Vanessa Heaney

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203 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 22 Nov

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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: Donating my kidney transformed a child's life · 22 Nov 2025 podcast

It's also totally normal to be scared of

or to be uncomfortable when meeting a disabled person for the first time.

Because I think it's totally natural for somebody to, you know, be scared of something that they've never, of something different.

But I think what follows after that, it's important to foster curiosity, to kind of lead with questions rather than assumptions.

Representation is so important.

It changes the way that we think.

It changes the way we treat each other.

And I think when we see different types of bodies, different communities, different identities on TV, it really changes the way that we think of other people.

Why journalism?

And what barriers did you overcome to get into the position that you're in?

I actually came through journalism through One Direction.

So...

So it all started from the boy band One Direction.

I was about like probably 11 years old and my hyper fixation was them.

You know, I loved reading and writing.

That's all I knew.

I actually started a fan page.

I had like 20K followers.

Throughout that era, I started to learn about like, you know, running and building a community, like what that meant.

So when I was like 14, I was like, honestly, that's all the experience I have.

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