Latest Tourettesyndrome Podcast Episodes
S7 - Replay - Exorcism (and Other Bogus Solutions)
Tourette's Podcast - August 01, 2021 22:09 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsThis is a replay of an episode from 2019 that speaks pretty well to the emails we get asking for discussion of alternative "remedies" -- and why the podcast doesn't (or does so with heavy heaps of caution). Here's the writeup that accompanied the original airing: For Episode 10 of Season 3, we...
S7 - Episode 10 - Tourrhetoric
Tourette's Podcast - July 25, 2021 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsTourette. Rhetoric. Tourrhetoric. We're talking on this episode with Sophia Maier, a Touretter who takes extra care and study when it comes to the shapes and tones and incisions we create with our words. This isn't just a "words matter" dialogue -- it's about really caring for the language peopl...
S7 - Episode 9 - Exoplanets
Tourette's Podcast - July 18, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsAstrophysicist Mark Giovinazzi is on the show -- a guest we're meeting almost at random. Mark, an exoplanet-hunter, sees the chaos of Tourette and the universe working nicely together. Plus: that vocal-tic feeling; and Ben has an wonderful panic attack at work. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/ T...
S7 - Episode 8 - There Is Another
Tourette's Podcast - July 11, 2021 01:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsFourteen-year-old Jack Kearney, an active Touretter whose name you might've heard around the community, brings an important point -- when it comes to community, don't forget yourself. When Tourette became a focus at his school, with visiting ambassadors spreading peer education, Jack made sure t...
S7 - Episode 7 - Two Cards
Tourette's Podcast - June 26, 2021 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWhat an episode. Winter Tashlin is a name you might know from the Twittersphere and acceptance messaging. But hearing him speak is something else. From his accent, you’ll quite understandably assume he’s British. Many of his fellow Americans do. This -- along with his creativity, queerness, self...
S7 - Episode 6 - You Can't Overdose on Music
Tourette's Podcast - June 21, 2021 20:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsGetting it done in a rural area with little to no support for Tourette Syndrome is just one of the vitals we hit with our guest this week, Amelie, a 15-year-old who lives in a small village in Ireland and depends on herself to not only live with her TS but educate peers as well -- something she'...
S7 - Episode 5 - Ticbait (With Comedian Dan Zerin)
Tourette's Podcast - June 13, 2021 22:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsDan Zerin is here! The Iceland-based comedian and podcast host welcomes room for lighter-side talk about Tourette et al. He in fact was part of an award-winning comedy stage show about Tourette Syndrome, "My Voices Have Tourettes," which ran weekly to sold out rooms -- for years. Since the pande...
BONUS: The Real Life of Oliver Sacks
Tourette's Podcast - June 08, 2021 20:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsBonus episode! If you're new to Tourette Syndrome, it's fair if you haven't heard the name Oliver Sacks before. But he's one of the most acclaimed figures in all of neuroscience -- arguably in all of medicine, and his humanization of disorders including Tourette had incalculable benefit. In May,...
S7 - Episode 4 - Is TikTok Giving People Tourette Syndrome? (Science Episode!)
Tourette's Podcast - June 05, 2021 20:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsLet's crack into a mystery. Scientists began to notice it as the pandemic revised our lives -- young people, almost all of them women, started showing up to the doctor in surprising numbers with what looked like Tourette Syndrome. Out of nowhere. No such prior symptoms. The common denominator? T...
S7 - Episode 3 - Three Days Ago (with Jhonelle)
Tourette's Podcast - May 29, 2021 21:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsWhat better way to celebrate Tourette Awareness Month (May 15-June 15) than to open up about having the disorder? For the first time, ever, we mean (to whom it applies). Just a few days before this episode's conversation took place, our guest, 26-year-old Jhonelle, spoke up for the first time...
S7 - Episode 2 - Real Life That You Don't Know
Tourette's Podcast - May 23, 2021 03:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsThis is a milestone of sorts; we're talking with the first guest Tourette's Podcast ever had -- Maddie -- to hear how life has been since she opened it up to the world on Season 1, Episode 1. This is one of those roaming, casual-paced conversations that covers so much -- from self-evaluation to ...
S7 - Episode 1 - Whispering For Too Long (with Gogo)
Tourette's Podcast - May 16, 2021 00:28 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsEpisode 1 of Season 7, "Whispering For Too Long," is one of the best conversations Tourette's Podcast has ever recorded. Our guest is Gogo. She's lived with TS her entire life, but didn't know it as such until much later in adulthood -- and that's a big factor for her. When she finally got the d...
Season 7 - Episode 0 - Launch
Tourette's Podcast - May 16, 2021 00:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsPopping with Tourette Awareness Month (May 15-June 15), here's your entry to lucky number Season 7 of Tourette's Podcast with, as always, a twofer. Episodes 0 and 1 are out simultaneously. Episode 0 of Season 7, "Launch," captures a super solid conversation between podcast host Ben and two gia...
BIG! Season 7! TAA Conference! Cool Breaking News, Too!
Tourette's Podcast - April 30, 2021 21:10 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsFolks! Season 7 is here, and just ahead of Tourette Awareness Month (May 15-June 15), kicked off PROPERLY by 2021 Virtual Conference with the Tourette Association of America. Here we catch up with Meghan Burns from TAA to talk about why this one is so significant. And just drops some cool breaki...
Season 6 FINALE - Episode 16 - The Cave You Fear
Tourette's Podcast - February 07, 2021 01:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsOn the finale episode of Season 6, we close out an important ticket with a parent who wanted to know how to tell his young son he'd been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome; we start up a book list; we urge your participation in National Advocacy Day (for U.S. residents); and then we get to the per...
