Tourette's Podcast
Episodes
Season 10: Episode 3 - My Way to Take My Control Back
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we speak to Jessisca who talks to us about how she was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome later in life and her life as a full-time author! Je...
Season 10: Episode 2- Creative Problem Solvers
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we are joined by Felix and his parents! Felix is an amazing young man who has been diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome and has become quite th...
Season 10: Episode 1 - Screaming Out of Joy
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a small(ish) break, we're back with the first episode of Season 10! And what better guests than Amanda and Ellie! They graciously came on the po...
Season 9: Episode 12 - It's Not Who I Am as a Person
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Jhonelle and Britney speak to Shadayne, an incredible woman from Jamaica who shares her story of diagnosis, daily life, and the ups an...
Season 9: Episode 11 - I Could Conquer the World Because He Always Has My Back
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jhonelle and Britney welcome Britney's husband Scott, to talk about how they navigate Tourette Syndrome in their marriage, how Scott helps ...
Season 9 - Episode 10: What If You Deserve to be Happy?
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we had the pleasure of sitting down with Max and Jasmine and talking about what it's like for them to be in a relationship where both people...
You're an Open Book That Can't Be Closed
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
**TRIGGER WARNING**: In this episode, there is some discussion about ab*se both mentally and physically. Please be aware that if this is something tha...
I Felt Like I Owed it to People with Tourette Syndrome
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jhonelle and Britney sit down with Anthony to talk about his upcoming bike ride across the United States for Tourette Syndrome Awareness. A...
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Bullying, No Way! (with Jaylen Arnold)
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jhonelle sits down and speaks with our guest, Jaylen Arnold. Arnold is the founder of Jaylen's Challenge, a non-profit that spreads a...
Season 9 - Episode 6 - I Have Tourette Syndrome, Is That a Problem?
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Britney and Jhonelle sit down and speak with our guest, Kel Hannum. In this episode, we talk about his experience serving in the U.S. Airfo...
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Behind Closed Doors, I've Got This
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Britney and Jhonelle have a special guest: Colleen! In this episode, we talk about OCD, how it's stigmatized just like Tourette Syndrome is...
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Same Tic, Different Font
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Jhonelle and Britney take a lighthearted approach and talks about weird and humorous things their tics have made them do. They also t...
Season 9 - Episode 3 - The Great Advocacy Journey
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Britney and Jhonelle share their stories on how they began advocating about Tourette Syndrome, the ups and downs that come with advo...
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Weird Things With Tics
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Britney Wolf and Jhonelle Bean talk about how tics affect them, some features of tic disorders, like echopraxia, tics versus stimming...
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Change of Command (Britney and Jhonelle!)
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a whole new season of Tourette's Podcast! Ben is back at the interview mic with two very special guests who bring us a path-altering twist. On th...
S8 - Episode 16 (Finale) - The Immediate People
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's a moving season finale episode talking with guest Allen Shoaff (a Tourette Association Rising Leader and Youth Ambassador) after highlighting the...
S8 - Episode 15 - Night Workouts
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Back after Ben's laryngitis outage, it's a new episode, and our guest is Shelby Ally, a model and actor from Orange County, Calif., who manages a tic ...
S8 - Episode 14 - Breathing Weird
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back from our holiday and personal-biz break with a solid conversation Ben recorded recently with guest Sophie. This wasn't their first time tal...
S8 - Episode 13 - Harder to Not Talk About It
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Talking with professional writer Tara Lerman about a great many things, including the vitality we can find in highlighting Tourette stories and ongoin...
S8 - Episode 12 - The First Syllable Has to Happen
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, a thoroughly good-vibe conversation with Raven, aka @poecrastinator on the socials. The conversation covers stigma, ticcing openly wi...
S8 - Episode 11 - Give It a Good, Red-Hot Crack
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A very special episode today with guest Bianca Saez and guest host Kass @ticsntatts, two adult women with Tourette sharing raw experiences. Both from ...
S8 - Episode 10 - Creative Surge
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen DiJoseph of Pennsylvania is a lifelong musician whose work connects art and Tourette Syndrome and came to the podcast's attention by way of a ...
S8 - Episode 9 - The Next 50 Years
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We welcome back to the podcast Amanda Talty, president and CEO of the Tourette Association of America. We talk about what TAA has been up to, the upco...
S8 - Episode 8 - Rocks and Minerals
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dan was diagnosed in the 90s, when he was in first grade, forcing him to navigate Tourette when there wasn't much easy access to community. How could ...
S8 - Episode 7 - In Search of that Validation
15 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Erick, a trans man and lifelong Touretter who, in navigating outsider judgments, became his own boss, found success with it, and realized...
