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. NOV 18

    E119: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with CEO of Diversability, disability activist and author, Tiffany Yu

    We’re celebrating the Season 7 finale because we have a returning special guest on the show, CEO of Diversability, disability activist and author (and Season 2 finale Episode 26 special guest) Tiffany Yu. A beloved disability activist championing equity and inclusion in the world, Tiffany created professional avenues to empower the disability/chronic illness experience for the community. And recently, Tiffany added author to her resume when she published her book. The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change and Building a Disability-Inclusive World. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: 3:51 Tiffany goes through rapid fire questions about the type of gift wrapper she is, the unique artwork that’s going up in her new apartment, her favorite taste sense, and the childhood collector of a specific toy that had a massive craze behind it.11:59 Tiffany and Dominique catch up on what’s made her the most excited about growing Diversability for over 15 years, the value of disability pride and establishing community, how creating a massively popular social media series “Anti-Albeism” with over 340 videos has allowed for more people to share the diversity of disability stories, and what she’s not only learned about disability history but also her own disability from her book writing experience with The Anti-Ableist Manifesto.34:12 STORY TIME INTERMISSION and Tiffany gets into her unique experience making a last minute decision to go to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games turned into a truly remarkable experience working with YouTube, meeting up with athletes and celebrating with their communities.40:49 is the final segment and gets us talking about something else that’s been added to Tiffany’s life since her Season 2 appearance on the podcast: competing at the world level for para-climbing. We learned how a childhood love of indoor rock-climbing connected her back to para-climbing later in life, the ways going to competitions and qualifying for the USA developmental team has allowed her to embrace the fun and wonder of a sport, and the advice she had to learn something new and challenge herself when living with chronic illness/disability. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Tiffany @imtiffanyyu and Diversibility @diversability, on all social media platforms, and buy her book The Anti-Ableist Manifesto! Donate during our Donate Match Campaign until New Years Eve on our website (www.invisiyouthcharity.com/donate) and all donations will be matched by a private board member! 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

    1h 3m

  2. NOV 10

    E118: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #39 "Get Out Your Metaphorical White Noise Machine for a Boost of Confidence"

    39th 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 final addition to our “Personal Growth Series” for 2025, where all episodes have been 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 final area: self-confidence, and specifically how to maintain—and strengthen self-confidence—when you get outside opinions, advice and chatter trying to permeate your thoughts, so you’re just hearing it and maintaining your self-confidence and not allowing it to stifle it. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-confidence, what are the reasons that outside opinions and unsolicited advice can actually harm self- confidence, why it’s important to create buffers around yourself to protect your inner peace from unsolicited opinions, and how to understand metaphorical white noise to achieve that success in protecting your self-confidence. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, White Noise Persona Effect, and learn about how create aspects of white noise when you’re feeling self-conscious, why it’s important to take stock of what bothers your self-confidence before embarking in experiences that can hurt it, how you can add metaphorical white noise into your life when you experience unsolicited opinions, judgements or ignorance so your confidence and inner peace is protected, and the ways that mentality can actually strengthen your self-confidence because you’ll know the difference between you being the best judge of adapting to thrive in your life versus an outsider judging what they do not know or experience. Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her experiences with self-confidence and how keeping that strong during a moment she had to give a reading at a cousin’s wedding when she was in a flareup with a bad health injury that was noticeable to anyone was all about incorporating her metaphorical white noise to block out the judgment and feel strong in her way of living so she could know it was there without it permeating her 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 YouTube Shop Instagram Twitter Facebook Donate

    17 min

  3. OCT 21

    E117: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with owner and illustrator of organ plush toy and accessories company, I Heart Guts, Wendy Bryan Lazar

