We’re looking forward to introducing you to Megan Rosselot . Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Megan , we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
The older that I have become, the more that I value the morning time. I enjoy waking before the rest of the family wakes up, starting the day by sitting with Jesus, reading his word, praying, and just lifting up the day, uninterrupted.
I gather a warm blanket, coffee, and sit in my favorite chair in the living room under the lamp. I enjoy reading the Word and allowing the Lord to speak to me, there’s a sense of peace that goes into this one on one time. I have sat in these moments and sometimes prayed over situations and people and circumstances that I do not understand or that I don’t know the finite details of, and I sit with an anticipation, direction, and readiness for the day.
Following, I helped get the kids out, get breakfast going, with my kids and husband, before we each go off in our own directions.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
Hello, my name is Megan Rosselot. I’m a special education, teacher and behavior analyst. I have worked with individuals with developmental disabilities and autism for the last nine years in different capacities.
The goal behind the Behavior Collective is to provide applicable strategies to improve communication between parent and teenager that both empowers and encourages the parent. Often, division begins when frustration increases. By providing behavior strategies that aim at understanding the teenage mind, but also providing contacts to various diagnoses and their specific needs, it allows parents to better understand what their teenager are both is challenged by, but also needs support in.
I am confident that when parents begin to understand that working with teenager can have its challenges. It is not a death sentence. The behavior collective provides behavioral strategies, but it is aimed that providing encouragement to foster better understanding of the teenager in our life, and to gain a perspective that six to love on the child rather than the behavior. In doing so, as division decreases, the relationship will strengthen.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
This is a heavy question, however; how many of us have struggled with this on some end of the spectrum?
The culture today is so fragile; people are easily offended. It is silently justified that if One does not believe in others value system or view point, they are justified in retaliating. We don’t consider it to be taboo because it has occurred so often in the last few years.
Yet, I challenge you to consider how you personally respond when someone does not speak to you in the way that you expect? Do you shut down? Gossip? Do you pull away and quietly begin to ignore them, telling yourself that they are the problem?
There will be seasons in which relationships changed, they may serve the purpose and no longer had the same purpose in a different season, yet what I find that breaks the bond of many relationships as this lack of willingness to love them for who they are.
In response to the later question, to restore a bond is to love them as who they are; it does not mean that you do not necessarily agree to what they stand for or value. The bond that becomes a relationship
What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
The most impactful events that created the deepest wounds for ones in which others attempted to define me in my abilities, suggesting that I was broken, disabled, and disguised as an event from my birth. It was learned later that this individual who made assumptions about my abilities, was no more credible than a preschooler, providing information about quantum physics, it simply was null and void, but the damage had been done.
For years, I sat on these words spoken by this well respected woman. She had lowered her bifocals to share her concern that at birth I lack oxygen, when I was only a poor test taker. She wanted to find a reason as to why I was a poor test, taker, and so she gave it her own explanation. I thought through the story on several occasions over the last 20 years, I was angry, I was embarrassed for many years. I felt shame that because of how she declared who I was, that determined what my future would be. I had an inability to break from this until I begin to recognize the truth, she was someone that didn’t know who I was, and she needed to find reason she needed to feel credible in that moment.
This woman was not bad, and I don’t think she met ill in what she did, but it shows a perfect example of how our words carry power they can either be for harm or for good.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
Great question.
I have observed many in leadership make the mistake of overlooking or assuming that the presented character of an individual is who they are internally. The assumption leads to a domino effect of developing division between the smart person and those they work with.
Good leaders make the effort to create a good balance between building a rapport with the person and challenging them to grow into their potential.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
I would stop Worrying about how others perceive me and allowing this to influence how I make decisions.
Wow, It sounds silly when written out.
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