InvisiYouth Chat Sessions

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Check in for a dose of stigma-break, humor-filling, empowerment building life hacks and motivation for all the “medically-adult-ish” young people. The InvisiYouth Chat Sessions, is part of InvisiYouth Charity. This international nonprofit helps teens and young adults with various chronic illnesses and disabilities gain the right lifestyle programs, empowerment and interactive activism to learn how to keep living life. Twice a month, our founder, Dominique Viel, will bring guest experts from all illness/disability fields to have a chat show video podcast series, and our quick Audio Flash Files of 15 minutes of Self-Improvement techniques. Join this series, as it will be a one-of-a-kind chat show that clusters motivation and advocacy, entertainment and humor, and life hacks and tips.

  1. 22 jun

    E129: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with four-time Paralympic Cross-Country Skiing gold medalist and PhD neuroscience student, Sydney Jo Peterson

    Let’s go from the snowy mountains to the laboratory. Four-time Paralympic Cross-Country skier gold medalist and PhD neuroscience student, Sydney Jo Peterson began to experience symptoms of dystonia in her left arm. As time went on, Sydney went to be a skier in university and her dystonia ended up affecting her left arm and leg. Instead of leaving the sport, Sydney was encouraged to go into para cross-country skiing. She’d qualify for the 2022 Beijing Paralympics, and earn a hat trick: a gold, silver and bronze medal. And at the Milano-Cortina Paralympics she’d earn three more gold medals and a silver. Off the snow, Sydney is going for her PhD in neuroscience at University of Utah, working in a neurogenetics lab to research how existing drugs can be repurposed to treat rare neurodegenerative diseases.  Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:25 Sydney gives her superlatives of best skiing location, the summer Paralympic sport she’d try, what she’s most likely to listen to while training and the type of food she’d give a five-stars.At 10:33 Sydney and Dominique talk all things para cross-country skiing! Sydney talks about how she got into skiing, what the experience was like transitioning to para cross-country skiing and how she navigated a new version of a sport as her health changed both physically and mentally, what event she enjoys the most, and how she balances her full-time para cross-country skiing career with her full-time PhD work.INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 30:09 brings the levity as Sydney talks about one time she went training solo while in Montana and a series of events left her five miles from her car with a surprise twist saving the day.And the episode ends at 34:03 as we talk all things neuroscience. Sydney shares how she got into the science world for her studies and a career, what about her personal experience with dystonia has given her a different approach to her PhD research role, what’s her favorite thing about working in a rare disease-focused lab, the elements of going into the sciences that she feels people should know when they’re in their early college years, and how she feels her cross-country skiing background has sharpened her approach to her neuroscience research career.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Sydney @sydney.j.p! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop 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! Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    51 min

  2. 11 jun

    E128: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #44 "How to Make Three Seconds Change Your Life Perspective For the Better"

    44th 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 to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life. We’re focusing on the area of internal development, and specifically within the realm of reviewing thought processes—especially how to rationalize and reframe the life changing moments in our lives and health from an analytical viewpoint where we can compartmentalize the varying emotions of the full experience and how it impacts the present day.  Learn the steps on why it is important to gain thinking tools of understanding why there’s such a benefit to learning the psychology of reframing, what are the benefits to dissecting the major traumas and life-changing events in life into three different sectors in order to understand them fully, and how to comprehend your emotions in levels. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Three Second Life Change Theory, the steps to be able to recognize your life-changing event and recognize the before, during and after experiences, how to be able to analyze the emotions and changes from each sector, and why it’s so valuable to our internal development to grow with confidence when we can see the event in stages versus being overwhelmed by all the emotions of such a life shift. Plus, founder Dominique talks about how was able to look back on the moment she got injured which developed her chronic illnesses and instead of feeling a wave of sadness, was able to compartmentalize the moment into three different seconds, logically analyze how each experience made her feel and grow, and then became capable of learning and thinking about that major life event with more internal confidence. 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! SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth  Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    15 min

  3. 19 may

    E127: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with award-winning home cook, TV personality, cookbook author and creator of Dish It Girl, Dina Deleasa Gonsar

    We’re bringing back one of our favorite guests and friends for a catch up! Dina Deleasa-Gonsar creates recipes that fuse family traditions with modern twists so getting into the kitchen is fun and approachable with over 123k followers. Dina’s bright personality has made her a staple on TV and online as a fantastic home cook. And Dina uses her platform to connect to others, being an advocate on the journey of postpartum depression, thyroid cancer, and how to empower yourself to keep growing and becoming your best version. Last year, Dina’s first cookbook, At the Kitchen Sink was released and she also began hosting on TV with On New Jersey’s In the Mix, and joined the podcast world with DishItGirl Podcast. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:05 Dina shares the one cooking tool she hasn’t mastered, what she wishes she invented, and why her morning ritual is a surprise. At 14:51 Dominique and Dina catch up about her cookbook journey, what surprised her the most going from creating visual content for cooking to a written book, what’s helped her keep her ethos throughout her cooking career’s evolutions, and her advice for others about being intentional both personally and publicly from her thyroid cancer journey that can help others. INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 40:07 gives us the funny exclusive about Dina’s experience on Guy’s Grocery Games when she may have been accidentally the last one left on set. And the final segment at 45:29 get us in the foodie brain as Dina shares about the foods her daughter, Sienna is expanding into her palette, recipes she’s shared online that have gotten the most surprising reaction, how her cookbook recipes have made the rounds with her family members, and the mission she’d want in a future cookbook. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Dina @dishitgirldina on all social media platforms, buy her cookbook and check out her podcast! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop 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! Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    59 min

  4. 7 may

    E126: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #43 "Find Your Patio Door Opportunities to Be Seen and Heard in Conversations"

    43rd 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 to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life. We’re focusing on the area of external personal development, and specifically within the realm of empowering redirection—especially how to gain the conversational skills and creativity to become included in conversations and community that you might otherwise feel unintentionally excluded from.  Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding how to redirect miscommunication and exclusion so you are empowered in conversations, and why you might unintentionally excluded from conversations and community because others don’t know how to proactively adapt and find accessibilities. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Patio Door Theory, the metaphor of finding a patio door as an alternate route to break into conversations and situations that feel inaccessible to you, the steps to be able to read the situations you are being unintentionally disempowered by choices being made for you and how to utilize your communication style to break into the chat so you can share your desires and needs so others know how to adapt and be accessible so your involvement can continue. Plus, founder Dominique talks about how she had to get creative in her metaphorical patio door search when it came to her friend group hanging out together without inviting her and how she was able to be empowered to express her wants and needs while opened the conversation in their worries of impacting her health while going out so she was able to ask for the invites and communication to adapt to excel. 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! SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    16 min

  5. 21 abr

    E125: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with Australian gold and silver medalist and 4x Grand Slam wheelchair tennis player Heath Davidson

    We are proponents of the power of para-sports, and we are massive fans of one specific sport that started it all: wheelchair tennis. We are thrilled that this episode’s special guest is Australian gold and silver medalist and 4x Grand Slam wheelchair tennis player Heath Davidson. After contracting viral transverse myelitis which led to paraplegia and using a wheelchair, Heath was first introduced to wheelchair tennis at 14 and his talent and perseverance in a journey would begin. He’d skyrocket to wheelchair tennis legacy status in 2016 after winning guild in the 2016 Rio Paralympics with doubles partner, gold medalist Dylan Alcott, and continuing to have more success in the sport in singles and doubles, even being runner-up in this year’s Australian Open with partner Andy Lapthorone. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways:  At 03:13 Heath shares fun facts like which winter Paralympic sport he’d try, best appetizer to order, the one word to describe his tennis playing and a favorite childhood band he still listens to now. Heath and Dominique talk more at 07:59 when Heath shares his journey getting into wheelchair tennis, how different his approach to the sport is from his teen years to his current career in this thirties, and what he learns as he inspires and encourages the younger generation of wheelchair tennis players that sparks more into his current play. INTERMISSION STORY TIME AT 25:48 gives us the behind the scenes experience of how Heath returned to wheelchair tennis after a hiatus in his twenties which would ultimately lead to playing with Dylan Alcott and going to his first Paralympics to win gold all within one year…but that wasn’t the only highlight. And our final segment at 36:09 gets us into the world of para-sport and the power of it in your life. Heath shares what he likes about singles versus doubles, the surprising thing he had to learn when getting into the sport, and how his commitment to sharing about mental health and its importance for people and athletes within their overall wellness that’s both insightful and empowering. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Heath on @heathdavidson13 and his website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy bracelets or stickers from our Subtle Activism collection 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!  Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    59 min

  6. 13 abr

    E124: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #42 "The Benefits of Planning So You Can Feel Prepared for All Life's Situations"

    42nd 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 third addition to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life. We’re focusing on the area of external personal development, and specifically within the realm of proactive planning—especially how preplanning the situations that give you the most struggle or feel the most inaccessible can benefit in the long run because you are going to feel prepared for all of life’s situations and be invigorated to find success through the preplanning.  Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding premeditative planning, why so many young people can get into the situation when life goals are created but derailed because of unforeseen circumstances, and the reasons premeditative planning can be the key to that success. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Swiss Cheese Life Plan, the metaphor of layering up a bunch of Swiss cheese to block as many holes as possible is vital, and the rationale of the mindset of how to premeditatively plan for supports within yourself and others in order to guide for accessibility and achievements on your plan towards reaching the same life goals in supported ways for successful outcomes. Plus, founder Dominique talks about how she was dealing with a lot of pitfalls and unsuccessful doctor and physiotherapy appointments when short term memory loss kicked in, and how she needed to do a lot of premeditatively plan all the holes and cracks that made this unsuccessful so there were supports in place so that each time would now be successful no matter what. 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! SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth  Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    15 min

