Ask Me About My Type 1

Ask Me About My Type 1

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Ask Me About My Type 1 episodes

  • Ep.37 More than Just Type 1

    Oh Hi Dia-Peoples and the Pancreatically Functional!!! It's new Ask Me About My Type 1 episode day and this episode is coming at you hawt!!! This week on the podcast I have on Whitney Lewis of @HappyPancreas fame and her Type None husband Derrick, a featured guest of @HappyPancreas fame. On this banger of an episode the three of us discuss Whitney's unique naturopathic approach to her Type 1 management and how she and Derrick found their way through Whitney's unexpected Type 1 diagnosis at 26. Whitney shares her experience with alternative medicine and the support she found in communities that had nothing to do with Type 1 at all. So grab your chunkiest blanket and your favorite matcha based beverage because we're talking about managing Type 1 the natural way with Whitney and Derrick!!!

    Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan

    Hosted by: Walt Drennan

    Music by: Afterglow Studios 

    1 hr 24 min
  • Ep.36 Type 1 Strategery with Delanie Fischer

    This week on everyone's favorite Q & A podcast all about Type 1, I host a very special Type NONE guest, Delanie Fischer!!! For those who may not know, Delanie is one of the hosts of my favorite health, wellness, and comedy themed podcast Self-Helpless. Delanie has no knowledge of or connection to Type 1 so I called up friend of the show Jennifer Bartels from season 2 episode 2 and sat down with Delanie to answer all of her burning Type 1 Q's. This episode, and what I hope to be many more to come, is my effort to be more strategic about my awareness spreading by reaching out to the Type Nones that really should know more about what living with Type 1 actually means. And Delanie being the professional self-help pod-caster and question asker that she is seemed like the perfect Type None to start it all off with. As you'll hear, Delanie was an absolute dream Type None guest and the questions she brought really made me look at aspects of my Type 1 experience that I hadn't thought of in years. Sit back and enjoy as I get startegic on this VERY inceptiony episode of Ask Me About My Type 1 and host the host of another podcast on my podcast with a guest with whom I've podcasted with before on this very same podcast.

    Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan

    Hosted by: Walt Drennan

    Music by: Afterglow Studios

    1 hr 8 min
  • Ep.35 Type 1 Hype-In?
    I'm back Type Ones and Nones! It's the very first episode of the Ask Me About My Type 1 hat trick season and it's a banger for sure!!! I have on Jordan of @butfirstinsulin fame and she inspires me to make up my very own Type 1 Phrase: Type 1 Hype-In!!! It's that feeling you get when Type 1 is the reason why everything is going just the way you want them to! It's an odd one for sure but if it were to end up in the Oxford dictionary Jordan would be the visual example next to the definition because of her absolutely Type 1 Hype-In attitude after her absolutely crazy diagnosis. On top of that Jordan's sister, Christina, gives me an entirely new perspective on the idea of Type 1 burnout and the importance of support. PLUS I announce some very fashionable developments! Ask Me About My Type 1 is back y'all!!! Get at me in the comments!Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic by: Afterglow Studios
    1 hr 14 min
  • Ep.34 Type 1 in the Time of COVID-19
    ***ALERT!!!ALERT!!!SPECIAL EPISODE!!!SPECIAL EPISODE*** COVID 19 has brought the world to a halt and while everyone strives to find their way through this new normal of sheltering in place and flattening the curve, those of us with a less than functioning pancreas have to do so on top of what Type 1 already demands of us. It’s a kind of anxiety that the Type 1 community has literally never had to go through to date so I felt the need to reach out and ask for help from someone who gets not just the Type 1 of it all but the COVID of it all too. Enter Dr, Hannah Hamlin, a medical resident who JUST SO HAPPENS to live with and manage her own Type 1 like many of us. In this special episode, I ask Hannah all my burning and anxiety-induced COVID questions and get all the REAL Type 1 answers with a medical degree to back them up. So wash those hands and maintain an appropriate social distance while we all listen as Hannah breaks COVID down for the Type 1 crowd. This special episode of @askmeaboutmytype1 is now live everywhere you listen to podcasts.Resources from Dr. Hannah Hamlin: Flatten the Curve - this concept is a must for understanding how we can help! Type 1 Diabetes & COVID-19: Are we immunocompromised? Reasonable AccommodationsEdited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic By: Afterglow Studios
    37 min
  • Trailer: Back for the Hat Trick!!!

    It's Season 3, Dia-Peoples and Type Nones of all the lands!!! So glad I could squeeze it in just as the end times started up too!!! BUT eye digress because Season 3 of your favorite Type 1 Q&A podcast is coming at you with a whole lot of hawt hawt Q's and all the spicy spicy Type 1 A's. Check out the trailer to hear about the season to come and learn all about the awesome Type 1 AND Type None guests I'll be talking that Type 1 talk with this season. Get psyched people (NOT pumped cause I hate Type 1 puns!!!) because Season 3 starts Monday March 30th!!! 

