Featuring inspiring and uplifting content across multiple platforms, PSNEVERGIVEUP is a multimedia venture founded by multimedia personality, speaker and musician Pete Scalia.
Inspired by his own life experience as a father living with chronic illness (and a play on his initials, “P.S.”), Pete created PSNeverGiveUp as a reminder for all of us to NEVER GIVE UP.
A chronic disease advocate, Pete has emceed numerous local, regional and national events for the Arthritis Foundation, including the National Evening of Honors, Jingle Bell Run, Bone Bash Walk to Cure Arthritis and more.
In addition to creating original content for PSNeverGiveUp, Pete has contributed articles to the Arthritis Foundation’s website on topics like “Men In Chronic Pain: Being a Dad With Arthritis,” and has guest-hosted multiple episodes of the “We Live YES! with Arthritis” podcast.
PSNEVERGIVEUP IS ALL ABOUT RESILIENCE.
RESILIENCE is the ability to adapt, bounce back, and even grow stronger from adversity, stress, and significant life changes. We ALL experience this at some point in our lives – if not many times!)
Through content shared here on PSNeverGiveUp.com and social media to the Pete Scalia PSNeverGiveUp Podcast, email newsletters and the PSNeverGiveUp Online Shop – PSNeverGiveUp is all about creating a sense of community.
“What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness?
― Mark Twain
You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”
PSNEVERGIVEUP content is based three basic principles:
FORTITUDE, PERSEVERANCE and INSPIRATION.
FORTITUDE is the mental and emotional strength to endure adversity, difficulty, pain, or danger with courage and patience. It comes from the Latin word fortis, meaning “strong.”
PERSEVERANCE is the quality of continuing to do something, despite difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. It is a conscious decision to make progress toward a goal, even when faced with resistance.
INSPIRATION is a mental state or sudden idea that stimulates creativity and action, rooted in the Latin word for “to breathe into.”
It can be an external influence, an internal feeling, or a process of both absorbing ideas from the world and acting on them.
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.”
– L.R. Knost
Pete has shared his difficult journey to fatherhood – managing chronic illness, infertility, joint replacement surgeries and countless other medical procedures – on television, social media and at numerous events across the country.
He founded PSNEVERGIVEUP to remind others who are battling chronic pain and chronic illness that they are not alone, and to inspire others – no matter what you’re facing in life – to NEVER GIVE UP!
Whether you’re listening to the podcast, supporting our online shop or just enjoying the content we produce,
YOU ARE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL!