Beyond Learning Differences: Finding Your Strengths with Grit, Grace & AI

Suzanne Feit, Catie Chase
Chat and Suzanne AI for Everyday Life
### Beyond Learning Differences: Finding Your Strengths with Grit, Grace & AI
**Guest: Catie Chase — Author, Educational Consultant, Learning Specialist & Life Coach**
What happens when a young girl who struggled to read until middle school grows up to become an author, educator, and advocate for empowering others?
In this inspiring episode of *Chat & Suzanne: AI for Everyday Life*, Suzanne Feit welcomes Catie Chase, author of *A Girl's Guide to Being Me: Mastering Modern Life Skills for Success with Grit & Grace*.
Catie shares her personal journey with dyslexia and dyscalculia, the mentors who helped her succeed, and how those experiences shaped her approach to supporting students and families.
Together, Suzanne and Catie explore the importance of recognizing individual strengths, building confidence, and developing a personal toolbox for success. They discuss how AI and ChatGPT can support learning and independence while emphasizing that technology should empower us—not replace our own thinking, creativity, or identity.
Catie also shares the remarkable story of two sisters from Tanzania whose courage and resilience helped inspire her work, along with the challenges and rewards of writing her first book.
This conversation offers encouragement to parents, educators, students, and anyone who has ever felt limited by a learning difference.
**The central message:** A diagnosis does not define your future. With the right tools, support, grit, and grace, possibilities are endless.
**Learn more about Catie:** https://www.catiechase.com/
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