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In this deeply personal and eye-opening episode, Brooke Tahir opens up about living with POTS — Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, a debilitating yet often invisible form of dysautonomia.

Far from just a fast heart rate, POTS affects everything from blood flow and energy levels to cognition and temperature regulation — making even basic daily tasks feel like uphill battles.

Brooke shares:

• What POTS actually is, and why it’s so often misunderstood
• The unpredictable symptoms and how they impact work, parenting, and public life
• Why medication wasn’t an option — and the alternative strategies she uses to survive and adapt
• How society's lack of awareness can be just as disabling as the condition itself

Whether you live with chronic illness or want to be a better ally, this episode is a raw, informative, and empowering call to action to rethink what disability and inclusion really mean.

Because not all struggles are visible — but they all deserve to be seen.

#POTS #InvisibleIllness #ChronicFatigue #DisabilityAwareness #Dysautonomia #DominatingDiversity

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“Focal Epilepsy: Understanding the Quiet Seizures”
Podcast: Dominating Diversity with Brooke Tahir

In this powerful solo episode, Brooke Tahir dives into the lesser-known world of Focal Epilepsy — a complex, often invisible neurological condition that challenges common assumptions about what epilepsy “looks like.”

With compassion, clarity, and lived insight, Brooke breaks down what focal seizures are, how they manifest, and why they’re so frequently misunderstood or misdiagnosed in schools, workplaces, and public spaces.

You’ll learn:

• The signs and warning symptoms of focal seizures (they’re not always convulsive!)
• How Focal Epilepsy impacts everyday life — from memory and mood to safety and stigma
• What to look out for and how to respond supportively in your classroom, workplace, or community
• Why inclusion needs to go beyond awareness — and what true accessibility for people with epilepsy really means

Whether you're an educator, employer, advocate, or someone living with epilepsy, this episode is a must-listen for building a more informed, safer, and empathetic world.

🧠💜 Let’s break the silence around quiet seizures — because visibility starts with understanding.

#FocalEpilepsy #Neurodiversity #InvisibleDisabilities #DisabilityInclusion #DominatingDiversity

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In this powerful and deeply human episode of Dominating Diversity, host Brooke Tahir sits down with Prudence — an acclaimed Educational Designer at Monash University whose life story embodies the messy, beautiful, and often painful intersections of identity.

From growing up queer in regional Victoria to navigating the complexities of chronic illness, survivorship, blended family, and cultural identity, Prudence invites us into the nuance of living a life that doesn’t fit a neat narrative. With honesty and grace, she shares what it’s like to be a stepmother in a rainbow family, a queer woman in academia, and a survivor finding strength in vulnerability.

Together, Brooke and Prudence explore themes of rurality, resilience, educational inequity, chronic disease, Jewish identity, political trauma, and the cultural costs of ambition. This isn’t just a conversation about inclusion — All people to embrace complexity and redesign systems that honour real, intersectional lives.

🔗 Tune in for a raw, resilient, and radically compassionate conversation that proves diversity is never just a checkbox — it’s a current we navigate every day.

📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube: Dominating Diversity - YouTube

#DominatingDiversity #Intersectionality #QueerVoices #RegionalStories #InclusiveEducation #TraumaInformed #ChronicIllness #RainbowFamilies #EquityInDesign #BrookeTahir #PrudenceSpeaks

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