In this episode of The Write Brain podcast, we sit down with Stephen Astephen, founder of The Familie, a sports and music management agency, to talk about right brain entrepreneurship, dyslexia, insecurity, and vision.

Steve shares his story — struggling in school, growing up with instability, never graduating high school, and being labeled “bad at academics” — and how those same traits became the foundation for building multiple groundbreaking businesses.

This conversation explores:

• Why so many entrepreneurs are right-brain dominant
• Dyslexia, attention issues, and struggling in traditional school systems
• How insecurity and anxiety can become fuel instead of failure
• Seeing a vision before it exists — and building it anyway
• Manifestation as identity, not wishful thinking
• Leadership, empathy, and managing creatives, athletes, and artists
• Mental health, depression, and the emotional weight of responsibility

Steve opens up about building the first snowboard shop of its kind, becoming the first agent in action sports, helping build one of the largest sports agencies in the world, and why he ultimately chose to relaunch The Family on his own terms.

This is a raw, honest conversation about work ethic, vision, failure, mental health, and what it really means to be right-brain wired in a world built for left-brain systems.

If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t fit in school, didn’t think the traditional path was for you, or knew you were meant to build something different — this episode is for you.