InvisiYouth Chat Sessions

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 osteosarcoma, and Katie’s passion to have initiatives and sibling programs to help families cope when loved ones struggle with health issues is deeply impactful.

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: 

1. At 3:25, Katie does a Rapid-Fire Round on what’ the deep meaning being RCFS’s pillowcase and her favorite design, guilty pleasure to unwind from a long day and why she’d want to learn some piano skills. 
2. Give their empowering POVs at 14:22 as Dominique and Katie share the major struggles siblings can face, how we can provide outlets of support for them and tops to make sure there’s no “struggle ranking” but rather the nudge of intentional fun times between siblings. 
3. STORY TIME Intermission at 29:32 gets the laughs going as Katie describes a sibling day at Hershey Park with her brother, Ryan, and how his prosthetic leg and rented wheelchair made for a fun, memorable day at the candy-themed amusement park. 
4. And final segment at 36:36 reveals all the advice for caregivers to fuel independence while playing a major role in your young adult’s life, how to strengthen your communication to add some grace, the value of mutual apologies and why caregivers deserve some self-care and Dominique’s three types of support beams each caregiver should have in their lives. 

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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 between schooling or work life, it’s super vital that we learn how to communicate our needs with these individuals, while also putting out the best results and being successful in our lives.

 It can become so nerve-wracking to imagine how we can build a successful dynamic with individuals in positions of power when we’re also balancing our chronic illness/disability and wanting to be given the equal playing field to fully show our worth and be understood. During this podcast episode, we’re going to be diving deep into what makes this power dynamic and why it’s vital for those in positions of power to maintain open-communication and fairness in the way they lead so their staff or students will feel confident to express how they can adapt to work their best  and create the best results.

We teach about the Slow Burn Syndrome, and the multi-step process you can take to improve your communication with your boss or teacher so they can slowly become aware of your health or disability needs, without allowing them to overstep and make decisions without your input and without understanding the full capability you have. The proactive nature of Slow Burn Syndrome is laid out in steps so you can learn how to prepare before talking with a boss, how to slowly integrate your adaptations or accessibility needs into conversation to spark your boss/teacher’s curiosity so they’ll be more responsive to assist you in thriving, and how to maintain open-minded communication so the dynamic is fair and successful. Plus, founder Dominique drops the details about her other work life…besides her daily InvisiYouth life, and how she’s gotten the goodness of a slow burn with her boss so she’s understood and supported as an employee and communicates openly with her boss always.

 Let's get talking and  make your communicate style with those in positions of power optimal for success and fairness 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!
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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 nurses and amplified it to empower and help others. Both from the nonprofit, Operation Happy Nurse, founder Shannon McPeek and board president Mallori Walker, have the aim of helping those in the nursing profession battle work-related stress, anxiety and depression and end the stigma around mental health. And it’s been a rockstar-level of success ever since!

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways from this podcast episode: 

1. At 4:23, Shannon and Mallori answer a rapid-fire of questions about how they got into nursing, why the origin story of OHN’s name would make all the sibling energy proud, and each of their favorite resources that the nonprofit provides. 
2. At 15:20 we dive deep into the origin story about how Shannon created Operation Happy Nurse, Mallori gives the facts on what can be the pitfalls of working in nursing and mental health, and how to provide self-care and wellbeing into nurse’s lives on and off the clock. 
3. STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 31:07 lets Shannon and Mallori talk about two of their mentors that led to two of the biggest life changes and impacts on their careers as nurses. Shoutout to Purdue University’s School of Nursing in this segment! 
4. The podcast ends at 40:40 with getting Mallori and Shannon’s advice on how to improve our communication and dynamics with our nurses and medical teams, and their tips on how to advice for yourself, and what fellow nurses/and nursing students can learn to make their experience with their future patients that are young adults all the better and successful! 

Make sure to take part in the #ShowMyStarChallenge, raising awareness and funds to support the young adult chronic illness/disability community of InvisiYouth.

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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 will ask us questions or make comments, especially about chronic illness/disability, so knowing how to react with confidence creates success. 

While it might seem odd to focus on communication mediator advice for the dynamic with the general public, it’s important to remember it’s the group of people that’s fleeting, evolves, and is everywhere you go. So it is important to sharpen your communication with this dynamic.

This podcast episode brings to the forefront why it is so vital to understand how to encounter communicating with the general public, and why those experiences can impact us deeply.  And the reasoning behind our reactions to their commentary holds more value than what is actually said because it allows us to know where our confidence stems from about ourselves, and what to tap into when our insecurities are touched upon by random people. 

