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Kiwi CEO’s secret ‘DYSLEXIA IS MY SUPER POWER!’

‘Getting my first pay cheque was the best feeling in the world’

When Auckland businesswoman Angela Vale showed up to work with a bandage wrapped around her right hand six years ago, she told her colleagues she’d suffered a sprained wrist.

But, really, the mum-of-two had planned the fake injury to get out of writing on a whiteboard in a meeting she was leading.

Now a CEO in the finance industry and a qualified life coach, Angela was disguising a secret – she couldn’t spell.

“I rocked up with my hand fully bandaged so somebody else had to do the writing because I didn’t want to

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