What Color Is Your Brain? Sheila Glazov on Personality, Communication, and Building Better Relationships

Hello everyone, welcome to Telling My Story, the podcast where we explore real life stories, career journeys, personal growth, and the experience that shape who we become. I'm Henry Chiwetelu, your host. Have you ever had a conversation with someone and thought, why doesn't this person understand me? Or maybe you have wondered why two people can experience the exact same situation but respond in completely different ways. Today's guest has spent years helping people answer these questions. My guest is Sheila Glazov. Did I get the name correct? Very good, Henry. It's not an easy name. Thank you. All right. A best-selling author, personality expert, professional speaker, educator, and coach. She is the creator of the What Color Is Your Brain methodology, a unique approach that helps people understand their personality, communication style, and and the different way people see the world. Her work has helped individuals, families, educators, students, and organizations improve communication, resolve conflicts, and build healthier relationships. What's behind the Brain Color Framework is also a fascinating personal journey from teaching in the classroom to developing a methodology that has reached people around the world. Today, we're going to talk about personality, communication, relationship, conflict, parenting, leadership, and what happens when we stop judging differences and start becoming curious about them. Sheila, welcome to Telling My Story, and it's a pleasure to have you here with us today.

Thank you, Henry. I feel the same way.

All right, Sheila, you started your career as an educator. What happened in your journey that eventually led you to create What Color Is Your Brain?

So I started my career as an educator and through my whole career with all the other things I've done, I would tell you I'm always an educator. I'm always a teacher. And for me, that's my goal and that's my passion. And I noticed when I was doing creative problem solving. solving sessions with organizations and businesses and individuals, that when people gave forth with their ideas, other people would not always be polite or generous. They would say, that's a silly idea. That's stupid. Why did you say that? And I thought, that's not the way to solve a problem by being rude. And because my degree was in first grade through 12th grade, I had many, many, many psychology courses. So I remembered what I had learned at college. And then I studied Myers Briggs, which is the oldest personality type indicator. And that was lovely, except it was 16 different letters. And I learned when I was teaching my third graders that I had dyslexia. So I had a hard time putting those letters in the right order. But thinking about my brightly colored classroom and thinking about my children and my grandchildren, that they always played with things that were colorful because color is our greatest stimulant. And I said, I'm just going to use primary colors because I can remember that. And it's going to be easy for other people to remember. And I thought that was really important to do for the people who would be learning what color is your brain. And I have found through the years, Henry,