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Ep#133 I Couldn't Help My Son Spell 'Probably.' So I Built Him an tool With Claude Code in One Day

• Kristen Werner & Mia Steel

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Kristen's son had a meltdown over the word "probably." Ripped the page, screamed, cried and Kristen, dyslexic herself, recognised every bit of it. She couldn't sleep that night. By the next afternoon she'd sat down with Claude, then Claude Code, and built him a spelling and handwriting tool that speaks to him, never uses a red pen, and gamifies the exact process that used to break him.

This one's for more than one kind of listener. If you're a parent raising a dyslexic or neurodivergent kid, this is the "probably" story and everything it taught her. If you're an entrepreneur sitting on an idea, this is what it actually looks like to build it in a weekend instead of waiting for permission. And if you're curious what Claude Code can really do, this is a real, unedited build process the first conversation, the move into Claude Code, testing the prototype on her own kids the same day not a highlight reel.

It's about Ace. It's also about what happens when a busy, brilliant brain stops waiting to be qualified enough to solve the problem in front of it.

Ace is a literacy practice tool built to support kids who struggle with spelling and handwriting, including dyslexic kids. It isn't an assessment or diagnostic product.

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Driving Home With A Big Story

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Hello and welcome today's Fast and Loose Podcast. I'm Kristen Weller, your co-host here at the I and that Content Creator podcast. Now, Mia and I are not together again. I feel like I just take you on my shopping trips where we just drive home together from the shopping. Because that's where obviously when I'm walking around the shops, I have my little epiphanies. And I always carry my little microphone cord to my iPhone in the car, and then we chat on the way home. So hey, thanks for coming home with me. Today's podcast hits a little heartstring for me. And it's a story that I want to share with you because there's a few life lessons in it. And I am a huge fan of a life lesson. And this particular moment is part of my through line. It's part of who I am. It's part of my why and my deep why. And it's part of who I am as a creator, a person, a mother, whatever. And it all kind of came to a halt last week. And from that particular moment, something happened that has allowed me to create a tool that I have been able to see my son go from struggling, overwhelmed, feeling and looking a bit ashamed of himself, to confidence, to better handwriting skills, to having fun with learning. And I created it all because I had the idea in my head and I went to bed not being able to sleep because of the moment that happened. And I'll I'll share that story in a minute. But because of that, sheer frustration, sheer need as a mother to help him and know exactly how he felt, because that was me when I was 10. I could have been looking at myself the way that he was and the just the feelings he was feeling. I was feeling them too. So I didn't sleep. I lay in bed, I got up the next morning after a few hours' sleep, and I just sat down with Claude Code and I just went for it. I just said to Claude, I I gave Claude all of my brain and said, this is the struggle. This is what it's like. What are we gonna do? And together, Claude Code and myself has created an app, Ace, which is a spelling arcade for kids. I'm a dyslexic and it's made by dyslexic for dyslexic, or for kids that are just struggling. And the age group right now for ACE is um, you know, reception up to like 10 years old. It could be used for anybody. Uh shit, I used it the other day when the kids asked me how to sort axolotl. I was like, so I don't know, let's ask Ace. And so this all happened because one, not one pivotal moment in time at all, like hundreds and hundreds of them for one pivotal moment with my son the other night that just turned me inside out enough to think there has to be a solution. There has to be something I can do. And now with the power of AI and with the power of these LLMs, these large learning, these large language models, like the possibilities are endless. And this is what we speak about inside Hive AI. This is what we speak about inside evolution. Inside our two communities, we share the power. If you have got an idea, and with all of us that have these beautiful, busy brains, hey, the ideas are up there. Now we can execute them. We can collapse time, we can make it happen, we can actually take an idea into reality that quickly.

