The Enabled Disabled Podcast

The Enabled Disabled Podcast

A podcast created to shift the narrative around disability. We speak openly around what it means to have a disability, and what it doesn't mean. By sharing our stories, we hope to influence thought leaders, companies, and help empower people with a disability and the professionals who work with them. Visit us at: https://www.enableddisabled.com

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September 13, 2022 71 mins

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In this episode, we are talking to Daniel DeFabio, who co-founded the Disorder Channel, the Rare Disease Film Festival, and also works as a community manager for Global Genes. Daniel and I discuss his background in designing games, creating media, and how the birth of his son Lucas, who was born with a rare disease called Menkes Disease, helped him and his wife f...

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Millions Lost The Unrealized Potential of Entrepreneurship and Disability

We often read that people with a disability are especially good at solving problems, have a surplus of resilience, and utilize soft skills–like empathy–to better adapt to the world. If solving problems, resilience, and soft skills–like empathy–are common and requisite traits for entrepreneurs, w...

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The Nuance of Disability: “Because of,” NOT “In Spite Of”

A film director and producer, along with a writer, share their stories as creatives who embraced their disability and made a conscious choice to flourish because of it, not in spite of it. As a result, their work is now reclaiming the narrative around disability and portraying it not as a burden, but instead, s...

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How Diversity Actualizes Potential: The Omnium Circus Approach

Most conversations about human resources in organizations revolve around diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet those three topics usually focus primarily on race and LGBTQ rights, and disability is often neglected in the dialog.

This program will explore the major benefits that organizations, audiences, an...

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Universal Design: How "Inclusive Architecture" Benefits Businesses & People

Michael Kimmelman, the architecture critic of The New York Times, wrote that the planning and designing of public and commercial spaces for accessibility and diversity shouldn’t be seen as a requirement, but instead, as an opportunity, both economic and creative. And he also emphasized tha...

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August 13, 2022 67 mins

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Inspirational Speaker Ruth Rathblott is a TEDx speaker and an award-winning former CEO committed to creating inclusion for all. She is a leader who has spent her entire career focused on providing opportunities for those who face obstacles.

Born with a limb difference, Ruth currently speaks on issues of inclusion and diversity, the gifts of being unique, the freedom o...

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August 7, 2022 52 mins

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Maya is the producer, creator, editor, and host of Proud Stutter, a podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering and embracing verbal diversity. She is a writer and community organizer with over eight years of strategic communications experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. As a woman who stutters, she is a stuttering advocate working to sh...

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July 30, 2022 53 mins

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I am Brianna Paauwe and I became a wheelchair user after a car accident left me with a spinal cord injury. Since the accident, I have found my love of helping others through volunteering and going back to school for Human Services, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. Since graduation in May, I have helped my team launch a fitness app for wheelchair users, moved to a ne...

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Lisa Rosen, MS, has 30 years of experience in physical rehabilitation with expertise in education, training, and program development.  Most recent professional experience as Manager of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s LIFE Center (formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), a multimedia education center and web portal for people with physical disabil...

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July 17, 2022 56 mins

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Moyez graduated from Trinity College Dublin (complete with an Irish accent), he trained as a family physician in Scotland, with postgraduate qualifications from Nottingham and Sheffield Universities , UK. He now works as the Associate Dean at the Melbourne Clinical School, University of Notre Dame Australia. He also sounds like a BBC newscaster, which is why he hosts ...

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July 10, 2022 67 mins

Dr. Hoby Wedler is an insightful, disarming, and passionate thinker who loves to bring people together to help them see new possibilities. With the heart of a teacher, Hoby helps turn your dreams into realities. Hoby has been completely blind since birth. He is a scientist, an entrepreneur, a sensory expert, and is driven by his passion for innovative, creative, and insightful thinking. Hoby is remarkably tuned into his surrounding...

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This is the first time for us to release the video version of the conversation between Dr. BJ Miller and our host Gustavo Serafini - you can watch the video on Spotify, and listen to the episode everywhere else. 

This is also our first and one of the most popular episodes of all time. Learn more: https://www.enableddisabled.com/blog/bj-miller

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This FREE interview and discussion is brought to you by the Enabled Disabled Project (EDP). The Enabled Disabled Podcast is created for people with a disability, as well as their families, friends, clinicians and therapists. This platform helps dive into how our guests have experienced disability; what has it taught them about themselves, about life, about others; what tools or experiences have helped them to better navigate and ad...

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June 19, 2022 69 mins

Kimberly Warner is a film director, editor and producer based in Portland, Oregon. After receiving her degree in Pre-Med and Biology at Colorado College and pursuing her Masters degree at National University of Naturopathic Medicine, Kimberly abruptly changed paths and has never looked back. Her work, still founded in a passion for the psychological and social patterns that influence healing, has traded herbs for a camera, prescrip...

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June 12, 2022 61 mins

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Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise to elevate disability pride; the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded $59.5k to 60 disability projects in 10 countries; and a content creator with almost 160k+ followers across plat...

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June 5, 2022 76 mins

My executive career coaching, strategy and innovation has generated multi-millions in revenue for the world's largest agencies, start-ups and well-known brands.

For 20+ years my approach to busting through the BS (which stands for belief systems) and building a culture from the strengths of both the team and leadership is responsible for creating repeated and consistent results. I’ve worked with the brands we all know and ...

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May 29, 2022 54 mins

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Seasoned interior designer and expert thinker on sustainable living, Shelly brings 20 years of experience to the interior design community and continues to contribute to the national conversation on sustainable, adaptive design and its impact on human health and well-being. She has built her career in design on the prem...

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May 22, 2022 90 mins

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Courtney Marsh is an Academy Award nominated filmmaker. Originally from South Florida, Courtney attended UCLA School of Film and Television and has worked extensively in the camera department on numerous commercials and feature films.

She has directed content for companies such as Buzzfeed and has had her films broadcasted o...

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In this special video episode, Enabled Disabled Podcast Creator (Gustavo Serafini) invited his two Producers (Adam Leffert and Fei Wu) to join in the conversation, sharing reflections and learnings from the past year of showing their not-so-brand new podcast. It's been a wild ride. Come join us! 

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May 8, 2022 64 mins

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The 4th bi-annual LivABLE Design Summit is a virtual event taking place April 20-21, 2022.

Join us as we present new perspectives and explore best practices around improving residential design.

This April we explore Health + Wellbeing: Transforming the Home, with industry experts and global inf...

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