The Man Building a “School” Where the Curriculum Is Being Truly Heard
*I would love it if someone could help me turn this interview i did with the chatbot into audio or YouTube video* The Man Building a “Skool” Where the Curriculum Is Being Truly Heard Most online communities call themselves schools, academies, masterminds, or “programs”. They promise frameworks, methods, and step-by-step transformations. But the project Leon is building doesn’t start with content. It starts with something most people are starving for and barely ever get: being fully listened to. Leon didn’t grow up dreaming of building an online platform. He built the idea out of a wound — and out of a season of life where he realised how quickly the world runs out of patience for real human pain. “I created this because I know what it’s like to have no family nearby,” he said, “and friends who are too busy — or not deep enough — to truly understand what you’re going through.” As a solo parent of two young children, he describes periods where he felt like there was nowhere to go, no one to help carry the weight, no place to simply fall apart without consequences. “That’s not a dramatic statement,” he said. “It’s just modern life. People say ‘reach out’… but the moment you reach out with something real, it often doesn’t fit into anyone’s day.” That absence became the seed. And later, as he began supporting other people, something odd and consistent happened: people opened up to him in ways they didn’t with others. They commented on how soothing his voice was. They told him things they didn’t tell family, friends, or colleagues. They seemed to feel safe — not because he was performing a role, but because he could hold the weight of what they were saying without flinching. “I dreaded the clinical environment,” he said, referring to settings where people can feel assessed, managed, or rushed instead of genuinely met. “When I was going through difficult times… I didn’t find anyone that could really listen.” Why People Can’t Talk to the People Closest to Them One of the sharpest observations Leon made wasn’t mystical. It was painfully ordinary.