(soft upbeat music) - What's up y'all?

Jordan Rice here, actor, dancer, and the new host of Hope Givers.

(laughs) I did a self-care activity in the first season, and now, I'm the host, so welcome.

What does it mean to be human?

Are we all created the same?

One in six people on Earth live with disability, but does disability equal a limitation?

Today, we're headed out to the West Coast to meet a teen prodigy that has never been defined by his disability.

Remember, it's our differences that make us so special.

(paper crumples) (pencil scratches) (paper flaps) (funky upbeat music) - [T.J.] And we are back now to tell you about the 15-year-old painting prodigy.

- Art Prodigy is having his first gallery show in Brooklyn.

- [Anchorwoman] Debuting today at an art gallery in Los Angeles.

- Many people have seen your work; they may not know the backstory.

- [Jordan] How do you decide who to do portraits of?

- [Tyler] If I'm inspired by them in that moment, I got to paint them.

(bold upbeat music) - [Kevin] Tyler, amazing artist, did this amazing painting of me.

- [Jordan] What has been the coolest call or mention that you've had?

- Janet Jackson, Kevin Durant, and, I'm sorry, (cellphone rings) someone's calling my phone.

- Just Kamala Harris.

- Just Kamala.

- I'm calling to speak with the artist known as Ty.

(laughs) (gentle music) - You found out when you were five years old that you were born deaf.

- Yeah, yes.

- [Jordan] And then you got a surgery, and it gave you how much of your hearing back?

- 20% in my right ear, I think, and, like, a little bit of my left ear.

- [Jordan] How did you learn to start speaking after that?

- It was hard for me, and it did leave me with a really bad stutter.

I got bullied a lot for my stutter, so I had a lotta energy growing up, but I barely spoke, and art sorta helped me just to express myself and help me talk without speaking.

- And what would you say to maybe a kid who is also getting bullied?

- It does not matter what they say or do.

Don't let those kids get to you, and just keep following your dreams and passion.

(jazzy upbeat music) So, first the fingertips, then start from the other side, the top of the thumb.

- [Jordan] When things get overwhelming, it seems like art is one of the ways that you reset.

- Yeah.

- You also do this thing where you take a breath, and I wanna know, like, where you learned that.

- I do speech therapy sometimes, so they taught me just ways to just calm down and reset.

It's weird because, when I sing, I don't stutter at all.

That is amazing, why I always just play music.

- [Jordan] There's a lot of studies that say painting, listening to music, can decrease a lot of negative emotions or a lot of challenges.

Is that true for you?

- It sorta is because, with the bullying, I always wanted to just quit and stop painting, but it always helped just to push that stuff aside.

Art is what you make it.

Don't let other people tell you how to paint.

Art can inspire a lot of people.

I hope that it inspires other kids and adults to keep following their dreams and passion.

- This is dope.

(laughs) (Tyler laughs) This is so dope.

(Tyler laughs) (off-camera people laugh) - We'll do one more.

Oh, that's great.

(paper crinkles) (paper crumples) - What's going on, everybody?

- We're Hope Giver reporters, - Tonya - And Khalise.

- And today we're gonna go around asking people what self-care means to them.

What does it mean to you?

- Well, for me, it's like gonna go take care of myself, you know, get my hair and nails done, you know, just spending the day with myself.

- That's nice.

Let's go ask you guys now; come on.

Okay, so we're here with?

- Naisha.

- Keisha, what do you think about self-care?

What does it mean to you?

- I be like, everybody should self care for you.

- Right, right, right, but what do you do for self-care?

- I, normally, I have a spa day.

- Oh, boujee.

- And then, you know, just get my nails done and all that.

- You got money, girl.

- What does self-care mean to you?

- Self-care.

Taking a shower.

- Oh.

- What do you do on self-care days?

What do you like to do?

- I like to sleep.

Yeah.

- How many hours do you be sleeping?

- Eight.

Nine, 10.

11 sometimes.

- Today's word of the day is self-care, and I wanna know what does that mean to you?

- Taking care of yourself, ignoring everybody else, not really caring about everyone else except for myself.

- Just taking a mental break.

- (indistinct), what's your name?

- Sage.

- Sage, hi.

