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  • Visibility, Vision, and Victory: Lessons from Renee’s Global Impact

    Visibility, Vision, and Victory: Lessons from Renee’s Global Impact
    2025/05/04
    Renee started her impressive career 35 years ago as one of the pioneering female outside industrial salespeople. Fueled by a unique blend of passion and determination, she took the entrepreneurial leap five years later, starting her own company with just $3,000 and a high- interest credit card. This bold move marked the beginning of a successful journey, during which Renee developed a sustainable business model by building long-term relationships and adopting a servant’s mentality across the globe. In 2019, Renee sold her industrial fastener company, but her passion for entrepreneurship persisted. She shifted her focus to consulting, speaking, and writing, […]
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Gretchen & Nadine Vogel: Advocating for Disability Inclusion in the Workplace

    Gretchen & Nadine Vogel: Advocating for Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
    2025/04/28
    Gretchen Vogel is an Executive Assistant to the CEO and Springboard Consulting Motivational Keynote Speaker. Gretchen Vogel was born with a myriad of disabilities, none of which stops her from independently living life to the fullest. Gretchen is currently employed at Springboard Consulting. In her tenure, she has served in many capacities and currently, as the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer. Her previous experience includes roles at Prudential Financial and YAI Roosevelt Children’s Center. Nadine Vogel is the CEO of Springboard Consulting. Springboard works with corporations around the world to mainstream people with disabilities in the global workforce, […]
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    1 時間
  • Building Inclusive Education: A Conversation with Adam Lalor and Mark Thurman

    Building Inclusive Education: A Conversation with Adam Lalor and Mark Thurman
    2025/04/22
    Adam R. Lalor, Ph.D. is an educational psychologist and Vice President for Neurodiversity Research and Innovation at Landmark College. His research focuses on the transition and success of disabled college students to and through postsecondary education. Mark Thurman is the director of the Centers for Diversity and Inclusion at Landmark college and the Men’s Head Basketball Coach. Keith, Adam and Mark talk about Landmark College and its importance in the disability community. They talk about the programs and experiences each has had at Landmark and the opportunities Landmark College offers for students. Disability Empowerment Now is produced by Pascal […]
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    1 時間 19 分
  • Coming Home: Leo Ricketts on Neurodivergence, Identity, and Belonging

    Coming Home: Leo Ricketts on Neurodivergence, Identity, and Belonging
    2025/04/13
    Leo Ricketts trained in relational transactional analysis and has been practicing since 2014. Eight years later, aged 55 he was diagnosed autistic having suspected as much for years. This came with a bonus ADHD diagnosis which surprised precisely no-one in his personal life. He has what his psychologist described as a very AuDHD CV, having had careers as a drummer, DJ, journalist, radio presenter, graphic designer, digital producer and project manager. In his work as a therapist he feels he has come home and with a practice of 95% neurodivergent people, has found his tribe. As well as his client […]
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    1 時間 5 分
  • Advocacy, Writing, and Life Beyond the ADA with Ben Mattlin

    Advocacy, Writing, and Life Beyond the ADA with Ben Mattlin
    2025/04/08
    Season 4 Episode 28 Ben Mattlin is a Los Angeles-based Senior Writer at Financial Advisor magazine and the author, most recently, of Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World (2022). His work has appeared in Time magazine, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Newsweek, CNN.com, Self, New Mobility, and on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” Other credits include the Mark Taper Forum, Blonde and Brunette Productions, and the children’s television program Biker Mice from Mars. A complete list and links to clips can be found at BenMattlin.com. He was born in New York City in […]
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    1 時間 6 分
  • Beyond the Slayer: Erik Fuhrer on Buffy and Queer Resilience

    Beyond the Slayer: Erik Fuhrer on Buffy and Queer Resilience
    2025/04/02
    Season 4 Episode 27 Erik Fuhrer is a queer, nonbinary poet, playwright and scarf tie aficionado whose fashion sense is part Buffy Summers, part Blanch Devereux, and part the lion from The Wizard of Oz. Their most recent book, Gellar Studies (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) hailed as “exceptionally delectable and devastating” by Addie Tsai, creatively engages with the work of icon Sarah Michelle Gellar to unfold personal narratives of queer trauma. Keith and Erik talk about their inspirations, the writing process and reflect on their shared memories from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Disability Empowerment Now is produced by Pascal Albright
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    58 分
  • SPECIAL REPORT WITH CHRIS DESBOROUGH

    SPECIAL REPORT WITH CHRIS DESBOROUGH
    2025/04/02
    Season 4 Special Report 3 This Special Report focuses on the state of the disability community in current times, 2025. Keith will talk with guests about their experiences and how they can navigate the struggles the new political world has laid down. For this special report Keith talks with Chris Desborough MSW, the Community Outreach Director for the city of Tucson and Director of Disability Pride Tucson. Disability Empowerment Now is produced by Pascal Albright Season 4 is dedicated to Christina Trivigno, Disability Advocate and Friend.
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    47 分
  • Making Waves for Good: Accessibility, Art, and Adventure with Heather C. Markham

    Making Waves for Good: Accessibility, Art, and Adventure with Heather C. Markham
    2025/03/20
    Heather C. Markham is an engineer, assistive technology professional, public speaker, competitive Para Surfer, educator, ADA architectural barriers specialist, golfer, and award-winning international photographer. Her company, Making Waves for Good, launched in 2018 with three goals in mind: Provide ADA code compliance and usability consulting to businesses–because accessibility is more than just ramps; Publish authors with an authentic voice; Curate a gallery of fine art photography crafted with love that offer a new perspective on the Unseen. Heather and her husband currently live in central Arizona’s wine tourism capital, with her deaf super-snuggly Maine coon cat and his deaf dachshund […]
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    58 分