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. 4일 전

    E114: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #37 "Embrace Your Inner Rockstar When it Comes to Advocacy"

    37th 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 our third area: advocacy, and specifically how we can achieve the level of advocacy or ourselves and causes that mean the most to us without feeling like we need to be pushed out of our comfort zones on the level and volume of our advocacy. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-advocacy methods and the types of advocacy that are available, why it’s valuable to understand passive activism as a starting point or way to evoke curiosity to create positive change or raise awareness, and the value of learning how to advocate for yourself and a cause that’s important to you when utilizing your confident communication style so you can feel its impact. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, The Shania Method, and learn about how to creating in your self-advocacy style because you’re utilizing kind communication tactics to subtly advocate for your rights and needs while allowing the other party to feel open-minded to learn and grown, and how creating a perspective shift on advocating from a place of sparking someone else’s curiosity to listen, learn and grown can allow you to achieve the maximum amount of equity and support.  Plus, founder Dominique opens up how her personal style of advocacy fused itself into the formation of InvisiYouth’s mission and that she was able to actually utilize our subtle activist stickers in a moment when she needed to self-advocate for her chronic illness to not just educate someone but also raise awareness on her community. 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    15분

  2. 8월 19일

    E113: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with UK Blogger on Micro-Adventures, Katie May Chesworth

    Let’s go on an adventure…a micro-adventure that is. It’s all about taking those small activities and ideas and turning them into big adventures for ourselves so travel and fun can be accessible and adaptive to happen weekly instead of the occasional holiday. That’s why we’re so excited to have a longtime friend of InvisiYouth’s on the podcast because she’s built a business on taking micro-adventures. It's UK Blogger on Micro-Adventures, Katie May Chesworth. Having lived with chronic illnesses like ulcerative colitis, an ileostomy and arthritis since 17, Katie has grown accustomed to finding accessible adventures she can do anytime. Now at 29, working in the space of writing and documenting her micro-adventures on her popular blog, Postcards From, Katie has brought her over 37k followers along the journey.  Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:20 we get to know Katie’s random responses about her go to wakeup song, why she’s 50/50 on spontaneity and planning, her favorite scent, how she’d survive a zombie apocalypse and the micro-adventure that’s in the pipeline she’s very excited to try. At 11:26 Katie and Dominique talk about her initial draw to micro-adventures, how she transitioned from doing it for herself to making it a profession, why she feels adding micro-adventures into her weekly routine has actually improved her relationship with her physical and mental health, and what are ways others living with chronic illness can adopt the same whimsical mindset.STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 25:32 takes us on a spontaneous adventure how Katie’s plan for a January Daily Micro-Adventure Challenge resulted in her getting the opportunity to go to Turkey to create content for a month…only that she’d need to go in 72 hours.And our final segment at 31:49 is all about the how-to’s on building your own micro-adventures. Katie shares how to creates her idea list of micro-adventures, the reason it’s valuable to tally in your micro-adventure days at the start of each month before picking them out, why good Google search terms and maps can bring the best results, how solo trips versus family/friends can bring two types of micro-adventure experiences, and her top micro-adventures you can do from home on bad health days or bad weather days.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Katie @postcardsfromkatie_ on all social media platforms! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    55분

  3. 8월 11일

    E112: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #36 "Compromise with Situations without Compromising the Goal"

    36th 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 our third area: advocacy for the first time, and specifically how do you learn how to self-advocate, especially when it comes to situations about your chronic illness or disability, in a way that involves the positive reframing of compromise, especially when it comes to advocating for compromise so you can have flexibility to adapt and create success. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-advocacy methods through the skillset of compromise, why looking at compromise as a beneficial action versus one of losing out on is a good reframe, and learning to advocate to know where the wiggle room is for some diversity in the way you achieve the end goal, you can find that inner power and strength that you’ll still be able to be flexible in finding success in a way that suits you.  Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Double Meaning Compromise Method, and learn about how to creating in your self-advocacy style because you’re utilizing compromise as a proactive and positive skill for yourself, and the ways the positive approach to self-advocating by requesting mutual compromise so there’s success all around and you can find adaptation to create successful outcomes that all parties are comfortable and happy to use.  Plus, founder Dominique opens up a time when she was given a treatment program for her chronic illness that would have seriously impacted her full way of life, and how this strategy of self-advocating through the tool of compromise is used primarily in order to keep the necessary elements in place, while compromising with flexibility on the parts that serve you.  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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    15분