    Let’s tap into our inner artists and get playful! Our special guest is the founder and illustrator behind I Heart Guts, an award-winning company that promotes characters based on internal organs through a series of plush toys, stickers and apparel. What started as a side project for Wendy slowly grew into this incredible business where these whimsical, creative and impactful plush toys and products can connect with its thousands customers worldwide. Now 20 years since I Heart Guts was launched, Wendy is expanding her products, continuing to be creative, and allowing her company to embody the mindset of “life takes guts” with media attention like People, Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times.  Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:  At 2:55 Wendy shares all of her lasts, like her last travel day, last plush toy that was her favorite, last TV show she found, and last thing added to her work desk that’s super sweet.  At 12:43 Wendy and Dominique dive into the love of art and chat about Wendy’s journey from having art as a hobby to diving down a career in art, how did I Heart Guts begin, top advice for those wanting to get into freelance and art careers while still being practical, and how to break through those moments of low inspiration to keep on feeling motivated.  STORY TIME INTERMISSION begins at 30:24 and Wendy gets her prank on! She shares a story about one April Fool’s when Wendy and an employee planned a prank on her husband that involved some plush toys and a highway, so you won’t want to miss this.  And the final segment at 33:51 talks all things organ plush toys! Wendy and Dominique talk about her go-to tools for illustration and why old school pen and paper are always a great way to start, why her company’s products seem to really resonate with the chronic illness and disability community, the value of having something to bring levity to the challenges or hardships of health issues, her favorite customer story, and what she hopes gets to be in the future of I Heart Guts.  Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Wendy and I Heart Guts @iheartguts, 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

    53 min

  4. OCT 9

    E116: IYCS-Audio Flash Files #38 "Dilute the Toxic Positivity Self-Talk, and Gain Confidence Like Kintsugi"

    38th 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 fourth and final area: self-confidence, and specifically how to boost self-confidence with full picture self-talk that not toxic positivity nor pessimism, but rather a mindset of the kintsugi philosophy for some realistic personal perspective. Learn the steps on why it is so important to gain greater tools of self-confidence, what kintsugi pottery is all about and how the actual philosophy of life is a way of finding growth and beauty within the imperfections the full picture is the focus rather than the cracks or problems, and why a mentality that’s focused on personal development rather than positivity can actually bring more confidence that’s sustaining.  Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Kintsugi Method, and learn about how to develop self-talk that’s positive realism about the struggles or problems within our lives, how people can understand that reframing the way you look at struggles to see how they’re connected to the full person and their multiple facets versus focusing on the struggle can bring more positive self-talk, and the reasoning behind creating steps to find the personal growth and positives from the challenges in the over person that you are can make self-confidence stronger as it goes because you’re reframing the hardships.  Plus, founder Dominique opens up her journey of self-confidence and positive self-talk through her experience after her spinal correction and fusion surgery during the early years of her chronic illness journey make her self-confidence take a hit, and she wanted to find ways to reframe how she view her chronic illness, scar and overall life with a mindset that empowered the challenges as pieces of herself she was proud of and could find the growth and positives within so her full self-picture was always confident.  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

    14 min

  5. SEP 22

    E115: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with Mental Health and Wellness Content Creator, Kelly U

    Let’s get talking about some empowerment with mental and physical health with our special guest, mental health and wellness content creator, Kelly U. With over 200k followers, Kelly has created a vibrant platform filled with vulnerable empowerment all stemmed from her personal experiences living with IBS and mental health. With some of her content reaching millions of views, Kelly has gotten to work with brands like SXSW, Olly Wellness, and Aerie Real to name a few all centered on her strong content creator that’s honest and empowering. Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: 3:14 Kelly gives rapid fire answers to her favorite childhood game, a staple in her fridge, why she wants to expand her date night plans, a dream vacation location, and why underdressed to the occasion is her functional favorite.13:43 Dominique and Kelly go through her Medical Pop Headlines as they share the stories behind her winning Health and Wellness Influencer of the Year with The Influence Awards, the power of talking about mental health and therapy from her time on the SXSW Panel, and why some of her viral IBS videos about relationships and IBS explain the value of finding trust in your support system.STORY TIME INTERMISSION at 29:09 gets vulnerable as Kelly shares the time she got empowered and learned the importance of setting boundaries with her parents in order to improve her own wellbeing and family dynamic.33:33 ends the podcast as Kelly and Dominique talk openly about the duality between physical and mental health, how she discovered the importance of working on both her chronic illness and mental health equally in order to live and empowered life, the steps she takes to use the distance of time when choosing content topics, her top advice on how to support your physical or mental health when the other part is struggling, and all the different tools they recommend trying in a wellness toolbox so your balance of life with chronic illness and mental health wellness can be achieved.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Kelly @kellyu, 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

    53 min

  6. SEP 11

    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

    15 min

  7. AUG 19

    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

    55 min

  8. AUG 11

    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

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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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