InvisiYouth Chat Sessions

43rd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the next addition to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life.We’re focusing on the area of external personal development, and specifically within the realm of empowering redirection—especially how to gain the conversational skills and creativity to become included in conversations and community that you might otherwise feel unintentionally excluded from. Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding how to redirect miscommunication and exclusion so you are empowered in conversations, and why you might unintentionally excluded from conversations and community because others don’t know how to proactively adapt and find accessibilities.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Patio Door Theory, the metaphor of finding a patio door as an alternate route to break into conversations and situations that feel inaccessible to you, the steps to be able to read the situations you are being unintentionally disempowered by choices being made for you and how to utilize your communication style to break into the chat so you can share your desires and needs so others know how to adapt and be accessible so your involvement can continue.Plus, founder Dominique talks about how she had to get creative in her metaphorical patio door search when it came to her friend group hanging out together without inviting her and how she was able to be empowered to express her wants and needs while opened the conversation in their worries of impacting her health while going out so she was able to ask for the invites and communication to adapt to excel.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

We are proponents of the power of para-sports, and we are massive fans of one specific sport that started it all: wheelchair tennis. We are thrilled that this episode’s special guest is Australian gold and silver medalist and 4x Grand Slam wheelchair tennis player Heath Davidson. After contracting viral transverse myelitis which led to paraplegia and using a wheelchair, Heath was first introduced to wheelchair tennis at 14 and his talent and perseverance in a journey would begin. He’d skyrocket to wheelchair tennis legacy status in 2016 after winning guild in the 2016 Rio Paralympics with doubles partner, gold medalist Dylan Alcott, and continuing to have more success in the sport in singles and doubles, even being runner-up in this year’s Australian Open with partner Andy Lapthorone.Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 03:13 Heath shares fun facts like which winter Paralympic sport he’d try, best appetizer to order, the one word to describe his tennis playing and a favorite childhood band he still listens to now. Heath and Dominique talk more at 07:59 when Heath shares his journey getting into wheelchair tennis, how different his approach to the sport is from his teen years to his current career in this thirties, and what he learns as he inspires and encourages the younger generation of wheelchair tennis players that sparks more into his current play. INTERMISSION STORY TIME AT 25:48 gives us the behind the scenes experience of how Heath returned to wheelchair tennis after a hiatus in his twenties which would ultimately lead to playing with Dylan Alcott and going to his first Paralympics to win gold all within one year…but that wasn’t the only highlight. And our final segment at 36:09 gets us into the world of para-sport and the power of it in your life. Heath shares what he likes about singles versus doubles, the surprising thing he had to learn when getting into the sport, and how his commitment to sharing about mental health and its importance for people and athletes within their overall wellness that’s both insightful and empowering. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Heath on @heathdavidson13 and his website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy bracelets or stickers from our Subtle Activism collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

42nd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the third addition to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life.We’re focusing on the area of external personal development, and specifically within the realm of proactive planning—especially how preplanning the situations that give you the most struggle or feel the most inaccessible can benefit in the long run because you are going to feel prepared for all of life’s situations and be invigorated to find success through the preplanning. Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding premeditative planning, why so many young people can get into the situation when life goals are created but derailed because of unforeseen circumstances, and the reasons premeditative planning can be the key to that success.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Swiss Cheese Life Plan, the metaphor of layering up a bunch of Swiss cheese to block as many holes as possible is vital, and the rationale of the mindset of how to premeditatively plan for supports within yourself and others in order to guide for accessibility and achievements on your plan towards reaching the same life goals in supported ways for successful outcomes.Plus, founder Dominique talks about how she was dealing with a lot of pitfalls and unsuccessful doctor and physiotherapy appointments when short term memory loss kicked in, and how she needed to do a lot of premeditatively plan all the holes and cracks that made this unsuccessful so there were supports in place so that each time would now be successful no matter what.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

As an American Paralympic track and field athlete, Noelle Lambert-Beirne has always had a deep love and devotion to sports. From her background playing lacrosse, even returning to Division 1 lacrosse at University of Massachusetts after losing her left leg in a moped accident in 2016, Noelle transitioned to track and field, specializing in 100m and long jump T63 events. She has numerous accolades, including joining Team USA in Paralympic Games and winning bronze last year in T63 long jump at World Para Athletics Championships. She’s also competed on Season 43 of Survivor, and started her own foundation, Born to Run Foundation, which provides prostheses and supports young amputees to promote adaptive sports. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:45 Noelle lists her lasts, including the last new place she’s visited, the last date night activity with her husband, the last new sport she wanted to try, and the last competition reality tv she watched and wanted to compete on. Noelle and Dominique get chatting at 13:48 as Noelle shares how her athletic journey transitioned when she returned to lacrosse after her accident, her best advice for those wanting to try para-sports, the top experiences she learned from her time on Survivor, and why it’s vital more people understand the multi-faceted journey of getting prosthetics that should be supported. INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 34:45 will get your celebrity citing on as Noelle shares about the time she got to meet Tom Brady and made sure she got an autograph in the most unique of places that will forever be memorable. And our final segment at 38:02 dives in the world of para-sports. Noelle and Dominique talk about her addition of long jump and how it redefined her track and field career in exciting ways, the importance in supporting para-athletics and how to support their careers, and what’s the one thing she wants to make sure LA 2028 Paralympics Noelle remembers.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Noelle @noellelambert on all social media platforms Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy bracelets or stickers from our Subtle Activism collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

41st InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the next addition to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life.We’re focusing on the area of internal development, and specifically within the realm of mental reconfiguration—especially how to find ways to regroup in the face of roadblocks and limits in our life so we can find the new skills and new paths to adapt to excel without feeling pessimistic about the changes and actually feel invigorated in your path for growth. Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding mental reconfiguration, what are the reasons that it’s important to know roadblocks and limits to our goals in life can happen and shouldn’t be blamed on ourselves, and how to mentally regroup when a change in plans is needed so you can actually still find the sweetness in the things you learn and grow in the struggle.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Dinner Chocolate Mindset Theory, and learn about how to recognize the challenges while simultaneously pondering for the new positives and new paths that can come from within hardships, how to project forward what can be learned in these moments from what’s new and good with challenges, and how to make a pivot in the plan become just as sweet as the original plan because you can actually learn new skills or learn a new path in life that allows for more doors and opportunities to come from reaching the same goals.Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her first experiences of her chronic illness limiting how she was able to work when the temperature dysregulation in her hand actually caused her to need to pivot away from traditional typing and she needed to get creative to find a new path to success, or rather a path to success that opened new doors.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Season 8 begins today, and we’ve starting on a high with a returning special guest that was a crowd favorite to come back for a part two. We’re starting off the new season with founder and principle designer of Blue Copper Design, Maegan Blau. After an accident left Maegan with a spinal cord injury and became a wheelchair user, Maegan took her love of interior design and her experience of finding an accessible and beautiful home and created her own interior design company in 2018. Blue Copper Design fuses modern, southwest aesthetic with barrier-free design so clients are empowered to have beautiful homes that are functional for their needs. And they relay even more advice online for all those looking to make their spaces accessible and beautiful. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:33 Maegan goes through a rapid fire round of questions about her first job, why being a snow bird is an ultimate goal, and why there’s a science to the amount of throw pillows on a couch. Dominique and Maegan catch up at 12:35 and Maegan shares about Blue Copper Studio getting its first studio space, why designing a space for disability needs doesn’t have to feel niche when it can be enjoyed by many, and how the company’s growth has allowed for her to continue sharing the benefits of individualized and overarching designs that bridge accessibility needs with beauty to both her clients and the tradesmen they work with to create pieces.INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 27:00 brings us in on an inside joke with Maegan and her husband that all started on a vacation in Hawaii when Maegan met a fellow vacationer that asked a lot of curious questions that, to this day, still makes her chuckle. And our final segment at 31:16 goes through some of Maegan and Blue Copper Designs best social media posts. We chat about her Summer School Design Series, get deep into what you need to know about hotel accessibility to make your hotel visits the best for your needs, why good design layouts should extend to the exterior, and the value of the curb cut effect when thinking about interior design in your home and space.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Maegan on @bluecopperdesign, on all social media platforms and Blue Copper Design’s website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

40th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the first addition to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life.We’re focusing on the area of internal development, and specifically within the realm of self-confidence—especially how to preserve and grow our personal confidence through adding levels of supports and internal belief systems when we are faced with our own insecurities and external opinions that can lessen that confidence level. Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding self-confidence, what are the reasons that it’s never superficial to worry about external opinions when your external appearance is a cause of self-doubt, and the understanding of mentally rationalize away from self-confidence limiters to remind yourself that while the feelings are validated, they should not control your personal confidence.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Snow White Syndrome, and learn about how to remind yourself of the facts of who you are as a full person when you feel that inner judgement or self-confidence dwindle, the importance of acknowledging that feeling, why it’s valuable for self-confidence growth and stability to back up that acknowledgement with different supports like adding the things, mantras and people that can allow you to feel your most confidence inside and out, and the reminder that your full embodiment shouldn’t be defined by changes on the outside or what others might say because the security of your life path is all within you.Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her experiences with self-confidence when she had to come to terms with her confidence taking a hit when she had to wear a bathing suit while out with friends and her scars from her chronic illness journey were catching attention, so she needed to not only validate her feelings, but also understand how to support herself to feel her most confident and enjoy herself in all settings.sLet's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

