Check in for a dose of stigma-break, humor-filling, empowerment building life hacks and motivation for all the “medically-adult-ish” young people. The InvisiYouth Chat Sessions, is part of InvisiYouth Charity. This international nonprofit helps teens and young adults with various chronic illnesses and disabilities gain the right lifestyle programs, empowerment and interactive activism to learn how to keep living life. Twice a month, our founder, Dominique Viel, will bring guest experts from ...
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E98: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #29 "Do the Homework, Do the Research And Get Those Accommodations"
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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…
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E97: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with burn survivor, physiotherapist for Katie Piper Foundation, model and public speaker, Catrin Pugh
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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 jour…
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E96: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #28 "How To Make Sure That Your One "No" to an Invite Doesn't Mean Forever"
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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 …
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E95: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with sisters and deaf/cochlear implant advocates, Abigail Heringer (from Season 25 of The Bachelor and Season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise) and her older sister, and commercial ...
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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 …
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E94: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #27 "The Ways You Don't Have to Feel Bad For When You Feel Good"
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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 …
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E93: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with charity social media manager and social lead at The Children’s Society, and disability/chronic illness advocate, Ali Hemsley
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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 ple…
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E92: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #26 "Look At Life's Problems and Unpredictability like Playing with Legos"
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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 …
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E91: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with award-winning British disability blogger and freelance writer, cerebral palsy activist, Chloe Tear
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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 carv…
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E90: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #25 "How Doctors and Nurses Can Improve Visits By Asking "Whys" More Often"
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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 …
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E89: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the co-founder and executive director of Claire's Place Foundation, Melissa Yeager
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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 a…
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E88: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #24 "Don't Be a Martyr to Make Others Comfortable with Your Health"
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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 …
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E87: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with British actress, co-founder of TripleC, series regular as Miss Scott on ITV’s Grantchester, and disability activist, Melissa Johns
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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…
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E86: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #23 "What’s Successful About Allowing Yourself to Fail Five Times a Day"
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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 …
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E85: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with videographer for the NFL and NWSL, senior video producer for UCLA Athletics, and Lupus warrior, Suzi Mellano
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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 tha…
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E84: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #22 "Why Learning Third Person POV Can Limit Thinking About Outsider Opinions"
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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 s…
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E83: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with advocate, content creator and reporter for Accessible Media Inc, Mara Hutchinson
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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 …
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E82: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #21 "Lessen the Stressors at Doctor Appointments and Visualize a Waiting Room"
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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 …
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E81: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the creator of the popular walking stick and cane company NeoWalk, Lyndsay Watterson
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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 s…
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E80: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #20 "It’s About Following the Lead Taste Tester to feel Carefree Joy When Dating"
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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 su…
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E79: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #19 "How to Have Honest Self-Talks that Boost Your Personal Outlook"
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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 …
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E78: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with public speaker and paid patient consultant, Gerry Langan
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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 he…
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E77: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #18 "When Family Gatherings Get Heated, Drop Ice to Make a Chat Simmer"
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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 fa…