Dyslexia, Shame And Hidden Strengths

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So I suppose I'll I'll take you back. For those that have not heard my story, I'll share a little bit. For those that have, hey, buckle in, we're gonna do it again. But it's one that I've told many times. I've I've told this story and my journey through dyslexia on stages in front of hundreds of women. I've told it in school programs that I created back when I had a um a business called the Ownit Project, where we sat in schools and we told kids these stories. We shone a light on the fact that it's cool if you've got a brain that doesn't work like everybody else's because you're so fucking powerful because of it. And it makes you really special when you can lean into what you might think is your weakness and turn it into one of your greatest strengths. And for me, dyslexia is absolutely, fundamentally, foundationally my greatest strength. It wasn't at 10. It wasn't, you know, watching my son have a meltdown the other night and seeing myself there. I was like, duh, mate, I know it. I feel every shame that you feel, I feel every embarrassment, I feel every overwhelm. I feel it so badly. I feel it in my soul. And so when I've spoken on stages before, I've always had women come up to me. And I was speaking on stages when I was in my uh early 30s, maybe even in my 20s, late 20s, to room fulls of women that had young kids that they weren't talking to their daughters and their sons about dyslexia because they didn't know how, they didn't understand it, they didn't know what it really meant. So they just kept trying to teach them in the neurotypical kind of way and were wondering why their child was completely and utterly disconnecting from what they're trying to do. And so for me, as a dyslexic, I know there are many forms of dyslexia as there is with ADHD and all the other beautiful neurodivergent qualities that we have. But for me personally, I ain't lacking ideas. I've got a million on one ideas roaming in my head. I'm a manifesting generator, I'm I'm built to do things and do things fast. But my problem is taking the ideas from my brain and then writing them out. So from brain to writing it out, there is a really big disconnection. There's it's like it's like the fuse is broken. And so I start to write it out and a couple of things happen. My handwriting gets really shit. I'm not the strongest speller, so if I can't spell a word, I just kind of like mold it into one. My hand gets really sore. I know that's just a really random, stupid thing, but I'm left-handed as well, so then I write over everything, so it smudges. So then I go to reread it and it doesn't make sense because my head is reading it and and I think I'm writing it exactly how I'm saying it, but then I go and reread it and it kind of makes no sense. But I'll put words in when I'm rereading it, I'll put the words in that should be there. And anybody else that's reading it's like, what is what? What does that mean? I'm like, oh, I don't know. Oh, and that's where the frustration frustration builds is when somebody goes, Wait, what does that mean? Should should there be like a a there in there or a you in there? Like, hang on, what do you mean by that? What does that sentence mean? I don't understand it. Those things to me personally as a dyslexic, are now watching my son who is not diagnosed yet, but we're taking down that path because I want to support him as much as I can with the tools that allow him to have more time, take the pressure off, name this insanely sensational quality that he's got and own it. But those questions of wait, what does that mean? That doesn't make sense. Can you say it again? No, I can't say it again because in that moment, that was five minutes ago, and I was trying to write that out, it made complete another sense. And now I feel the physical pressure of you looking and judging me and thinking, well, that doesn't work. Why doesn't that work? Are you stupid or something? I know you may not be thinking that, but that's what I'm thinking about myself. That's what the world's told me to think about myself. That's what all the red print pen scribbled across every piece of work I ever did tells me about myself. That's what the D's tell me about myself. That's what the the Christen is trying in class, but she just can't understand it. That's what the Kristen doesn't need to talk too much, Kristen doesn't concentrate. All of those things scream to me, wow, you're just not very smart, are you? Now that's something that if you're listening and you've got a child like that, or you you are like this, you'll know, obviously, that is not true. And as a 41-year-old woman, I have overcome that entirely. And the moment for me that overcame that was probably in my in my twenties, I suppose, when I became more confident than what I was when I became confident in well, at school, I was confident in drama, I was confident in English, I was very good at design and very good in art and design at school. And so when I saw those things, being good at those things, it showed me that, hang on, no, you are actually really good at some of this stuff. And it wasn't until I'd noticed that, hang on a minute, every time I do an English presentation at school, I'm getting A pluses. Absolutely kicking out the park. And the teachers and the kids like, wow, that was awesome. Great presentation. Wow, you're such a fabulous speaker. Oh, Kristen, that was great. That you hear that a few times, you go, oh, maybe that is what I'm really good at. But those moments don't happen overnight. Those moments take a long time to actually activate in us. Because, you know, as a dyslexic, when, you know, you're doing I'm I'm reading around the class, you know, when you do that reading at school and you're looking around the class and you're counting the people in front of you. There's five people before me, and we're all reading a paragraph. I'm gonna count down five paragraphs. Yep, I'm just gonna read this over and over and over and over again so that when it gets to me, I know it by heart. I'm not reading it, I'm just memorizing it. And then the person in front of you goes to the toilet and you shit yourself because you're like, I didn't read that paragraph. And so my brain is saying to me, Well, now you're not gonna do it, everyone's gonna laugh at you. You can't read the paragraph because you're gonna stuff it up and you're not gonna sound very f like very good. So now you're just gonna look stupid in front of everybody. And so your brain does that. But as you get older and you realise, hang on a minute, I'm actually really good at speaking in front of a room full of people. Put me in an auditorium of a thousand people, that's my happiest place on earth. I don't I I I enjoy that environment where then I could see, hang on a minute, other people don't. They they really fear speaking in front of people. And and the thing that always interests me at school, it's probably upon reflection that I I look at this, is when a child, especially at school, or anybody, an adult, can't speak in front of a room and oh, I don't like public speaking, oh this, everybody gives them the grace, oh it's okay, don't worry about it, just be calm, you don't have to think like they give them just this huge, cushy, beautiful blanket of love, as they should. That's great. But the kid at school that's sitting there that's like, I can't write this out. This is a real struggle for me, I don't know how to do this, I need help, doesn't get that. Gets, well, why can't you spell it out, sound it out? Why isn't that working? No, that's not correct. Come on, go back here, red pen, cross. The the difference is huge. And so for me, I've always had this passion to share the story that if you're a dyslexic, you've got incredible skills, you can think outside the box, you can think on your feet, you've always been put up against this brick wall, and so you will find a way out. It will not look typical, it will look all over the shop to anyone else, but you'll do it. I guarantee you'll get yourself out of a hard situation because you've always had to think outside the box to get through a situation, to make yourself feel better, to get past something that was uncomfortable. And so that's what the audit project was is we went into schools and we told kids these stories and we helped them through these moments. We used to say that we teach through old-fashioned life lessons, just having conversations about life, having conversations about what it's like, had a different tools, different coping mechanisms, that it's okay, that it's normal, that we're all different, and building that resilience. So, how does this all correlate to what I have built as a tool for my son and that particular moment?

