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We’ve got newlyweds on the podcast today, but they’re not just husband and wife…they are Paralympians for Team USA’s Men’s and Women’s Goalball teams. Goalball captain Calahan Young and two-time medalist Eliana Mason Young both got into the sport of goalball from their background as young athletes also living with visual impairments. Calahan from Pennsylvania with retinitis pigmentosa and Eliana from Oregon with cataracts and glaucoma, their lives would merge in 2013 when they were just 17 and competing in goalball tournaments. Four years later, they’d separately move to train for the US goalball teams near the high-performance center and their love story would begin. As their relationship blossomed, so did their careers. Eliana has earned a bronze and silver medal in two Paralympic games and Calahan is the captain of the US Men’s team. And last July, they got married and are beginning their training for LA 2028 Paralympics.  Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways: A 3:27 Eliana and Calahan give each other superlatives, like Calahan’s favorite TV show, what they’re most competitive over off the court, what Eliana’s never leaving the store without, and their opposite ideas for a couple’s tattoo. Let’s get learning all about goalball!At 11:43, Calahan, Eliana and Dominique talk about the mechanics of goalball and how it’s the only Paralympic sport without an Olympic counterpart, what led each of them to the sport, what skills from their athletic backgrounds has allowed them to have different tools when training, how to get playing goalball near you, and what’s the learning curve for a sport like goalball that requires a full vision shield.INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 30:57 is a double feature as Eliana talks about the time she showed her silver Paralympics medal to Stevie Wonder, and Calahan talks about how a recent injury, and surgery has shaped his recovery and love of getting back to goalball.And the final segment at 36:12 is all about relationship advice with Eliana and Calahan. They talk about how having a similar competitive spirit and life path of being professional athletes has shaped and strengthened their relationship, open up and share about how they are able to support one another given their similar yet differing experiences with visual impairments, talk vulnerably about how past relationships differed from theirs, gave great advice on cultivating a successful and happy relationship whether inter-abled or both chronically ill/disabled, and the wish they have for each other as they both set up to win golds at the LA 2028 Paralympics.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Eliana at @elianaamarieee and Calahan at @calahanyoung 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 YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

48th 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 internal development for the last time, and specifically we are taking the time to gain information and a new perspective on how to make sure to reframe the parts of your mindset that you can control to improve the domino effect of your daily emotions to stay consistent. Learn the steps on the necessary to reframe what it means to have a setback, refuting the instinct to overgeneralize the negative from hooking into your entire plans, and the impact of a pivot to be creative, move forward and find new steps to take so momentum is unaffected and success is capable no matter the initial setback or challenge. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Crusty Bread Syndrome, the steps on how to recognize an overgeneralization, why a mental pause and pivot is necessary to remind yourself that a singular event can be unattached to the rest of your actions, and the power of reframing for positivity. Plus, founder Dominique talks about a time when back-to-back flareups and injuries put her in a headspace of overgeneralizing the negative path and she had to actually pause, reframe and work on how to mentally separate the singular events from her future plans, while simultaneously learning how the pivot benefited her. 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

When we get the chance to talk about one of our favorite sports with one of our favorite athletes, you know we’re gonna bring them back. It’s Three-Time Paralympic Gold Medalist for Team USA Sled Hockey and Paracanoe athlete, Jack Wallace, and what a year he’s had. Coming back from Milan earlier this year after Team USA one their fifth gold medal in the Paralympics, the world’s attention and love of sled hockey has been growing ever since. Growing up in New Jersey and getting introduced after he lost part of his right leg in a water-skiing accident when he was 10, Jack has taken the years to excel in the sport and build his legacy. On top of all he’s achieved with Team USA Sled Hockey, Jack has become a dual-season athlete, adding paracanoe to his resume and competing at the highest levels. Jack’s an incredible advocate for diverse representation in sports and always pays it forward to motivate youth in the disability community through the power of para sports. Here’s the Hot Four Takeaways: At 3:33 Jack goes through the rapid fire round up, sharing what he defines as his most expensive alarm clock, why his favorite movie and first job are both aligned to hockey, the type of gift wrapper he is, the funny things he’d say in his sleep-talked, and the two ideal celebrity roommates he’d pick if he wanted to focus and have a good time.Let’s catch up at 12:58 as Jack shares about what he does to maintain his competitive edge through the years of competing, and why he feels adding paracanoe into his life has actually improved himself as a sled hockey player, what he’s learned from the challenging times in his athletic career and why he’s felt it was important to use his platform to share about those moments.INTERMISSION STORY TIME at 27:30 is actually a callback to Jack’s first episode with IYCS (Episode 60) when he shared about his crazy and funny stories that led up to both his previous Paralympic gold medal games…but this time, he shares about why the morning of the Milano-Cortina Paralympic gold medal game was the most Zen experience of all.And our final segment at 33:01 has Jack and Dominique talking all about that incredible gold medal match in Milan and why the momentum of a triple US gold medal on top of the sled hockey team’s milestone fifth gold medal brought an entirely new audience to their sport, the ways the post-Paralympics attention has allowed for more support to the athletes, why Jack initially was drawn to add paracanoe to his professional athlete career and what each sports helps him improve with the other, how having a team mixed with seasoned veterans and rookies as Team USA Sled Hockey has exploded into the professional sport organization it is, and the one thing he wants to remind his future self as Jack looks ahead for LA 2028 and French Alps 2030.Please like, comment, subscribe and share this episode, follow Jack @jwallace_usa, 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

47th 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 back on the area of internal development, and specifically how to reframe our mindset when there’s a lot of struggles and challenges to refocus to decipher the positives around you so you can ultimately improve your mood, wellbeing and mental stamina to continue through the hardships in a positive way. Learn the steps on how to examine your hardships and struggles when you don’t feel there’s a light at the end of the tunnel to redirect your attention to the positives for added strength and momentum, and why it’s important to redirect your focus without ignoring the struggles. Gain the ideas behind our life-improving technique, Sun Tree Canopy Theory, the steps to be able to learn how to acknowledge that you’re going through a rough patch, focus on the good moments and activities to add levity into your daily routine with intentionality and the lasting benefit that can have on your mood and ability to continue powering through, and why it’s valuable to have the mindset that allows you to be present in feeling your best and focus on different things on the road ahead so you can continue to grow and have personal stamina within the positive reinforcements. Plus, founder Dominique talks about her first few years living with chronic illness and when it was spreading without any real answers or improvements and she felt that she was in a rut of challenges, thus, she flipped her focus to finding the positives and good things around her that she could do and focus on that would boost her mood and that enabled her to feel supported and able to grow.  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? YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonateWanna support our nonprofit? Watch on YouTubeShopInstagramTwitterFacebookDonate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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