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E76: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the Director of Family Support and PTSD Services for the nonprofit, Ryan’s Case for Smiles, Katie Holcomb
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Director of Family Support and PTSD Services for the nonprofit, Ryan’s Case for Smiles, Katie Holcomb, knows the importance of caregivers and siblings for young people with chronic illness/disability and how to best serve this bond professionally and personally. The nonprofit is inspired by her late brother, Ryan, who passed away at 17 from osteosa…
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E75: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #17 "All About the Slow Burn When Talking with People in Positions of Power"
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17th 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 with people in positions of power, like teachers and bosses. Having to spend so much time b…
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E74: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the founder and board president of Operation Happy Nurse, Shannon McPeek and Mallori Walker
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We LOVE nurses, and they are a fundamental part of the lives of teens/young adults living with chronic illness/disability. So having a nurses where we get to chat with nurses, talk about improving their mental health wellbeing, and getting to connect better in our visits is a goal! We have two incredible podcast guests that took their experience as…
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E73: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #16 "Take an Inner Litmus Test When Responding to General Public Curiosity"
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16th 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 in on the relationship and communication with the general public. So many times, we encounter those instances when random people …
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E72: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with disabled content creator, inclusive activist, model and speaker, Paula Carozzo
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We’re joined by disabled content creator, inclusive activist, model and speaker, Paula Carozzo, and she brings the energy, positivity and motivation. At 5 years old, Paula was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after anoxic episode from surgery during her childhood living in Venezuela. Living in Miami for most of her life, Paula studied PR and went to p…
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E71: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #15 "Make the Comments and DMs a Better Place with all Those Online People"
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15th 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 in on the relationship and communication with the online friends and digital relationships in your life. Yes, we’re giving you a …
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E70: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the founder of the nonprofit and professional dance company Infinite Flow Dance, Marisa Hamamoto
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Get in the groove with your inner strength, finding your joy and being empowered to celebrate the diversity from this stellar chronic illness/disability community. Our special guest had created a life and career fusing their calling of dance and supporting others to reach their full potential. It’s motivational speaker, inclusivist stroke survivor …
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E69: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #14 "Compromise How You Give and Receive with Coworkers and Classmates"
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14th 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 honing in on the relationship and communication with your coworkers and classmates. It’s all about utilizing compromise in different strat…
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E68: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with founder of The Diabetes Football Community and member to the Wales National Futsal team, Chris Bright
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Founder of The Diabetes Football Community, Type 1 Diabetes advocate and member of the Wales National Futsal Team, Chris Bright, decided that allowing the power of community and sport to create growth in young people living with Type One Diabetes was a perfect combo. After being diagnosed with T1D as a kid, Chris worked hard to continue playing foo…
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E67: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #13 "Be Like Hermes: The Best Messenger for Talks with Doctors and Nurses"
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13th 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 honing in on the relationship and communication with our doctors and nurses. But even more so, we’re emphasizing the dual-usage technique …
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E66: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with popular home cook, TV personality, and creator of Dish it Girl, Dina Deleasa Gonsar
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Get all the goodies (both food and life-related) with our special guest, award-winning home cook, TV personality and creator of Dish it Girl, Dina Deleasa Gonsar. With Dina’s approach of creating recipes that fuse her Italian family traditions with a modern twist, she’s made the prospect of having fun in the kitchen approachable to her over 129k In…
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E65: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #12 "Why Romantic Relationships Thrive When You Sprinkle in Vulnerability"
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12th InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files gives you a boost of life advice and perspectives that's honing in on the relationship and communication with romantic partners. That’s rights, this is a love-fest podcast episode where we’re gonna give you the lowdown on how to strengthen bonds with your boyfriends/girlfriends and partners. Founder…
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E64: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with hosts of Two Disabled Dudes Podcast, Sean Baumstark and Kyle Bryant
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Have a podcast with podcast hosts as your guests, you know you’re gonna have an episode packed with great content, all the pockets of wisdom and…some great audio quality! Creators and hosts of Two Disabled Dudes Podcast, Sean Baumstark and Kyle Bryant on the episode, both live with a rare disease called Friedreich’s Ataxia, and competed in several …
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E63: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #11 "Make the Best Bonds with Friends By Giving Them Your Easter Eggs"
