Anthony's Way—On The Road to Kindness with Tony and Cassi Bellezza
What does it mean to transform heartbreak into hope? For Tony and Cassi Bellezza, the loss of their son Anthony was not the end of his story—it was the beginning of a mission. Anthony, a vibrant and compassionate child who lived with ADHD, inspired those around him with his unique ability to see the world through a lens of kindness. But his journey wasn’t without challenges: navigating school accommodations, transitioning between educational systems, facing bullying, and finding outlets for his passions.
In this episode of The ADHD Podcast, hosts Nikki Kinzer and Pete Wright sit down with Tony and Cassi to explore the roots of Anthony’s Way - The Road to Kindness, the non-profit they founded to honor their son. They discuss how Anthony’s struggle—and his empathy—became the foundation for a program designed to help children and teens with ADHD not just survive, but thrive.
From the challenges of private school 504 plans to the life-changing impact of extracurricular activities, Tony and Cassi share personal stories of advocacy, resilience, and the profound importance of kindness. They also dive into the organization’s innovative Holistic Care Model, their Kindness Scholarship program, and the transformative power of community support.
This is a conversation about ADHD, yes—but it’s also about legacy. It’s about how one family took their pain and turned it into a movement. And it’s a reminder that kindness isn’t just a value—it’s a roadmap to something greater.
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Tony and Cassi Bellazza founded Anthony's Way, The Road to Kindness to honor their son Anthony, who lived with ADHD and inspired others through his compassion. The organization helps children and teens with ADHD thrive by providing resources, mentorship, and understanding. For the Bellazzas, Anthony's legacy is a reminder that ADHD isn't a limitation, it's a different path best navigated with kindness. They're here today to share the story of the foundation, their legacy of their son. Tony and Cassi, welcome to the ADHD podcast.
Tony Bellazza:
Thank you for having us.
Cassi Bellazza:
[inaudible 00:03:05] very much.
Nikki Kinzer:
Welcome.
Pete Wright:
Why don't we just dig into the mission of Anthony's Road to Kindness. Tell us about the organization and where it started.
Tony Bellazza:
Well, the mission is to help empower kids with ADHD and their families to give them a road map and guidelines. And really then also raise kindness to a whole new level. And the kindness piece comes from our son Anthony, and we can drill down on that a little bit. But we really believe that it's compassion that drives what we're doing, and we have to be compassionate to children that have ADHD. And that's not always the case. That didn't happen for our son Anthony, and I know it's not happening for others that have these challenges. People view them as different, and they're not different, they're unique, and we view them as unique, and we are here, we want to help them.
So Anthony, we love Anthony. We miss him terribly. And now we've set this out to bring a coalition of experts together, coaches, tutors, educational advocacy groups, and that work with the schools, nutritionists, health and fitness experts. We brought to Dale Carnegie organization to help with social skills to train these kids on social skills as they hit 13, 17, and an academic advisory group. And we've all vet... We've vetted these folks, we've made arrangements with them all. They're all compassionate, and many of them have ADHD, which is even a blessing for the team that we put together.
So we want to take this to the next level. This year we will start, we launched in October, 2023. So we've only been here around for 14, 15 months, and we've been fundraising like any other nonprofit. You fundraise so that you could then start taking care of kids. And our goal is this year, starting in March, we're going to help and sponsor two young children between 6 to 10. And then in the fall, we're going to look at putting the whole program in place where we offer all the services from the 13 to the 17-year-old age group.
And we're going to cover the cost of care for those kids, and it'll be a pilot in the fall because we want to test out all these pieces. You all know that they all work together, they all work individually. You know, ADHD coaches, we wish we knew them, that they were here before when we had Anthony years ago, we didn't even know they existed. And then all of them work individually, but the power in this is when we put it together and we should see exponential growth and help these kids to thrive.
