InvisiYouth Chat Sessions

Gotham Production Studios
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  • Self-Improvement
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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. 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

    59 min

  2. 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

    16 min

  3. Apr 21

    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

  4. Apr 13

    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

  5. Mar 24

    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

  6. Mar 10

    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

  7. Feb 17

    E121: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with founder and principle designer of Blue Copper Design, Maegan Blau

    Season 8 begins today, and we’ve starting on a high with a returning special guest that was a crowd favorite to come back for a part two. We’re starting off the new season with founder and principle designer of Blue Copper Design, Maegan Blau. After an accident left Maegan with a spinal cord injury and became a wheelchair user, Maegan took her love of interior design and her experience of finding an accessible and beautiful home and created her own interior design company in 2018. Blue Copper Design fuses modern, southwest aesthetic with barrier-free design so clients are empowered to have beautiful homes that are functional for their needs. And they relay even more advice online for all those looking to make their spaces accessible and beautiful.  Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways:  At 3:33 Maegan goes through a rapid fire round of questions about her first job, why being a snow bird is an ultimate goal, and why there’s a science to the amount of throw pillows on a couch. Dominique and Maegan catch up at 12:35 and Maegan shares about Blue Copper Studio getting its first studio space, why designing a space for disability needs doesn’t have to feel niche when it can be enjoyed by many, and how the company’s growth has allowed for her to continue sharing the benefits of individualized and overarching designs that bridge accessibility needs with beauty to both her clients and the tradesmen they work with to create pieces.INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 27:00 brings us in on an inside joke with Maegan and her husband that all started on a vacation in Hawaii when Maegan met a fellow vacationer that asked a lot of curious questions that, to this day, still makes her chuckle. And our final segment at 31:16 goes through some of Maegan and Blue Copper Designs best social media posts. We chat about her Summer School Design Series, get deep into what you need to know about hotel accessibility to make your hotel visits the best for your needs, why good design layouts should extend to the exterior, and the value of the curb cut effect when thinking about interior design in your home and space.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Maegan on @bluecopperdesign, on all social media platforms and Blue Copper Design’s website! Please check out the InvisiYouth Charity 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

    57 min

  8. Feb 8

    E120: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #40 "Building Up Self-Confidence so It Radiates From the Inside Out"

    40th 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 first 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 self-confidence—especially how to preserve and grow our personal confidence through adding levels of supports and internal belief systems when we are faced with our own insecurities and external opinions that can lessen that confidence level.  Learn the steps on why it is important to gain greater tools by understanding self-confidence, what are the reasons that it’s never superficial to worry about external opinions when your external appearance is a cause of self-doubt, and the understanding of mentally rationalize away from self-confidence limiters to remind yourself that while the feelings are validated, they should not control your personal confidence. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Snow White Syndrome, and learn about how to remind yourself of the facts of who you are as a full person when you feel that inner judgement or self-confidence dwindle, the importance of acknowledging that feeling, why it’s valuable for self-confidence growth and stability to back up that acknowledgement with different supports like adding the things, mantras and people that can allow you to feel your most confidence inside and out, and the reminder that your full embodiment shouldn’t be defined by changes on the outside or what others might say because the security of your life path is all within you. Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her experiences with self-confidence when she had to come to terms with her confidence taking a hit when she had to wear a bathing suit while out with friends and her scars from her chronic illness journey were catching attention, so she needed to not only validate her feelings, but also understand how to support herself to feel her most confident and enjoy herself in all settings. sLet'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
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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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