Latest Tourettesyndrome Podcast Episodes

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Season 9 - Episode 4 - Same Tic, Different Font

Tourette's Podcast - July 13, 2024 19:14 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
In this episode, Jhonelle and Britney take a lighthearted approach and talks about weird and humorous things their tics have made them do. They also talk about the importance of being able to laugh them off from time to time and how laughing with a person who tics instead of at them are two diff...

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Season 9 - Episode 3 - The Great Advocacy Journey

Tourette's Podcast - June 28, 2024 20:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
In this episode, Britney and Jhonelle share their stories on how they began advocating about Tourette Syndrome, the ups and downs that come with advocacy, the Tourette Association's National Conference in June, and advice and tips for what to be prepared for if you're interested in advocating. F...

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Season 9 - Episode 2 - Weird Things With Tics

Tourette's Podcast - June 14, 2024 15:43 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
In this episode, Britney Wolf and Jhonelle Bean talk about how tics affect them, some features of tic disorders, like echopraxia, tics versus stimming, imposer syndrome, and much more. For more information and resources regarding Tourette Syndrome and other tic disorders, visit the Tourette Asso...

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Season 9 - Episode 1 - Change of Command (Britney and Jhonelle!)

Tourette's Podcast - May 17, 2024 17:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
It's a whole new season of Tourette's Podcast! Ben is back at the interview mic with two very special guests who bring us a path-altering twist. On this episode, we pass the torch to your amazing new hosts from the Tourette advocacy world: Britney Wolf and Jhonelle Bean. After a bit of hello and...

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S8 - Episode 16 (Finale) - The Immediate People

Tourette's Podcast - March 20, 2023 01:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
It's a moving season finale episode talking with guest Allen Shoaff (a Tourette Association Rising Leader and Youth Ambassador) after highlighting the upcoming Tic Con and a dedication to a Touretter the community recently lost. A subsequent project seeks to build a top-class treatment facility ...

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S8 - Episode 15 - Night Workouts

Tourette's Podcast - March 12, 2023 22:39 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Back after Ben's laryngitis outage, it's a new episode, and our guest is Shelby Ally, a model and actor from Orange County, Calif., who manages a tic disorder and insomnia but has found power in self-acceptance and advocacy. Shelby, doing professionally what she loves, emphasizes the pursuit of ...

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S8 - Episode 14 - Breathing Weird

Tourette's Podcast - January 23, 2023 02:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
We're back from our holiday and personal-biz break with a solid conversation Ben recorded recently with guest Sophie. This wasn't their first time talking; Sophie had involved Ben in a project she was working on regarding Tourette portrayals and the media experience. They examine that a bit befo...

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S8 - Episode 13 - Harder to Not Talk About It

Tourette's Podcast - December 12, 2022 00:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Talking with professional writer Tara Lerman about a great many things, including the vitality we can find in highlighting Tourette stories and ongoing issues the community faces. Plus: a heap of answers to the question about good/constructive activities for a young person with Tourette.    ht...

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S8 - Episode 12 - The First Syllable Has to Happen

Tourette's Podcast - December 05, 2022 00:17 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
On this episode, a thoroughly good-vibe conversation with Raven, aka @poecrastinator on the socials. The conversation covers stigma, ticcing openly without disclosure, developing coprolalia and much more. Plus: A parent wants some ideas for activities his son can take up that might help him live...

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S8 - Episode 11 - Give It a Good, Red-Hot Crack

Tourette's Podcast - November 27, 2022 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
A very special episode today with guest Bianca Saez and guest host Kass @ticsntatts, two adult women with Tourette sharing raw experiences. Both from Australia, the voices you hear today are well-known in the community -- Kass for her many angles on neurodiversity awareness on social media, and ...

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S8 - Episode 10 - Creative Surge

Tourette's Podcast - November 08, 2022 03:58 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Stephen DiJoseph of Pennsylvania is a lifelong musician whose work connects art and Tourette Syndrome and came to the podcast's attention by way of a short film he made expressing just that -- in a really effective way. It's an art film, but comes off relatable to people with Tourettic brains, a...

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S8 - Episode 9 - The Next 50 Years

Tourette's Podcast - October 29, 2022 21:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
We welcome back to the podcast Amanda Talty, president and CEO of the Tourette Association of America. We talk about what TAA has been up to, the upcoming TAA gala (Nov. 10 in NYC), science and research, and more. Don't miss this one! Plus: A question from a parent about a situation at school.  ...

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S8 - Episode 8 - Rocks and Minerals

Tourette's Podcast - October 24, 2022 00:11 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Dan was diagnosed in the 90s, when he was in first grade, forcing him to navigate Tourette when there wasn't much easy access to community. How could he explain it? Did he need to? Could he just get by with masking? Familiar questions-to-self for many with tic disorders like Tourette. Plus: A da...

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S8 - Episode 7 - In Search of that Validation

Tourette's Podcast - October 15, 2022 02:04 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Our guest is Erick, a trans man and lifelong Touretter who, in navigating outsider judgments, became his own boss, found success with it, and realized that you "can't waste your energy anymore worrying about the people who try and deny who you are or what you have," as he put it. The discussion ...

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S8 - Episode 6 - From Zero to One

Tourette's Podcast - October 01, 2022 18:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
We talk with the eloquent Tom White, who works in the space of startups, in a great conversation covering pursuit of intellectual curiosities and how to keep momentum through often serious challenges. Plus, listener questions: 1) How do Touretters get used to ticcing in public?; and 2) When is B...