What does self-care mean to you?

- Self-care, to me, it's just taking that time to just respect yourself - Oh, that's good.

- And treat yourself kind.

- So, like, what do you do on self-care days?

- What I do is I like to go on long walks, you know, read a book, maybe even take a hot bath.

- Whole (indistinct).

Oh, my goodness, girl.

Like, I think I'm gonna join you on one of those days, but, right.

- You should.

- Thank you so much, thank you so much.

- You guys, that's it for this seg.

- Thank you so much; you know, (indistinct), one more, one more, what's your name, what's your name?

- Andrea.

- Andrea, what does self-care mean to you?

- Self-care means a lot to me.

I think it's very important that you take mental health days.

- Right, right, okay, we're done with her; anyways, thank you so much for watching, you guys.

- And, once again, we're Hope Givers reporters, Khalise, - And Tonya, and - And?

- we're ready to go; let's go.

Peace.

(paper crumples) (paper crumples) (laid back music) - Hey, y'all, I'm in the loft with Bailey, and she was telling me about a really cool way she relaxes to music.

Can you tell them?

- So, I'm deaf, and I use cochlear implants, and so, these are receivers and attaches to a magnet, and the sound goes directly to my brain.

And so, this is gonna look a little funny.

So I put, place this over my processor, and I would just listen to music.

(muffled music plays) - What's your favorite thing to listen to?

- What?

(laughs) - (laughs) What's your favorite thing to listen to?

- Oh, sorry.

I would listen to Running Up That Hill.

- Ah.

- It's good, it's good.

- That's some cool news to jam out to, Hope Givers.

Have fun.

(paper crinkles) (paper crumples) This week's Youth Across America winner is Disability is Not Inability by filmmaker Levi Waters.

Let's press play.

(upbeat music) (static crackles) - My name is Gabe, and this is my story.

(gentle music) - So Gabe was born in the Shandong province of China, and we brought him home in June of 2014.

- It was kind of easier for me to learn how to use the skateboard because, you know, I just felt like I could do it real easy and just learned how to use it over a couple of months.

He was my best friend since fifth grade.

I've just known him for a really long time.

I can barely do anything without him.

He's just like a brother to me.

- [Blonde Boy] Everything that I've done is just trying to be a good friend, being loyal, being kind, just helping the best way I can, no matter what's wrong with anybody.

Take anything he needs to classes.

I'll grab his tray in the lunch room, and then take it up to the room, and then, there's also, like, a lot of things that we do, like, whenever we have a fire drill, sometimes I'll carry him on my back so he doesn't get wet in the grass.

- They go as hard on me as if I was any other appointment that they have.

And I don't treat anybody else different, honestly, but it was hard at beginning because, being smaller and weighing a lot less than others was definitely not an advantage.

Disability is not inability.

(paper crinkles) (paper crumples) (upbeat disco music) - [Woman Denim Jacket] What I love about Tyler's story is how he shares the way he was able to overcome such adversity from the time he was born without being able to hear to getting bullied for his speech impediment, and then finding this incredible talent in expressing himself in a more beautiful way than speech.

And he was able to lean into music as therapy to overcome the depression, to block out all that noise, and to resume the thing that he was born to do, which is his art.

What we see with Bailey, with the receivers, she comes home after a long day of hearing fatigue, and the way she refills and replenishes and restores is through music.

Music is very powerful.

Music is life.

When you can listen to it and feel like you're seen, and you're understood, it can give you hope.

You feel connected to something outside of yourself, and that connection, it can save lives.

(paper crumples) - Do you know someone we should highlight?

Send us your suggestions and keep holding on.

(paper crinkles) (upbeat music) - Calling all student filmmakers.

It's that time again.

Submission for our annual Hope Film Challenge opens this October for your chance to win $2,000 and have your film featured next season on Hope Givers.

Head to our website for more information, and remember, all voices, all stories.

Humanity wins here.

(paper crinkles) (paper crumples) - Author C.S.

Lewis said "Hardships often prepare ordinary people "for an extraordinary destiny."

Remember to embrace what makes you unique and always be the best version of you.

In the loft today, performing Arizona off their album, Kingfisher, this is Wiley From Atlanta.

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