Brought To You By: Have you been sitting on an idea that can help people with special needs or disabilities? Are you waiting for the “perfect time” to get started on it? Well today’s guest is here to show us that there is no time like the present and no matter what your situation, youRead more
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Brought To You By: With a background in fashion Sam is passionate about inclusive fashion and leading a healthy and active lifestyle. She lives in London and shares her knowledge and life experiences to raise awareness of inclusion, fashion and healthy lifestyles. She is a wheelchair user since 1992 and played wheelchair tennis from 2003Read more
Brought To You By: Rob is an internationally competitive wheelchair racer in the T52 category. He is married to Jo and has a son, Jacob, and a daughter, Xanthe. He likes all his document titles to contain the word ‘stuff’ and would rather be designing than doing paper work. Rob designed Active Hands gripping aidsRead more
Brought To You By: Kenny Salvini is an award-winning writer and paralysis advocate who saw the immense need for an organized community as well as supporting technology to connect and empowering the paralysis community in the Pacific Northwest. As the co-founder and President of The Here and Now Project, Kenny began sharing his ownRead more
Brought To You By: A regular TV and radio commentator, Jennie Williams is the CEO and founder of Enhance The UK A charity that is well known for its innovative approach to disability awareness training, and it’s campaigns to break the taboo around about sex and disability. Jennie, who has degenerative hearing loss and livesRead more
Brought To You By: Today’s guest is Melissa Van Wijk, a special education teacher who envisioned and created a a New York based nonprofit, Born Dancing, that creates dance education programs for students with disabilities. Her unwavering commitment and hard-earned success is recognized nationwide and featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, November, 2018 issue. InRead more
Brought To You By: Brett Heising, the founder and CEO of Brett Approved, shares how he created and funded his travel site dedicated to people with disabilities. Filling the need to identify accessible destinations came out of his personal experience and challenges regarding wheelchair accessibility during his professional travel related to public affairs, journalism, andRead more
Brought To You By: Todd Stabelfeldt is an entrepreneur and computing technology expert. He is the founder and CEO of, C4 Database Management, a company that primarily serves clinical and anatomical pathology labs and hospitals with ongoing database maintenance and special projects like SharePoint migrations. Todd is also a C4 quadriplegic. During his decades-long struggleRead more
Brought To You By: Karin is a parent of a son with a disability. A high school special education teacher and advocate. She recently stepped down from teaching to help her former students transition into the work force by opening Spencer’s Place; a coffee shop that employs adults with cognitive and developmental disabilities. Karin’s passionRead more
Brought To You By: I have achieved in life what I could not have even dreamed about. Creativity, determination, and a big dose of adventure are some of the traits that have allowed me to found and own two highly admired businesses in the special education space from the ground up: Smarty Ears and SmartyRead more
