Ask Me About My Type 1

No, I didn't post two different pictures of the same person! And no, this episode isn't an ad for the incredibly outdated and not at all relevant enough for a joke Doublemint Gum company! Today's guests are Shelby and Sydney; the Payne Twins! And while the two are in fact identical twins, Shelby was diagnosed with Type 1 and Sydney wasn't. But despite this, the two still learned how to manage Shelby's Type 1 and are now at a point where Shelby trusts Sydney with just about any part of her Type 1 management. In our conversation the two tell us how they helped each other manage Shelby's Type 1 while attending Type 1 camp together, as teammates on highly competitive youth soccer teams that played internationally, and also attending med school. It's twin appreciation week on Ask Me About My Type 1 everyone so grab a seat and tune in to the Doctors Payne and I as we talk all about (sort of) Twinning with Type 1. IG: @askmeaboutmytype1 https://askmeaboutmyt1.com/ Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hoste

Hey Type 1 and Nones!!! I'm back and class is in session. This week I have on Type 1 Mary along with her best friend and our Type None guest, Taylor, both of whom are 3rd grade teachers. Mary shares with the us the not so heard of perspective of the Type 1 teacher, that is a school teacher who lives with Type 1. Mary tells us how she's managed to fill her students in on her Type 1 while also filling them in on the ABCs and 123s (that's what you learn in 3rd grade right?). Taylor also tells us about her experiences witnessing all the classic Type 1 symptoms before Mary's eventual diagnosis and  the unexpected ways Mary's Type 1 has influenced the way she teaches her 3rd grade class. It's another amazing conversation so take your seats everyone and don't forget to turn in your homework because Ask Me About My Type 1 is teaching with Type 1!!! IG: @askmeaboutmytype1 https://askmeaboutmyt1.com/ Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios  --- S

**VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT** I messed up Type 1s and Nones. And in kind of a big way. But listen here to see how I plan on righting the Ask Me About My Type 1 ship so I can correct my oversight and make Ask Me About My Type 1 a much better and more inclusive podcast. It's a short one so please give it a listen because you can be part of the solution and help make sure I don't ever make this mistake again.  Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askmeaboutmyt1/message

This week on Ask Me About My Type 1 I have on Marissa who was diagnosed only a few weeks ago during the current global state of COVID 19 crisis. So much of the information relating to COVID 19 and Type 1 assumes that Type 1 is preexisting, but what happens when your diagnosis comes in the middle of the aforementioned pandemic? That's where my new Type 1 guest Marissa and her Type None boyfriend, Charlie, come in. Marissa and Charlie tells us how they've been navigating Marissa's newly diagnosed Type 1 while in the bubble of quarantine, how she's been managing Type 1 so far, and the huge support Type 1 social media has been. It's a fascinating perspective that thousands of newly diagnosed Type 1s are currently living and Ask Me About My Type 1 is here to learn all about it!!! IG: @askmeaboutmytype1 Ask Me About My Type 1 Podcast Website  Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askmeaboutmyt1/

This week on Ask Me About My Type 1 I have on the co-founder of Maximus Bolus, Matt Tarro, and his long time Type None friend, Nick Parker. Matt and I discuss the apparent lack of a male presence in the Type 1 space that we both noticed and what Matt has been doing to hopefully address it. As co-creator of the newly formed Type 1 guy group, Maximus Bolus, Matt tells us how the group came to be and what it has already been able to accomplish through web calls with Type 1 men from around the world. Parker is our Type None guest and asks some really great Q's in the interest of being able to connect on the Type 1 level with the three Type 1 men that he knows. So grab a seat in your favorite lazy-boy recliner and tune in to this week's Ask Me About My Type 1 all about guy talk.  Instagram: @askmeaboutmytype1 Ask Me About My Type 1 Website Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow studious --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askmeaboutmyt1/message