We’re celebrating the Season 7 finale because we have a returning special guest on the show, CEO of Diversability, disability activist and author (and Season 2 finale Episode 26 special guest) Tiffany Yu. A beloved disability activist championing equity and inclusion in the world, Tiffany created professional avenues to empower the disability/chronic illness experience for the community. And recently, Tiffany added author to her resume when she published her book. The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change and Building a Disability-Inclusive World.Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:3:51 Tiffany goes through rapid fire questions about the type of gift wrapper she is, the unique artwork that’s going up in her new apartment, her favorite taste sense, and the childhood collector of a specific toy that had a massive craze behind it.11:59 Tiffany and Dominique catch up on what’s made her the most excited about growing Diversability for over 15 years, the value of disability pride and establishing community, how creating a massively popular social media series “Anti-Albeism” with over 340 videos has allowed for more people to share the diversity of disability stories, and what she’s not only learned about disability history but also her own disability from her book writing experience with The Anti-Ableist Manifesto.34:12 STORY TIME INTERMISSION and Tiffany gets into her unique experience making a last minute decision to go to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games turned into a truly remarkable experience working with YouTube, meeting up with athletes and celebrating with their communities.40:49 is the final segment and gets us talking about something else that’s been added to Tiffany’s life since her Season 2 appearance on the podcast: competing at the world level for para-climbing. We learned how a childhood love of indoor rock-climbing connected her back to para-climbing later in life, the ways going to competitions and qualifying for the USA developmental team has allowed her to embrace the fun and wonder of a sport, and the advice she had to learn something new and challenge herself when living with chronic illness/disability. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Tiffany @imtiffanyyu and Diversibility @diversability, on all social media platforms, and buy her book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto! Donate during our Donate Match Campaign until New Years Eve on our website (www.invisiyouthcharity.com/donate) and all donations will be matched by a private board member! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker Collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

39th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the final addition to our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes have been targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on our final area: self-confidence, and specifically how to maintain—and strengthen self-confidence—when you get outside opinions, advice and chatter trying to permeate your thoughts, so you’re just hearing it and maintaining your self-confidence and not allowing it to stifle it.Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-confidence, what are the reasons that outside opinions and unsolicited advice can actually harm self- confidence, why it’s important to create buffers around yourself to protect your inner peace from unsolicited opinions, and how to understand metaphorical white noise to achieve that success in protecting your self-confidence. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, White Noise Persona Effect, and learn about how create aspects of white noise when you’re feeling self-conscious, why it’s important to take stock of what bothers your self-confidence before embarking in experiences that can hurt it, how you can add metaphorical white noise into your life when you experience unsolicited opinions, judgements or ignorance so your confidence and inner peace is protected, and the ways that mentality can actually strengthen your self-confidence because you’ll know the difference between you being the best judge of adapting to thrive in your life versus an outsider judging what they do not know or experience.Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her experiences with self-confidence and how keeping that strong during a moment she had to give a reading at a cousin’s wedding when she was in a flareup with a bad health injury that was noticeable to anyone was all about incorporating her metaphorical white noise to block out the judgment and feel strong in her way of living so she could know it was there without it permeating her confidence.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Let’s tap into our inner artists and get playful! Our special guest is the founder and illustrator behind I Heart Guts, an award-winning company that promotes characters based on internal organs through a series of plush toys, stickers and apparel. What started as a side project for Wendy slowly grew into this incredible business where these whimsical, creative and impactful plush toys and products can connect with its thousands customers worldwide. Now 20 years since I Heart Guts was launched, Wendy is expanding her products, continuing to be creative, and allowing her company to embody the mindset of “life takes guts” with media attention like People, Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 2:55 Wendy shares all of her lasts, like her last travel day, last plush toy that was her favorite, last TV show she found, and last thing added to her work desk that’s super sweet. At 12:43 Wendy and Dominique dive into the love of art and chat about Wendy’s journey from having art as a hobby to diving down a career in art, how did I Heart Guts begin, top advice for those wanting to get into freelance and art careers while still being practical, and how to break through those moments of low inspiration to keep on feeling motivated. STORY TIME INTERMISSION begins at 30:24 and Wendy gets her prank on! She shares a story about one April Fool’s when Wendy and an employee planned a prank on her husband that involved some plush toys and a highway, so you won’t want to miss this. And the final segment at 33:51 talks all things organ plush toys! Wendy and Dominique talk about her go-to tools for illustration and why old school pen and paper are always a great way to start, why her company’s products seem to really resonate with the chronic illness and disability community, the value of having something to bring levity to the challenges or hardships of health issues, her favorite customer story, and what she hopes gets to be in the future of I Heart Guts. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Wendy and I Heart Guts @iheartguts, on all social media platforms! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker Collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

38th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on our fourth and final area: self-confidence, and specifically how to boost self-confidence with full picture self-talk that not toxic positivity nor pessimism, but rather a mindset of the kintsugi philosophy for some realistic personal perspective.Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-confidence, what kintsugi pottery is all about and how the actual philosophy of life is a way of finding growth and beauty within the imperfections the full picture is the focus rather than the cracks or problems, and why a mentality that’s focused on personal development rather than positivity can actually bring more confidence that’s sustaining. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Kintsugi Method, and learn about how to develop self-talk that’s positive realism about the struggles or problems within our lives, how people can understand that reframing the way you look at struggles to see how they’re connected to the full person and their multiple facets versus focusing on the struggle can bring more positive self-talk, and the reasoning behind creating steps to find the personal growth and positives from the challenges in the over person that you are can make self-confidence stronger as it goes because you’re reframing the hardships. Plus, founder Dominique opens up her journey of self-confidence and positive self-talk through her experience after her spinal correction and fusion surgery during the early years of her chronic illness journey make her self-confidence take a hit, and she wanted to find ways to reframe how she view her chronic illness, scar and overall life with a mindset that empowered the challenges as pieces of herself she was proud of and could find the growth and positives within so her full self-picture was always confident. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Let’s get talking about some empowerment with mental and physical health with our special guest, mental health and wellness content creator, Kelly U. With over 200k followers, Kelly has created a vibrant platform filled with vulnerable empowerment all stemmed from her personal experiences living with IBS and mental health. With some of her content reaching millions of views, Kelly has gotten to work with brands like SXSW, Olly Wellness, and Aerie Real to name a few all centered on her strong content creator that’s honest and empowering.Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:3:14 Kelly gives rapid fire answers to her favorite childhood game, a staple in her fridge, why she wants to expand her date night plans, a dream vacation location, and why underdressed to the occasion is her functional favorite.13:43 Dominique and Kelly go through her Medical Pop Headlines as they share the stories behind her winning Health and Wellness Influencer of the Year with The Influence Awards, the power of talking about mental health and therapy from her time on the SXSW Panel, and why some of her viral IBS videos about relationships and IBS explain the value of finding trust in your support system.STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 29:09 gets vulnerable as Kelly shares the time she got empowered and learned the importance of setting boundaries with her parents in order to improve her own wellbeing and family dynamic.33:33 ends the podcast as Kelly and Dominique talk openly about the duality between physical and mental health, how she discovered the importance of working on both her chronic illness and mental health equally in order to live and empowered life, the steps she takes to use the distance of time when choosing content topics, her top advice on how to support your physical or mental health when the other part is struggling, and all the different tools they recommend trying in a wellness toolbox so your balance of life with chronic illness and mental health wellness can be achieved.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Kelly @kellyu, on all social media platforms! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker Collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

37th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on our third area: advocacy, and specifically how we can achieve the level of advocacy or ourselves and causes that mean the most to us without feeling like we need to be pushed out of our comfort zones on the level and volume of our advocacy.Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-advocacy methods and the types of advocacy that are available, why it’s valuable to understand passive activism as a starting point or way to evoke curiosity to create positive change or raise awareness, and the value of learning how to advocate for yourself and a cause that’s important to you when utilizing your confident communication style so you can feel its impact.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, The Shania Method, and learn about how to creating in your self-advocacy style because you’re utilizing kind communication tactics to subtly advocate for your rights and needs while allowing the other party to feel open-minded to learn and grown, and how creating a perspective shift on advocating from a place of sparking someone else’s curiosity to listen, learn and grown can allow you to achieve the maximum amount of equity and support. Plus, founder Dominique opens up how her personal style of advocacy fused itself into the formation of InvisiYouth’s mission and that she was able to actually utilize our subtle activist stickers in a moment when she needed to self-advocate for her chronic illness to not just educate someone but also raise awareness on her community.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Let’s go on an adventure…a micro-adventure that is. It’s all about taking those small activities and ideas and turning them into big adventures for ourselves so travel and fun can be accessible and adaptive to happen weekly instead of the occasional holiday. That’s why we’re so excited to have a longtime friend of InvisiYouth’s on the podcast because she’s built a business on taking micro-adventures. It's UK Blogger on Micro-Adventures, Katie May Chesworth. Having lived with chronic illnesses like ulcerative colitis, an ileostomy and arthritis since 17, Katie has grown accustomed to finding accessible adventures she can do anytime. Now at 29, working in the space of writing and documenting her micro-adventures on her popular blog, Postcards From, Katie has brought her over 37k followers along the journey. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:20 we get to know Katie’s random responses about her go to wakeup song, why she’s 50/50 on spontaneity and planning, her favorite scent, how she’d survive a zombie apocalypse and the micro-adventure that’s in the pipeline she’s very excited to try. At 11:26 Katie and Dominique talk about her initial draw to micro-adventures, how she transitioned from doing it for herself to making it a profession, why she feels adding micro-adventures into her weekly routine has actually improved her relationship with her physical and mental health, and what are ways others living with chronic illness can adopt the same whimsical mindset.STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 25:32 takes us on a spontaneous adventure how Katie’s plan for a January Daily Micro-Adventure Challenge resulted in her getting the opportunity to go to Turkey to create content for a month…only that she’d need to go in 72 hours.And our final segment at 31:49 is all about the how-to’s on building your own micro-adventures. Katie shares how to creates her idea list of micro-adventures, the reason it’s valuable to tally in your micro-adventure days at the start of each month before picking them out, why good Google search terms and maps can bring the best results, how solo trips versus family/friends can bring two types of micro-adventure experiences, and her top micro-adventures you can do from home on bad health days or bad weather days.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Katie @postcardsfromkatie_ on all social media platforms! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker Collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