S8 - Episode 6 - From Zero to One
01 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We talk with the eloquent Tom White, who works in the space of startups, in a great conversation covering pursuit of intellectual curiosities and how ...
S8 - Episode 5 - Claiming Who We Really Are
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We start this week with some breaking news from the Tourette Association of America: a Tourette Syndrome research study from the CDC has just landed,...
S8 - Episode 4 - Three Phones
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Zhao -- you might know him as the great Fabulously Tourette -- takes the hosting helm for this episode featuring high school-aged guest Slayton,...
S8 - Episode 3 - The Dunedin Sound (feat. Mads Harrop)
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let's head to New Zealand, specifically Dunedin, home to a legendary music scene whose latest name, Mads Harrop, is our fantastic guest this week. Mad...
S8 - Episode 2 - Name Three Songs
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 8, Episode 2 follows last week's guest-host format with our friend Kass taking the reins in conversation with Lilly. They find quick connection...
S8 - Episode 1 - Just Existing
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 8 is here. Following our usual Episode 0, we're here with Episode 1, in which Ben steps back and Britney and Aiya take the reins. Britney (auth...
S8 - Episode 0 - Catching Up
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Season 8 is here! Via our traditional Episode 0, we kick it off with updated thoughts on popular listener questions.
Special Episode - The Old Guard - Talking with the Late Steve Bachner
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Tourette community lost a hero Dec. 15, someone I named on the very first episode (Season 1, Episode 0) of Tourette's Podcast. Steve Bachner was ...
S7 - Episode 16 - A Much Needed Nexus
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Season 7 finale episode. Our guest is Tourette scientist Dr. Flint Espil, who talks with us about the latest Tourette treatments and questions bef...
S7 - Episode 15 - When We Connect the Most (with Harper Starling)
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Taking risks is ... risky. Might fail, right? You don't just suddenly decide to move from, say, the midwest to Los Angeles to try and turn your talent...
Reviewing S7 Episode 14 - Women and Tourette
25 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Keeping last week's episode - our analysis with tourette scientist Dr. Christine Conelea on some of the recent talk about young women and their sympt...
S7 - Episode 14 - Science Episode: Revisiting the TikTok Thing, Sex Differences
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recall our episode a while back with the authors of scientific report examining why doctors were seeing reported swells of young women over the course...
S7 - Episode 13 - X-Rays
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Saddiq is a radiography student and fitness Instagrammer/TikTok-er whose energy-spending workouts serve a role for his Tourette, discussed here in add...
S7 - Episode 12 - Listener Mail
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A different kind of episode this week -- all listener questions, including some day-of zingers. Should we make this an occasional thing? An all-listen...
S7 - Episode 11 - Hit a Seven
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seamus Evans, an ambassador for the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia, is a standup comedian, television and radio personality, and keynote s...
Production Catastrophe - S7E11 Preview
05 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A small preview of the good times awaiting you on Episode 11 of Season 7, out this weekend. It'll be a good one; we're checking back in with Australia...
S7 - Replay - Exorcism (and Other Bogus Solutions)
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a replay of an episode from 2019 that speaks pretty well to the emails we get asking for discussion of alternative "remedies" -- and why the p...
S7 - Episode 10 - Tourrhetoric
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tourette. Rhetoric. Tourrhetoric. We're talking on this episode with Sophia Maier, a Touretter who takes extra care and study when it comes to the sha...
S7 - Episode 9 - Exoplanets
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Astrophysicist Mark Giovinazzi is on the show -- a guest we're meeting almost at random. Mark, an exoplanet-hunter, sees the chaos of Tourette and the...
S7 - Episode 8 - There Is Another
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fourteen-year-old Jack Kearney, an active Touretter whose name you might've heard around the community, brings an important point -- when it comes to ...
S7 - Episode 7 - Two Cards
26 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What an episode. Winter Tashlin is a name you might know from the Twittersphere and acceptance messaging. But hearing him speak is something else. Fro...
S7 - Episode 6 - You Can't Overdose on Music
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Getting it done in a rural area with little to no support for Tourette Syndrome is just one of the vitals we hit with our guest this week, Amelie, a 1...
S7 - Episode 5 - Ticbait (With Comedian Dan Zerin)
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Zerin is here! The Iceland-based comedian and podcast host welcomes room for lighter-side talk about Tourette et al. He in fact was part of an awa...
BONUS: The Real Life of Oliver Sacks
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus episode! If you're new to Tourette Syndrome, it's fair if you haven't heard the name Oliver Sacks before. But he's one of the most acclaimed fig...
S7 - Episode 4 - Is TikTok Giving People Tourette Syndrome? (Science Episode!)
05 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Let's crack into a mystery. Scientists began to notice it as the pandemic revised our lives -- young people, almost all of them women, started showing...
