A fireside-style podcast for people living with chronic illness and the people who want to understand them better. Each episode features an intimate conversation between our host, a lived experience guest, and a trusted expert, blending life with practical, empowering insight. This is a space for validation, honest conversations, and reminders that your illness is part of your story but it doesn’t get to define all of it.
Seen, Not Fixed
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Podcast Overview
A fireside-style podcast for people living with chronic illness and the people who want to understand them better. Each episode features an intimate conversation between our host, a lived experience guest, and a trusted expert, blending life with practical, empowering insight. This is a space for validation, honest conversations, and reminders that your illness is part of your story but it doesn’t get to define all of it.
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1/7/2026
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Recent Episodes
July 20, 2026
The Friends Who Stay: Navigating Chronic Illness Together
<p>What does true friendship look like when chronic illness changes everything?<br>Host Gigi Robinson sits down with her longtime friend Maggie Clayton, jewelry designer, entrepreneur, and advocate living with a rare form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), for an honest conversation about navigating friendship through diagnosis, disability, surgeries, and life's unexpected turns.<br>Together they share how they met through the chronic illness community, the realities of being misdiagnosed, learning to advocate for themselves, adapting careers and relationships around health, and why the strongest friendships aren't built on perfect attendance, but on showing up in the ways that matter.<br>Whether you're living with chronic illness, supporting someone who is, or searching for people who truly understand your experience, this episode is a reminder that healing isn't something we do alone.</p>
July 6, 2026
Patient Power: Matthew Zachary on Cancer, Advocacy, and Fixing Healthcare
<p>At just 21 years old, Matthew Zachary was a concert pianist whose life changed overnight after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Thirty years later, he's become one of the most influential voices in patient advocacy, founding Stupid Cancer, launching one of healthcare's first podcasts, producing award-winning documentaries, and authoring We the Patients.<br>In this episode, Matthew joins host Gigi Robinson to discuss what it really means to live beyond a diagnosis. Together, they explore the power of community, navigating survivorship, balancing advocacy with everyday life, fertility, social media, holistic and traditional medicine, and why patients must move beyond advocacy toward collective civic power.<br>Whether you're living with chronic illness, caring for someone who is, or simply trying to better understand today's healthcare system, this conversation offers practical wisdom, hope, and a powerful reminder that healing doesn't happen alone.</p>
June 22, 2026
Healing Beyond Symptoms: Redefining Chronic Illness, Identity & Possibility with Nitika Chopra
<p>In this deeply personal conversation, host Gigi Robinson sits down with chronic illness advocate and founder of Chronicon, Nitika Chopra, to explore what healing truly means. Together, they discuss grief, identity, nervous system regulation, self-advocacy, community, ambition, and the complex reality of living fully while navigating chronic illness. This episode challenges the idea that healing requires symptom elimination and offers a more nuanced, compassionate vision of what it means to thrive. </p>
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