36th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on our third area: advocacy for the first time, and specifically how do you learn how to self-advocate, especially when it comes to situations about your chronic illness or disability, in a way that involves the positive reframing of compromise, especially when it comes to advocating for compromise so you can have flexibility to adapt and create success.Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-advocacy methods through the skillset of compromise, why looking at compromise as a beneficial action versus one of losing out on is a good reframe, and learning to advocate to know where the wiggle room is for some diversity in the way you achieve the end goal, you can find that inner power and strength that you’ll still be able to be flexible in finding success in a way that suits you. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Double Meaning Compromise Method, and learn about how to creating in your self-advocacy style because you’re utilizing compromise as a proactive and positive skill for yourself, and the ways the positive approach to self-advocating by requesting mutual compromise so there’s success all around and you can find adaptation to create successful outcomes that all parties are comfortable and happy to use. Plus, founder Dominique opens up a time when she was given a treatment program for her chronic illness that would have seriously impacted her full way of life, and how this strategy of self-advocating through the tool of compromise is used primarily in order to keep the necessary elements in place, while compromising with flexibility on the parts that serve you. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

We know the power of sports, so to bring one a top athlete in one of the coolest adaptive sports is going to bring all the fun, excitement and impact. Team USA Para Snowboarder, Zach Miller, who has won two World Championships, six World Championship medals and was on the 2022 Beijing Paralympic team. Born in Colorado with cerebral palsy, Zach was introduced to snowboarding at 13 years old, and has worked through to become the elite athlete he is today. He even won the 2023 Best Athlete with a Disability Award at the ESPYS and is training for the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympic Games!Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:At 3:27 Zach shares all of his lasts, like the last sport he tried, newest meal he  enjoyed, the last video game he played, and the last hobby he picked up…and all the answers will be surprising!At 18:20 Zach and Dominique talk all about his start in para snowboard, how the community of adaptive sports has been a game-changer in the trajectory of his life, what he’s learned as a coach for Adaptive Action Sports and teaching the next generation of para snowboarders, and how has coaching while still competing has changed the way he competes on the professional level.STORY TIME INTERMISSION is major at 35:35 and Zach shares about his impactful experience of winning his ESPYS, and it goes much deeper than the fun night on the red carpet meeting famous athletes, but a connection to how we need to view ourselves as multi-hyphenate individuals.And we end the episode at 50:45 getting to know some facts about Zach’s para snowboarding career, what’s surprised him the most in the sport, how he feels its evolved as a sport from his early days competing, what he’s learned from his first competition that he takes into his current professional competitions, why slow is actually a needed skill in para snowboard, and the one thing he’d want to tell future Zach before hitting the snow at 2026 Milano Cortina in March. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Zac @themountainmiller, on all social media platforms! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker Collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

35th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on our second area: sharing for the final time, and specifically how do you choose when you share with others to gain that community and external support while also needing to digest information and self-disclose in order to process and formulate opinions with themselves through their skills in sharing inwardly and outwardly. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of sharing methods so you can communicate your wants, needs, information and feelings with yourself and others, how there’s a difference but equal important for inward sharing and outward sharing, what distinguishes between the two types of sharing, and how a person can become better at sharing with themselves to decipher their thoughts, feelings and questions first before sharing with others and prevent getting a diluted opinion.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Zoom In, Zoom Out Theory, and learn about how to fully digest your major information and news drops in your life the ways to initially self-disclose so you can personally reflect and get your thoughts, emotions and questions discovered without them being diluted by external input, and the ways that outward approach to sharing should be to garner a community of support and perspectives so you can share effectively and positively to approach any of those life challenges and major decisions. Plus, founder Dominique opens up a time when she was given a serious piece of information regarding a treatment program for her chronic illness that would have seriously impacted her way of life, and how this strategy of inward and outward thinking allowed her to process, make choices, gain community support and a successful result to come from it all.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

We’re talking about finances, people! Whether you love it or hate it, we all have to deal with our finances, and finding advice and tools to feel confidence when it comes to managing finances effectively is key. UK accountant for small businesses, content creators and entrepreneurs, Emily Rose Vass has taken her over decade of experience as an accountant, along with her experience as a content creator to provide tailored financial guidance to clients to take away initial fears, feel empowered to be insightful with your business and grow finances. Engaging her audience online with financial management topics, Emily has grown and evolved her work to make taking finances an engaging topic. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:18 Emily gives her rapid answers about the first thing she’d do if she won the lottery, her first job being quite the unique job, the party game she’ll always get competitive playing, favorite accounting phrase, and the Swiftie moment at her wedding. At 12:31 Emily and Dominique talk about the ways to not feel overwhelmed balancing finances while being your own boss—especially as young adult living with chronic illness or disability, the main challenges she notices among her clients about their knowledge of finances, why pre-planning the finance goals and annual taxes you’d need to be preparing monthly in key, and the top tip to feel confident asking financial questions with your accountants or inner circle. STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 33:03 gets real as Emily shares about her early years with chronic illness as a trip to Japan with her now-husband resulted in an emergency bathroom moment that not only led to her diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis, but also her feeling more confident in talking about chronic illness with those around her. And we end the podcast episode at 38:12 as Emily and Dominique talk about what’s the best starting points to search if you want some free financial guidance and the safety measures to know you’re getting certified advice, ways to get into saving and the benefits of that contingency plan, how to plan your monthly spending personally and professionally, and the top tools and tips to keep up with your finances every month so you’ll be efficient, flexible and learn how to adapt and grow during all stages of your career. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Emily @emilyrosevass, on all social media platforms and their website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Subtle Activism Sticker Collection on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

34th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re still focusing on our second area: sharing, and specifically how we can improve our ability to share vital information and feelings with those in all the different facets of our lives, and rather, realizing the power each individual has to decipher all the layers of closeness and trust with those in all parts of our lives so we can share different things with different people to get well-rounded support in life. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of sharing methods so you can communicate your wants, needs, information and feelings with those involved in your life, how you can decipher those different sections and layers of people in your life based off your level of trust and closeness with them, and why it’s valuable to actually have a range of people in your life that you can share certain things with about life, emotions and experiences versus a few people that you share everything with.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Darts and Bullseye Network Mindset, and learn about how to be thoughtful in sharing with those around you, how to take stock of the people in your life in all levels of closeness and trust to decide learning your skills of sharing the personal and surface level elements, and the value of having the bullseye person to share it all with, while also having the full dartboard of people to share different elements of your life with so you can be fully supported.Plus, founder Dominique opens up a time while working at her publishing job when she met new coworkers for the first time that didn’t know about her chronic illness, and how she handled sharing about a recent injury with those that were new to her life versus those that were her original coworkers that knew more about the intricacies of her life, so she was fully supported.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Function and fashion are two things that should always align, and we love when we get to have a special guest from the fashion world. Founder and innovator of Slick Chicks, Helya Mohammadian, has made sure her brand’s mission is to make intimates, loungewear and active wear that’s accessible and provides a sense of dignity and independence in getting dressed. Selling online and in retailers like Target and CVS, Slick Chicks has connected with the masses for its beauty and comfortability, and Helya has made it her mission to bring a deeper understanding to the fashion industry for more inclusivity and representation. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:46 Helya gives out some of her life superlatives, like what she would say in her sleep, a dream celeb to model for Slick Chicks, which country she’d want to live in, why she loves a video call, and why Friends is a must TV binge.At 13:18 Helya and Dominique talk about how Helya transitioned from the fashion industry to creating her own brand, what she’s learned from the chronic illness/disability community as Slick Chicks has grown, why it’s valuable to listen and lean in as a founder, and her top tips for new entrepreneurs.STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 29:31 gets us into the reality TV vibes as Helya tells us about that one time she went on a reality TV show and totally learned that expectation and reality were two different things.And the final segment at 34:06 gets us in the fashion energy. Heyla and Dominique talk about how diversity and inclusivity constantly grow to make fashion impact numerous lives, why functional and fashionable need to interest more often, how she breaks the misconceptions and lack of knowledge mainstream fashion and merchandisers have about adaptive fashion so it can reach a wider audience, the reason both female founders feel patience is a virtue and a skill to sharpen, and what are the pieces of advice that Heyla would give to her younger self that she would hope she can continue to take into the future with Slick Chicks.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Helya @helyamohammadian and Slick Chicks @slickchicksonline on all social media platforms and their website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

