Jack Ivens-Gardiner is Extraordinary!

Katie Piper's Extraordinary People

Sony Music

Health & Fitness, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jack Ivens-Gardiner is living his best life as a married, gay man with autism, but finding his place in the world hasn’t always been so easy. Katie met Jack at ITV studios many moons ago, doing his job in production on ITV daytime. Katie loved Jack’s vibrant clothes and kind nature, and the two found common ground more recently as they made their voices heard about their invisible disabilities in a new ITV campaign. Jack and his husband Wes have also recently adopted a little boy and made an informative podcast about the process called “2 Dad’s Can Do It”, and along with their Instagram page are hoping they can help others on their own adoption journey too. Jack tells Katie about living confidently with autism, how some companies could do better for their neurodiverse employees and how he kept his gay balloon to himself until he was ready to let it fly! This is a Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.2	The Steakhouse Stack, with two layers of delicious beef, crispy onions and pepper corn sauce.
0:31.6	It's the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece.
0:35.3	Sure, you'll need to make room, but you remember what your wedding day looked like?
0:38.6	The Steakhouse Stack.
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0:48.9	Something else. Hello and welcome to Katie Piper's extraordinary people.
1:01.7	It's the podcast where I sit down with an extraordinary person and share their story.
1:06.7	They might have overcome some kind of adversity or they might still be on their journey.
1:11.5	But the stories that will make you laugh, cry and hopefully feel a little bit inspired.
1:16.7	Today on the podcast, I'm joined by an amazing individual who's not let anything get in the way of building the life he truly wants.
1:25.1	Jack Ivan's Gardner works as part of the production team on ITV daytime at
1:29.9	the prestigious ITV studios, which is actually how we met. So I'm so glad he's finally joining me on the
1:36.9	podcast today. Jack has a wonderful husband, Wes, and they are in the process of adopting a child
1:42.5	together. Making their fantastic podcast,
1:45.5	two dads can do it along the way. Jack also has an invisible disability of autism. I'm so excited
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