It’s all about hanging with the besties on this podcast episode as our host, and InvisiYouth’s founder/executive director Dominique, brings back a returning podcast guest that’s also one of her closest friends, charity social media manager and social lead at The Children’s Society, and disability/chronic illness advocate, Ali Hemsley. Ali has a plethora of experience in social media and the chronic illness community, and has evolved her career from being an influencer to now being in the charity sector sharing her skills to positively impact great causes.

Here’s our Four Hot Takeaways: 

1. At 3:08 , Ali goes through so quirky questions as she explains her perfect date with her husband, James, the first thing she notices about new people, how her dog, Piper, would want an ideal day to have lots of activities, why a favorite water bottle can make a home office all the better, and which motto to live by is also tattooed on her arm. 
2. At 10:24 , Ali and Dominique dive deep into her social media experience and how to establish friendships through the digital space first (much like these besties did), how she navigated sharing her new Crohn's diagnosis to her social media community that knew her for her first chronic illness, and the value of being flexible in bringing things into your life that you loved before a diagnosis. 
3. STORY TIME INTERMISSION begins at 28:23 when Ali shares about the challenging experience of her first part-time job when beginning to add work beyond her self-employment actually led to her learning a lot of disability rights in the workplace and advocating for herself to the highest level. 
4. And we end the episode at 36:29 as Ali and Dominique share how to make decisions on going into self-employment versus working for a company, the pros and cons for both directions when living with chronic illness and disability, how Ali knew when making a career change was necessary and how she still remains passionate about social media management in a new charity sector with The Children’s Society, the best advice to evolve your career while still maintaining some joy, and how BTS’ member Jin might have inspired some advice on passion within jobs versus hobbies.  

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