The Word That Triggers A Meltdown

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Is that this thread has obviously been through my whole life because it's something that it lives so deeply within me that I just want to help every child that's struggling in this space because I know how it feels. And when we are an entrepreneur and we are building a business, solving the problem is the biggest thing we can do. If there is a problem and we can solve it, that's that's the magic spot right there. And so as he's writing out this letter, we'll go back to my son on the other week, sitting down, he's writing out this letter to his his grandparents. He got stuck in the word. The word was probably. And it started with, hey mum, how do you spell probably? And I was like, fucking, okay. And even as a dyslexic, it's really hard for me to like be like probably, like sound it out. I don't know, how do you do that? I I wasn't taught that. I don't know that. I I coped in a different way. So I can't teach my kid the right way, the right way to do it. I can only teach them the dyslexic roundabout, upside down, backwards way. So we went through it and it got to a point where I looked, I was like, oh, that's not right. And I could see his handwriting was getting smaller and smaller as I could understand that he was struggling with the words to get them out. And I I was just bound, I was like, dude, I could see everything about me right there. And I just said to him, Oh mate, so you've got a couple of capitals in there, how about we write that word again? And I'm trying to make it fun, because I know it's not fun. I know it's the most humiliating, soul-destroying thing in the world. And we tried a couple more times, then all of a sudden he kept scribbling it out and starting again, he kept getting stumped on this word, to the point where we hit an absolute meltdown, where scribbled the paper, ripped it in half, threw it on there, screamed, cried, broke down. And as a mother, obviously, you want to help. You want to do everything you can to help this little soul. And when you know the struggles. And I didn't want to get emotional in this podcast, but I I know I will because this is real stuff. So I watched this and I tried to calm him down. In the end, I said to him, mate, let's just go to bed. We're gonna do this tomorrow. We're not gonna do it now. We can't solve it tonight. We're gonna do it tomorrow. We'll we'll you know. It wasn't easy to get him to bed, and and he ended up ripping his piece of paper, and then he was upset that he ripped the piece of paper and he was ashamed of it. And the spiral just keeps going. If you know, you know. Anyway, we got him to bed. And I was sitting on the couch and my brain just would not turn off. It was going four billion miles an hour. How can I help him? What can I do? Surely, with my knowledge of AI now, surely there's something I can do. There's something that AI has to be out to help me with. I don't know what it is, but it has to. And then knowing that what we've done inside Hive AI and me has been such an incredible forge forward in curiosity in this space, and she's helped us as a business build a lot of things that I haven't done yet. And and I only said to her the other day when we were talking, I haven't forged as hard with some of the things she has in AI because I haven't had the sheer purpose behind it. I've wanted to create the brand voice and I wanted to do all those things which we've done inside the second brand, and we've built that, which you know is the most exquisite thing you can build in your business. But outside of that, you know, she's built a couple of apps which she's used with her ADHD stuff, and she's had the driving force behind that. But I haven't had something that's driven me so hard, but I was like, fuck it, I will I will figure this out until this particular moment. And in this particular moment, that's what happened, is I sat down. Actually, no, I I went to bed and I was lying in bed, same thing, rolling around, just thinking, how, how, how, how, there has to be a way. And the next day the kids actually had a

