Our guest this week believes anything is possible with the help of your community. Jason Sotiris is the creator of Supertee, a medical garment designed for children that is functional in its ease of use during medical treatment and in its ability to help kids feel empowered while facing major health challenges. He’ll share how his daughter’s cancer diagnosis and treatment transformed his life as a parent, person, and professional, and how imaginative play + creativity in the face of adversity can drive meaningful change. Learn more at http://supertee.au.org/

About Jason:

Father to three kids, cancer dad, and construction worker with no tertiary education, no corporate experience, never known how to sew a button let alone make a T-Shirt, and is now a award-winning designer, inventor, patent holder, and CEO of a Children's charity distributing his products to all the major Children's hospitals of Australia and many pediatric clinics nationwide all for free.

Costume design and the power of imaginative play has proven to have psychological benefits for children. What you wear matters and for children in costume it provides a psychological distance between the child and the task they must face. Sometimes referred to as the Rapunzel effect, Batman effect or simply the alter ego effect has shown to offer a beneficial edge for children when facing unpleasant tasks.