We teach you all about the Inner Litmus Test Method and what you need to know about mental and reactive litmus tests in order to know why having an inner test to know how you feel about something or someone can lead to your success. We give all the steps about how to instantaneously react when the general public gives you that question or comment that stops you in your tracks, how to check your wellbeing and how full your cup or handling others with verbal education truly is, and when to dip in your metaphorical litmus test to see if it’s positive or negative and how to proceed with either result.

Plus, founder Dominique spills the tea on the two instances she was using her cane and had public questions so she had to pull out her own litmus tests with two different reactions, so you’ll see how to communicate with confidence in both instances.
 
 Let's get talking and  make your communicate style with the general public’s moments of questions and curiosity a time of ease, success, joy, and always add your type of chatting style to the forefront so productivity thrives along with your health’s wellbeing!
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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 pursue a career in fashion PR but the calling to work among and represent the disability community was so strong that she fueled a new direction, and it’s been a major success. She’s been a spokesperson for disability, adaptive fashion and inclusive right and uses her platform as a brand that connects with many. Plus, she’s been part of campaigns for brands like Google, Clinique and Tommy Hilfiger to name a few! 

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways from this podcast episode: 

1. At 3:23 Paula and Dominique go through some of Paula’s popular Instagram highlights. She gives some behind-the-scenes from working with Tommy Adaptive as an influencer and model, her tips on dating with disability—and why the dating apps haven’t been part of that equation for her, and what’s some of the most impactful parts of sharing and advocating for her Latina disability community. 
2. At 20:31 we’re building a fun toolkit for life as Paula shares how her confidence of using her cane has grown as she’s gotten older (and you get a peek at some of her gorgeous canes), why having her golden-doodle Luna provides companionship, drive and independence that fuels her days, and so many tips on how to navigate New York City as someone with a chronic illness or disability. 
3. Intermission is STORY TIME at 42:46 when Paula goes full empowerment and shares her rationale about how to chase your dreams and go for the things that’ll bring you joy as part of the chronic illness/disability community.
4. We wrap up at 47:15 getting questions answered about how to choose what you share on social media, why looking at yourself as a brand and what you truly want to say in the world matters no matter how public or private your platform is, and Paula’s advice on how to maximize your schedule to get all the work-life and fun-life goals met while being flexible to your health needs.  

Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Paula @pauuzzo! 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!

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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 proactive and reactive-based tool that you can go back to when dealing with those finicky comments and DMs that sometimes get too personal or rude from people in your online circle.

With the GenZ population spending over nine hours daily in front of screen, and almost three hours of that is on social media platforms, we have to credit that communicating with others via social media has taken a large amount of our time. It’s even altered the way we communicate into a solely receiving end form of communication because we’re either giving content or receiving comments that can even be public to people beyond the conversation. So it’s important to know how to communicate and respond successfully to those online people, that outer layer of people that fill your digital sector of life. In this episode, we give our tips on how to decipher the ‘online’ and ‘friend’ portions of having ‘online friends,’ what it means to make your social media a safe space for you, and how to create boundaries. 

We go over the Fence and Bushes Practice, teach you the steps on how to proactively create boundaries of what you won’t share about your chronic illness/disability online, and reactively set up your confident communication style of how to ‘beat around the bushes’ when those comments and DMs are thrown your way that make you anxious or uncomfortable so you know how to communication with online people in a way that’s mutually respectful and protecting your peace. Plus, Founder Dominique drops a story from one of the few instances she’s on social media, and it’s a great example of how to communication successfully with online people in our lives.
 
 Let's get talking and  make your relationship with the online people in our comments and DMs one of ease, success, joy, and always add your type of chatting style and compromise skills to the forefront so productivity thrives along with your health’s wellbeing!

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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 and founder of the nonprofit and professional dance company, Infinite Flow Dance, Marisa Hamamoto. This company employs dancers with and without disabilities with a mission to use dance as a catalyst of promotion inclusion. 

