David Flink: Building A Movement To Empower Students With Learning Differences
Everybody Pulls The Tarp
English - July 14, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBEducation Business self-improvement leadership business careers entrepreneurship motivation sports media entertainment music Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week Andrew talks with David Flink. David is the Founder & Chief Empowerment Officer of Eye to Eye, a national nonprofit on a mission to help students with learning differences. At a young age, David was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. In 1998, while a student at Brown University, David set out to build a support network to help young people just like him. He organized a group of Brown University students with learning differences and the group volunteered their time at a local elementary school. Since then, David and his team have built Eye to Eye into a national movement of college students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities mentoring similar identifying elementary and middle-school students. David’s story is a powerful reminder that anyone committed to making a difference can change the world. His story is inspiring and filled with lessons for us all.
Show Highlights:
3:14 - Launching Eye to Eye while a student at Brown University
4:22 - From humble beginnings to a national movement
5:19 - Connecting through similar experiences
6:38 - Finding a network of supporters
10:12 - Organizing community events
12:05 - Learning from mistakes
13:00 - Bringing your full self to a cause
13:08 - Running the first fundraiser from David's apartment
14:40 - "Build no statues" leadership
17:25 - Keys to successful hiring and scaling a team
21:23 - Bringing together young people for good
25:16 - Changing a common narrative
26:02 - David's mission
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