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S8 - Episode 5 - Claiming Who We Really Are

Tourette's Podcast - September 03, 2022 22:25 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
We start this week with some breaking news from the Tourette Association of America: a Tourette Syndrome research study from the CDC has just landed, and it concludes that the prevalence numbers for Tourette Syndrome and persistent tic disorders are double what we previously thought. One in 50 ...

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S8 - Episode 4 - Three Phones

Tourette's Podcast - August 27, 2022 19:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Peter Zhao -- you might know him as the great Fabulously Tourette -- takes the hosting helm for this episode featuring high school-aged guest Slayton, who has been managing Tourette in his life for about four years so far. Ben kicks us off with some quick Q&A about adults with Tourette before ma...

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S8 - Episode 3 - The Dunedin Sound (feat. Mads Harrop)

Tourette's Podcast - August 20, 2022 19:42 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Let's head to New Zealand, specifically Dunedin, home to a legendary music scene whose latest name, Mads Harrop, is our fantastic guest this week. Mads' experience with Tourette Syndrome, autism and anxiety directly informs and shapes her music, which has a great early-90s quality and lyrics you...

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S8 - Episode 2 - Name Three Songs

Tourette's Podcast - August 13, 2022 22:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Season 8, Episode 2 follows last week's guest-host format with our friend Kass taking the reins in conversation with Lilly. They find quick connections in their respective Tourette experiences. Great discussions here about self evaluation and self care, imposter syndrome and dealing with later-o...

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S8 - Episode 1 - Just Existing

Tourette's Podcast - August 06, 2022 23:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Season 8 is here. Following our usual Episode 0, we're here with Episode 1, in which Ben steps back and Britney and Aiya take the reins. Britney (author Britney Wolf, that is) leads the conversation with Aiya, who was diagnosed last year at age 16. She knows she's always experienced Tourette, bu...

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S8 - Episode 0 - Catching Up

Tourette's Podcast - August 06, 2022 23:47 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Season 8 is here! Via our traditional Episode 0, we kick it off with updated thoughts on popular listener questions. 

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Special Episode - The Old Guard - Talking with the Late Steve Bachner

Tourette's Podcast - December 21, 2021 21:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
The Tourette community lost a hero Dec. 15, someone I named on the very first episode (Season 1, Episode 0) of Tourette's Podcast. Steve Bachner was my first frame of reference for TS. Seeing him on an episode of 20/20 in the late 1980s was my first time seeing someone else with the disorder, a...

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S7 - Episode 16 - A Much Needed Nexus

Tourette's Podcast - October 25, 2021 01:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
The Season 7 finale episode. Our guest is Tourette scientist Dr. Flint Espil, who talks with us about the latest Tourette treatments and questions before saying something we weren't expecting. In a great way. Thanks so much to Gogo, Maddie, Johnelle, Tamara, Davide, Dan, Amelie, Winter, Jack, ...

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S7 - Episode 15 - When We Connect the Most (with Harper Starling)

Tourette's Podcast - October 10, 2021 19:05 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Taking risks is ... risky. Might fail, right? You don't just suddenly decide to move from, say, the midwest to Los Angeles to try and turn your talents into a rewarding career. And, lord have mercy, having something like Tourette Syndrome and comorbids like anxiety doesn't help, does it? For pop...

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Reviewing S7 Episode 14 - Women and Tourette

Tourette's Podcast - September 25, 2021 15:30 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Keeping last week's episode - our analysis with tourette scientist Dr. Christine Conelea on some of the recent talk about young women and their symptoms -- in focus, this week is a referral to a response video from Tics n Tatts on YouTube. Kass, who runs the channel, adds great points. Tons lef...

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S7 - Episode 14 - Science Episode: Revisiting the TikTok Thing, Sex Differences

Tourette's Podcast - September 19, 2021 20:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Recall our episode a while back with the authors of scientific report examining why doctors were seeing reported swells of young women over the course of the pandemic with Tourette-looking symptoms, and how social media like TikTok -- by way of the tic-heavy videos posted by influential Tourette...

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S7 - Episode 13 - X-Rays

Tourette's Podcast - August 30, 2021 02:29 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Saddiq is a radiography student and fitness Instagrammer/TikTok-er whose energy-spending workouts serve a role for his Tourette, discussed here in addition to late diagnosis, coprolalia, creativity and the stress of travel. https://www.instagram.com/saddiqhead/ Support the show https://www.p...

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S7 - Episode 12 - Listener Mail

Tourette's Podcast - August 23, 2021 02:24 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
A different kind of episode this week -- all listener questions, including some day-of zingers. Should we make this an occasional thing? An all-listener-questions episode? Contact. TAA's YouTube page Ask the Expert: Tourette and COVID-19 Vaccine Support the show https://www.patreon.com/tou...

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S7 - Episode 11 - Hit a Seven

Tourette's Podcast - August 08, 2021 23:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
Seamus Evans, an ambassador for the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, is a standup comedian, television and radio personality, and keynote speaker working in his experience with Tourette and the boundaries it seemed to set for him -- which he essentially laughed right past. Not that it...

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Production Catastrophe - S7E11 Preview

Tourette's Podcast - August 05, 2021 00:54 - 18 seconds ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
A small preview of the good times awaiting you on Episode 11 of Season 7, out this weekend. It'll be a good one; we're checking back in with Australia. Eyes peeled!

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