When her daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, Brandi Pillow found help for the medical side, but almost none for the emotional side. So she built braveONE.

In our very first episode, Matt Angerer talks with Brandi Pillow, founder of braveONE, a nonprofit that pairs kids living with Type 1 Diabetes with trained, screened adult mentors who live with T1D themselves. Brandi shares why a child needs someone older who has already lived it, and how meeting adults with Type 1 who are athletes, pilots and professionals shows kids the diagnosis doesn't have to stop them.

In this episode:
- What was missing on the emotional side after her daughter's diagnosis
- Why one-to-one mentoring reaches kids who don't open up in big groups
- What a mentor actually does with their mentee
- How braveONE matches a mentor and a child, beyond zip code
- Growing to meet demand without losing the personal connection
- What she wishes more people understood about raising a child with Type 1 Diabetes

How to help braveONE:
Become a mentor (adults living with T1D): https://braveone.org/get-involved/
Donate: https://give.cornerstone.cc/braveone
Website: https://www.braveone.org