Turning Frustration Into A Prototype

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day off school. But I got up in the morning, I get out nice and early, and I sat down at the computer, and I just sat down with Claude, just in opened a project, and I just verbalized everything. And I said, Look, I want to create this app, this tool, something that's gonna help my son. And I told my whole dyslexic story, I told his story, I said what happened, I explained how I see the process working better. I explained the problem, I explained at what point of the problem a parent's interference or a parent's help is actually hindrance, and that's what brings shame. And so I just had this enormous conversation, and Claude and I were going back and forth, and then it got to a point where I said, I need to make this into something. Can we do we move this into Claude Code now? And it was like, hell a year. So at that point, we took, I took everything that was in the conversation that I had with Claude over into Claude Code. And inside Claude Code, this is where the magic happened. And I started to see my idea come to life. I started to see ACE is what it's called, the spelling arcade, come to life. I needed to gamify it. I needed to make this fun. I needed to make spelling something that was like, ah, that's that's a cool thing to do. Oh, that's helpful. And so Ace was born from that. This prototype, the first prototype, I was like, whoa, like wow, just wow. And the idea behind ACE in general is that point where your child is maybe writing a sentence. I just put my son's experience, he's writing a sentence and he gets to probably. Instead of having to ask me, he can say, Hey mum, can I use Ace? Sure, mate. Off you go. So he can then start to use ACE and he types in his word, if he gets that wrong, there's the next step and the next step and the next step. So he's working alongside Ace. Now, I didn't want a completely hands-off parent experience because I still think there's a need for a parent to be supportive, to understand, to be clear if Ace isn't giving the right feedback, or they're struggling with how to pronounce it, or they're really not getting it. I've I've built a lot of things in, so Ace should really understand what you're trying, what your child is trying to write. But I still wanted that parent interaction, but I wanted to make it at a distance that also created, like, hey mum, come and check this out, that excitement, the confidence. So that's what kind of started to happen is that thought of, okay, well, he says, hey mum, can I use ACE? So then he gets ACE and he gets to do it that way. And then he gets to be successful with it, and then I get to kind of reward him from that. So that's the idea behind ACE that your child would use it as a tool in their writing. Not a complete spelling process that spells out every word, but that can be it. But that was the idea is to grab ACE's a tool, a learning tool, something that can help you as a parent and your child. And so the first round, first, second, third, kind of started to come together. And then, excuse me, the kids got up from kids