    4 min
  • Ep.33 Where Are They Now Season 2 Finale Special Part 2
    It's that time Type 1s and Type Nones!! To say goodbye to Season 2 with one last banger of an episode!! As I mentioned last week I have back on Jennifer Bartels from Episode 2 and Becca Smith from Episode 6 but I ALSO have a third super secret surprise guest, Robin from Episode 8!! The three of them tell me the unexpected ways that Type 1 has inspired them to do some pretty awesome things. As all Season Finale Special episodes tend to, this episode is covering it all from how annoying 26-year-olds reporters with functioning pancreases can really be, the realization that we're all pretty amazing, and how the Type 1 fight is fought on many fronts and YOU can too!! It's the end of the season 2 y'all so from the very bottom of my less than fully functional pancreas, I thank you all for sticking with me and I'll see you all in 2020!!Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic by: Afterglow Studios
    1 hr 35 min
  • Ep.32 Where Are They Now Season 2 Finale Special Part 1
    The end of Season 2 is upon us 1s and Nones!! And in true Ask Me About My Type 1 fashion, you're getting a Where Are They Now Season Finale Special with three guests from across Season 2!! My Type 1 guests this week are Destin from Ep1 Back to School, Kameran from Ep3 Smalltown Type 1 and Danielle from Ep5 When Type 1s Can't. Change is the law of the universe; that's just what it do. And as members of said universe, we AND our Type 1 are subject to change along with it. I sit down with each of my guests this week and they tell me about what's been changing in life, Type 1, and everything in-between. We cover it all from semesters away in Italy to poorly timed razor incidents and government organizations FINALLY deciding to get their act together. Don't forget to check out Danielle's fundraiser and see how you can join her and a bunch of Type 1 pilots doing some real good...It'll make more sense after you listen to the episode. Happy listening!!When Dreams Take Flight Fundraiser: https://www.facebook.com/donate/435495680713209/10212184281281561/Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic by: Afterglow Studios
    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep.31 Type 1 Supplementals
    Episode 13 WOULD be the most difficult to get out to y'all but out to y'all it is and it's a real banger! This week I have on team Roya, creators of the first dietary supplement specifically made FOR Type 1s. Type 1 guest Rohan and Type None guest Max tell me how they came together to address Type 1 concerns through dietary supplementation. And no it's not (JUST) an episode about cinnamon!! It's a story about what can happen when the powers of Type 1 and a Type None with a medical engineering degree and a passion for supplements combine!! Max tells of his learning about Type 1 through Rohan's Type 1 experience and Rohan tells of his rediscovery of the Type 1 community. I also get the rundown about Cinnamon and the TRUTH behind the myth!! It's flu season people so grab your Vitamin Cs, Ds, and Ks as you cozy on up for this brand new episode of Ask Me About My Type 1 where we all get a little supplemental with me!!Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic by: Afterglow Studios
    1 hr 3 min
  • Ep.30 Politicking Type 1
    As National Diabetes Awareness Month comes to a close and with Turkey day fast approaching, I couldn't think of an episode topic that could both help focus all your built-up Type 1y awareness-spreading energy AND prepare you for a conversation that will most certainly tick off uncle Bob and at least half of your Grandparents BETTER than this one!! It's all about Politics on Ask Me About My Type 1 this week, Dia-Citizens of voting age!! It's one of the tabooiest of subjects but one that has profound effects on the way we as Type 1s take care of ourselves in the United States. That's why I wrote to my representative in the Pennsylvania House, Sara Innamorato, and asked her to be my Type None guest for this week in Type 1 Politics!! I have on Type 1 guest Tracey from the local T1Yinzer group and together we tell Sara all about living with Type 1 in South West PA. Sara asks about our experiences navigating the American Health Care system as Type 1s, our opinions on Pennsylvania's recent legislative response to the opioid epidemic, and also leaves us with some helpful tips on how to take our Type 1 activism to the NEXT level. It's time to politick everyone so grab your voter registration card and take notes because Ask Me About My Type 1 is live and streaming!!Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic by: Afterglow Studios
    1 hr 34 min
  • Ep.29 Supporting all Types
    As we approach the halfway point of National Diabetes Awareness Month, I wanted this episode to focus on a huge part of why we have this month in the first place: SUPPORT!! Yes, advocacy involves a lot of fundraising and those dollars are important but awareness spreading is also about helping the Type Nones in our lives be there in the ways that we need most. But on the other side, Type None life isn't easy either and they can also use very specific support that is difficult to identify let alone find. And to talk about exactly that I have on Type 1 famous person, Molly of "Hugging the Cactus" blog fame and her best Type None friend from college Emma. This week we explore all the ways that Type 1s AND Type Nones need support. So grab your favorite buddy, functioning pancreas or not, and listen in as we discuss the ways all of us navigate the world whether we're living with type 1 OR caring for someone who does and the support that can help make that easier. Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt DrennanHosted by: Walt DrennanMusic by: Afterglow Studios
    1 hr 23 min

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I invite Type 1s on and they bring their Type None friends to ask all of their burning Type 1 questions. Tune in for real questions and honest answers from people actually living with Type 1 Diabetes. The answers may surprise you!