hi hello hey, happy FIVE YEARS of Rare with Flair!

As wild as it feels to say, it’s true: we’ve changed in the five years since we started this podcast. To celebrate our fifth podaversary (!!!), we’re reflecting on the ways we’ve grown. Some shifts are small, and others are in how we approach big things like disclosing, advocating, and accepting help.

We truly wouldn’t be here without you, our amazing listeners. Whether you just found us or have been with us since our pandemic origins, thank you for being part of this journey. We’d be yapping into the void without you!

Have thoughts, questions, or feedback? Drop us a line at hello@rarewithflair.com; we just might answer on the pod!

And while you’re at it, check out our past podaversary episodes, including our very first episode from July 2020!

• 100. over one hundred hours of us yapping!!!
• 72. third podaversary: roasting our first episode
• 49. two year podaversary, favorite episodes, & funniest tech fails
• 26. happy podaversary! our origin story & behind the scenes magic
• 1. intro: welcome to rare with flair!

• Casey mentioned blind influencer Molly Burke’s video on My Disability Hot Takes (please don’t hate me…) (YouTube) that inspired this episode
• We cross-reference several episodes during this episode, including:
  • 102. white cane hot takes, where Casey talks about her all-pink cane
  • 108. the wound that never heals: our discrimination stories, where Cass talks about getting rejected from rideshares with a guide dog and Case talks about a major discrimination issue she faced
  • 97. how we stopped word-vomiting all our struggles and 71. oversharing on facebook: our online advocacy experience where we talk about how we’ve grown in disclosing and not oversharing
  • 14. life, love, & dating with a disability, our original dating episode from 2021
  • 43. is that how close i hold my phone? where Case & Cass talk about the importance of community and finding people who understand you