What's it Like Participating in Blue Circle Health? Featuring Keshia Cannon-Peak

Scott K. Johnson talks with Keshia Cannon-Peak, a former Blue Circle Health participant who lives in Delaware and has lived with type 1 diabetes since 1984. Keshia shares what her diagnosis was like when she was 11 years old, the isolation she felt growing up without knowing anyone else with type 1 diabetes, and how technology and online communities changed her relationship with diabetes over time.

Keshia also walks us through how she found Blue Circle Health on social media (and why she initially thought it sounded too good to be true), what it felt like to add Blue Circle Health alongside her existing endocrinology care team, and the small, practical “game changer” tips that continue to help her today, about a year after she completed the program. She also spoke about a bigger shift: giving herself permission to ask for help, admitting when it’s hard, and giving herself grace. Keshia also shares that her experience with Blue Circle Health inspired her to go back to school with a new focus. 

What You’ll Learn

• Why living with type 1 diabetes can feel isolating—especially when you don’t know anyone else who “gets it”
• How Keshia navigated childhood, teen years, and adulthood with T1D (and what support looked like for her)
• What changed when she realized there’s a whole world of people living with type 1 diabetes, and how community can help
• How Blue Circle Health can work alongside your existing care team and collaborate together
• Why small, specific tools (like right-sizing low treatments) can make a big difference over time

Key Quotes:

• “I'm not alone. There are people like me.” — Keshia Cannon-Peak
• “I learned how to navigate, how to do things differently. Understanding what the charts mean, asking the questions why, and recommending what I should change as far as a basal rate and things like that. So I learned that from Blue Circle Health.” — Keshia Cannon-Peak
• “It's okay to say you need help,it's okay to say you're not having a good day, and it's okay to be overwhelmed sometimes” — Keshia Cannon-Peak

Resources & Links

• Blue Circle Health (learn more / sign up): https://bluecirclehealth.org/
• Touched By Type 1 – The D-Box (free t1d starter kit): https://touchedbytypeone.org/

What is Around the Circle: Living Well with T1D?
The US healthcare system makes it difficult, expensive, often impossible for people with T1D to access the care, education, and support they need to live. Around the Circle: Living Well with T1D brings together voices from across the type 1 diabetes community to share real stories, expert insight, and practical support for living well with t1d.

Hosted by the team at Blue Circle Health, a U.S.-based program transforming type 1 care, this podcast helps people go from just surviving to truly living well with type 1 diabetes. https://bluecirclehealth.org/