Ace’s Step By Step Spelling Flow

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got up in the morning, I kept kind of working through it, and then I said to them, hey guys, I've been building something this morning. And I sat down with them and I explained what I was doing. And I said, Look, I've built this app and I want you guys to test it in a minute. But what I want to do first is I'm gonna give you the iPad. I want you to do voice notes. I want you to come up with a game, something that you would find really fun that you're also learning while you're doing it. It might be mass, might be spelling, might be counting, might be shapes, might be measurements, might be whatever. Like some kind of learning. Just speak it out. That's all I need you to do because then I'm gonna show you the process of what I've been doing with Ace, and I'll show you him in a minute. So we went through this whole thing. So the kids took their iPad, the iPad away, and they voice noted into it, and I'm standing outside their rooms, but to hear the creativity, to hear the imagination, to hear your child in their rawest creativity brings so much joy to me as a parent and to as a human being that lives in the entrepreneurial space. Because I think when kids are allowed to just go for it, they don't have the constraints of, oh no, well, that's not really possible. Because if that happens, that happens. They don't have that bullshit that we have to carry. They get to go for it. And so if you have kids, I highly recommend you ask them to do something like this. Because just standing outside their room was like, shit, this is cool. And to see them light up as they're talking about it. So I've got that on record, and we'll we'll I'll build them, help them build some stuff later. But right now, I then sat them down. I said, Okay, this is Ace. I explained the process, and this is the first prototype, the first one that I was like, okay, it's ready to test on the kids now. They're like, Oh, cool, mum. This is like, wow, this is amazing. You made this. I was like, Yeah, between like Claude Code made it, but it's all my idea. And I I was able to then talk, especially to my son, but my daughter as well, because she's incredibly creative. I was able to talk to both kids about the fact that the coolest part about how we live now and how you guys are going to live your life is that you have incredible ideas and now they're possible. So if you can think of something, you you can create something that like nothing's off limits anymore for you guys, and that's so cool. And we couldn't have come up with Ace if if mummy hadn't mummy, I'm not even called mummy, if mom hadn't come up with this idea or had the same feelings that you had last night, but and I've been through what you've been through. And so we just got to have a really beautiful conversation that I think was so needed in our household. Anyway, so to watch them use this, and so we we went through and did, they chose their words and then they went through. And the the point of ace is the child guesses the word, well doesn't guess, they try and spell it. Now, if they get the word close, ace comes back with a few options that they can press play on those options, and the options say the word plus the meaning. They say a meaning as well, so that the child can be like, oh yeah, that is the word they want. They can click on that. So then once they've clicked on the word that they want, it then goes to the next screen, which they then have to type in again the word. So again, it's that repetition, but it's not repetition like old school. So it's repetition in terms of they then have to type it in and it's set up like a little computer screen because that's how they're gonna live their lives with phones and computers. They type that word in, then whoop, congratulations, you've got well done, you've got some more coins. But now the next bit is you've got to write it out. So the next step is they get their pen and paper and they now write it out, and it goes through and traces the word in Australian handwriting. Uh, I've made sure that I asked Claude to include the Australian standards of the handwriting. So it goes through and it shows them the order in which to do it, it traces it. Now it goes over, you can make the tracing faster, you can make it slower, and you can go over it again. And uh for example, there was a moment where my son said, Oh mum, maybe if it could just because he was a lot slower at that part. My my daughter went through it a bit faster, but he was a bit slower and was really kind of really watching and trying to follow. Because the other thing is, is we've got lots of the Australian standard handwriting books at home, but they're all for kindy kids. They're not for a year four, who like Apple, that's great, but the whole thing feels and looks like a kindy kid type of workbook. So he doesn't want to do it. Why would you want to do it? So Ace then makes it kind of cooler. It's a little arcade type game. They're winning coins, they're they're getting stickers, they're they're getting rewards and positive feedback from Ace because I've built the positive language in there that it's never wrong. It's like, hey, bud, no worries, you haven't quite got that right. Let's give it another shot. That's the language. It's never an it's it's never negative. It's like, hey, cool, give it another shot. Maybe grab a parent, they could help. Things like that is the language that I've built in to Ace to speak to the children. So yeah, it goes over it, right? So he wanted his at one point he said, Hey mum, could it just repeat and go over and over again? I was like, I don't know, let's try it. So we asked, Claude Code, and it built out one that did repeat. And then we're going through that, and he said, Oh no, I don't like that. It's a bit confusing. Okay, so we just did it so that you can speed it up so. It down, or you can repeat it so they can stay on the one letter for as long as they get it. So they go through that and they write that word. And then there's an option to go, cool, I've written the word, I'm going to continue with my sentence and continue on my day. And that's fine, they can do that. Or I've added the go check with a parent and you get kind of extra points. Because then I wanted him to be able to come to me and say, um, hey mum, can you check this? So then again, it's that parent inclusion where then I get to come across and check that with him. So yep, come across. When I check it, it comes up with congratulations, you get a sticker to add to your sticker board. And then your job's done with ace. You move on to your next word or you spell another word. And I've built it in so that each child gets their own platform. So both the kids have one each. As a parent, you get to choose a reward system. So there's different, there's three different levels, and you get to choose the rewards. So it might be that they, you know, you get to 100 points and they get to choose a movie night. Might be they get to go to the skate park, it might be a food reward. I don't care. You choose your reward, you're the parent. But the idea is to gamify it in terms of they get they get to be excited because they get rewards for the learning. And, you know, even the reason that each child gets their own profile is obviously he's not gonna spell a thousand, you know, sorry, not a thousand, like ten words in a night or something like that while he's writing a sentence, for example. So I wanted to make sure that next time he logs in, the points keep adding up. You don't have to do it in one session, is what I'm trying to articulate. So you get to set that as a parent, you get to use that. It doesn't use any AI, so it all lives on your device. We don't tap into it as owners of the tool. It's all on you, it's all built in there. You don't have to log in. You get your own little family unique link to it, and then if you want to move it to another device, you can click

