TypeCast: Life Between the Lines
'TypeCast: Life Between the Lines' is a diabetes podcast that goes beyond the target glucose. Juggling the ups and downs of type 1 diabetes isn’t easy, so TypeCast is here to connect you to real stories with people who are living between the lines.
Whether you’re newly diagnosed or a seasoned pro, download, listen and subscribe to 'TypeCast: Life Between the Lines' on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify or your favourite podcast app. From dating and diabetes, diabetes technology to diabetes burnout… there’s no topic uncovered as we explore the challenges and triumphs of living with this complex condition.
Episodes
19 episodes
Navigating Type 1 Diabetes and Solo Ocean Racing: Jack's Story
In this episode, Jack speaks to Natalie about falling in love with sailing when he stepped onto his first boat at 6 years old. He reveals how his love of the sport meant that he never questioned whether type 1 diabetes would stop him sailing wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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51:00
Mat Lewis Carter: Humour and Insight on Life with Type 1 Diabetes
Get ready for some hilarious anecdotes with content creator, presenter, podcaster Mat Lewis Carter. Diagnosed at 13, Mat had watched his brother live with the condition from a young age, giving Mat a very different perspective when he found him...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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46:11
Turning the Tables: Deb and Ella Marsden's Shared Diabetes Story
Mother / Daughter Duo, Deb and Ella Marsden, are true Northeners from Yorkshire. Diagnosed as a child, all Ella remembers is life with Diabetes. Deb threw herself into helping to raise awareness of type 1 diabetes and started fundraising throug...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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55:37
From School Outsider to TV Star: Married at First Sight’s Tasha Jay on Life with Type 1 Diabetes
In this energetic and honest episode, Tasha speaks to Natalie about going from being the outsider at school, to being confident enough to get married to a stranger on TV, discussing her dating experiences with type 1 diabetes, and her fear of c...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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37:32
Embracing the Challenge: Kamil's Life with Type 1 Diabetes and Technology
Who’s the person behind Nerdabetic? Kamil’s journey has seen him go from managing his type 1 diabetes in secret after he was diagnosed at the age of 14, to proudly making a difference while accepting that the condition is ‘bigger than anything ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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57:35
Running Through Life: Chloe Andrews' Marathon with Type 1 Diabetes
Chloe Andrews has seen it all with type 1 diabetes - the good, the bad and the ugly. Raising an amazing son after a traumatic birth, navigating divorce, training for a marathon and keeping her mental health in check - Chloe is afraid to discuss...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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43:32
Climbing Life's Mountains: Pete Davies on almost 70 Years with Type 1 Diabetes
A legend both inside and outside the type 1 diabetes community, Pete Davies talks us through living for almost 70 years with the condition, from 28mm needles and no viable or accurate method of glucose monitoring when he was diagnosed at the ag...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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57:50
From Hiding to Helping: Nina's Empowering Type 1 Diabetes Story
As someone who posts about the realities of living with type 1 diabetes to over 100,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok, you would think Nina Joachim has always felt comfortable discussing her condition. But...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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37:11
Embracing Imperfection: Jen Grieves' Story of Living with Type 1 Diabetes
Jen Grieves has had some amazing life experiences despite living with type 1 diabetes. But she claims the key for her has been to embrace being ‘scrappy’ and accepting the fact that nothing about type 1 diabetes is perfect - and it doesn’t need...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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56:33
Living Fearlessly: David's Experience with Type 1 Diabetes, Tech, and Triathlons
David chats about the differences between his restrictive early diabetes management and the diabetes technology he uses today (despite declaring himself ‘not an insulin pump person’). He reveals how advances in diabetes technology have reduced ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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47:27
Flying High: Verity's Journey with Type 1 Diabetes, Travel, and Marathon Dreams
Life came at Verity hard, but with her biggest inspiration, her mum, by her side Verity decided she had no choice but to ‘pull your socks up and fake it ‘til you make it’. Make it she did, and the fun-loving 20-something now handles crossing ti...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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54:26
Diabetech's Inspiring Story: From Cancer Survivor to Diabetes Advocate
Content creator and YouTuber “Diabetech” aka Justin chats to Natalie about having the confidence to share his life online, and how talking about diabetes technology felt like a natural progression while he got to grips with his type 1, poignant...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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50:36
Mila Garcia's First Year with Type 1 Diabetes: Taking Control of Her Health
Mila Garcia was busy living life as a 30-year-old when type 1 diabetes came crashing in - and interrupted her travel plans! Only briefly though, because within just 12 months, Mila has worked to learn everything she can about the condition so t...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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45:16
Futsal, Football, and Fighting Diabetes Stigma: Chris Bright’s Journey with Type 1 Diabetes | TypeCast
The elitism of professional sport led to footballer Chris Bright hiding his type 1 diabetes from everyone in the game for years. But after achieving his dream of representing Wales at futsal, he later launched The Diabetes Football Community to...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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40:09
Empowering Through Representation: Dr. Temi Olonisakin and Type 1 Diabetes Advocacy | TypeCast
Stretching the limits of her own health to work tirelessly through the COVID pandemic, Dr Temi Olonisakin was shocked by the judgement and lack of empathy she received from her professional peers around her type 1 diabetes and turned to social ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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55:38
Relearning Diabetes: Grace Shush’s Journey to Acceptance with Type 1 Diabetes | TypeCast
Drag performer Grace Shush is bringing all kinds of wonderful to the type 1 diabetes community as they re-learn how to live with the condition. Grace struggled with type 1 through childhood and after not seeing a clinician for more than 10 year...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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48:12
From Burnout to Superhero: Dan Newman’s Path to Overcoming the Challenges of Type 1 Diabetes | TypeCast
After several episodes of severe diabetes burnout and a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, Dan Newman felt like he’d ‘failed the test’ as a person with type 1 diabetes. But a job at a diabetes charity would change his life, as working among o...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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59:03
Turning Type 1 Diabetes into a Strength: The Inspiring Story of The Diabetic Duo | TypeCast
Accidentally creating a viral TikTok and becoming diabetes influencers has helped best friends Beth McDaniel and Ellen Watson, also known as The Diabetic Duo, turn the shame they felt around type 1 diabetes into power, helping themselves and th...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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42:00
Hollyoaks Star Rory Douglas Speed on Living with Type 1 Diabetes | TypeCast Launch
Diagnosed at the age of eight, Hollyoaks actor Rory Douglas Speed brings his amazing energy and hilarious stories to this launch episode of TypeCast: Life Between the Lines. From handling his own injections from day 1, it wasn’t un...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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57:17