33rd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is another addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on a new area: sharing, and specifically how we can improve our ability to share vital information and feelings with those in our support networks or medical teams so we have the open-minded communication and be heard fully without any external factors hindering progress by the usage of bookended communication. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of sharing methods so you can communicate your wants, needs, information and feelings with those involved in your life, the methods of sharing in a confident manner that improve how others can absorb the information you share, and the reasons using a bookended communication method can improve how another person doesn’t feel judged and will reinforce the details share in future interactions. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Positive Bookended Communication Style on why it’s necessary to start and end conversations that you’re sharing major details with bookended kindness so the participant can feel they aren’t on the defensive but open to listening and learning, the ways you can incorporate supportive language to share your needs and feelings that will allow you to adapt and excel, and the rationale behind how your ability to share information in this way can actually improve how your information and needs are being met while simultaneously increasing the ability for someone to retain that information to implement in their support of you. Plus, founder Dominique opens up about a time in her medical journey when her healthcare team want to revert back to a treatment from her past that she experienced positive and negative side effects, and how both parties were able to use positive bookended kindness as the sharing method so a compromise and accurate solution could be made and everyone felt validated. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Bridging Instagram friends into the podcasting world, our special guest has creating a company and influencer lane for themselves all before they’ve graduated from university. Talk about rockstar status! We have founder of Sugardrop Sweetwear Co, Type One Diabetes Advocate and Influencer, Kate Beaulieu. Diagnosed at 11 years old while living in Canada, Kate immediately began to learn about her T1D diagnosis while raising awareness, launching Sugardrop to sell sweatshirts and raise awareness on early signs of T1D months after her diagnosis. Shipping globally, expanding the brand and a large social media presence of over 22k TikTok followers, Kate is taking the world by storm. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:30 get to know all the quirky and insightful facts about Kate like her favorite accent, ideal celebrity roommate, overused emojis and adjectives, and why she’d be joining the Friends cast if she could. At 11:11 we dive into Kate’s TikTok life, learning all the behind-the-scenes of her inspiration behind taking hot trends and giving them T1D awareness spins, why she enjoys raising awareness in how-to posts so everyone across the spectrum can learn more about T1D and chronic conditions, and how she’s balanced sharing the multifaceted emotions that come with a chronic illness that’s both cathartic and impactful. STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 28:11 gets us all in the friendship vibes as Kate shares how going to an annual Diabetes Conference in Florida has given her deep friendships around the world with fellow T1D warriors and broadened her horizons of friendships in the community. And we end the podcast at 36:14 as Dominique and Kate share all their tips on how to use social media in fun ways while being mindful of your lasting digital footprint, the tips on how to share your diagnosis with friends, ways to give some exposure to friend groups about your chronic illness or disability to engage them and gain their support, and how she’s looking into the future for her advocacy for T1D for the years ahead. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Kate on @sugardrop_co, on all social media platforms and their website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

32nd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the next addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re focusing on the area of independence for the final time, and specifically how we can improve our perception of independence being a state of being that requires actions to be done alone and rather alter that opinion to approach it with supports and flexibility to bring personal growth and mental well-being into your end goal of independent living. Learn the steps on why it is so important to reach levels of independence as we grow up, what are the main life factors that can impede our goals of independence, why it is important to reframe the way we approach independence as a state of being free, and not a state that needs to be achieved alone at all times, and why it’s even more valuable for those with chronic illness and disability to approach independence as an altered independence mindset. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Triangle Independence Mindset, on why looking at independence in a new light as something to achieve in an end goal versus the process of getting there needs to be done alone can reframe your goals, why it is vital to incorporate supports to reach the same end goal without the solo work that can hurt your health, and how independence is actually a state of being that can still be achieved with an altered approach of allowing those supports (whether they’re people or structures) into our lives so that we can still achieve independence and independent living just in a way that breaks away from the societal norm.Plus, founder Dominique opens up about her recovery process after her spine surgery and how she lost a sense of independence by needing help from others, but when she reframed her mindset on what her independence goals were while at school, she was able to look at it from a new framework, incorporate some pillars of support that assisted her health needs, and achieve independence in a new way.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

An absolute fan moment as we get to have someone within the Formula 1 world on InvisiYouth Chat Sessions! Jennie Gow has been reporting on motorsport since 2010, being part of BBC MotoGP, Formula E and joining Formula 1 as a BBC F1 broadcaster. She’s even been featured on Netflix’s Drive to Survive. But in December 2022, Jennie suffered a stroke that damaged parts of her brain associated with speech, on top of other long-term effects. With the support of her medical team, family, friends and colleagues, Jennie worked hard in her recovery and returned to F1 as a broadcaster and correspondent in July 2023, and released her first book, How to Read F1, this past fall! Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:45 we learn all of Jennie’s lasts, like the last hotel that gave her a favorite meal, last supper lineup she’d create, last time she saw something for the first time at a F1 Grand Prix, and how family Pictionary was a cry-laughing moment. At 12:22 Jennie opens up about her stroke journey, how recovery is never linear and finding comfort in the evolution of acceptance can bring the most growth, why she chose to go public about her stroke early on, how she focused the early days of stroke recovery with the drive of her family, and her advice on returning to work after a health setback or new diagnosis. Plus a fun story about trying to take a nap at McLaren during Zandvoort Grand Prix brought the techno music. STORY TIME Intermission at 33:49 has Jennie sharing about her first interview with 7x F1 Driver’s Champion Lewis Hamilton during his early McLaren days, his vibrant answer on describing what it’s like driving an F1 car, and what that meeting meant for Jennie. And the final segment at 40:11 is for all the F1 and motorsport fans! Jennie and Dominique talk why she wanted to write her book and how the multiple facets of F1 can bring in all sorts of fans, why Jennie’s never watched a full race until her stroke recovery, the reason the Austin GP is a prime starter race for anyone, the new driver she feels everyone needs to watch, and the one thing she appreciates about F1 differently after coming back to broadcasting after her stroke. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Jennie @jennie.gow on all social media platforms and buy her book, HOW TO READ F1 in UK bookstores and online today! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

31st InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.This is the second addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.We’re still focusing on the area of independence, and specifically how we can improve our mental clarity and focus by embracing a sense of play during serious times and the rationale behind that being a critical aspect of independence for your personal growth and mental well-being. Learn the steps on why it is so important to incorporate play into your routine as a successful and well-rounded young adult, the connection between improving your personal independence in your skills and life while improving your skills in play, the benefits of fostering a sense of play to balance the seriousness of responsibilities with improved mental clarity, and why it aligns so deeply to those having to grow up fast while living with a chronic illness or disability. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Play Time Game, Time Theory, on how important it is to recognize your stress indicators when you feel you’re not able to be as independent or stress-free as you’d like to be successful, know the value of adding play time activity breaks that align well to hobbies or activities that give you a sense of jovial, inner child enjoyment, learn how to decompress and unwind mentally so you can foster that independence through play by improving your problem-solving, decision-making and embracing enjoyment with a sense of autonomy, and understand how having that time of play will directly improve your mental clarity and continue you on a positive and success trajectory of independence. Plus, founder Dominique opens up about her senior year of university, which was a time of a lot of medical changes, educational responsibilities and building InvisiYouth, so she was handling a lot of stressful and challenging roles and getting bogged into it, which meant that she needed to infuse some regular play into her routine to recharge and gain mental clarity to be successful in my independence.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Season 7 begins today, and we’ve reached a milestone of 101 podcast episodes! Plus, we’re excited for an entirely new set of special guests, fun segments, empowering life advice and great stories. We have an epic first guest of Season 7, Adaptive CrossFit athlete and mentality coach, Amy Bream. Born with PFFD (proximal focal femoral deficiency) and missing majority of her right leg, Amy has grown up thriving to challenge herself. After moving to Nashville in 2014 to pursue a music career, Amy was led into the work of fitness and soon introduced to CrossFit, After beginning to compete professionally in 2021, Amy has thrived, even ranking 3rd Worldwide in Women’s Lower Extremity in the 2023 CrossFit Games. And now she’s taken her expertise to personal and mentality coaching for amputee fitness programs. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:16 Amy answers a lot of rapid fire questions like a trendy workout class Amy would attend, the song she always sings in the car, where she’d buy a second home, why she loves her thirties and the surprise board game Amy would always win at a party. Get empowered at 9:57 as Amy and Dominique talk about her love of CrossFit as Amy shares what about this community drew her in the most, why there’s so much power in the athleticism of Adaptive CrossFit athletes that should be seen by the world, what about CrossFit is misunderstood, and the deep connections Amy’s music roots have in her CrossFit training and fitness world will definitely surprise you. STORY TIME Intermission at 23:43 brings the empowerment as Amy talks about the turning point for her to being taking those steps in her confidence-building which began from her brother-in-law asking a very blunt but important questions!We end the podcast at 29:01 getting all the fitness tips and confidence boosts as we chat about how to ease worries of getting into fitness, why Amy’s a firm believer in starting before your mind can run away with worries, the value of talking to those working at gyms or fitness classes to take the lead in getting to supports tailored to your needs and personality, what’s the one piece of advice she gives to her amputee fitness program clients, and how to build up your confidence if you’re living with chronic illness and disability but feel that discomfort or fear of going to a gym of group fitness class.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Amy on @onelegtostandon, on all social media platforms and her website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