  4. 7월 22일

    E111: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with Team USA Para Snowboarder, Zach Miller

    We know the power of sports, so to bring one a top athlete in one of the coolest adaptive sports is going to bring all the fun, excitement and impact. Team USA Para Snowboarder, Zach Miller, who has won two World Championships, six World Championship medals and was on the 2022 Beijing Paralympic team. Born in Colorado with cerebral palsy, Zach was introduced to snowboarding at 13 years old, and has worked through to become the elite athlete he is today. He even won the 2023 Best Athlete with a Disability Award at the ESPYS and is training for the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympic Games! Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: At 3:27 Zach shares all of his lasts, like the last sport he tried, newest meal he  enjoyed, the last video game he played, and the last hobby he picked up…and all the answers will be surprising!At 18:20 Zach and Dominique talk all about his start in para snowboard, how the community of adaptive sports has been a game-changer in the trajectory of his life, what he’s learned as a coach for Adaptive Action Sports and teaching the next generation of para snowboarders, and how has coaching while still competing has changed the way he competes on the professional level.STORY TIME INTERMISSION is major at 35:35 and Zach shares about his impactful experience of winning his ESPYS, and it goes much deeper than the fun night on the red carpet meeting famous athletes, but a connection to how we need to view ourselves as multi-hyphenate individuals.And we end the episode at 50:45 getting to know some facts about Zach’s para snowboarding career, what’s surprised him the most in the sport, how he feels its evolved as a sport from his early days competing, what he’s learned from his first competition that he takes into his current professional competitions, why slow is actually a needed skill in para snowboard, and the one thing he’d want to tell future Zach before hitting the snow at 2026 Milano Cortina in March. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Zac @themountainmiller, on all social media platforms! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Sticker 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    1시간 1분

  5. 7월 10일

    E110: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #35 "Process by Yourself Before Sharing for Optimal Rational-Emotional Balance"

    35th 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 our second area: sharing for the final time, and specifically how do you choose when you share with others to gain that community and external support while also needing to digest information and self-disclose in order to process and formulate opinions with themselves through their skills in sharing inwardly and outwardly.  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 yourself and others, how there’s a difference but equal important for inward sharing and outward sharing, what distinguishes between the two types of sharing, and how a person can become better at sharing with themselves to decipher their thoughts, feelings and questions first before sharing with others and prevent getting a diluted opinion. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Zoom In, Zoom Out Theory, and learn about how to fully digest your major information and news drops in your life the ways to initially self-disclose so you can personally reflect and get your thoughts, emotions and questions discovered without them being diluted by external input, and the ways that outward approach to sharing should be to garner a community of support and perspectives so you can share effectively and positively to approach any of those life challenges and major decisions.  Plus, founder Dominique opens up a time when she was given a serious piece of information regarding a treatment program for her chronic illness that would have seriously impacted her way of life, and how this strategy of inward and outward thinking allowed her to process, make choices, gain community support and a successful result to come from it all. 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    15분

  6. 6월 23일

    E109: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with UK accountant for content creators, small business owners and entrepreneurs, Emily Rose Vass