But it all comes back why we're here. I mean, we're here because we lost our son. And he was doing an impulsive act, what all it took was one impulsive act, and we lost him. And that was something that we struggled with and he struggled with all his life. He just didn't think about the consequences that were there, and we miss him every day. And so we're doing this to keep his kind, loving way alive.
Really what I want to do is I want to pass it to Cassi to share more about Anthony. Because I worked, I was traveling and building, keeping our life going. And we have four kids, three wonderful other daughters, and Anthony was the youngest, and she was here taking care of them. So God blessed that she could stay home and be with him. And then we made decision once we found out that Anthony had ADHD, that I would transition out of a partnership role and take a new job closer to home. But you really need to understand Anthony and how he drove a creation of this, this [inaudible 00:07:04], and how we're building it to help kids like him.
Pete Wright:
All right. Cassi, tell us about Anthony.
Nikki Kinzer:
Yeah, please.
Cassi Bellazza:
Okay, where to start? Well, Anthony was, as Tony said, he was the kindest person that we knew. As a child, he was a puppy. He was loving, he was sweet, he was impulsive, he was artistic. He wanted to be everybody's best friend. He never wanted anybody to be sad. He was the kid who, when new kids would come to the school, he wanted to be their first friend, so they would have somebody to sit with at lunch. So he was very empathic, empathetic with other people's feelings. He was very, very close to other people's feelings. So it started because we had three girls, and I knew how they had progressed in their learning and everything. So when Anthony was in preschool, he was having trouble learning his ABCs and one, two, threes, and I was concerned about it because none of the girls had had that issue.
And the preschool teacher said, "Well, it's okay. He's a boy, he'll catch up." So we get to kindergarten, and the same thing is happening. All of his peers are reading three-letter words and he can't even remember the alphabet half of the time. So the kindergarten teacher said, "Well, he's a boy, he'll catch up. It's okay." So first grade, his first grade teacher didn't have any idea what to do with him, and he got further and further behind. So second grade, fortunately his teacher for second grade, she had a child that was ADHD, so she recognized some things. And so his frustration, Anthony's frustration had already started because he knew that he wasn't learning like the other kids did, he was falling behind, he felt less than.
Pete Wright:
In preschool and kindergarten, it's easy to just kind of be distracted enough to not see the difference. But you get a little older, that frustration builds.
Cassi Bellazza:
Yeah. So his self-esteem already was kind of taking a hit. So anyway, so his teacher called us in one day and she said, "I need for you guys to come in. I need to talk to you about something." And of course by that point we're like, "Uh-oh, what's happened now?" So we go in and she hands us a piece of paper and she said, "Anthony was working on this, and I saw him crumble it up and throw it away. So when he..., I distracted it when he wasn't looking, then I went and got it, and I thought you guys needed to see this." So she passed it over to us. And on the back of his paper, he had drawn a frowny face circle, a frowny face, and put a big X through it. And at the bottom he said, "I hate me." And so that's when we knew that he wasn't going to grow out of this. It wasn't, we needed to really start to take control of the situation. And thank God for her.
So then third grade, his third grade teacher didn't have any idea what to do with them, and she disciplined him for not getting his work done in school and all of that. But anyway, so we started on the path with, we went to the pediatrician and got a recommendation to have him tested for ADHD. And then we found out that he had ADHD, and he also had learning disabilities in reading and math. And he also had dysgraphia.
Nikki Kinzer:
And what is that?
Cassi Bellazza:
Dysgraphia is when you can think it, but you can't get it down on paper, which also comes with the alphabet kind of part of it.
Tony Bellazza:
He could hear it and he could understand everything.
Cassi Bellazza:
He was a great speaker.
Tony Bellazza:
He tried to write it down, it just did not communicate down, and that made it hard to take tests and read, and that just complicated it even worse for him, so.
Pete Wright:
Can I ask just a sidebar question. As parents, neither of you live with ADHD, right?
Tony Bellazza:
We've never been tested, but I believe-
Pete Wright:
You're a friend to ADHD?
Tony Bellazza:
I'm a friend to it, I just never stopped though.