Hello Type 1s and Nones!!! This week I have on Type 1 guest Madi and her Type None friend Mia. The three of us talk about the power of movement and how it found both Madi and Mia through Zumba. They are now both Zumba instructors and while Madi tells us about what Zumba and movement has done for her relationship with her Type 1, Mia helps give me an entirely new perspective on insecurity and how feeling self-conscious isn't just a Type 1 thing. So put on your favorite pair of Zumba leggings and stretch out those hammys because we be T1 body movin on the newest episode of Ask Me About My Type 1 all about the power of movement!!! ALSO: Don't forget to sign up for my very first workshop Communicating the Type 1 Experience at the USA Virtual Slipstream this summer. For more details follow the link below. USA Virtual Slipstream Registration Page Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askmeaboutmyt1

Oh heeeyyy!!! This week on the podcast I had a very welcome surprise and ended up talking all about that unspoken connection between those of us who can't make insulin anymore. That feeling you get when you meet someone who just "gets it" because they understand what living with Type 1 means. I originally brought on Type 1 Qiana Drew and Type None Antonio Vizcarrondo to talk about music and performing but we end up going much deeper into the idea of Type 1 Culture and how Antonio relates to this through his own unspoken connections via culture and food. It's a great conversation so get comfortable because we're talking about how great it is to just "get it" on this week's brand new episode of Ask Me About My Type 1!!! Edited, Written, and Produced by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studious --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askmeaboutmyt1/message

Break out the mats Type 1s and Nones because it's all about Yoga this week!!! Specifically I'm exploring the Mind&Body connection and how this Yogic practice can help all the Type 1 yogis and yoga curious folks reconnect with their physical bodies outside of all that Type 1 stuff we're always having to do. Yoga instructor and Type 1 guest Maia Bremmer shares her experiences going through yoga teacher training and her initial difficulties with turning her Type 1 brain off during the more meditative parts of her training. Type None guest Ashley Belluz gives us her perspective as an instructor with Type 1 students in her classes and the insights she's gained from watching their practice evolve. Ash also gives tells us about a new form of restorative yoga that she teaches called Feelosophy which is an interesting hybrid of massage and yoga characterized by hands on touch and how it accounts for those of us who wear medical devices. It's all about getting out of our heads and into the movements on this podcast

FurSuit UP Type 1s and Nones!!! I'm sitting down with my new Type 1 AND Furry friend, Bailey, and learning about the ins and outs of FurSuiting with Type 1. Bailey's Type None boyfriend, Alex, joins us and shares his experience learning about both Bailey's Type 1 and furry fandom and how he has learned to be there for Bailey when she's all suited up in her octopus, deer, dog, skunk hybrid fursona, and no that isn't a typo. Bailey also teaches me about the misconceptions that surround the furry community but also how it is so much more than people on the outside realize. It's a fascinating conversation where I get to revisit my mascoting days and learn how traveling with Type 1 supplies is a cake walk compared to traveling with a fursuit. So zip up your favorite arctic fox suit and make sure your head is on straight because the Ask Me About My Type 1 episode all about Type 1 furrying is live!!! Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios  --- Send in a

Oh Hi Type 1s and Nones!!! We're talking cannabis this week and I called in the experts because I'm basically cannabidonally illiterate. Type 1 Sarah MacLeod, an Integrative Cannabis Health Coach, and Type None Adrienne Airhart, the Social Media and Marketing Director for The Higher Path Collective dispensary, sat down and talk cannabis with me. We go over the common misconceptions that surround both Cannabis and Diabetes, Sarah and Adrienne's personal experiences using cannabis, and funnily enough the term "being high" didn't come up even once!!! So if you've been looking for more information on what using cannabis while Type 1 might look like, pull up a chair and get comfortable because I've got the experts with me today and they're dropping some real life cannabis A's.   Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ask-about-type1/message

