#268: The Release & Response Of Type 1 Diabetic Barbie, with Thom Solo

In today’s episode Eoin speaks with Thom Solo (@thomlsolo).Thom is the founder and creative director of the luxury women’s footwear brand, Thom Solo. He is also the founder of the Children’s Congress of Breakthrough T1D (formerly known as JDRF).Thom’s passion for advocacy started at a very young age, shortly after he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes himself at the age of 9. Since then, advocacy has been a huge part of Thom’s life and involvement within the “T1D world”.Recently he spoke on the panel of the children’s congress in Washington, and was one of the first to hear about, and see the release of the very first Barbie doll with Type 1 Diabetes.As always, be sure to rate, comment, subscribe and share. Your interaction and feedback really helps the podcast. The more Diabetics that we reach, the bigger impact we can make!Questions & Stories for the Podcast?:[email protected], Learn & Work with Eoin:https://linktr.ee/insuleoin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.