S7 - Episode 3 - Three Days Ago (with Jhonelle)
29 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What better way to celebrate Tourette Awareness Month (May 15-June 15) than to open up about having the disorder? For the first time, ever, we mean...
S7 - Episode 2 - Real Life That You Don't Know
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a milestone of sorts; we're talking with the first guest Tourette's Podcast ever had -- Maddie -- to hear how life has been since she opened i...
S7 - Episode 1 - Whispering For Too Long (with Gogo)
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 1 of Season 7, "Whispering For Too Long," is one of the best conversations Tourette's Podcast has ever recorded. Our guest is Gogo. She's live...
Season 7 - Episode 0 - Launch
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Popping with Tourette Awareness Month (May 15-June 15), here's your entry to lucky number Season 7 of Tourette's Podcast with, as always, a twofer. Ep...
BIG! Season 7! TAA Conference! Cool Breaking News, Too!
30 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Folks! Season 7 is here, and just ahead of Tourette Awareness Month (May 15-June 15), kicked off PROPERLY by 2021 Virtual Conference with the Tourette...
Season 6 FINALE - Episode 16 - The Cave You Fear
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the finale episode of Season 6, we close out an important ticket with a parent who wanted to know how to tell his young son he'd been diagnosed wit...
S6 - Episode 15 - Campaigning
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this (great) episode, we have Eli, who works in American politics and campaigning. Lots of "yeah, me too!" talk about anxiety and fear and how it i...
S6 - Episode 14 - Clear Your Mind
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Things that Ben and this week's guest, Becky of London, have in common: Both were young rebels. Both had a frustrating school experience. Both are cre...
BONUS EPISODE: Live from Teen Summit 2021
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By request, this is the audio of Ben's remarks at the 2021 Virtual Teen Summit, which the Tourette Association of America held Jan. 9, 2021. With full...
S6 - Episode 13 - Ky'lee Da Kid
16 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
She freestyles her life experience. She holds rhythm. She's a self-taught musician. She owns her Tourette. She's 8 years old. Ky'lee Da Kid has so muc...
S6 - Episode 12 - Secret Language
09 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It hasn't been easy for Shikhar, an 18-year-old from India. New to N. America, he's been constantly bullied for his tics in school. "It's not easy for...
S6 - Episode 11 - Resistance
02 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Self-isolation. Social tension. Fighting sleep because we want to be productive. Being resistant to our own nature. Sounds like heavy stuff, and it is...
S6 - Episode 10 - The Tourette's That You Don't See
19 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, parents -- freaking out about your young child's future? Is his or her Tourette diagnosis all you can think about? Understandable, but give yours...
S6 - Episode 9 - Dedicated Mic
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Disclosing Tourette for the first time in one's adult life is an experience. You ask yourself a lot of questions, maybe look over your shoulder a bit....
S6 - Episode 8 - Things Always Work Out Better (feat. pro boxer TicNTimebomb Zack Rice)
05 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Considering he's going for the rare title of first professional boxing champ with Tourette Syndrome, Zack Rice has the perfect ring name: TicNTimebomb...
S6 - Episode 7 - 'Terrible' Bullies
21 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Riyani Patel, 16, just came out with her second book and it's blowing up Amazon, showing up as the #1 new release in books in the category of disabili...
S6 - Episode 6 - Trixie
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danni's story is amazing. Tough upbringing, a younger brother to protect, a surprise introduction to tics, and finding a way to make total sense of th...
S6 - Episode 5 - Buffering
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation with our guest this week, Gianna, from New York, was recorded on the night of Election Day in the U.S., meaning, yeah, it served as ...
S6 - Episode 4 - Disney Analogy Sandwich
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
First thing -- a THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the 2020 Tourette Association of America Virtual Gala. Lots of great post-gala talk and Tou...
S6 - Episode 3 - The Noise (Jamie Grace and 'Finding Quiet')
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most requested guests in Tourette's Podcast history is here. Jamie Grace is a two-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and actor who ha...
S6 - Episode 2 - Did I Do That?
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jollyville Radio maker Michael Crosa joins us this week with a Tourette story that's different from the standard model. He remembers his first tic dow...
S6 - Episode 1 - A Feature, Not a Bug (With the Podfather, Adam Curry)
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Season 6 picks up right where Season 5 left off, and we'll leave it to Adam Curry to explain the how and why. Yep, that Adam Curry, the former MTV VJ ...
S6 - Episode 0 - Let's Gala
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Some catchup, your feedback, a shredded voice, and a request to join me (in virtual fashion) at a big event coming up --https://tourette.org/get-invol...
S5 FINALE - Episode 16 - One Piece of Ice Remaining
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unbelievable. It's the FINALE of Season 5. But we go out the right way -- raising a glass with a special guest, Aidy Smith, who you know from the grea...
