalty?

I have developed the Dynamic Team where anyone that is trained in as a Facilitator in anyone of the programs or curriculums automatically becomes a part of the Dynamic Team where they receive lifetime updates, check ins and calls from us. We absolutely want to continue to foster and maintain the relationships that we have and make everyone feel a part of the community and team that we are creating.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.dynamicfamilysolutions.net/
• Instagram: @bryansadventures86
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryan.wright.9803
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-wright-0a74a07b/