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways from the podcast episode: 

1. 3:04 - Marisa and Dominique give the reasons to swipe right on some of the many dance styles from Marisa’s life. She chats about the indirect way she got into ballet, why roller skating brought a lot into her life besides movement, and why wheelchair partner dancing can teach you lots about yourself and creating bonds on and off the dance floor.  
2. 24:16 - The ladies dive deep into what it means to experience chronic illness/disability later in life and how to not just tackle those moments of frustration and the mental/emotional struggles of health changes, and the ways you can still incorporate the hobbies and activities of your past, but reframing their role and direction in your life moving forward so it still serves you. 
3. 42:46 - Intermission is STORY TIME and Marisa brings us back to her senior year of high school and how what happened with the final dance project led to Marisa making one bold move with a pencil that impacted the way she lives her life and work to this day.  
4. 52:22 - And final segment gets talking about inclusivity and diversity, the value of bringing more of that into your inner community, and what simple acts you can take that’ll not just be more inclusive, but also can truly empower more of the chronic illness/disability community to thrive. 

Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Marisa @marisahamamoto and Infinite Flow Dance @infiniteflowdance! 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!

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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 strategies in order to optimize your professional and academic relationships because they are settings and people that evolve with time and spend a lot of your time with in life. 

When you think about spending a third of your life at work, and over 10% of your life in school, that’s a lot of time just being with coworkers and classmates, so you gotta strengthen your way of communicating with this group of people. We explain what makes this outer layer of relationship different to work on improving than others and why the work-from-home/online class structure can be tailored to optimize communication. The steps are given for you to make sure that both parties mutually give and receive information and support one another’s end goals by compromising on matters that’ll optimize your success in academic and professional settings. Plus, you’ll be able to utilize compromise on a personal level—in independently choosing what details about yourself you want/need to share—with the interactive level—in working with your coworkers and classmates on how they can mutually compromise on this two-way street so they can support you in an equal way to still productively get things done.

And founder Dominique gives the life story about how she got to utilize InvisiYouth’s Compromise Avenue Theory so she could create a better strength and growth in the dynamic with coworkers so going to the office went from strength to strength.

 Let's get talking and  make your relationship with your classmates and coworkers one of ease, success, joy, and always add your type of chatting style and compromise skills to the forefront so productivity thrives along with your health’s wellbeing!
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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 football, even joining the Wales Futsal International team. But he knew this fusion could tackle stigmas associated with the diagnosis and create positive peer support, so in 2017 he founded The Diabetes Football Community, and this combination has grown ever since. 

Here’s the Top Four Takeaways from the podcast: 

1. At 3:44 Chris and Dominique get real on what makes community-based support uniquely valuable for young people living with chronic illness, how creating community through interest over diagnosis could be the more valuable mindset, and how Chris works hard to advocate for young men with T1D diagnoses to break down stigmas.  
2. At 22:49 Chris reveals the superlatives in his life, like working with the T1D, what makes their activism unique, and major memorable moments with the football players that’ve come through The Diabetes Football Community.  
3. Intermission is STORY TIME at 39:55 and Chris brings us back to when he was playing for the Wales Futsal International team and the race against the clock to get his T1D numbers to get down to the right number to play. 
4. And we wrap up the episode at 48:08 with Chris and Dominique talking about what ways young people living with chronic illness/disability can recognize their unique stressors and find ways to be empowered to handle those stressors, and the best piece of advice for those with chronic illness/disability that want to give sports a try.  

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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 that works for both groups in this dynamic so going to the doctors can be successful for you and for your medical team.

Dropping the primary point of what makes communicating with doctors and nurses vital, beyond the obvious medical reason, is primary to set the podcast. We dive into why both points of view need to be supported and understood in order for conversation to be more successful with medical teams, and how these doctors and nurses can also be supported by us to bring their best in our chats. We get real on the history of health literacy, what makes it unique to each person, and how part groups can sharpen that unique form of communication to make our medical visits all the better. The quick steps are developed in our technique for you to easily follow on why you need a pre-action of bookended kindness before talking, what’s the point in discovering your communication style that exudes confidence, and how to maintain the open-ended note at the end of your points to growth can happen. 

And we switch points of view to explain for the doctors and nurses, and healthcare students, what they can sharpen and improve in their Messenger Mindset tools to be able to communicate successfully and more open-mindedly with their young adult patients given the realities of having the hard health talks. And founder Dominique gives a great life story about her time going to her now staple cardiologist for the first time and how there was so much Messenger Mindset actions happening from everyone in the visit that it is a prime example of how to infuse our teaching into your next doctor visits or conversations with your nurses so those miscommunications or frustrations can be eased for everyone.
 
 Let's get talking and  make your relationship with your doctors and nurses one of ease, success, joy, and always add your type of chatting cushion so both parties are getting their points across and the ultimate goal of your health’s wellbeing is constantly in the forefront!
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