  7. 24 mar

    E123: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with American Paralympic track and field athlete, motivational speaker and philanthropist, Noelle Lambert-Beirne

    As an American Paralympic track and field athlete, Noelle Lambert-Beirne has always had a deep love and devotion to sports. From her background playing lacrosse, even returning to Division 1 lacrosse at University of Massachusetts after losing her left leg in a moped accident in 2016, Noelle transitioned to track and field, specializing in 100m and long jump T63 events. She has numerous accolades, including joining Team USA in Paralympic Games and winning bronze last year in T63 long jump at World Para Athletics Championships. She’s also competed on Season 43 of Survivor, and started her own foundation, Born to Run Foundation, which provides prostheses and supports young amputees to promote adaptive sports.  Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:45 Noelle lists her lasts, including the last new place she’s visited, the last date night activity with her husband, the last new sport she wanted to try, and the last competition reality tv she watched and wanted to compete on.  Noelle and Dominique get chatting at 13:48 as Noelle shares how her athletic journey transitioned when she returned to lacrosse after her accident, her best advice for those wanting to try para-sports, the top experiences she learned from her time on Survivor, and why it’s vital more people understand the multi-faceted journey of getting prosthetics that should be supported.  INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 34:45 will get your celebrity citing on as Noelle shares about the time she got to meet Tom Brady and made sure she got an autograph in the most unique of places that will forever be memorable.  And our final segment at 38:02 dives in the world of para-sports. Noelle and Dominique talk about her addition of long jump and how it redefined her track and field career in exciting ways, the importance in supporting para-athletics and how to support their careers, and what’s the one thing she wants to make sure LA 2028 Paralympics Noelle remembers. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Noelle @noellelambert on all social media platforms Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy bracelets or stickers from our Subtle Activism collection 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! Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    58 min

  8. 10 mar

    E122: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #41 "Find the Good in the Sudden Changes Like Chocolate in Dinner"

    41st 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 to our “Inner vs External Growth Series” for 2026, where all episodes have been targeting both internal and external personal development skillsets and mindsets, and the ways you can utilize them to strengthen your mental wellbeing when tacking different areas of life. We’re focusing on the area of internal development, and specifically within the realm of mental reconfiguration—especially how to find ways to regroup in the face of roadblocks and limits in our life so we can find the new skills and new paths to adapt to excel without feeling pessimistic about the changes and actually feel invigorated in your path for growth.  Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding mental reconfiguration, what are the reasons that it’s important to know roadblocks and limits to our goals in life can happen and shouldn’t be blamed on ourselves, and how to mentally regroup when a change in plans is needed so you can actually still find the sweetness in the things you learn and grow in the struggle. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Dinner Chocolate Mindset Theory, and learn about how to recognize the challenges while simultaneously pondering for the new positives and new paths that can come from within hardships, how to project forward what can be learned in these moments from what’s new and good with challenges, and how to make a pivot in the plan become just as sweet as the original plan because you can actually learn new skills or learn a new path in life that allows for more doors and opportunities to come from reaching the same goals. Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her first experiences of her chronic illness limiting how she was able to work when the temperature dysregulation in her hand actually caused her to need to pivot away from traditional typing and she needed to get creative to find a new path to success, or rather a path to success that opened new doors. 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! SUBSCRIBE to "InvisiYouth Chat Sessions" on any podcast platform or YouTube! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisiyouth-chat-sessions/id1388370205 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XHN8GAcHfWMFM1V6o9vXc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@invisiyouth Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

    14 min
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Check in for a dose of stigma-break, humor-filling, empowerment building life hacks and motivation for all the “medically-adult-ish” young people. The InvisiYouth Chat Sessions, is part of InvisiYouth Charity. This international nonprofit helps teens and young adults with various chronic illnesses and disabilities gain the right lifestyle programs, empowerment and interactive activism to learn how to keep living life. Twice a month, our founder, Dominique Viel, will bring guest experts from all illness/disability fields to have a chat show video podcast series, and our quick Audio Flash Files of 15 minutes of Self-Improvement techniques. Join this series, as it will be a one-of-a-kind chat show that clusters motivation and advocacy, entertainment and humor, and life hacks and tips.

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