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Latest Episodes

Financial Sense¢: Mastering Financial Resolutions
January 19, 2025

Many of us start the new year with financial resolutions, but staying on track can be tough. This interactive webinar will explore strategies to help you stick to your goals and set yourself up for long-term success. We’ll discuss effective tracking metho

Podcast: Taking On 2025 with Chris Peterson
January 14, 2025

This week, Penny Forward founder and CEO, Chris Peterson, talks about his goals for 2025 and some changes you'll see to Penny Forward throughout the coming year.

Podcast: Seeing The World In Ways You Never Imagined Part 2
December 31, 2024

Have you always believed that you could only make a living if you went to college? George Wurtzel was the star of a 2018 Subaru Outback commercial, but he is also a blind woodworker and craftsman who

Podcast: Seeing The World In Ways You Never Imagined Part 1
December 17, 2024

Have you always believed that you could only make a living if you went to college? George Wurtzel was the star of a 2018 Subaru Outback commercial, but he is also a blind woodworker and craftsman who

Podcast: Holiday Budgeting Tips
December 03, 2024

While the Penny Forward Podcast team is preparing for the holidays, we thought we'd re-run the last episode of 2021, we shared a recording of a Zoom call hosted by our friend Mo Carpenter. She runs a Facebook group for blind parents called "Parenting Out

Podcast: The Past, Present, and Future of Blindness Media and Technology with Jonathan Mosen
November 26, 2024

"I now find advocacy really rewarding, and I realize that it's a long game, and sometimes advocacy's going to feel like you're banging your head against a brick wall, but every so often, the wall moves just a little bit. So, there is hope, and it can get

Podcast: Homesteading by Touch with Nella Foster
November 06, 2024

"I did come to the realization that the food I purchase in the grocery store is never as good as the food that I grew up eating, so how do I get that good food, those really great tomatoes? I have to grow it."Join us as we talk about Homesteading By T

Podcast: Banking With Aira
October 29, 2024

This is a bonus episode of the Penny Forward Podcast, a show about blind people building bright futures one penny at a time. In this episode, we feature an excerpt from our September Financial Sense program, featuring Everett Bacon, VP of Blindness Initi

Podcast: Employment Programs with Jeremy Grandstaff
October 15, 2024

Because of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we wanted to focus on Penny Forwards employment programs, so we brought on Jeremy Grandstaff, who leads our youth employment and advocacy programs, and is also the author of our Employment Essent

Podcast: You Cane Give Initiative
September 24, 2024

James Boehm, Amanda Juetten, and Angus Kola from Kustom Canes, and the You Cane Give initiative, talk about their organizations and how they fund a need that's super important, and one we probably don't think about here in the United States, which is the