    We’re talking about finances, people! Whether you love it or hate it, we all have to deal with our finances, and finding advice and tools to feel confidence when it comes to managing finances effectively is key. UK accountant for small businesses, content creators and entrepreneurs, Emily Rose Vass has taken her over decade of experience as an accountant, along with her experience as a content creator to provide tailored financial guidance to clients to take away initial fears, feel empowered to be insightful with your business and grow finances. Engaging her audience online with financial management topics, Emily has grown and evolved her work to make taking finances an engaging topic.  Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:18 Emily gives her rapid answers about the first thing she’d do if she won the lottery, her first job being quite the unique job, the party game she’ll always get competitive playing, favorite accounting phrase, and the Swiftie moment at her wedding. At 12:31 Emily and Dominique talk about the ways to not feel overwhelmed balancing finances while being your own boss—especially as young adult living with chronic illness or disability, the main challenges she notices among her clients about their knowledge of finances, why pre-planning the finance goals and annual taxes you’d need to be preparing monthly in key, and the top tip to feel confident asking financial questions with your accountants or inner circle. STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 33:03 gets real as Emily shares about her early years with chronic illness as a trip to Japan with her now-husband resulted in an emergency bathroom moment that not only led to her diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis, but also her feeling more confident in talking about chronic illness with those around her. And we end the podcast episode at 38:12 as Emily and Dominique talk about what’s the best starting points to search if you want some free financial guidance and the safety measures to know you’re getting certified advice, ways to get into saving and the benefits of that contingency plan, how to plan your monthly spending personally and professionally, and the top tools and tips to keep up with your finances every month so you’ll be efficient, flexible and learn how to adapt and grow during all stages of your career. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Emily @emilyrosevass, on all social media platforms and their website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity Shop to buy yourself or someone you care about our limited edition Subtle Activist Color Block bracelet or Subtle Activism Sticker 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    58분

  7. 6월 12일

    E108: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #34 "Sharing With People Should be like Hitting all the Targets on a Dartboard"

    34th 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 still focusing on our second area: sharing, and specifically how we can improve our ability to share vital information and feelings with those in all the different facets of our lives, and rather, realizing the power each individual has to decipher all the layers of closeness and trust with those in all parts of our lives so we can share different things with different people to get well-rounded support in life.  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, how you can decipher those different sections and layers of people in your life based off your level of trust and closeness with them, and why it’s valuable to actually have a range of people in your life that you can share certain things with about life, emotions and experiences versus a few people that you share everything with. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Darts and Bullseye Network Mindset, and learn about how to be thoughtful in sharing with those around you, how to take stock of the people in your life in all levels of closeness and trust to decide learning your skills of sharing the personal and surface level elements, and the value of having the bullseye person to share it all with, while also having the full dartboard of people to share different elements of your life with so you can be fully supported. Plus, founder Dominique opens up a time while working at her publishing job when she met new coworkers for the first time that didn’t know about her chronic illness, and how she handled sharing about a recent injury with those that were new to her life versus those that were her original coworkers that knew more about the intricacies of her life, so she was fully supported. 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    16분

  8. 5월 19일

    E107: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with founder and innovator of Slick Chicks, Helya Mohammadian

    Function and fashion are two things that should always align, and we love when we get to have a special guest from the fashion world. Founder and innovator of Slick Chicks, Helya Mohammadian, has made sure her brand’s mission is to make intimates, loungewear and active wear that’s accessible and provides a sense of dignity and independence in getting dressed. Selling online and in retailers like Target and CVS, Slick Chicks has connected with the masses for its beauty and comfortability, and Helya has made it her mission to bring a deeper understanding to the fashion industry for more inclusivity and representation.  Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:46 Helya gives out some of her life superlatives, like what she would say in her sleep, a dream celeb to model for Slick Chicks, which country she’d want to live in, why she loves a video call, and why Friends is a must TV binge.At 13:18 Helya and Dominique talk about how Helya transitioned from the fashion industry to creating her own brand, what she’s learned from the chronic illness/disability community as Slick Chicks has grown, why it’s valuable to listen and lean in as a founder, and her top tips for new entrepreneurs.STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 29:31 gets us into the reality TV vibes as Helya tells us about that one time she went on a reality TV show and totally learned that expectation and reality were two different things.And the final segment at 34:06 gets us in the fashion energy. Heyla and Dominique talk about how diversity and inclusivity constantly grow to make fashion impact numerous lives, why functional and fashionable need to interest more often, how she breaks the misconceptions and lack of knowledge mainstream fashion and merchandisers have about adaptive fashion so it can reach a wider audience, the reason both female founders feel patience is a virtue and a skill to sharpen, and what are the pieces of advice that Heyla would give to her younger self that she would hope she can continue to take into the future with Slick Chicks.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Helya @helyamohammadian and Slick Chicks @slickchicksonline on all social media platforms and their website! 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!  Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    49분
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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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