Pete Wright:
Okay.
Tony Bellazza:
People have said, and Dr. [inaudible 00:11:27], who's on our advisory board, and he said, "It's like your brain always goes, and it's a Ferrari brain with bicycle breaks." I mean, I'm the same way, I just keep going.
Pete Wright:
Okay. Okay, well that does explain the genetic component, obviously. It does connect you two, which is lovely in its way. But I'm curious your take on what it is to hear that diagnosis when those words hadn't been necessarily tossed around before. What is your-
Cassi Bellazza:
We had no idea. We had no idea what ADHD was. Obviously I went right on the computer and started trying to research things. And Chad was a great resource, but it was a lot of articles, and there's only so many articles that you can read and try to keep in your brain how to handle this, how to handle this.
So we just kind of muddled through it as best as we could. Fortunately we had good advice, but they're like, we need to get a psychiatrist. Okay, well now where do we go? You need to find tutors. Okay, well, where do I go to get good tutors? And so forth and so on, which is why we've set this up the way that we have, because each child will have a team of experts. We were not experts, we relied on experts. But each child will have a team of experts that will help them hands-on not just resource materials, but help them hands-on to get through the challenges, and the parents, that they need to get through on a daily basis.
Tony Bellazza:
The other big challenge was, which happens to most of these kids, is that the bullying starts to set, keep people [inaudible 00:13:07]. Kids that Anthony thought were his friends were not. And they would pick on him because... At a point he got pulled out to go take tests because it was better for him. And when he was asked the questions, he could pass the test. But like we said, he couldn't write it down. So he'd get picked on. And he was smaller than most of the other kids, but he was fast, and he was... So a big part of this that we believe what gave him confidence. We got him all the right help. Cassi started hitting her... We got him a tutor. My grandmother, she was a retired teacher, she loved him. And we got him a psychiatrist. And he was great, he helped through all the challenges and the medication, and he was never really depressed.
He was never really depressed. He was always all happy. He was sad, but he was a happy kid. And he loved to have fun, and he just wanted, like any other kid, he wanted to play. But he wanted everybody to like him. And that was a big challenge for him. And so the bullying set in, and it was both mentally and physically for him. And so I said, when I changed positions, I asked Cassi, I said, why don't we get him into martial arts, or get him into something that he can get some confidence, get him some discipline too. And I've been working out all my life. So I got him and our younger daughter, who we found out later who has ADHD, by the way.
Pete Wright:
Okay.
Tony Bellazza:
We couldn't see it in her because she was a gymnast. She was always working out, always athletic. And so we got Anthony and her, and the three of us went and took martial arts together. So I was the old guy taking martial arts with the two young kids. We had a great time. It gave us a bonding, and gave us a bonding, and our old two girls were dancing. And so everybody was worked out, and we were athletic. But Anthony, at 8 years old we started, by 12 he had his black belt in martial arts.
Nikki Kinzer:
Wow.
Tony Bellazza:
He just excelled. And so when a little kid starts to see that they can do something really well, and they excel, and by 12, he's a black belt, more of sorts. And then we took him out of a private school and put him into a public school, that was a big-
Nikki Kinzer:
That was a... Oh, so going from a private to public was better for him.
Tony Bellazza:
504 kicks in, you know? The private schools don't really accept those, so you have to deal with those. And then Cassi was an educational advocate because she would go in and-
Cassi Bellazza:
I learned on the job.
Tony Bellazza:
She wouldn't let a teacher go by without understanding who Anthony was. And every year, and we'd sit down with the teachers and stuff. But the big part was he started learning. He started, the guy got math, he got the English, got the reading and comprehension, and he started getting caught up. And then he got his black belt, and so things started coming together 12, 13. However, the bullying never stopped. And he had to take a stand for himself. And he took a stand, and then after that, all of the kids that were being bullied, he started sticking up for all the other kids. And so when he passed, the only thing that got us through was 200 kids came and told us stories about our son.
Nikki Kinzer:
Wow.
