I know there's an organization that you're working with.
Can you just expand on that a little more for us?
Yeah, sure.
I work with an organization called Understood.org
and you know, this is an organization that has
and addresses the people that have learning differences,
you know, such as myself, dyslexia, ADD, ADHD.
And parents today have been thrown into this thing
of being the parent and being the teacher as well.
That's right. And that is very unfortunate
for many because what's happening with a lot
of our children is because they're virtually learning,
they're not getting the level of education
that they should, and especially for those
with learning differences.
However, a lot of parents and caretakers
are becoming teachers and they're starting to see
or being able to identify that maybe their child
does have a learning difference, and maybe they
can address it earlier on
in the child's educational process so they can catch up.
So when I work with, you know, the company
called Understood.org,
they have this very unique memory device
that's called Take NOTE, N O T E, very simple.
Number one, NOTE, is notice if anything
is out of the ordinary with your child.
Number two is to observe, observe behaviors
to determine patterns.
Talk, talk to teachers, social workers, and caregivers,
to validate that there may be a challenge,
and engage with trusted resources like pediatricians.
It is free.
You just have to go to u.org/takenote to learn more.
And, you know, we just wanted to make sure parents have it
just a little bit easier to deal with some
of these additional challenges we're having during COVID
I love that they take you through it
in those very simple steps, and that it's free,
that people can go on and use these tools
for free to really help figure this out.
And maybe one day some of those kids,
they may be Daymond John, how know.
We had an email from Ted.
We got a guy, a man is watching. (laughs)
So Ted says, "I've worked
"in the advertising industry for 30 years.
"Lost my job due to COVID.
"It's been almost a year now,
"I still do not have a job.
"I have plenty of experience,
"I feel like I can't compete with younger candidates.
"My question is best way to pitch yourself
"for an interview."
Oh wow.
"Knowing you're the oldest guy there."
Man, do I feel that, right?
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
You know, listen, there's a one reason,
the main reason I went on the Shark Tank
is because if I wasn't on Shark Tank,
I would have been doing business the old way
that all my other colleagues are doing it, you know,
making a shirt, maybe a store buys it.
And I learn more on Shark Tank.
Now here's the best thing, you do have experience,
and just like the Sharks,
we all know the fundamentals of business,
so now we're just trying to find the younger generation
or people that we can execute in a different way.
When you're walking in the room,
are you educated on the new way of advertising?
You know the fundamentals of it,
but do you know digital marketing,
do you know, content creation, various things like that?
During this pandemic I've spent, you know,
I have a 28 hour course
that I've been going into for digital marketing,
because even though I have great marketers around me,
I wanna know myself.
I want to keep educating myself.
So I think that that's probably what you should do
is take these digital courses out there on digital marketing
on Facebook advertising on pay-per-click,
and then be able to go into the room
and speak like the young kids,
but with 30 years of experience, and then you're invaluable.
That is so smart, and lead with that, right?
Like get yourself strong.
And there's so much now that's free or very inexpensive
in online education, it's shocking to me.
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