TypeCast: Life Between the Lines – Details, episodes & analysis

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, poignantly discussing how a cancer diagnosis in his 20s helped him to tackle his diabetes head on.

All bases are covered in this episode, as Justin also reveals some hilarious dating stories, his strategy for getting up close and personal on the dance floor, and we even say hello to his alter ego Fran!

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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 that she can continue to live out loud. From travelling to Asia and South America within the first few months of diagnosis, to body confidence around diabetes technology, Mila is warm, funny and very much living out loud with type 1 diabetes!

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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 give other people with diabetes in the sport the voice he never had.

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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 media to learn more about her condition in order to better advocate for her needs. Met with a lack of representation, Temi defied cultural taboos to start posting herself, building an inclusive online community and turning years of ‘deep-rooted shame’ around her condition into pride.

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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 years, it was the pandemic that forced them to confront their health and find a path to acceptance.

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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 other people with the condition gave him permission to become his authentic self and helped him to overcome feelings of shame and loneliness. After a kidney transplant in 2018 and through meeting inspirational type 1s at work, Dan has ‘taken back’ what type 1 diabetes has taken from him to become an advocate, marathon runner, and in the eyes of his nephew - a superhero!

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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 thousands feel proud to be living with T1D.

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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 until he met his fiancé Nadine, he realised he wasn’t looking after his diabetes and health properly. 

Now a proud dad of two sons, Rory sees type 1 as his superpower, saving his own life every day and helping spread awareness about the condition - even getting type 1 diabetes written into his character’s storyline.

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