Rewards, Handwriting And Family Profiles

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a button as a parent, choose a QR code, and you can transfer it to your iPad, to your phone. So you could have it on your phone. So if you're out, I was just singing the other day because we were actually out at soccer with my um watching my son play soccer, and my daughter said to me, Hey mum, how do you spell signature? And I was like, let's ask Ace. So we were doing it out the soccer field, like it was just you can have it on those devices and it can be a really cool tool. And she was like, Oh yeah, I can ask Ace. So that was the idea behind it. And the difference in his handwriting after the first prototype blew my motherfucking mind. Blew my mind. And by the end of the day, we'd as a family all had a conversation with Claude Code and we'd built this thing to like pretty happy with it. And when their dad got home, they rushed the door, Dad, you've got to come see this thing. Mum's built, we've built this thing called Ace. And they showed him, and he was like, Wow, that's pretty incredible. And then uh the kids were kind of talking and showing him. He was quite impressed with it. And then he's like, looked at me and he's like, Is that, is that whose handwriting is that? And like pointed down to my son's handwriting, and I was like, that's his. And he was like, My husband looked at me like, Are you kidding me? And I was like, No, that is his handwriting from what he was like to that, that is what he's done on his own. And he was so, so proud of himself. So proud of himself, so happy, so excited. And he retained it and he spelt it again and again clearly. And that's what blew my mind is that it was working. And then obviously that just snowballed into the next day. Then I am a graphic designer by trade, so I jumped on to Canva, I created all the graphics, I created Ace, I created the stickers, I created the icons, I got the branding downpacked because I needed this to look like it was in my head. Claude Code had created something that absolutely could have used instantly without my help at all. Just by I was taking screenshots and looking on Pinterest and giving Claude Code what I wanted it to look like. So it was really trying, but it wasn't until I got into Canva and I really created those assets that it really shot it to the moon. And then the kids came home. I'd been working on it on and off, and the kids came home only last night. And I said, guys, I think I've got Ace to a point now where he's ready to go. And they're like, I did see. And my daughter opened it up, and I wish I'd caught it on camera because she just goes, Oh my god, you've got to see the new icons. Mum's updated Ace, it looks so awesome. And then my son comes rushing down the hallway, and they sat at the kitchen table for probably about 45 minutes and they just used it. And and because Ace also speaks to you, I was in the kitchen cooking, and I've built Ace now and I'm really comfortable with it. I was in the kitchen cooking, and I saw I could hear Ace say, you know, congratulations, and it says the child's name and it and it talks to them, and if the words aren't right, and then I hear it say, Great work, go and get a parent. And so then I was like, Oh, I'll come over and have a look. So you as a parent, you get to be involved in this process as well. So this tool, 10-year-old Kristen, so proud and so excited. And it's something that I'll put the link in the show notes. If you want to grab ACE, ACE is there for you and your children and your family to use. You can put as many players as you want on your family link, and they can all dip in and out, and you can have um you can have it on as many devices, you can have it on your computer, your iPad, your Android, your phone with your family link. You just use that QR code and you move it move it to wherever, so it keeps those points so that you can take it with you, and whenever your child needs it, I just I just know that you'll see a difference in them. And Mia's used it with her kids and said the same thing. She was like, Well, like my son wanted to keep using it for like an hour. He was more than happy to keep spelling with it. He loves it, they both love it. And so this like there's two things in this story. One, if you have a child that is struggling with spelling or you just want something fun for your kids to enjoy spelling with, grab