30th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the first addition from our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes will be targeting one of four major personal growth areas in life, so young people living with chronic illness/disability can gain techniques to empower themselves for their best versions of adapting for success.Our first 2025 topic will be focusing on the area of independence, and specifically how we can improve our own personal medical literacy in a way that’s one critical aspect of independence for your personal growth and mental well-being. Learn the steps on why it’s massively valuable to understand what health literacy is and how you can incorporate it into your health plans, why it directly links to personal growth within independence, and the ways in which digging into your own personal learning patterns and connections to altered independence can actually allow you to embrace your health literacy with confidence. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Personal Health Literacy Research Method, on how spending time learning about your comprehension styles and communication styles can enable you to be sharper in your health literacy, the ways in which articulating your health literacy style early can allow for your personal health research in times of evolution, setbacks and change can be vital in your own independence in adapting to grow, and why it is crucial for daily living to have a strong grasp on personal health literacy because if you’re able to master your skills in absorbing information and then implementing it efficiently, you’re able to be a much more proactive participant in your health journey. Plus, founder Dominique talks about the evolved wave of her chronic illness journey when she reached past 10 years since her injury and her health changed, so she needed to sharpen her skills independently on her personal medical literacy to keep up with absorbing and implementing new health plans and goals to adapt and thrive in her new way of living. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

It’s the Season 6 FINALE episode, so we had to celebrate in style not only bringing on a brand new special guest, but someone that had created a business of interior design that’s beautiful and functional. It’s the founder and principal designer of Blue Copper Design, Maegan Blau. After an accident 15 years ago left Maegan with a spinal cord injury and became a wheelchair user, Maegan took her love of interior design and her challenging experience of finding an accessible and beautiful home and created her own interior design company in 2018. Blue Copper Design, based in Arizona, fuses modern, southwest aesthetic with barrier-free design so clients are empowered to have beautiful homes that are functional for their needs. And they relay even more advice online for all those looking to make their spaces accessible and beautiful. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:34, Maegan examines all of her ‘lasts’ like the last design in a home she became obsessed with, the last new restaurant she went to, the last time she watched a home renovation TV show as actually an episode she was on. At 12:16 Dominique and Maegan talk all about Maegan’s origin story of going from homebuyer to interior designer, why it’s valuable for our personal spaces to mirror our aesthetics and functional needs, the reasons it’s important to break the mentality that you can should adapt to live in your own home, and the top tips to mention to a realtor, construction worker or yourself when making your non-negotiables during the house/apartment hunt. INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 31:02 brings the humor as Maegan tells the story of when she worked at Lululemon and fell backwards in her wheelchair while ringing out a customer and had a good laugh as her coworkers had to find her. And the final segment at 35:21 gets deep in the interior design feels as Maegan and Dominique talk about the ways you can bring some styling and accessible projects to your home without a full renovation, what’s the difference between renovating communal spaces versus private spaces in your home, how to get creative when figuring out renovation projects so you tackle one room at a time, and why it’s not you, in the space, when it comes to making it functional and beautiful for each person. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Maegan @bluecopperdesign on Instagram! Donate during our Donate Match Campaign until New Years Eve on our website (www.invisiyouthcharity.com/donate) and all donations will be matched by a private board member! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

29th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the final addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes have been InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our final 2024 question dives deep into how you can be empowered through your own preliminary research when you want to make requests at your job or school for supports or accommodations and you feel nervous to ask for fear their lack of experience will hinder you, but rather your presentation of knowledge can make things easier for all. Learn the steps on why people feel the double edged sword worries of needing to ask for supports in their jobs or schools but feel they won’t be supported, why preliminary research skills are good out of the classroom so you can have knowledge to succeed, the reminder that others ignorance on your accommodations or accessibility at work or school shouldn’t hinder you from requesting it, and the ways it’s valuable to remember you’re never asking for too much when it’s just to equal the playing field. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Mise En Place Research Method, how you can learn the mental visual of ‘everything in its place’ that works for prep work when setting up for successful cooking actually works for how to prep your reasons/skills when asking for supports in the workplace or classroom, why gaining your personal knowledge on the how’s and why’s of getting the supports you need can be achieved will help you when presenting the ease it can take for your job or school to provide them for you, and the reason requesting to reach the same end goal in a new path is never a bad thing. Plus, founder Dominique talks about her early years working in the publishing industry and how she had to do that research of ways she could run errands and out-of-office tasks when she was dealing with new health issues, and the way she presented it to her boss that not only enabled her to feel comfortable giving the supports, but it also make tasks easier for coworkers.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Bringing back an old friend always brings the fun on a podcast, and this episode doesn’t disappoint. It’s returning guest, burn survivor, physiotherapist for Katie Piper Foundation, model and public speaker, Catrin Pugh. After surviving a coach crash and fire in the French Alps in 2013, Catrin was left with 96% burns on her body, and along her journey, Catrin has found great work sharing about her life and getting to charity work, public speaking, and modeling in campaigns for Avon Beauty, or feature in Vogue Portugal. And now, she’s a physiotherapist for Katie Piper Foundation, a nonprofit that provides rehabilitation and supportive services to survivors of burns and traumatic scarring. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:25 Catrin drops her favorite word in another language (which also connects to her favorite vacation spot), why she loves a cozy meal, her favorite scent, and why she’s a talker over texter. At 13:33 Catrin and Dominique share lots of tips on how to travel and vacation successfully when you’re traveling as someone with a chronic illness/disability, some fun stories about her modeling campaigns like how a last minute modeling job ending up being put in Vogue Portugal, and the girls advice for remaining confident in the dating scene as a young person with chronic illness or disability so you can get the most out of new people and find the partnerships that allow both to shine. STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 30:32 let’s Catrin share a story about how a time when she was in a bit of a rut, traveled to Paris and ended up meeting people that were inspired by her sharing about her scarring and being a burn survivor so it reinvigorated her love of motivating others. And the final segment at 36:43 had Catrin sharing about her experience getting into physiotherapy, how others had preconceived notions of her capability and she worked through it to succeed in schooling, what about physiotherapy intrigues her the most, and advice from Dominique and Catrin on how to confidently strive towards professional goals in the face of adversity and outsiders questioning capability in order to still love your work and adapt to thrive.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Catrin @catrinpugh on Instagram! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

28th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our latest question dives deep into how to improve our way of becoming more proactive in your mindsets of communicating your needs when you feel like you’re not getting invited to as many social gatherings after needed to say “no” to invites, so you’re able to regroup and keep the invites open. Learn the steps on why so many people worry that if they decline too many invites from friends that it’ll negatively impact their friendships and possibly mean they’ll be excluded from future hangout, why most young people feel pressured to say yes to invites even if it doesn’t sync with their health or disability needs, and what are the reasons many young people with chronic illness and disability need to spontaneously cancel plans or not meet and why communicating that with friends is vital for healthy friendships. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, No Now But Boomerang Later Method, how you can learn how to proactively reframe your way of communicating to avoid being forgotten or uninvited to social gatherings when the reasons you say no are out of your control, how to use causal conversation ques to share the rationales and reasonings behind your no’s and validate your desire to continue being invited, and how to empower your friends to never take your no’s personally, but rather, feel confident in adapting hangouts to your accessibility or health needs, and keeping the boomerang of invitations.Plus, founder Dominique talks about her first year with chronic illness when she had to say no to more invites and that resulted in her beginning to be invited out less often with friends, so she had to proactively share her reasons behind her declines and reinforce to her friends that she wanted to them never take it personally and continue to invite her and thus, allowing her to have open invitations. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

We’ve got one of our favorite sister duos back on the podcast, and we’re celebrating all of their achievements! It’s Rachel and Abigail Heringer! You’ll remember Abigail from Season 25 of The Bachelor and Season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise (where she met her fiancée Noah) but now she’s a published author to her new memoir, The Deaf Girl! Abigail and Rachel have grown so much in the years since they were on the podcast in Season 3, both now living in Tulsa with their dogs, and they’ve been achieving successes!Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 4:20 Rachel and Abigail answering questions about each other and reveal the new things they learned about each other from living together, what reality shows all four Heringer siblings would excel on together, what Abigail thinks a book about Rachel’s life would be titled, and the priority Rachel has when helping to plan Abigail’s bachelorette party and bridal shower. At 15:00 the sisters dive deep into Abigail’s book and why now was the time to write Abigail’s story, how gaining their mom’s perspective on raising two daughters that were deaf and going through their CI journeys made them appreciate her strength even more, and how Rachel and Abigail believe the book writing experience allowed them to value and appreciate each other’s journeys with CI’s. STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 33:13 and Rachel and Abigail share stories how a fender bender meant one of them lost their “ears” (AKA processors) and couldn’t communicate with the driver, and why Abigail will forever recommend looking at magnetic materials first since she misplaced her processors. We end at 38:29 with Abigail and Rachel talking about their moves to Tulsa and their tips to acclimating to a new environment, and how Abigail’s fiancée Noah played a big role in welcoming them to the new city, why they both agree finding confidence in how you want to share about your disability allowed them to find deeper friendships, Abigail’s piece of advice for those dating with disability, Rachel’s advice in building up relationships with new family members/friends so they’re comfortable being a good support, and why they both love being dog moms to Abigail and Noah’s dog, Maki and Rachel’s dog, Lou. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Abigail @abigail_heringer and Rachel @heringer_rachel on Instagram! Check out Abigail’s new book, The Deaf Girl on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. And enter our donation book giveaway until October 4th to win a signed copy of the book by just donating any amount on our website www.invisiyouthcharity.com/donate ! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

