“I’m an ordinary woman who chooses every day to make one more extraordinary decision.” ~ Lisa Nichols

You may have seen her in the Law of Attraction movie, The Secret, or perhaps you know her from the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series as a co-author.

Or maybe, it was on an Oprah Winfrey or Steve Harvey show, or one of the numerous other shows where she was featured.

If you haven’t discovered Lisa Nichols yet, and you have a dyslexic child, I suggest you get to know her.

She wasn’t always sought after as she is today.

In fact, in school, her strengths didn’t show up in a way to make her successful.

She says, “I grew up academically challenged and I failed almost every class. I struggled academically and socially…”

She talks about having three fights a week just to get home from school. And she recounted that her highest grade in school was a C+, which got her parents excited because she was severely dyslexic.

She was forced to drop out of college because her family couldn’t afford it, so she went to vocational school.

One of her English teachers there called her the “weakest writer” she’d ever met in her life.

The teacher of her speech class recommended that she “never speak in public.”

For years she believed them.

The day she stopped believing their criticism, decided to go after her passion, and started honing her writing and speaking skills was the day that turned her life around.

Her perseverance and grit pushed her from being a single mother on public assistance unable to buy diapers for her son, chronic sleep apnea, and morbid obesity to deciding to seek the knowledge she didn’t have, taking three months to finish reading a book, and deciding to hit the reset button on her life.

After all, she was not a failure just because others said so.

Her high school track and field victories are memorialized in the Hall of Fame at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles, California.

The skills she mastered were ignored because she didn’t fit the mold others created for her.

So, she began affirming herself in the mirror every day, found role models to follow, and accountability partners who kept her on the path to her achieving her goals.

Today, Lisa is one of the world’s most-requested motivational speakers, media personality, and corporate CEO. Her presence on and offstage is electrifying. She has a global platform that has reached and served nearly 30 million people.

In her motivational speaking, she seeks to disrupt her listener’s norm so that their “abnormal”… their “original”… their “unchartered turf” can come out.

She believes that “You are an unrepeatable miracle.”

Hers is a story that will encourage every dyslexic child.

Listen to her chronicle her amazing journey here.