Tony Bellazza:
Wonderful things he did.
Cassi Bellazza:
We knew that he was kind, we just didn't know how kind he was. And we were-
Pete Wright:
Ripples in a pond.
Cassi Bellazza:
... we were consoling the kids at his wake because they were just beside them... Obviously we were beside ourselves too, but just hearing about all of the kind things. "Anthony did this," or "I was having trouble with this, and Anthony helped me." And it was just over, and over, and over again. And it was just, we were like, holy moly. We knew that he was a very kind person, we just didn't know what to extent he really was.
Tony Bellazza:
Yeah, so that... Yeah. I tell you, it was like a roller coaster ride because of his impulsiveness. We really didn't know what to expect was coming next. But at the end of the day, he was fun to be with.
Cassi Bellazza:
He was a fun kid.
Tony Bellazza:
And that was, for us, everybody, we miss him terribly.
Pete Wright:
I, The Road to Kindness. The idea of bringing all these resources together is wonderful, right? And supporting kids who need it. I'm curious how you two have embedded the kindness part of Anthony in the spirit of this organization. What does it look like? What do you envision it? How do you envision it when it's really cranking on all cylinders after your tests and your beta tests? How do you infuse kindness?
Tony Bellazza:
We're always seeing it happen because we created a kindness workshop for schools and youth groups. So we are in the middle of a major nationwide Walk a Mile for Kindness and ADHD. And we do that in February because around... It's his birthday is February 13th, and February 14th is Valentine's Day, and that's Random Acts of Kindness week. So we build that.
And then he loved cars, he loved motorcycles. So in the October around ADHD awareness month, we do a Tide for Kindness that's sponsored by Harley-Davidson. And it's cars, and motorcycles and cars that come and join it. So the beauty of this is that we are teaming with schools to come and volunteer with us to help us at these events. But they also, and we've got a number of schools. Last year we did our first walk, and they join in. At the same time, they have to go and do kind acts in the community. They learn how kindness fits in and why it's so important to be kind. And as a team though, they get together, 4 or 5, 10 kids go out and they could do whatever they want. They could clean up the schoolyard, they can go to help tutor, mentor kids and whatever it might be. And then they come back to school. And our symbol, our logo is an orange heart with a rope. It's right up, if you can.
Pete Wright:
We got it.
Nikki Kinzer:
Oh, right. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Tony Bellazza:
And so we spent months creating a symbol that would demonstrate a heart. And it's an orange heart. Orange is unity and togetherness too, and anti-bullying also. It fits all of those in. And then Anthony in love, we got the A in there, it's an A. And we got the rope. Now the one thing when they first presented it to us, the folks we had developing it, they had the top of the A cut off. The heart was together.
Pete Wright:
Sure.
Tony Bellazza:
No, you need to open it up, because we want these kids to know that their road and path will continue. Anthony's road was stopped too early on. We want their road to continue. So at the end of the day, these schools, they come back, they write down on this orange heart what they did. And then seeing 600 kids come together and post hearts on a wall, a bulletin board with all the things they did, and then they go and they take pictures and they put it out there, that's true kindness. And that's coming together. These kids who might not know each other, but they're all posting hearts on this wall. It's powerful.
And plus they learn really what it really means to help somebody else out, whether it's an elderly person or whether it's another student. And that's the embedding of kindness into the program. And we did a session with 15 youth groups here, about 150 kids from youth groups in the church community. And they all came together and spent a night with them. They celebrated, and then they wrote down on orange hearts what they had all done, because they were tasked with going out and doing something nice. And they created a beautiful board with a heart around it. So it's just cool and it brings that togetherness, that... And unity that we want. And we see it happening right there.
Pete Wright:
Yeah.
Tony Bellazza:
So that's our vision is taking this to broader and broader, and nationwide, to schools and youth groups, and communities, to make... Because Anthony made a difference.
Pete Wright:
How do you discern who's eligible, who needs to be supported by Anthony's Way? How does that work?