27th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance. Our latest question dives deep into how to improve our way of reframing our mindsets both introspectively and interpersonally when it comes to sharing about good and bad health days and the worries and guilt of how others will perceive it, and how we’ll feel if we’re not there yet. Learn the steps on why understanding the elements of imposter syndrome in our mindsets and behaviors can reframe how we approach potentially feeling guilty for both good and bad health days, how it is important to learn that each person’s health journey is unique to them and doesn’t get to be mirrored by others and their timelines, and the value of understanding how we personally can feel confident in not just sharing with others that understand, but feel confident in how we internalize others’ updates without infusing it into our view of our own journeys in negative ways. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Imposter Guilt Syndrome, how you can learn how to introspectively reframe your way of thinking to yourself when you want to feel confident about your current relationship with your chronic illness or disability, and how that can then be relayed to others in a kind delivery, and the ways you can be honest in your delivery of your health wins and flare ups so they are personalized to you while being mindful of others not experiencing the same situation as you at that time. Plus, founder Dominique talks about a situation when she used Imposter Guilt Syndrome when she was working with other young people with chronic illnesses in a grant research group and how she used this technique to feel confident in the ebb and flow of her chronic illness, while confident in how she was mindful of delivering updates on her good and bad health days with kindness and personalization so guilt wasn’t felt all around.  Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

It’s all about hanging with the besties on this podcast episode as our host, and InvisiYouth’s founder/executive director Dominique, brings back a returning podcast guest that’s also one of her closest friends, charity social media manager and social lead at The Children’s Society, and disability/chronic illness advocate, Ali Hemsley. Ali has a plethora of experience in social media and the chronic illness community, and has evolved her career from being an influencer to now being in the charity sector sharing her skills to positively impact great causes.Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:08, Ali goes through so quirky questions as she explains her perfect date with her husband, James, the first thing she notices about new people, how her dog, Piper, would want an ideal day to have lots of activities, why a favorite water bottle can make a home office all the better, and which motto to live by is also tattooed on her arm. At 10:24, Ali and Dominique dive deep into her social media experience and how to establish friendships through the digital space first (much like these besties did), how she navigated sharing her new Crohn's diagnosis to her social media community that knew her for her first chronic illness, and the value of being flexible in bringing things into your life that you loved before a diagnosis. STORY TIME INTERMISSION begins at 28:23 when Ali shares about the challenging experience of her first part-time job when beginning to add work beyond her self-employment actually led to her learning a lot of disability rights in the workplace and advocating for herself to the highest level. And we end the episode at 36:29 as Ali and Dominique share how to make decisions on going into self-employment versus working for a company, the pros and cons for both directions when living with chronic illness and disability, how Ali knew when making a career change was necessary and how she still remains passionate about social media management in a new charity sector with The Children’s Society, the best advice to evolve your career while still maintaining some joy, and how BTS’ member Jin might have inspired some advice on passion within jobs versus hobbies.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Ali @alihemsley on Instagram! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

26th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our latest question dives deep into how to improve our way of reframing a mindset when we have to change our plans and goals in life, especially when the reason we need a quick pivot is because of our chronic illness/disability changes. And it’s all about getting creative and building around the setbacks for the same end goal. Learn the steps on why it is vital to be comfortable with spontaneity and unpredictability—especially as a young adult living with chronic illness or disability, why the origin story of Lego actually connects greatly to how you need to approach change to plans in your life, what’s the major value in utilizing creativity in order to solve our problems so we can consistently adapt to thrive, and the purpose of acknowledging all our emotions when plans are forced to change, but not harboring negative ones because they’re counterproductive.Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Creative Legos Practice, how you can learn how to proactively reframe your missteps and flareups so they’re less of fully destructive burdens are rather opportunities to continue building around them, the importance of not consistently starting back from the start to rebuild but building up from where you’re paused, how getting creative with the available tools and supports around you can allow you to build a new formation that’s equally successful, joyful and enjoyable, and the benefits of adapting to thrive. Plus, founder Dominique talks about how she had to utilize the Creative Lego Practice during the early years of InvisiYouth Charity when she was busy with the initial plans of our programming and needed to pivot quickly when health and life changes happened spontaneously. And how when those original plans had to be changed, Dominique’s usage of our practice ultimately led to our current roster of digital resources, and the Audio Flash Files. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

It’s great to catch up with old friends and our special guest has been part of the InvisiYouth community for over six years! We have award-winning British blogger and freelance writer and cerebral palsy activist, Chloe Tear. With over 11 years of blog/freelance writing experience, and years of working in the cerebral palsy community, Chloe has carved a lane for herself as someone with wit, intelligence and passion to support the disability community, and share her life experiences along the way to empower others.Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:20, Chloe answers some rapid-fire questions about her secret talent, the language she wishes she was fluent in, why Grey’s Anatomy is still her guilty pleasure five years later, what’s the phrase her guide dog, Dezzie, would say to her if he could speak, and the one person Chloe would love to interview.  At 11:45 Chloe and Dominique talk about the reality of how lengthy and in-depth it is to get a guide dog, how training and compatibility matter for both human and dog, and why Dezzie is actually like owning two dogs as a worker and nonworker.  Plus, Chloe shares about how independent living as someone with CP has been while owning her first home, what she’s done to bring accessibility into her independent living that other young people with disability can learn from, and why we believe altered independence is the way to go for a realistic mentality. At 33:29, STORY TIME Intermission gets us in the romantic vibes as Chloe talks about one of her first dates with her boyfriend, George, and how a health lock-up and some hand-holding actually led to their first kiss at sunset. At 37:56 we end the podcast as Dominique and Chloe talk about the realities of balancing freelance/entrepreneurial work with a traditional job, especially as people with chronic illness/disability, the ways you can find freedom in structure and find freedom in knowing that you can have an ebb and flow in your work amount and still feel passion, why Chloe has trusted her instincts to find a new relationship with her public social media platform, and why she wants to create a book on cerebral palsy in adulthood is a must-cover topic.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Chloe @chloe_tear on Instagram and her blog, www.chloetear.co.uk! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

25th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our latest question is a shoutout to our stellar healthcare professionals, to the doctors and nurses, and medical and nursing students, that do their work to strengthen our health. We’re diving deep into how to improve communication with healthcare teams so the “why” questions get asked more, and that open dialogue can happen to create well-rounded healthcare plans so young people can thrive fully. Learn the steps on why it is vital to have steady and open communication with the doctors and nurses treating young adults living with chronic illness and disability, why the healthcare professionals have to look at the full person and full life behind the diagnosis to treat each person uniquely, and the value of asking the why questions not only of your young adult patients specifically because they understand the ramifications of treatment plans on their equally important non-medical life, but also the value of healthcare professionals sharing their whys on the rationale for their treatment ideas and those pros and cons. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, The Why Effect, how you can read body language to see if a young adult patient is overwhelmed or closed off to the plan, how using supportive language around asking your ‘why’ questions is how you can dig deeper to learn the rationale of your young adult patients and what non-medical aspects of life are super valuable to them in order to treat the full patient, and why it’s necessary to have open dialogue and learn the value of tailoring treatment so you can compromise treatment plans without compromising the health of your patients.Plus, founder Dominique talks about the first time she had a doctor ask her the “why” questions to dig deeper into why she wasn’t agreeing to a new treatment plan for her chronic illness and once that dialogue was open and trusted with her doctor, they were able to work together to find a new avenue of treatment that was a compromise to the original plan but not a compromise to her health and full life.Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll otherWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Such a full-circle moment to have our Season 1 finale special guest on the podcast five seasons later! And it’s such a special episode because we have special guest, co-founder and executive director of Claire’s Place Foundation, Melissa Yeager. The mom of Elle and Claire, Melissa has continued Claire Wineland’s legacy of cystic fibrosis activism and philanthropy with her foundation, now impacting over 5,000 people with $1,000,000 in extended hospital stay grants, and even more programs. Melissa has not only continued Claire’s mission, but found her own passion in this work, and we catch up for the episode, five years after we did our Legacy Tribute podcast after Claire’s passing. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:36 Melissa chats it up about her go-to dinner, the most meaningful gift she’s ever given, a childhood favorite book she passes along to everyone, and the activity she loves to do with her daughter, Elle, and they did with Claire too.  At  12:05 Melissa and Dominique dive into the evolution of Claire’s Place Foundation since Claire’s passing, how a new program mirrors the improvements in CF healthcare and would be something Claire would have adored, and the major things Melissa has learned about herself as a philanthropist during her years as executive director. STORY TIME Intermission at 26:56 is super funny as Melissa shares about how the time Melissa, Claire and Elle adopted their first dog…only to find out she would be a soon-to-be momma of two more puppies, and how they mirrored their three dogs. Plus, we heard about a top-secret hospital visit with puppy Izzy and Melissa for Claire that you won’t want to miss! Final segment at 33:29 Melissa and Dominique get deep to share some advice and support on how to manage through the emotions of bereavement and grief, how Melissa has balanced celebrating Claire’s memory and legacy in her work while also honored her grief of losing a child, the pieces of advice she would give to others dealing with grief in the early days versus years later, and how she and her younger daughter, Elle, have both dealt with grief in different ways but found how to continue to support one another on their journeys after Claire’s passing so they are celebrating Claire and honoring their grief.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Melissa @melissa.yeager1 and Claire’s Place Foundation @clairesplacefoundation on Instagram! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