Ship The Tool And Back Yourself

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ace, please, and please. And a before and after shot would mean the absolute world to me. Because this is something that I've been really reluctant to show teachers. I've I've I've asked and shown a couple of teachers that have been like, Whoa, holy crap, that's amazing. But I was reluctant to start with because as a neurodivergent, I think we stop doing things sometimes because we get into our head and think, well, I'm not the expert. Like, I'm not a teacher, I'm not a I didn't go to university to teach kids in that age group, but I am a dyslexic that fully, fundamentally understands dyslexia in terms of how I learn, in terms of how I've had to reroute the way that neurotypical people teach so that I can understand what they're what they're teaching and so that I can learn for myself. And I've done that my entire life. We do that now inside evolution. We make sure that we are teaching our community in a way that works for neurodivergence, in a way that is fun, in a way that is rewarding, in a way that is not linear and not typical, in a way that we allow them to see their skills absolutely shine because we understand them. You know, we understand ADHD. I'm undiagnosed ADHD, Amia is diagnosed with AHD. She's done a lot of research into it for her own knowledge, for her family's knowledge, for our community's knowledge. And so we understand it. And that's why, and this is something that even with the ONIP project, we came up against it a few times with schools that would say, Oh, yeah, but this is a in the curriculum. And I was like, no, but it's common sense. Like we're teaching these kids common sense. We're teaching them old-fashioned life lessons that some of these kids, you know, we used to talk about uh I go down the river with my family on holidays, and we'd sit around the campfire and the stories that you'd tell, and the stories that you'd hear from your uncle and your auntie and your cousins and your friends and their friends, friends, friends, friends, just life lessons that those are the things that connect us. Stories connect us. Like, why do we read to our children? Because they're stories. And, you know, when we're telling stories to each other around a campfire, you know, out to coffee, uh out with the girls, when you're sharing your life's experience and you're connecting with people that way, that's where the magic happens. And that's where I think for me, certainly as a neurodivergent, that's where I learn best is when I'm in it with somebody and I'm listening to their story, and I'm like, oh my God, that's a great life lesson. I'm gonna take that. Next time this happens to me, I'm gonna do that. Next time this happens to me, I'm gonna do that. And so for me, I urge you, if you've got something that you want to create, you can. And don't let it stop you. Because, like I said, that was that fear that, you know, I'm not a teacher, so who am I to teach this? But with the power of of AI and of Claude and it understanding the the curriculums and the the English language and the tools and the words and and and everything that it understands, and then me understanding a process that is unique to how I learn and unique to how so far people that have used ACE are learning, there's that to me was enough. And and when I saw it work with my son and my daughter so successfully, in half an hour of a prototype that took me a few hours to make, I was like, nah, it's no stopping me on this one. Absolutely fucking not. And then to see Mia's response with her kids and see our community's response to how they can use it, how their kids can use it, and their grandkids can use it, and things like that. I just figured that this is a tool made by a dyslexic for a child that maybe's dyslexic or maybe just really struggling and needs some help, needs somebody else to be like, hey, cool. Should we make learning fun in a different way that isn't like the the typical way? And so I suppose the power of using your incredible brains, your multi-passionate, multidimensional, ADHD, busy, you name it, you've got it, whatever it is that you are, your fabulous, brilliant brains, you can create things with AR because of that. You can collapse time, you can think outside the box, you can create things that weren't actually possible for you before because of time, money, um, you know, all the kind of roadblocks that you would come across, which you have the idea, but you stop at those roadblocks straight away. So this is just a little I've I've been sitting in my in my driveway looking over the vineyard now for the last little 20 minutes, I think, talking to you. But I wanted to share this story because it's more than just my story in terms of my dyslexia. It's more than what's possible when you just give it a red hot crack. It's about the fact that with a brilliant brain like yours, you have the potential to do some pretty unbelievable stuff. And inside our communities, that is all we do is celebrate you to try, is to show you what's possible, is to give you the tools to actually go, shit, it is possible for me. I can do that. I can channel the chaos that's in my mind into something that will be successful. And the whole community is there to show you that. Not just me or myself, we're all there to be like, hey, I I do things a little off-centered too, but it's working. And we celebrate that. So I thank you for taking this time to listen to my little story. There is a link to ACE in the show notes. Please go and check it out. Please grab ACE. And if you use it with your children, please take a before and after. Let me know how it goes. Because if this is the tool that makes kids enjoy that process even just a little bit more, I will be one very, very happy woman. Um, so yeah, thank you for taking the time. Have a sensational day. See you. Absolutely so many good ones, too.