Oh Hi Dia-Peoples and the Pancreatically Functional!!! It's new Ask Me About My Type 1 episode day and this episode is coming at you hawt!!! This week on the podcast I have on Whitney Lewis of @HappyPancreas fame and her Type None husband Derrick, a featured guest of @HappyPancreas fame. On this banger of an episode the three of us discuss Whitney's unique naturopathic approach to her Type 1 management and how she and Derrick found their way through Whitney's unexpected Type 1 diagnosis at 26. Whitney shares her experience with alternative medicine and the support she found in communities that had nothing to do with Type 1 at all. So grab your chunkiest blanket and your favorite matcha based beverage because we're talking about managing Type 1 the natural way with Whitney and Derrick!!! Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ask-about-type1/message

This week on everyone's favorite Q & A podcast all about Type 1, I host a very special Type NONE guest, Delanie Fischer!!! For those who may not know, Delanie is one of the hosts of my favorite health, wellness, and comedy themed podcast Self-Helpless. Delanie has no knowledge of or connection to Type 1 so I called up friend of the show Jennifer Bartels from season 2 episode 2 and sat down with Delanie to answer all of her burning Type 1 Q's. This episode, and what I hope to be many more to come, is my effort to be more strategic about my awareness spreading by reaching out to the Type Nones that really should know more about what living with Type 1 actually means. And Delanie being the professional self-help pod-caster and question asker that she is seemed like the perfect Type None to start it all off with. As you'll hear, Delanie was an absolute dream Type None guest and the questions she brought really made me look at aspects of my Type 1 experience that I hadn't thought of in years. Sit back and enjo

I'm back Type Ones and Nones! It's the very first episode of the Ask Me About My Type 1 hat trick season and it's a banger for sure!!! I have on Jordan of @butfirstinsulin fame and she inspires me to make up my very own Type 1 Phrase: Type 1 Hype-In!!! It's that feeling you get when Type 1 is the reason why everything is going just the way you want them to! It's an odd one for sure but if it were to end up in the Oxford dictionary Jordan would be the visual example next to the definition because of her absolutely Type 1 Hype-In attitude after her absolutely crazy diagnosis. On top of that Jordan's sister, Christina, gives me an entirely new perspective on the idea of Type 1 burnout and the importance of support. PLUS I announce some very fashionable developments! Ask Me About My Type 1 is back y'all!!! Get at me in the comments! Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ask-about-type1/message

***ALERT!!!ALERT!!!SPECIAL EPISODE!!!SPECIAL EPISODE***  COVID 19 has brought the world to a halt and while everyone strives to find their way through this new normal of sheltering in place and flattening the curve, those of us with a less than functioning pancreas have to do so on top of what Type 1 already demands of us. It’s a kind of anxiety that the Type 1 community has literally never had to go through to date so I felt the need to reach out and ask for help from someone who gets not just the Type 1 of it all but the COVID of it all too. Enter Dr, Hannah Hamlin, a medical resident who JUST SO HAPPENS to live with and manage her own Type 1 like many of us. In this special episode, I ask Hannah all my burning and anxiety-induced COVID questions and get all the REAL Type 1 answers with a medical degree to back them up. So wash those hands and maintain an appropriate social distance while we all listen as Hannah breaks COVID down for the Type 1 crowd. This special episode of @askmeaboutmytype1 is now live e

It's Season 3, Dia-Peoples and Type Nones of all the lands!!! So glad I could squeeze it in just as the end times started up too!!! BUT eye digress because Season 3 of your favorite Type 1 Q&A podcast is coming at you with a whole lot of hawt hawt Q's and all the spicy spicy Type 1 A's. Check out the trailer to hear about the season to come and learn all about the awesome Type 1 AND Type None guests I'll be talking that Type 1 talk with this season. Get psyched people (NOT pumped cause I hate Type 1 puns!!!) because Season 3 starts Monday March 30th!!!  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ask-about-type1/message

