InvisiYouth Chat Sessions

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!

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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: 

1. 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. 
2. 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. 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 

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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!

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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: 

1. 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. 
2. 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. 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 

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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!

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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: 

1. 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. 
2. 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. 
3. 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!
4. 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.  

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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!

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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: 

1. 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. 
2. 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. 
3. 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. 
4. 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. 

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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 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!

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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 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: 

1. 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. 
2. 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. 
3. 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. 
4. 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.  

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