Bri Scalesse On Redefining Beauty Standards

Always Looking Up

09/06/21

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74m

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In this week’s episode I am sitting down with disabled model and advocate Bri Scalesse. Bri is a true queen in every sense of the word. Paralyzed at age six, Bri has refused to let her disability, or society’s perception of disability, stop her from pursuing her dreams. She has wheeled the runways at New York Bridal Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week and opened designer Nancy Volpe-Beringer’s fashion show during the Project Runway season 18 finale...and she’s just getting started. We discuss her career as a disabled model, her advocacy work, a certain airline, and what it means to be disabled in 2021.

Follow Bri: Instagram: @briscalesse

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana ; @alwayslookingup.podcast Website: https://www.jillianilana.com

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin

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Colleen Ditro, DNP, DPNP On Diagnosing Dwarfism

August 30, 2021

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34m

In this week’s episode I am sitting down with Colleen Ditro. Colleen is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, certified nurse practitioner, and the lead Advanced Practice Registered Nurse for the orthopedics, pain and wound care teams at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children. In addition, she serves on the medical advisory board of Little People of America and is the camp nurse at Camp Seneb- a summer camp for children with skeletal dysplasia. I have known her since she joined Nemours in 2004. We discuss what it means, medically to be a dwarf, the various types, complications, and advantages of dwarfism, and her work in the little person community.

Learn More: Skeletal Dysplasia | Nemours Children's Health ; LPA Medical Support: Main Page ; Camp Seneb: https://harborcamps.org/camp-seneb/

Follow Me: Instagram: @jill_ilana ; @alwayslookingup.podcast Website: www.jillianilana.com

Email Me: alwayslookingup227@gmail.com

This episode was edited by Ben Curwin

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Stacie Lick On Disability And Sexual Assault And Telling My Story

September 13, 2021

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31m

To start, I want to issue a trigger warning. This week’s episode talks about sexual harassment and sexual assault. If these are triggers for you, please feel free to skip this episode.

I am starting by talking to Stacie Lick, a family friend and Lieutenant in the Gloucester County Special Victims’s Unit, basically a real-life Olivia Benson. We are discussing disability and sexual assault- the statistics, the laws that address these crimes, and resources that are available for victims. After our conversation I share my story.

Learn More:

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): https://www.rainn.org

NDRN (National Disability Rights Network): https://www.ndrn.org

Follow Me:

Instagram: @jill_ilana ; @alwayslookingup.podcast

Website: www.jillianilana.com

Email: alwayslookingup227@gmail.com

This episode was edited and produced by Ben Curwin