24th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the latest addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our next question that we’re answering in the Audio Flash Files that was submitted to our InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box tackles the topic how to avoid falling into the mindset that you need to conform your way of living and comfort in order to make those more comfortable, especially when it comes to a chronic illness or disability. Learn the steps on how to be empowering and thoughtful in your approach of living confidently and not to make others comfortable with your chronic illness or disability, why many young people fall into the martyr complex and end up suffering to make others comfortable, the problems with stereotypes on chronic illness and disability, and the ways you can approach outsiders with personalized confidence styles. Gain the ideas behind our Anti-Martyr Pro-Blinders Theory, how having a two-fold practice on how to approach your confidence in situations where others want you to conform to a box of what living will chronic illness and disability is supposed to be, the ways in which you can reframe your mindset to focus on your multifaceted goals to realize that being uncomfortable with the unknown is more of a ‘them’ problem then a ‘you’ problem and your confidence in living authentically will actually remedy that, and why it’s valuable to know that joy and sadness and chronic illness and disability coexist. Plus, founder Dominique talks about her journey to using her cane when she needed it was delayed by forcing herself to suffer for others comfort, and the one question a charity friend asked her that allowed her to implement InvisiYouth’s steps and ultimately live her life authentically and confidently so she could keep up blinders and subtly showcase good and bad days with her health. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Bringing back old friends and celebrating all the things that have flourished in their lives is a great feeling. InvisiYouth Chat Sessions is now going to be bringing back former podcast guests and catching up with them during the next two seasons…and we’re starting with one of our Celebrity Ambassadors. It’s British actress and disability activist, Melissa Johns. Evolving her career through the years, Melissa has been part of expanding her cofounded nonprofit, TripleC, to assist disabled creatives to grow in their craft, while also landing acting roles on and off the screen, playing series regular, Miss Scott, on the popular ITV period detective show, Grantchester. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:13 Melissa answers hot take questions in Five Second Challenge and shares how she’d spend lottery winnings, why she brings perfume to sets, why her family trip to Italy was super meaningful, and how one of Dominique’s favorite British reality shows would be Melissa’s dream choice to join. At 13:03 Melissa and Dominique talk about the evolution of her acting career, what makes stage and TV acting unique to each other, her parallel growth in life that coincided with her getting her role on Grantchester and why she loves playing the character so much, the development of representation and accessibility in the acting industry and why momentum needs to continue, and how Melissa might have manifested her role on Grantchester while on Episode 9 of InvisiYouth Chat Sessions...and why we're manifesting a disabled lead on any upcoming season of Bridgerton!STORY TIME Intermission at 36:41 has Melissa sharing her story of how she got engaged on her birthday and the summer solstice and how a bad virus and a hospital visit were also part of her engagement story. And we end the episode at 44:37 with Melissa and Dominique talking about how her work with TripleC has grown over the years and serves so many people in the creative industry to have support and resources for their growth in their artistic crafts, the advice Melissa would give to those living with chronic illness and disability that are dating and looking for relationships with mutual love, patience and respect, and the one piece of advice Melissa would give to her younger self that all of us should add into our lives.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Melissa @melissa_johns_1 on Instagram! And Season 9 of Grantchester premieres on June 16th on Masterpiece on PBS! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

23rd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. It’s the fourth addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our next question that we’re answering in the Audio Flash Files that was submitted to our InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box tackles the topic how to handle failure, and our response in the art form of successfully incorporating some failure into your life so you can build up confidence and self-belief. Learn the steps on how to be reactively proactive in our outlook on failures, and reality the utility of failing in order to discover your own lane of success and build up empowerment in oneself, how the momentum forward with fails can be a helpful tool to drive one forward each day if it’s reframed positively, and the power a threshold of fails can create more confidence to evolve grow more than being perfectly successful all the time. Gain the ideas behind our Star-Points Daily Fails Theory, how allowing yourself a set of mini-fails each day can give yourself the grace and rom to grow, evolve, have health flareups and setbacks without making each hold the power to tarnish the entire day’s productivity, and how to utilize habit-forming behaviors in our self-talk to establish a pattern of bouncing back positivity to setbacks so we have more control than the fails.Plus, founder Dominique talks about how a change in your chronic illness journey during a major change in InvisiYouth programming led to some extra fails during her daily routine, and the steps Dominique took to combat those negative filters so she could give herself a tally of mini-fails before a true failure happened, and the way that boosted her confidence that she could achieve her goals. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Bringing sports videography to life and seeing athleticism through the lens brings so much high energy that the person behind the camera has to have the passion. And our special guest has that passion! It’s videographer for the NFL and NWSL, senior video producer for UCLA Athletics, and Lupus warrior, Suzi Mellano.  Doing sports videography work that’ll get all sports fans crazy, Suzi also has contracts with the NFL and NWSL, capturing athletes achieving great success and teamwork. And reaching this career goal happened simultaneously with her Lupus diagnosis in 2019. While knowing life would change, Suzi has been determined to raise awareness for the Lupus community while simultaneously never giving up on her dream job and growing her outstanding videography. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:22 Suzi answers rapid-fire questions letting us know the sport she’d love to film, the most impactful sporting event she worked, what she’ll binge-watch, the sweetest last card she mailed, why her Italian genes will definitely impact where she’s like to live and dual language goals, and the best adjectives for her videography style. At 16:07 Suzi and Dominique talk all about how a unique full circle moment led her from being in front of the camera to behind it, how she’s seen growth in diversifying the male-dominated sports videography worlds she’s been part of, what makes her excited about that and where there could be change, and how there are ways she can adapt to excel when handling the physical demand of the job while balancing a chronic illness with the conversation of knowing you can always ask for supports to bring your independence forward. STORY TIME Intermission at 37:07 gets real as Suzi talks about a pre-diagnosis struggle of hair loss and how she navigated that journey with some signature dark humor and even got humorously creative in the ways of hiding it when she wanted to put her hair up that might have added more sparkles than needed. And we end the podcast at 43:45 Suzi and Dominique talk about their advice on how to process emotions during a diagnosis process and ways they manage emotions during flare-ups as time has gone on, they give advice on how to ask for supports in the workplace and with your families to make your health manageable while not allowing others to question your capability, and the one piece of advice that Suzi would give her pre-Lupus diagnosis self about her future, and it’s full of how extra rich and rewarding her outlook would become. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Suzi @suzimellano, on Instagram! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

22nd InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the third addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance. Our next question that we’re answering in the Audio Flash Files that was submitted to our InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box tackles a topic we hear about often: handling outsider opinions. Deciding how to manage decision-making when the worries of outsider/third party perspectives might curtail how you live life. Learn the steps on how to pensively nurture your thoughts when you begin to feel your allowing a public self-consciousness of outside perspectives to derail how you want to live your life, and why it’s important to note that external perspectives are just making potential opinions of you without full understanding of you as a full person. Gain the ideas behind our Third Person POV Mindset, why it’s important to be mindful that their impression of one scenario cannot hold power over your personal opinion of yourself, how outsider perspectives especially about one’s chronic illness and disability come from a place of ignorance versus prejudice about you personally, how there are mental and actional steps to take in order to harness your inner confidence to live your life without worries of what others will think, and how to become empowered to live your life with your actions and goals as your focus and allow public self-consciousness to take a backseat in influencing your decision-making.  Plus, founder Dominique talks about an early stage during her diagnosis when she worries more about that third person perspective about her life with chronic illness and the proactive steps she took to regain her control to confidently decide what she wanted to do in life without worrying about outside perspectives of herself. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!--------SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Bridging smart, approachable, fun and chic into advocacy isn’t easy, but our special guest has carved out a lane for herself in the content creation world. It’s advocate, content creator and reporter for Accessible Media Inc, Mara Hutchinson. Living with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Usher Syndrome, Mara deals with hearing loss along with being legally blind, Mara has shared a lot of her journey using her confidence and voice. From Canada, Mara uses her platform to share about her life with her husband and son, her incredible advocacy work raising awareness, along with all the intersections of her life being legally blind, like her love of travel, fitness, reporting and so much more. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:0:00 - Intro and Meet our Guest!3:41 - Mara goes through a Rapid-Fire Round-Up of questions and tells all about her favorite food to buy, why she’ll always have coffee in the house, the staple in her closet, and her favorite charity experience that’s continued for years deals with some tandem cycling.14:31 - Dominique and Mara give all the tips on how to have confidence on your social media posts, how reflecting on the dark and challenging times can help you find your strength, acceptance and power in your chronic illness/disability, how open communication that evolves has created a strong bond with her son, Bronx, and more tips for parenting and disability, and the two things that have strengthened the foundation of her relationship with her husband, Bas, as they have navigated her journey becoming legally blind.33:27 - STORY TIME Intermission is a big moment for Mara and Bronx when a recent trip on the bus, and a packed disability seating section brought out the inner advocate in her son and made a major proud momma moment.39:43 - And we end the podcast asking all the questions about how representation for visual impairment and blindness has evolved and could still grow, the two things Mara wishes the general public understood about the blindness spectrum, how to find confidence and accessibility in situations when fear of the unknown with your chronic illness/disability could heighten, and how allies and support networks could best support those living with visual impairment/blindness to thrive and find their intersectional communities.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Mara @atemara, on Instagram! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth! Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