S6 - Episode 15 - Campaigning
Tourette's Podcast - February 01, 2021 21:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsOn this (great) episode, we have Eli, who works in American politics and campaigning. Lots of "yeah, me too!" talk about anxiety and fear and how it influences our behavior and, often, inaction, even on things we'd love to do. Also: a question -- with lots of answers -- from a parent on how to t...
S6 - Episode 14 - Clear Your Mind
Tourette's Podcast - January 24, 2021 00:12 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsThings that Ben and this week's guest, Becky of London, have in common: Both were young rebels. Both had a frustrating school experience. Both are creativity-driven. Both totally immerse themselves in specific interests in short blasts before moving onto the next total immersion. Both are learni...
BONUS EPISODE: Live from Teen Summit 2021
Tourette's Podcast - January 18, 2021 23:58 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsBy request, this is the audio of Ben's remarks at the 2021 Virtual Teen Summit, which the Tourette Association of America held Jan. 9, 2021. With full remarks and some Q&A with the many teenagers on hand, the focus here is on self-acceptance and the power ingredient of vulnerability. Tourette...
S6 - Episode 13 - Ky'lee Da Kid
Tourette's Podcast - January 16, 2021 02:36 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsShe freestyles her life experience. She holds rhythm. She's a self-taught musician. She owns her Tourette. She's 8 years old. Ky'lee Da Kid has so much in her command, but she lives in an area lacking on Tourette awareness, and so her coprolalia and other aspects don't get proper regard. But her...
S6 - Episode 12 - Secret Language
Tourette's Podcast - January 09, 2021 02:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsIt hasn't been easy for Shikhar, an 18-year-old from India. New to N. America, he's been constantly bullied for his tics in school. "It's not easy for me to tell anybody that I have Tourette's," Shikhar says. To make it worse, the racism he experiences adds all the more painful weight. But he's ...
S6 - Episode 11 - Resistance
Tourette's Podcast - January 02, 2021 05:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsSelf-isolation. Social tension. Fighting sleep because we want to be productive. Being resistant to our own nature. Sounds like heavy stuff, and it is, but why is this episode such a pleasure? Our guest, a 54-year-old woman with Tourette and all the things that come with it, lays it out in such ...
S6 - Episode 10 - The Tourette's That You Don't See
Tourette's Podcast - December 19, 2020 22:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsHey, parents -- freaking out about your young child's future? Is his or her Tourette diagnosis all you can think about? Understandable, but give yourself a break and listen to TS parent Christina (who also happens to be a school teacher) describe what she found as her son got into his teen years...
S6 - Episode 9 - Dedicated Mic
Tourette's Podcast - December 12, 2020 01:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsDisclosing Tourette for the first time in one's adult life is an experience. You ask yourself a lot of questions, maybe look over your shoulder a bit. But the revelations coming flying. Your host certainly knows. And now so does Ben Gardner, who contacted Tourette's Podcast just before he told t...
S6 - Episode 8 - Things Always Work Out Better (feat. pro boxer TicNTimebomb Zack Rice)
Tourette's Podcast - December 05, 2020 03:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsConsidering he's going for the rare title of first professional boxing champ with Tourette Syndrome, Zack Rice has the perfect ring name: TicNTimebomb. We could pun the description of this episode as a hard-hitting interview, but it's so deep into the realities humanity that ... hard-hitting is ...
S6 - Episode 7 - 'Terrible' Bullies
Tourette's Podcast - November 21, 2020 01:47 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsRiyani Patel, 16, just came out with her second book and it's blowing up Amazon, showing up as the #1 new release in books in the category of disability for young adults. Solid. On this episode, Riyani tells us what led her to write "The 'Terrible' Bullies," what she hopes the public takes from ...
S6 - Episode 6 - Trixie
Tourette's Podcast - November 14, 2020 00:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsDanni's story is amazing. Tough upbringing, a younger brother to protect, a surprise introduction to tics, and finding a way to make total sense of the sometimes elusive thing that is identity through a kind of physical transformation. Danni is wildly smart about, and creative with, the journey ...
S6 - Episode 5 - Buffering
Tourette's Podcast - November 07, 2020 02:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsThis conversation with our guest this week, Gianna, from New York, was recorded on the night of Election Day in the U.S., meaning, yeah, it served as a much-needed break from the mud throwing. Gianna, who has a master's degree in psych and works with disabled children, was a lot of fun to talk w...
S6 - Episode 4 - Disney Analogy Sandwich
Tourette's Podcast - October 30, 2020 20:46 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsFirst thing -- a THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the 2020 Tourette Association of America Virtual Gala. Lots of great post-gala talk and Tourette's Podcast appreciates all the support before, during and since. On this episode, we hear from MMAJunkie.com writer and martial artist Dan ...
S6 - Episode 3 - The Noise (Jamie Grace and 'Finding Quiet')
Tourette's Podcast - October 22, 2020 23:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsOne of the most requested guests in Tourette's Podcast history is here. Jamie Grace is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and actor who has refreshing angles on Tourette Syndrome, OCD, ADHD, anxiety and the components of each that are, sure enough, a privilege to have. (Hear her out!...
S6 - Episode 2 - Did I Do That?
Tourette's Podcast - October 16, 2020 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratingsJollyville Radio maker Michael Crosa joins us this week with a Tourette story that's different from the standard model. He remembers his first tic down to the date and time of day. It was that jarring. This is an episode that gets more and more interesting as it goes. He also has a career that's...
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