InvisiYouth Chat Sessions

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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E101: InvisiYouth Chat Sessions with Adaptive CrossFit athlete, online trainer and mentality coach, Amy Bream

February 17, 2025 • Tandem Podcasting • Season 7 • Episode 101

Season 7 begins today, and we’ve reached a milestone of 101 podcast episodes! Plus, we’re excited for an entirely new set of special guests, fun segments, empowering life advice and great stories.

We have an epic first guest of Season 7, Adaptive CrossFit athlete and mentality coach, Amy Bream. Born with PFFD (proximal focal femoral deficiency) and missing majority of her right leg, Amy has grown up thriving to challenge herself. After moving to Nashville in 2014 to pursue a music career, Amy was led into the work of fitness and soon introduced to CrossFit, After beginning to compete professionally in 2021, Amy has thrived, even ranking 3rd Worldwide in Women’s Lower Extremity in the 2023 CrossFit Games. And now she’s taken her expertise to personal and mentality coaching for amputee fitness programs.

Here’s the Four Hot Takeaways:

At 3:16 Amy answers a lot of rapid fire questions like a trendy workout class Amy would attend, the song she always sings in the car, where she’d buy a second home, why she loves her thirties and the surprise board game Amy would always win at a party.
Get empowered at 9:57 as Amy and Dominique talk about her love of CrossFit as Amy shares what about this community drew her in the most, why there’s so much power in the athleticism of Adaptive CrossFit athletes that should be seen by the world, what about CrossFit is misunderstood, and the deep connections Amy’s music roots have in her CrossFit training and fitness world will definitely surprise you.
STORY TIME Intermission at 23:43 brings the empowerment as Amy talks about the turning point for her to being taking those steps in her confidence-building which began from her brother-in-law asking a very blunt but important questions!
We end the podcast at 29:01 getting all the fitness tips and confidence boosts as we chat about how to ease worries of getting into fitness, why Amy’s a firm believer in starting before your mind can run away with worries, the value of talking to those working at gyms or fitness classes to take the lead in getting to supports tailored to your needs and personality, what’s the one piece of advice she gives to her amputee fitness program clients, and how to build up your confidence if you’re living with chronic illness and disability but feel that discomfort or fear of going to a gym of group fitness class.

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