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. Aug 18

    E133: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with USA Para Track and Field athlete, 6x medalist and 2x record holder, and Marine Biologist, Delaney Nolin

    We’re diving deep into the para-sport world for all the how-tos and knowledge to get everyone tuning in. Team USA Para Track and Field athlete, 6x medalist and 2x record holder, and marine biologist, Delaney Nolin, has always loved track and field. Living with cerebral palsy which impacts her gait and ability to run, Delaney went from competing on the collegiate level into Team USA at the Paralympic level. She competes in T35 running for 800m, 400m, and 200m, along with F35 shot put, and holds two US records and the American Women’s shot put record. When Delaney isn’t being an advocate for inclusion in sports and supporting underrepresented athletic groups, she’s working in her career as a marine biologist. With over six years in the field, Delaney has worked in research on climate change impacts and a focus on data driven solutions for sustainable environmental management. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: At 2:56 Delaney answers the rapid-fire questions about her favorite sport to watch, best cooldown exercise, the one country she’d love a Paralympics to be in next, her taste in music and what she does on the weekend.At 6:25 Delaney drops the facts about para sports, and specifically all about classifications. She gives the new fan guide on what are para sport classifications in sports and their value, what the letters and numbers mean for different categories, how athletes can get classified, and how to be a new spectator enjoying the sports with one major fact that Delaney drops that’ll change your perspective.INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 22:29 gets motivational as Delaney shares how she got into para sport from one university track and field tournament resulting in an introduction to Team USA in the best of ways.And we end the podcast episode on 29:45 with Delaney giving us all the insight into her two careers between shot put and marine biologist. Delaney shares how she got into shot put and what’s the thing she loves the most about this community, how she got into marine biology, and the one thing she feels aligns the best between her two careers that a lot of people can take into their futures.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Delaney @delaneynolin on all social media platforms! 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

  2. Aug 10

    E132: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #46 "Developing Your Self-Advocacy So You Can Achieve Success with Subtly"

    46th 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 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 growth, and specifically we are taking the time to gain information and a new perspective on how to approach activism in the personal and social settings so you can still feel changes and progression are made, but at the volume you’d prefer so the spark of curiosity can permeate subconscious.  Learn the steps on the different forms of advocacy and levels to advocate, why it’s needed to take subtle approaches to advocacy in the early stages because quiet doesn’t mean powerless, and how it’s important to find ways to spark curiosity in activism so opinions can grow with lasting impact. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Silent Solidarity Theory, the steps to be able to learn your own style of advocating, internally gauge the way you communicate with the world, why it helps to lean into quiet activism as a way to show the pockets other can be curious about to learn and grow to take as a spark of momentum for positive change that’s in their subconscious and greats positive changes. Plus, founder Dominique talks about how the development of InvisiYouth’s Subtle Activist Color Block bracelets allowed her to showcase her subtle activism on her personal advocacy of her own chronic illness journey, as well as community advocacy of the chronic illness/disability community of our nonprofit because she was able to lean into curiosity so a long-lasting progression of change was possible with those she met. 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! Wanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

  3. Jul 21

    E131: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with actress, singer and team captain of the Rollettes LA dance team, Joci Scott

    We need some energy, and nothing’s better than some singing and dancing. Actress, singer, and team captain of the Rollettes LA wheelchair dance team, Joci Scott, is a passionate performer since childhood, but a plane crash with her family when she was 20 resulted in a pivot for Joci as she navigated life paralyzed with a T12 spinal cord injury. She would return to performing months later while using her wheelchair, and her pursuit for a career as a working actress, singer and dancer. She’s performed in numerous stage performances and short films, and when she’s not acting, Joci is team captain of the popular wheelchair dance team, Rollettes LA that she’s been dancing with for over five years. Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:47 Joci answers the rapid-fire questions about the unique activity she’d want to be an expert in, the one TV show she’ll always turn on, and which genre of a tv show/film she still wants to try next. At 10:21 Joci shares about her life as Rollettes LA team captain, how she got into wheelchair dance after her accident, the advice that’s worked to empower her on the journey, and what’s the best experiences with the Rollettes LA and dancing with the new generation of dancers. INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 30:45 brings us out to nature with Joci’s one and (and only) camping trip with her family that resulted in disappearing water, sleeping on the ground, and a long hike. And in our final segment at 39:06 Dominique and Joci talk about her acting career, what she’s learned and appreciated from more representation in front and behind the camera and what accessibility should still be improved, how social media actually plays a key role in expanding the roles available, what’s she’s taken from her experiences in producing and writing that have made her a better actress, and her advice for fellow actors with disabilities in their careers.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Joci @jociscott and the Rollettes @rollettes_la, on all social media platforms! 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

  4. Jul 13

    E130: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #45 "Reframing How to Achieve Independence with Supports Let's You Embody it Fully"

    45th 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 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 growth, and specifically we are honing in on reframing how we can achieve levels of independence in our life’s events when you find different supports you are able to lean on which will enable you to actually achieve and embody altered independence with yourself at the helm of control. Learn the steps on why it is important to gain tools of why a mental reframe on what independence truly means and it’s lack of requiring solitude to achieve it, the rationale behind adding supports to each your goals of independence are better than being fully reliant on others, and how we can shift the way we achieve independence by knowing we are at the helm of creating the supports to reach out goals. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Leaning Independence Mindset, the steps to be able to recognize when you need supports in people and programs in order to achieve independence, how you are able to independently think of what accessibilities and supports will be needed before going forward with an action, and why it is crucial for yourself to remain in control of how you access and use the supports you lean on so you are still able to maintain autonomy when others are involved in your quest for independence in a reframed manner.  Plus, founder Dominique talks about how she was able to find her own leaning independence when she started working in the city and needed to run errands when she was having flareups and wanted to do her work independently; thus, she incorporated her skills of finding her supports to lean on and was able to do all of her tasks within that altered independence to be successful without compromising her health. 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

  5. Jun 22

    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

  6. Jun 11

    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

  7. May 19

    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

  8. May 7

    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

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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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