Shirley Yanez
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I am a British Social Entrepreneur, Talk Therapist, Life Coach and Author of my new Book The Mind Detective. I am dyslexic and proud. Most people believe that Dyslexia is a sign of not being intelligent but this is wrong.
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Dyslexia and Wealth Are Linked
It seems I am in good company! Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell Walt Disney—each of these game-changers were dyslexics. In fact, 40 percent of the world’s self-made millionaires have dyslexia.
By Shirley Yanez6 years ago in Motivation
'The Mind Detective'
Publishing Triumph For Illiterate Self-Made Millionaire. Shirley Yanez, CEO of fashion brand Venus Cow, has been offering free talk therapy since 2005. She is not a doctor or a qualified psychologist. Suffering with dyslexia in her early years, she swapped the classroom for business. Selling cigarettes at 10 was her first entrepreneurial venture, and she started in the world of work, unable to read and write. Her extraordinary story documents a steep climb to unbelievable financial success, becoming MD of a large, public, UK company, and then building her own business to make her millions in the 90s, only to lose it all in the dot.com market crash in 2000. Battling all the odds, near death, and homelessness in Hollywood, she now shares her story and journey to self actualisation with the help of Carl Jung in her book The Mind Detective—Austin Macauley Publishers
By Shirley Yanez6 years ago in Motivation
The Mind Detective
The truth about your life, your mistakes, your coping mechanisms, the dark, hidden side of yourself buried in your unconscious, hidden behind the mask, the persona, the ego is what causes anxiety, fear, and then depression. Therapy is all about gently peeling back this mask, being brave enough to face it, heal it, and then let go of it, so you can build a solid character and become the authentic person you started out as, as a child. We are not born with fear, pain, insecurities, depression, anxieties, these are all symptoms of what we experience, our circumstances, our culture, our conditioning growing up.
By Shirley Yanez6 years ago in Motivation
'The Mind Detective'
One of six children, Shirley Yanez was born and raised in poverty on a council estate in Leicester in the 1950s. She received no formal education, and would later discover that she was dyslexic. She would go on to use her innate confidence, unbreakable self-belief, and indestructible drive to escape her difficult start in life, finally reaching the top of the money and power mountain within the hyper-capitalist world of Wall Street and the City of London finance.
By Shirley Yanez6 years ago in Motivation
