InvisiYouth Chat Sessions Gotham Production Studios

Bringing sports videography to life and seeing athleticism through the lens brings so much high energy that the person behind the camera has to have the passion. And our special guest has that passion! It’s videographer for the NFL and NWSL, senior video producer for UCLA Athletics, and Lupus warrior, Suzi Mellano.  Doing sports videography work that’ll get all sports fans crazy, Suzi also has contracts with the NFL and NWSL, capturing athletes achieving great success and teamwork. And reaching this career goal happened simultaneously with her Lupus diagnosis in 2019. While knowing life would change, Suzi has been determined to raise awareness for the Lupus community while simultaneously never giving up on her dream job and growing her outstanding videography. 

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: 
At 3:22 Suzi answers rapid-fire questions letting us know the sport she’d love to film, the most impactful sporting event she worked, what she’ll binge-watch, the sweetest last card she mailed, why her Italian genes will definitely impact where she’s like to live and dual language goals, and the best adjectives for her videography style. At 16:07 Suzi and Dominique talk all about how a unique full circle moment led her from being in front of the camera to behind it, how she’s seen growth in diversifying the male-dominated sports videography worlds she’s been part of, what makes her excited about that and where there could be change, and how there are ways she can adapt to excel when handling the physical demand of the job while balancing a chronic illness with the conversation of knowing you can always ask for supports to bring your independence forward. STORY TIME Intermission at 37:07 gets real as Suzi talks about a pre-diagnosis struggle of hair loss and how she navigated that journey with some signature dark humor and even got humorously creative in the ways of hiding it when she wanted to put her hair up that might have added more sparkles than needed. And we end the podcast at 43:45 Suzi and Dominique talk about their advice on how to process emotions during a diagnosis process and ways they manage emotions during flare-ups as time has gone on, they give advice on how to ask for supports in the workplace and with your families to make your health manageable while not allowing others to question your capability, and the one piece of advice that Suzi would give her pre-Lupus diagnosis self about her future, and it’s full of how extra rich and rewarding her outlook would become. Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Suzi @suzimellano, on Instagram! 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! 
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22nd 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.
It’s the third addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.
 Our next question that we’re answering in the Audio Flash Files that was submitted to our InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box tackles a topic we hear about often: handling outsider opinions. Deciding how to manage decision-making when the worries of outsider/third party perspectives might curtail how you live life. 
Learn the steps on how to pensively nurture your thoughts when you begin to feel your allowing a public self-consciousness of outside perspectives to derail how you want to live your life, and why it’s important to note that external perspectives are just making potential opinions of you without full understanding of you as a full person. Gain the ideas behind our Third Person POV Mindset, why it’s important to be mindful that their impression of one scenario cannot hold power over your personal opinion of yourself, how outsider perspectives especially about one’s chronic illness and disability come from a place of ignorance versus prejudice about you personally, how there are mental and actional steps to take in order to harness your inner confidence to live your life without worries of what others will think, and how to become empowered to live your life with your actions and goals as your focus and allow public self-consciousness to take a backseat in influencing your decision-making. 

Plus, founder Dominique talks about an early stage during her diagnosis when she worries more about that third person perspective about her life with chronic illness and the proactive steps she took to regain her control to confidently decide what she wanted to do in life without worrying about outside perspectives of herself.

 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!
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Bridging smart, approachable, fun and chic into advocacy isn’t easy, but our special guest has carved out a lane for herself in the content creation world. It’s advocate, content creator and reporter for Accessible Media Inc, Mara Hutchinson. Living with Retinitis Pigmentosa and Usher Syndrome, Mara deals with hearing loss along with being legally blind, Mara has shared a lot of her journey using her confidence and voice. From Canada, Mara uses her platform to share about her life with her husband and son, her incredible advocacy work raising awareness, along with all the intersections of her life being legally blind, like her love of travel, fitness, reporting and so much more.
 
Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:
0:00 - Intro and Meet our Guest!
3:41 - Mara goes through a Rapid-Fire Round-Up of questions and tells all about her favorite food to buy, why she’ll always have coffee in the house, the staple in her closet, and her favorite charity experience that’s continued for years deals with some tandem cycling.
14:31 - Dominique and Mara give all the tips on how to have confidence on your social media posts, how reflecting on the dark and challenging times can help you find your strength, acceptance and power in your chronic illness/disability, how open communication that evolves has created a strong bond with her son, Bronx, and more tips for parenting and disability, and the two things that have strengthened the foundation of her relationship with her husband, Bas, as they have navigated her journey becoming legally blind.
33:27 - STORY TIME Intermission is a big moment for Mara and Bronx when a recent trip on the bus, and a packed disability seating section brought out the inner advocate in her son and made a major proud momma moment.
39:43 - And we end the podcast asking all the questions about how representation for visual impairment and blindness has evolved and could still grow, the two things Mara wishes the general public understood about the blindness spectrum, how to find confidence and accessibility in situations when fear of the unknown with your chronic illness/disability could heighten, and how allies and support networks could best support those living with visual impairment/blindness to thrive and find their intersectional communities.

Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Mara @atemara, on Instagram! 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! 
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21st 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.
It’s the second addition from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.
Our question this month is one we get all the time because it’s how to cope with the waiting periods between doctor appointments and test results. And so many living with a chronic illness/disability go through a diagnosis period, tests and waiting for results is a common worrying period. Learn the steps on how you can recognize how the waiting period in relation to your health can actually play a role in your daily life, the ways you need to pause with a proactive nature when that worry spiral can happen to achieve optimal success, and why it’s important to note that having different thinking patterns and styles actually makes waiting for results and doctor appointments different reaction-wise for everyone.

Gain the ideas behind our Waiting Room Theory, why it’s important to be mindful the waiting period brings strain and your ability to lower that anxiety comes from you honing in on your thought processing style in a proactive manner, why you need to focus on what you control in your thoughts in the present instead of the future what-ifs our minds can take us down, and what ways each person can untangle their emotional and logical reactions to the waiting period with doctor appointments/test results so they can process the potentials in a more manageable fashion so you never invalidate your feelings, but you hold the most power in the actionable thinking so you can be empowered in the present as you head into any doctor visits, appointments and tests.

Plus, founder Dominique talks about one of her first experiences having to go through the waiting game of test results in the early stages of her chronic illness journey, and how she had to work through the initial worries and what-ifs by pausing to focus on the present, and the ways she handled the emotions and logic of the waiting game.

 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!
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Season 6 begins today! And we’re excited for an entirely new set of special guests, fun segments, empowering life advice and great stories. And we have an epic first guest of Season 6, it’s the owner and designer of the popular walking stick and cane company, Neo-Walk, Lyndsay Watterson. Launched in 2013, Neo-Walk creates handmade acrylic walking sticks that fuse individuality, comfortability and stylish for the mobility aid community. This was sparked by Lyndsay’s journey with disability after developing a MRSA infection and later needing an above-knee amputation. Now sending canes to over 25 countries, Lyndsay had created a company that’s touched thousands of lives.

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:
0:00 - Intro to Season 6!
3:34 - Lyndsay and Dominique get real on how to have mobility aid confidence, how the evolving journey played a huge role in Lyndsay’s life, advice on moving past self-consciousness of trying out mobility aids and dealing with the general public stars or comments.
20:32 - Get empowered by the fusion of fashion, confidence and chronic illness/disability as Lyndsay talks about how an oven, wine bottle and a dream fused style with mobility, the best reactions of people who’ve purchased Neo-Walks, what’s the main reason you gotta add some style to boost your personal and social confidence, and ways to make stylish upgrades on a budget to your mobility aids.
36:15 - STORY TIME Intermission gets celebratory as Lyndsay talks about her time doing trapeze and aerial performance work for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Paralympics. And she might have flipped arounds in 50 meters/164 feet in the air above Coldplay!
42:07 - We end the podcast when Lyndsay and Dominique talk about developing a chronic illness/disability later in life, and how do you not focus on the loss but instead think of how the transition into a new way of living can bring beautiful new thing, Lyndsay expressing how adapting to continue during things she loves like evolving to hand-pedal-cycling has been so valuable, and all the tips and advice on trying new things when you might worry of injury or self-consciousness because fear stems from the same place they would have without any diagnosis.

Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow NeoWalk @neowalksticks, 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!
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20th 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.
It’s the first episode from our “InvisiYouth Galaxy Question Box Series” for 2024, where all episodes will be InvisiYouth answering questions submitted by our InvisiYouth Galaxy Community that are life challenges they need some advice and guidance.
Our first question is fitting for February’s love month…we’re talking about dating. More specifically, how to take that fresh relationship and make sure you can actually open up to one another and if your partner can actually fit into your daily routine. That’s a big deal when part of your routine incorporates your chronic illness/disability and you want to make sure they’re ready to be in your full life. Learn the steps on how you can recognize when you’re at that stage in dating someone that you want to open up, why blaming your diagnosis for any failed dates is a huge no, and how you can understand why it’s important to date with the mindset that it’s more about finding partners that thrive in supporter roles versus finding someone that fits a specific mold to your diagnosis, and not everyone will.

Gain the ideas behind our Leader Taste Tester Method, what are the steps you can proactively add into dating life in those new relationships to lead with your confident communication style to slowly share parts of your chronic illness/disability life with your partner without overloading or involving, the ways you can dissipate their ignorance and answer questions without intimidating them, and how your leaderships gives a taste test to your romantic partner so they cannot spiral in the ‘what if imagination’ and learn if you’re mutually interested and suited for one another. Plus, founder Dominique drops a success story of how a friend of her did some major Leader Taste Tester Method with her new boyfriend (now husband) to share your chronic illness and that slow reveal actually made him super confident that he could be a supporter, their relationship could be balanced, and they were ready to commit.

 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 jo being added into all aspects of your life living with chronic illness/disability!
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