S5 - Episode 15 - Wake Yourself Up With a Nice Scream
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We know sleep evades the "average" Touretter, but answer this, whoever you are: How do you typically start your day? Do you protest with the ol' "I ju...
S5 - Episode 14 - Individual Thing
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
New studio; new guest, and one many of you said you were excited to hear: Brian Lane. He's one of Tourette's best, working as an educator who, partly ...
S5 - Episode 13 - Screaming, Which is Fun
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Attack of the teens continues! This week: Hara, who brings us a maximally convivial and poignant conversation about the funny and not-as-much moments ...
S5 - Episode 12 - Sizzling Brain
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You asked for it -- more teenage voices on Tourette's Podcast. Shylah, known around the web as Simply Tourettes, represents that voice dang well, and ...
S5 - Episode 11 - You Just Have to Network
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're nearly to the end of June, and in turn near the end of Pride Month, which has celebrated and boosted awareness for the LGBTQ+ community. Obvious...
S5 - Episode 10 - You Are Your Own Normal
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rinada is a prime example of a hero parent cutting through the red tape to get her son the world he needs while also giving him the room to live it hi...
S5 - Episode 9 - The Tics of the Politics
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The interview you're about to hear was recorded before the George Floyd news story and the subsequent demonstrations across the country. But it gets i...
S5 - Black Lives Matter
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I posted this in the Tourette's Podcast Discussion Group earlier and figured I should here too — It's been a long day here, but I wanted to say some...
S5 - Episode 8 - Now's The Time
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Talty is back! The president and CEO of the Tourette Association of America talks ways to maximize Tourette Awareness Month, what's happening i...
S5 - Episode 7 - Tourette Together
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christine Conelea is a star in the Tourette research field (and an important support beam for Tourette's Podcast in the process). She has an fun e...
S5 - Episode 6 - Bryson's Discipline
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Kyle was growing up, he experienced the very torment so many Touretters can relate to -- being bullied, being punished for tics, a lack of empath...
S5 - Episode 5 -Marijuana, Anxiety, Science and You
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A different kind of episode this week. After hearing from Touretters on the Tourette's Podcast Answering Machine, we talk Tourette science and medicin...
S5 - Episode 4 - Cliche Farm
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Ben was in the hospital (as talked about on Episode 0 of this season), one of the things that got him through was a book called "Twist and Shout:...
S5 - Episode 3 - So Seen
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Sawyer AKA noMad is a rapper from St. Paul, Minnesota who hadn't put much thought into writing anything about Tourette Syndrome until his produce...
S5 - Episode 2 - Good Luck
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daisy is a solid mom. She didn't let all the Tourette-flattening forces of the world set the course for her 8-year-old son, Angel, who was diagnosed w...
S5 - Episode 1 - Don't Hold Back
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Rossignol is a widely known and followed artist who makes his entire living off of his work, often on commissions, and has Tourette Syndrome at ...
S5 - Episode 0 - I Checked Myself In
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ben starts Season 5 by opening way up about his recent experience in the hospital and how it was the best thing that ever happened to him. (And also c...
S4 - Episode 16 - Porch Swing
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unbelievably, we're at the season finale! This episode looks at big takeaways from Season 4 (so much unforgettable stuff) before a close-out conversat...
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Straightjacket Routine
11 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Giveaway winners! Touretters on "Motherless Brooklyn"! And magic! Really! We're joined this week by professional magician Jason Michaels, who has Tour...
S4 - Episode 14 - Tourettistan is a Very Big Place
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're joined by a high-ranking federal official in the States who has LOTS of wisdom on running a diverse and appreciated workplace, and how Tourette ...
S4- Episode 13 - If I Throw Hydrochloric Acid
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Occasionally a listener asks what we've done on tic disorders OTHER than Tourette Syndrome. And the answer is: not much. Until now. Rachel has chronic...
S4 - Episode 12 - Nine Hours
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
1. Yuki is strong, and you'll agree after hearing what has to be the foremost tic story ever told on this podcast. She deals with coprolalia, paralysi...
S4 - Episode 11 - Tourette's Cop
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's #TourettesCop day on the podcast! We've got him, among our most in-demand guests, and it's great. What's it like to be a police officer with Tour...
S4 - Episode 10 - What's Wrong for the Spider
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
First thing -- we have a winner to our pop-quiz question! And he has a special message. And then we get to Daphne, our guest this week who has a lot t...
S4 - Episode 9 - Since Having This Time Off
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rejuvenated after a little break, we're back, this time with Jason from Australia. He knows the value of a good break from the grind to sort out one's...
BRB!
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hey folks! Quick mental-health week. That is to say it's a one-week break, and then right back to standard next week with another fantastic longform e...