Tony Bellazza:
So we spent time with this. They have to be diagnosed with ADHD. All right, that's number one. To get the help and to support that, they need to be diagnosed. But then we said, okay, no, there's families that can't afford the care. We could afford the care. We got him all the care that he needed other than a coach, we got him all the help.
But so first off, while we're raising money, we put together a referral program. So we get referrals. We've helped now over 20 families. They call us, they've found us on the web or through some connection, and it could be in the US and Canada. We've helped kids in the US and Canada, and families. And then we do an intake session. We find out what their child needs, we map it out, we get them the help, we get them connected in with a coach, or get them with a tutor, or a nutritionist, whatever they might need, and they cover the cost of services. So that's what we're doing right now until we get to the point, as we get to the point, and we're reaching that point, where we can then cover the cost of care.
But then we look at who needs the care, what's the family income look like and stuff? You have to figure that in because if they can cover the cost of care, then that's great. We will get them into the network and give them all the services they need. But there's so many families, it's 7 million kids of ADHD. How many of those families cannot afford the cost of care? You're looking at 90, 95% of them can't. So a lot of people need help, and they just have to tell us what their income numbers are, and if they're lower than $100,000 or so, $75-100,000, we're more than happy to help.
And we haven't figured out thresholds and all that stuff yet, we're still working through that. Maybe there's some portion that they'll pick up at some... The family will pick up at some time. But the idea is that look, come to us, we have the roadmap, we have a seamless process that we've laid out. And the beauty of it is we'll give you all the care that you need, and help you need. And if you need medical assistance, first reach out is the medicine side. We're staying away from the medicine side. But we do have people that, we have two psychiatrists, Dr. Ned Hallowell, and-
Pete Wright:
Yeah, I was going to say, you got Ned. That's all right.
Tony Bellazza:
Yeah, he knows, yeah, if that's needed. But at the end of the day, the psychiatrists have to work in the state that they work in, so we haven't built that network out yet. That's still something that we need to do, but that's why we call it a, it's a holistic, comprehensive care model that we built.
Cassi Bellazza:
We really want to get to the kids who might fall through the cracks, who cannot be able to get the help that they need. That really is our target audience for this program.
Pete Wright:
That was my next question, because I feel like I'm one of those kids. And I didn't get diagnosed until much later in adulthood. And we have a lot of people in our community who are in that same boat who knew there was something wonky about the way they related to the world, and to time, and to work and effort. But nobody noticed. Nobody had words to put to it. And I'm curious if Anthony's Road to Kindness, if you've built in, because it sounds to me like Anthony just got lucky by a teacher who said, "Hey, I can make a connection here."
Cassi Bellazza:
That's absolutely correct.
Pete Wright:
But not all teachers did. So how are teachers reacting? Are you helping to increase the dialogue in the classroom from the top down?
Tony Bellazza:
We're meeting with teachers, and we have volunteers who are meeting with teachers too. We've got a team of volunteers that are reaching out to the teachers. There's teacher network here. North Carolina is a bit challenged from, as every state is, you know what I mean? But we've been kind of adopted by one high school, and that kind has spread to others.
So as you start having dialogue, again, bear in mind it's just two of us building this starting out. We now started getting some volunteers who see the program we have and what we're trying to do, and they want to reach out. We've got a public relations group that we brought on in Pennsylvania, because we spent 35 years in Pennsylvania. So we're branching out in Pennsylvania where we... We were in Hershey, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, and we're started to branch out there, so we're starting to touch the school systems there.
And it takes time. It does take time, but we believe that in the process we're going to do... It takes steps, there's a process. We're going to take all the steps that we need to do, and every step will be purposeful, every step along the way. We've built it this way with a purpose that we... And the school systems, we want to get as many schools and youth groups. If they'll have a chance to listen to us, I think we could encourage them, to inspire them to participate. And just seeing the smiles on the kids' faces when they write what they did on the heart, that's enough for us.
