Becky Blake is a mentor, professional musician and loving mum of two daughters from Adelaide, Australia. She had a passion for travel and adventure, entertaining friends, physical fitness and a fascination with all things to do with the brain and how it works.
Becky’s “busy brain” was diagnosed as “hyperactivity” (before the days of the ADHD label) when she was a toddler. It’s not easy to focus on one thing with a busy brain, which was evident in her early school reports. Becky decided to “train her brain” and teach herself strategies help her concentration and organization. The result saw her win a scholarship to study music at Adelaide University before she started her final year at high school and she’s never looked back.
Trying a whole heap of different jobs whilst studying psychology at university, Becky worked as a butcher, secretary, model, promotional person and music teacher before completing a post graduate diploma in education and realizing how many people she could help. Deciding she could better implement her own strategies out of the formal school environment, Becky formed her own tutoring and mentoring business, which is now in its 20th year. She’s never advertised and the phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
When she’s not working with kids, Becky can be seen performing on stage with internationally renown show band Chunky Custard and with her own cabaret and floorshows. Becky is a classically trained pianist and vocalist who can also play flute, oboe, recorder and saxophone (not all terribly well!) Becky’s passion for adventure and travel has seen her canoe down the Zambezi River, trek Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal, visit remote hill tribes in Thailand and Vietnam, climb Mt Kinabalu, the highest in South East Asia and white water raft Victoria Falls in Africa.
Becky’s belief that a busy brain is an asset rather than a hindrance and her positive outlook on life has meant that nothing is impossible. Her infectious enthusiasm and positive outlook shows us that everyone should aim for the moon, then catch a few stars on the way back down.
Becky Blake is a mentor, professional musician and loving mum of two daughters from Adelaide, Australia. She had a passion for travel and adventure, entertaining friends, physical fitness and a fascination with all things to do with the brain and how it works.
Becky’s “busy brain” was diagnosed as “hyperactivity” (before the days of the ADHD label) when she was a toddler. It’s not easy to focus on one thing with a busy brain, which was evident in her early school reports. Becky decided to “train her brain” and teach herself strategies help her concentration and organization. The result saw her win a scholarship to study music at Adelaide University before she started her final year at high school and she’s never looked back.
Trying a whole heap of different jobs whilst studying psychology at university, Becky worked as a butcher, secretary, model, promotional person and music teacher before completing a post graduate diploma in education and realizing how many people she could help. Deciding she could better implement her own strategies out of the formal school environment, Becky formed her own tutoring and mentoring business, which is now in its 20th year. She’s never advertised and the phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
When she’s not working with kids, Becky can be seen performing on stage with internationally renown show band Chunky Custard and with her own cabaret and floorshows. Becky is a classically trained pianist and vocalist who can also play flute, oboe, recorder and saxophone (not all terribly well!) Becky’s passion for adventure and travel has seen her canoe down the Zambezi River, trek Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal, visit remote hill tribes in Thailand and Vietnam, climb Mt Kinabalu, the highest in South East Asia and white water raft Victoria Falls in Africa.
Becky’s belief that a busy brain is an asset rather than a hindrance and her positive outlook on life has meant that nothing is impossible. Her infectious enthusiasm and positive outlook shows us that everyone should aim for the moon, then catch a few stars on the way back down.