It's that time Type 1s and Type Nones!! To say goodbye to Season 2 with one last banger of an episode!! As I mentioned last week I have back on Jennifer Bartels from Episode 2 and Becca Smith from Episode 6 but I ALSO have a third super secret surprise guest, Robin from Episode 8!! The three of them tell me the unexpected ways that Type 1 has inspired them to do some pretty awesome things. As all Season Finale Special episodes tend to, this episode is covering it all from how annoying 26-year-olds reporters with functioning pancreases can really be, the realization that we're all pretty amazing, and how the Type 1 fight is fought on many fronts and YOU can too!! It's the end of the season 2 y'all so from the very bottom of my less than fully functional pancreas, I thank you all for sticking with me and I'll see you all in 2020!! Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studios   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ask-about-type1/message

The end of Season 2 is upon us 1s and Nones!! And in true Ask Me About My Type 1 fashion, you're getting a Where Are They Now Season Finale Special with three guests from across Season 2!! My Type 1 guests this week are Destin from Ep1 Back to School, Kameran from Ep3 Smalltown Type 1 and Danielle from Ep5 When Type 1s Can't. Change is the law of the universe; that's just what it do. And as members of said universe, we AND our Type 1 are subject to change along with it. I sit down with each of my guests this week and they tell me about what's been changing in life, Type 1, and everything in-between. We cover it all from semesters away in Italy to poorly timed razor incidents and government organizations FINALLY deciding to get their act together. Don't forget to check out Danielle's fundraiser and see how you can join her and a bunch of Type 1 pilots doing some real good...It'll make more sense after you listen to the episode. Happy listening!! When Dreams Take Flight Fundraiser: https://www.facebook.com/dona

Episode 13 WOULD be the most difficult to get out to y'all but out to y'all it is and it's a real banger! This week I have on team Roya, creators of the first dietary supplement specifically made FOR Type 1s. Type 1 guest Rohan and Type None guest Max tell me how they came together to address Type 1 concerns through dietary supplementation. And no it's not (JUST) an episode about cinnamon!! It's a story about what can happen when the powers of Type 1 and a Type None with a medical engineering degree and a passion for supplements combine!! Max tells of his learning about Type 1 through Rohan's Type 1 experience and Rohan tells of his rediscovery of the Type 1 community. I also get the rundown about Cinnamon and the TRUTH behind the myth!! It's flu season people so grab your Vitamin Cs, Ds, and Ks as you cozy on up for this brand new episode of Ask Me About My Type 1 where we all get a little supplemental with me!! Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hosted by: Walt Drennan Music by: Afterglow Studio

As National Diabetes Awareness Month comes to a close and with Turkey day fast approaching, I couldn't think of an episode topic that could both help focus all your built-up Type 1y awareness-spreading energy AND prepare you for a conversation that will most certainly tick off uncle Bob and at least half of your Grandparents BETTER than this one!! It's all about Politics on Ask Me About My Type 1 this week, Dia-Citizens of voting age!! It's one of the tabooiest of subjects but one that has profound effects on the way we as Type 1s take care of ourselves in the United States. That's why I wrote to my representative in the Pennsylvania House, Sara Innamorato, and asked her to be my Type None guest for this week in Type 1 Politics!! I have on Type 1 guest Tracey from the local T1Yinzer group and together we tell Sara all about living with Type 1 in South West PA. Sara asks about our experiences navigating the American Health Care system as Type 1s, our opinions on Pennsylvania's recent legislative response to th

As we approach the halfway point of National Diabetes Awareness Month, I wanted this episode to focus on a huge part of why we have this month in the first place: SUPPORT!! Yes, advocacy involves a lot of fundraising and those dollars are important but awareness spreading is also about helping the Type Nones in our lives be there in the ways that we need most. But on the other side, Type None life isn't easy either and they can also use very specific support that is difficult to identify let alone find. And to talk about exactly that I have on Type 1 famous person, Molly of "Hugging the Cactus" blog fame and her best Type None friend from college Emma. This week we explore all the ways that Type 1s AND Type Nones need support. So grab your favorite buddy, functioning pancreas or not, and listen in as we discuss the ways all of us navigate the world whether we're living with type 1 OR caring for someone who does and the support that can help make that easier.  Edited, Produced, and Written by: Walt Drennan Hos