Cassi Bellazza:
From what we understand though, we were talking to somebody and they said that the teachers, they can't diagnose the kid. They can tell the parent if they're having trouble with this or having trouble with that, but they can't say, "I think your child has ADHD." She didn't say that Anthony had... Our teacher didn't say that Anthony had ADHD, but it was clear that he was struggling and he was frustrated, and he was starting to get very angry. But the fact that she had a child that had ADHD, she kind of knew what was going on. So yes, we hit the jackpot on that one. We absolutely did.
Tony Bellazza:
And if you look at our daughter, our daughter made it through because she was a gymnast and then a martial artist, and she did all kinds of stuff. But most girls, young ladies are missed, doesn't come out. So we want to try to draw that out too because when... And so people have said, and the biggest challenge that we hear from parents is the transition from, if they made it through high school, but that transition to a college or a location, that is the hardest year for them. And we said, if we have the funding to do that, we will do that transition year. Because our youngest daughter, we found out the first semester that there were challenges with four car accidents, losing focus,-
Pete Wright:
Oh dear, yeah.
Tony Bellazza:
... and then we got her diagnosed.
Nikki Kinzer:
Yeah. Yeah.
Tony Bellazza:
So we encourage people to call, and we'll talk to as many people as we have the time to, and talk to them about their child and encourage them to get diagnosed if there's signs there. It has to be a true diagnosis though too. It has to be through the process. Six months of study, or whatever it takes. There's a lot of forums out there that if you talk to the experts-
Cassi Bellazza:
You can't be internet diagnosed.
Tony Bellazza:
Yeah.
Cassi Bellazza:
Right, right.
Tony Bellazza:
But that's our view, how we've approach it. But we are happy to talk to anybody, encourage anybody to start seeing some challenges to go and get a diagnosis.
Nikki Kinzer:
I would love to have you guys come back in a year, two years and sooner even. But I'm just, I am so excited.
Pete Wright:
What are you doing next week?
Nikki Kinzer:
Well, yeah. I'm just so excited to see where this goes. Because I can tell you're right at the beginning, and it's going to be so great to see where it goes. And I hope that we can have that conversation in a year or so and see how much it's grown and how many people, you've already touched so many, but how many more you can touch? It's a beautiful thing.
Tony Bellazza:
Well, like anything else, it takes funding. And so part of what we're doing with this-
Nikki Kinzer:
Yes.
Tony Bellazza:
[inaudible 00:29:02] Program with these 20 teenagers that we want to work with in the fall, is that we want to get a research document. And so David Giwerc, who's from the ADD Coach Academy is working with us. He's on our advisory board too.
Nikki Kinzer:
Oh, okay, great.
Tony Bellazza:
He's wonderful, and he's a research guy. So he's found the research, one or two research firms I want to talk to get it documented so that... We have to be able to scale up and take this to the next level. And that's part what... I mean, I did a lot of building businesses out when I was in the workforce world, and I know what we need to do, it's a function of, this is different though. This is asking people to help fund the next steps. Get there, it's proof. And so we believe validation is a critical, and we'll get that as we go through the next steps here. But we have testimonials from people that have already told us that there's no other group out there like this. And the speed that we act on, within a week we're back telling them what they need to do and getting them connected. And so that's pretty powerful when-
Cassi Bellazza:
Yeah, when somebody calls up and they're like, I just don't know what to do. You've got, like I said, we're hands on so we've got to act quickly because we remember and understand how that feels when you're at your wits end and you just don't know what else to do. We understand that.
Pete Wright:
And how quickly events can get out of control.
Cassi Bellazza:
You think you have things under control one day, and the next day it all blows up.
Nikki Kinzer:
Yeah, we get it.
Pete Wright:
It's amazing you guys. Really, really powerful story, powerful organization. What do you have, what's next? You mentioned you're doing the ride, that's in February.
Tony Bellazza:
Yeah, the ride is in October. Ride for Kindness. But we have a walk that we're doing.
Pete Wright:
The walk is in February.