21st InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the second addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our question this month is one we get all the time because it’s how to cope with the waiting periods between doctor appointments and test results. And so many living with a chronic illness/disability go through a diagnosis period, tests and waiting for results is a common worrying period. Learn the steps on how you can recognize how the waiting period in relation to your health can actually play a role in your daily life, the ways you need to pause with a proactive nature when that worry spiral can happen to achieve optimal success, and why it’s important to note that having different thinking patterns and styles actually makes waiting for results and doctor appointments different reaction-wise for everyone. Gain the ideas behind our Waiting Room Theory, why it’s important to be mindful the waiting period brings strain and your ability to lower that anxiety comes from you honing in on your thought processing style in a proactive manner, why you need to focus on what you control in your thoughts in the present instead of the future what-ifs our minds can take us down, and what ways each person can untangle their emotional and logical reactions to the waiting period with doctor appointments/test results so they can process the potentials in a more manageable fashion so you never invalidate your feelings, but you hold the most power in the actionable thinking so you can be empowered in the present as you head into any doctor visits, appointments and tests. Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her first experiences having to go through the waiting game of test results in the early stages of her chronic illness journey, and how she had to work through the initial worries and what-ifs by pausing to focus on the present, and the ways she handled the emotions and logic of the waiting game. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and joy being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!--------SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Season 6 begins today! And we’re excited for an entirely new set of special guests, fun segments, empowering life advice and great stories. And we have an epic first guest of Season 6, it’s the owner and designer of the popular walking stick and cane company, Neo-Walk, Lyndsay Watterson. Launched in 2013, Neo-Walk creates handmade acrylic walking sticks that fuse individuality, comfortability and stylish for the mobility aid community. This was sparked by Lyndsay’s journey with disability after developing a MRSA infection and later needing an above-knee amputation. Now sending canes to over 25 countries, Lyndsay had created a company that’s touched thousands of lives.Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:0:00 - Intro to Season 6!3:34 - Lyndsay and Dominique get real on how to have mobility aid confidence, how the evolving journey played a huge role in Lyndsay’s life, advice on moving past self-consciousness of trying out mobility aids and dealing with the general public stars or comments.20:32 - Get empowered by the fusion of fashion, confidence and chronic illness/disability as Lyndsay talks about how an oven, wine bottle and a dream fused style with mobility, the best reactions of people who’ve purchased Neo-Walks, what’s the main reason you gotta add some style to boost your personal and social confidence, and ways to make stylish upgrades on a budget to your mobility aids.36:15 - STORY TIME Intermission gets celebratory as Lyndsay talks about her time doing trapeze and aerial performance work for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Paralympics. And she might have flipped arounds in 50 meters/164 feet in the air above Coldplay! 42:07 - We end the podcast when Lyndsay and Dominique talk about developing a chronic illness/disability later in life, and how do you not focus on the loss but instead think of how the transition into a new way of living can bring beautiful new thing, Lyndsay expressing how adapting to continue during things she loves like evolving to hand-pedal-cycling has been so valuable, and all the tips and advice on trying new things when you might worry of injury or self-consciousness because fear stems from the same place they would have without any diagnosis.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow NeoWalk @neowalksticks, on all social media platforms and their website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

20th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.It’s the first episode from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.Our first question is fitting for February’s love month…we’re talking about dating. More specifically, how to take that fresh relationship and make sure you can actually open up to one another and if your partner can actually fit into your daily routine. That’s a big deal when part of your routine incorporates your chronic illness/disability and you want to make sure they’re ready to be in your full life. Learn the steps on how you can recognize when you’re at that stage in dating someone that you want to open up, why blaming your diagnosis for any failed dates is a huge no, and how you can understand why it’s important to date with the mindset that it’s more about finding partners that thrive in supporter roles versus finding someone that fits a specific mold to your diagnosis, and not everyone will.Gain the ideas behind our Leader Taste Tester Method, what are the steps you can proactively add into dating life in those new relationships to lead with your confident communication style to slowly share parts of your chronic illness/disability life with your partner without overloading or involving, the ways you can dissipate their ignorance and answer questions without intimidating them, and how your leaderships gives a taste test to your romantic partner so they cannot spiral in the ‘what if imagination’ and learn if you’re mutually interested and suited for one another. Plus, founder Dominique drops a success story of how a friend of her did some major Leader Taste Tester Method with her new boyfriend (now husband) to share your chronic illness and that slow reveal actually made him super confident that he could be a supporter, their relationship could be balanced, and they were ready to commit. Let's get talking and learn how to incorporate as many elements of this life-improving technique as possible for your optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, and jo being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!--------SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

19th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio  Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. As the final episode for our “Mediator Communication Series” for 2023, we are focusing on the communication dynamic that every single one of us deals with…our self-talk. That’s right, we’re focusing on the steps anyone can take to bring a positive outlook to how we communicate with ourselves, and once you do these steps, you’ll never want to have that inner dialogue any other way.As we end the year and get ready for any of those resolutions or ways to improve ourselves, we gotta look inward and figure out how to communicate better with ourselves. With 96% of adults having inner dialogue every day, we need to take just as much time learning how to talk to ourselves with more kindness, realness and respect so we can have a better mental wellbeing and better outlook on life situations. Learn the steps on how you can recognize when your self-talk has gone from fleeting thoughts and pondering to actual tints of negativity, doubt, worry or judgement so you’re actually looking at life, yourself and situations in a tinted framework. Gain the ideas behind our Pseudo Full Tank Mindset, what are the four steps you can proactively add into your thought processing so you can be more productive and kind to yourself, why you need to challenge the negativity in order to be more productive in how you view and tackle life, and why gaining a pulled back view on the negative layers your subconscious can add to your self-talk can actually speak with respect and kindness to yourself while fusing realism and positivity into your communication style with yourself. Plus, founder Dominique drops how her previous self-talk used to be framed in some frustration and negativity when she was in the early stages of her chronic illness journey, and how she utilized that pseudo full tank to reframe and gain some positivity in how she communicates with herself for a better life outlook. Let's get talking and make your communicate style with yourself optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, joy, and always add your type of chatting style to the forefront so productivity thrives along with your health’s wellbeing!--------SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

Season 5 Finale episode, let's get into it! Sharing your life on a public and personal level when you’re also living with a chronic or progressive illness is a daily balancing act, so it’s important to find the ways you’re able to thrive personally and with those around you. Our special guest knows exactly how to do that and has made us a fan of hers from the beginning. Gerry Langan, a public speaker and paid patient consultant has been living with a rare disease and progressive illnesses like severe Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Congestive Heart Failure since she gave birth to her twin sons. Now, she helps other find hope and inspiration during their journeys with chronic illness through her work and social media platform. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:11 have some fun with Gerry as she answers rapid questions all about herself like the adventures of Hawaii, who mails her letters, a great date night and when she laughed so hard she cried. Get your relationship advice flowing at 10:29 when Gerry and Dominique share the best tips on how to maintain autonomy when getting outside opinions, why you don’t need “one-size-fits-all friends” in your life, the best tips of navigating a strong romantic relationship when chronic illness/disability are in the mix, and how to talk to kids about your chronic illness/disability so it doesn’t too scary for them. STORY TIME Intermission at 30:21 brings all the laughs at the realities of living with an invisible illness as Gerry shares how one time opting for the stairs instead of an elevator with her friend that has a prosthetic leg brought humorously misplaced reactions from those around them. And we end the podcast episode (and Season 5!) at 34:25 with all the insider techniques and mindsets to bring balance and inner advocacy into your world. Gerry and Dominique share how to balance a public/private life on social media, what ways help you navigating digesting information about your chronic illness, especially if it’s a progressive illness, and so many great tips on how to bring balance and confidence into your self-advocacy with your medical teams and facilities so you can thrive with those people like all the other relationships in your life.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Gerry @itsgerrylangan, on all social media platforms and her website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet on www.etsy.com/shop/invisiyouthcharity with free shipping globally, and please support InvisiYouth Charity by donating, following and joining our programs and community @invisiyouth!Wanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

18th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy.We’re focusing on the relationship and communication within the family gatherings. Since a lot of our lives deal with the process of going to family gatherings of all sizes, it can be super important to make sure that we have the communication tools to be successful in these settings and feel the most confident. Holiday season is upon us, and with that comes something that some of us enjoy and others do not…the family gatherings. We are surrounded by family and friends from all levels of closeness and involvement in our daily lives at these gatherings, so it can be overwhelming how we are trying to navigate catching up with keeping our boundaries when conversations can become invasive. This podcast gives our steps on how to navigate when you need to redirect conversations but maintain that respect and inner comfort. Gain the steps of implementing our Ice-to-Simmer Chat Syndrome in your next family gathering when the conversation focuses on parts of your chronic illness/disability that are too personal, nosy or invasive for your boundaries. You will gain the ability, with your own conversational style as the focal point, to develop your own verbal “ice” cues and discover how redirection in conversations, when done correctly, can simmer any conversation or emotional heat to make it more comfortable and enjoyable for all involved. Plus, founder Dominique drops the details about a Thanksgiving in her past when the extended relatives were asking way too many questions about her chronic illness issues and how she used some metaphorical ice conversation cues about KTape to redirect and allow for both her comfort and social ease to build into the family gathering. Let's get talking and make your communicate style within those family gatherings optimal for success and comfortability so there’s a sense of ease, success, joy, and always add your type of chatting style to the forefront so productivity thrives along with your health’s wellbeing!--------SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube!Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXcYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouthGoogle Play: https://podcasts.google.com/search/invisiyouth%20chat%20sessionsAll other platforms available on our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/invisiyouthWanna support our nonprofit?Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate