Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Megan Rosselot. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Megan, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you tell us about an important lesson you learned while working at a prior job?
Wow, if this question isn’t the most pertinent in this season of my life. I recently left the job I was at for just over five years. I would say that this was the Harvard graduate equivalent of character building, it was in these five years that my character was refined through a Boot Camp of Communication, person centered experiences. This season, was my walk around the promised land, I knew that something was coming, something was better, but I knew that this season of preparedness was necessary. Here, I needed to refine how I spoke, develop confidence to articulate myself while managing my emotions in various settings. I’m naturally a people pleaser, so this was an on sought after growth. But one that I wouldn’t have replaced looking back. In this last work experience, I had to learn to articulate my thoughts, speak to ideas even if the board room did not support me. In fact, many of them question my integrity. I had to advocate for clients, sometimes dismissing giggles or assumptions about disabilities in effort to speak to the main targeted goal, improving the quality of life for the clients. Seasons, as these, should not be considered a waste, rather, it is an opportunity to grow, to improve, and to refined skills in character that may have gotten dismissed otherwise. It was in this season as well that a Mentor became a good friend who helped point me in the right direction, help me to refine communication so that I could generalize my effectiveness. If I were honest, I would say it also made me question my ability to have a business, I saw with the past business owner went through, and I felt that if I put this work, and I wanted to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I wanted to see that the effort was to bless the lives that I spent time investing in. I didn’t want to become blinded by documentation, finances, and productivity that I cannot see outside the brick wall. It’s necessary to pay attention, that I understand, but when we miss the change in climate of those that make the business function. It was in this season, that I learned more about myself. My skills, I grew in areas that I did not expect, or know I needed to grow, but learned better about becoming an effective leader. The learning process will always continue, and I’m thankful for those who were strategically placed in my life to guide and teach me, now I’m excited to see what happens moving forward
Megan, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Hello, my name is Megan Rosselot, my family, and I live outside of Cleveland Ohio. The story of how I got into mental and behavioral health was likely like other professionals. I went to school, attend, a bachelors degree, middle childhood, education, immediately following with a masters degree in special education, but it wasn’t until we moved to New York, and I was forced to find a job that I was placed into a different direction. I begin working as an advocate/mental health provider for youth, the clients were challenging, and it was a cram session of Learning both about mental and behavioral health. Within a year, we moved again, I was given an opportunity to return back to school where I got my second masters degree in ABA therapy with Purdue global university. I continued working with adults who are duly diagnosed. It was in this time frame that I found a common question, “how can you help me? “Parents, guardians, and providers, asked me the same question, and it was clear that in order to help fuse the gap it wasn’t just strategies, but building relationship, building, comfort, and compliance and understanding of, the clients diagnosis. Unfortunately, I found a few resources to help bridge this gap.
At this time, I am working to build an online resource to have one and one and group education courses to teach parents and providers how to work with individuals with ASD, behavioral health challenges. I want to bridge the gap between observing a behavior and understanding the nuances of the diagnosis to better understand, and better understand how to work with that individual. As well as I want to create a support group for families to have previously felt isolated, an opportunity for them to meet like-minded people who are going to through similar circumstances to build hope and friendship.
We’d love to hear about how you keep in touch with clients.
One of my favorite Podcasters, businesswoman is Jasmine Star. I listened, feverishly to her podcast as I knew I wanted to start a business, but I did not know the need for the longest time. She spoke to the emphasis of reaching out to her clients who would DM her, that being personable was the most effective thing and building her business. I want to carry that on, because who does not like to be contacted personally? Who doesn’t want to feel special and feel like knowledged?
Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-goal-digger-podcast/id1178704872?i=1000633059794
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-global-leadership-podcast/id1227526759?i=1000626861020
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jasmine-star-show/id1479619320?i=1000632672067
Books
Simon Sinek
Leaders Eat Last
Craig Groeshel
Winning the War in your Mind
John C Maxwell
The 21 irrefutable
Laws of leadership
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Image Credits
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