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11th 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 honing in on the relationship and communication with our friends. These are people that often become our chosen family, and they evolve th…
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E62: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with disability advocate, model, YouTuber and popular TikToker Sarah Todd Hammer
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When your guest is a multi-hyphenated GenZer who’s just as talented at disability advocacy as they are at TikTok, you know it’s gonna be a good time. Today’s video podcast guest is Sarah Todd Hammer, a 21 year old TikToker, disability advocate, model, author and YouTuber. Diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis as a child and living with partial para…
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E61: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #10 "Go With Your Second Thought When Talking to the Parents, Promise"
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10th 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 honing in on the relationship and communication with our parental figures. Probably the first relationship dynamic that many of us experie…
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E60: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with Two-Time Paralympic Sled Hockey Gold Medalist, Jack Wallace
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Welcome back to a new season of InvisiYouth Chat Session, we’re in Season 5 and jumping right in with our chat shot-styled podcast with the first of our incredible lineup of special guests. This guy embodies the mindset of the power of sports, it’s two-time Paralympic Sled Hockey Gold Medalist, Jack Wallace. After a boating accident resulted in Jac…
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The 2023 return of our monthly audio resource InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files, giving 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. AND we’ll be doing it in 15 minutes or less. Today’s Audio Flash File is all about improving our rela…
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E58: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with the CEO and Founder of the Adaptive Apparel and Intimates brand, Liberare, Emma Butler
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Final episode of Season 4 and we’re gonna be chatting with one of our fav types of podcast guests: female founders that wanna empower other young people to be their own game-changers. And we got that on today’s episode with CEO and founder of the adaptive apparel and intimates brand, Liberare, Emma Butler. A Brown University graduate living in Pari…
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life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. AND we’ll be doing it in 20 minutes or less. Today’s Audio Flash File is gonna give you the details on how to handle a situation we all find ourselves getting into at one point in life or another…getting advice. Whe…
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E56: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with creator of the popular TikTok Magnolia Hill House and chronic illness influencer educator, Mariah Michelle
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Let's bring manageable joyfulness into the way you use your social media platforms and your daily life so there's the almighty balance between work life and personal life. Our special guest is creator of the popular TikTok platform Magnolia Hill House, Mariah Michelle. A model-turned chronic illness influencer, Mariah created a platform that educat…
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Lucky number seven of our audio resource InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files, we’re giving you our monthly boost of life advice and perspectives that’ll provide empowering tools you can practically incorporate into your life for more success and joy. AND we’ll be doing it in 15 minutes or less. Today’s Audio Flash File is all about our per…
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E54: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with liver transplant recipient, organ donation advocate and Donate Life Ambassador, Meghan Smith
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Get this statistic: In America, 95% of people are in favor of organ donation but only 58% are actually registered, and every 10 minutes, someone is added to the organ waiting list. It’s so important to not only understand the organ donation process and registering to be a donor, but it’s also super valuable to learn the misconceptions and how to ma…
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It’s InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files #6, and this is another boost of life advice, teachings and perspectives that’ll empower another element of your life so you thrive with success and joy. Especially for our “medically adult-ish™” young people living with chronic illness and disability! Today’s Audio Flash File is all about grief and…
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E52: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with staff and board members of the Center for Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress Gaby Vega, Darlene Barkman, and Dr. Kimberly Canter
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When you have three special guests on one podcast episode, you know it’s gonna be a good time. And today’s topic benefits from lots of perspectives because we’re talking about PTSD, also known as post-traumatic stress and specifically medical trauma/triggers. While we’re not making a melancholy podcast episode, we know this is a topic super importa…
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We’re five files into our audio resource, and newest addition to the InvisiYouth Chat Sessions family, Audio Flash Files, and this is another boost of life advice, teachings and perspectives that’ll empower another element of your life so you thrive with success and joy. Especially for our “medically adult-ish™” young people living with chronic ill…
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E50: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with Sports Illustrated Swim Search finalist, digital creator, GenZ advocate, model and podcaster, Gigi Robinson
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Let’s motivate GenZ, and discover how to build your brand in life, make the impact you want, and even with a chronic illness or disability, thrive in the daily. That’s exactly what we’re talking about, with a lean on the valuable ways we can cultivate a digital footprint that doesn’t burn us out or feel disingenuous. And our special is all about em…
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Get our fourth addition to this audio resource, InvisiYouth Chat Sessions: Audio Flash Files, and get ready for another boost of life advice and perspective that’ll provide a new empowering tool you can tangibly incorporate into life for more success and joy. This Audio Flash File gets you understanding the value of piquing someone’s curiosity bone…
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