Choosing to Live Every Day to the Fullest (with Jake Glaser)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, Erin and Sara talk with philanthropic entrepreneur Jake Glaser, who is a healthy young adult living with HIV. He opens up about his story, how he lives a normal life, and the reality of HIV and AIDS today. They also discuss the importance of celebrating wins, embracing insecurities, ending the stigma, and providing access to accurate information. To donate to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, click here: https://act.pedaids.org/a/donate
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen Sarah's Budcaste. |
| 0:10.5 | This is a very unique episode for us. |
| 0:12.5 | And we really want to make sure that people, like, stick it out and stay to listen |
| 0:17.0 | because you'd think that this would be a very hard topic to listen to |
| 0:20.0 | and that the episode would be sad, depressing, hard to hear. |
| 0:24.0 | But it actually is inspiring. |
| 0:26.0 | We had this conversation with Jake Glazer, who was born, HIV positive. |
| 0:31.0 | We had this conversation, not for our podcast, we had it on one of his channels |
| 0:36.0 | and we were so inspired by it and loved it so much that we asked. |
| 0:39.0 | We said, would you be okay if we made it one of our episodes? |
| 0:42.0 | If we had this conversation, we were shocked at how the conversation ended up going |
| 0:48.0 | and so we knew that it would be something really interesting to be audience. |
| 0:51.0 | So it's an interesting conversation. |
| 0:53.0 | And it's also something you never think about. |
| 0:56.0 | Like, if you've never been exposed to the situation, we don't live in our lives |
| 1:00.0 | wondering what it's like to be HIV positive today in 2021. |
| 1:04.0 | We don't really ask that question. |
| 1:06.0 | So it's not something you would think to dive into. |
| 1:09.0 | And then once you do, you realize how huge a part of our childhoods was about HIV. |
| 1:15.0 | And where are those people today? |
| 1:17.0 | Like, what is it like living with it today? |
| 1:19.0 | So it's a really, really fascinating conversation. |
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