Tony Bellazza:
But the cool thing, which I think you'll love and appreciate is that Dr. Ned Hallowell and David Giwerc have come together, and we're going to do a live virtual donation event to raise the funds, bringing the two them together on February 13th.
Cassi Bellazza:
I want to say-
Tony Bellazza:
The power for February 13th is that's Anthony's [inaudible 00:31:14].
Cassi Bellazza:
Yeah.
Tony Bellazza:
So we want to share his kindness. And those two don't often come together, so bringing them together to talk and share their stories, and strategies, and insights is very powerful. And plus, so we have an early registration process, and with the first 50 that register will get a free book, Dr. Ned Hallowell's, ADHD Explained book.
Pete Wright:
That's a good book.
Tony Bellazza:
It's an awesome book. And to me, it speaks to me because I'm not a reader, but I can take it and I can... You know, but-
Cassi Bellazza:
He likes little pieces of the time.
Tony Bellazza:
I like little pieces at a time. And then we hope that a lot of people come and sign up, and listen, and hear, and it's $75. And put those two in a room together for 75 minutes is pretty powerful, and we hope people will come and join us. And then immediately after that, it's Random Acts of Kindness Week, and so that's our walk.
So we made it real easy to sign up. We have a team registration. The team lead goes in, signs up, and then they can share a common link with everybody. They want to invite the joint, unlimited team membership. And we will give prizes out for the coolest and most creative team name. And then also who helps to raise the most funds for Anthony's Way, The Road to Kindness.
So we try to make it fun. We're having two community walks, one here in Wilmington, North Carolina at Hoggard High School, and one in Pennsylvania, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. And we hope that a lot of people will come and join in those two areas. But if you want to start a community walk, it's out there, come and join us, it's on the website. We want to open it up to everybody and think through the whole process and make it fun.
Nikki Kinzer:
Great.
Cassi Bellazza:
Well, [inaudible 00:33:05].
Nikki Kinzer:
Yeah.
Tony Bellazza:
Yeah, it's critical.
Pete Wright:
We'll put the link and the event in our Discord server for our community and make sure they can jump right to it. It'll be in the show notes, we'll do our best to spread the word.
Nikki Kinzer:
We'll put it yeah, everywhere we can. Thank you.
Pete Wright:
Fantastic.
Tony Bellazza:
You guys are wonderful. And I know you just put a book together too on planning, if I remember correctly?
Nikki Kinzer:
Yeah. Thank you.
Pete Wright:
Thank you.
Tony Bellazza:
So critical for kids [inaudible 00:33:33], so God bless the both of you.
Nikki Kinzer:
You too.
Pete Wright:
Well, thank you so much. I think is, there is no better way to help... Like our audience, primarily college students and adults living with ADHD. There is no better way to help an adult with ADHD than figuring out how to help them as children with ADHD. And I think there's no better deed we can do than help kids figure out early how to live in their own skin.
Cassi Bellazza:
That's why we want to get them early, as early as five or six and start getting them the help so that they understand how to live their life easier and better for them.
Tony Bellazza:
That's how valuable they are, man.
Cassi Bellazza:
Yeah. Protect their-
Tony Bellazza:
Children are so special. There's no, they're just so special, and we just got to take care of them, and that's what we want to do. More than anything, take care of the kids.
Cassi Bellazza:
And to let them know that they're great.
Pete Wright:
Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful. Tony, Cassi, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
Cassi Bellazza:
Thank you very much
Nikki Kinzer:
Thank you so much. Thank you. Take care.
Pete Wright:
And to everybody listening, we sure appreciate you downloading, listening to the show. Thank you for your time and your attention. Don't forget, if you have something to contribute to the conversation, head over to the Showtalk channel in our Discord server. You can join us right there by becoming a supporting member at the Deluxe level or better. On behalf of Nikki Kinzer and Tony and Cassi, I'm Pete Wright, and we'll see you right back here next week on Taking Control, the ADHD podcast.
