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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

Podcast: Glidance
September 10, 2024

Learn about the founder of this startup and what it takes to make your dream turn into reality.Show notesGlidance TranscriptDownloadGuest: Amos MillerGlidance Website:https://glidance.io/GlidanceFacebook Profilehttps://www.facebook

Podcast: APH Update
September 03, 2024

In this episode, we have Richard Rueda, Katie Frederick, and Lori Scharff, not necessarily in that order, from the APH Connect Center, back on, as we do almost every year at about this time, to talk about the APH Connect Center. For those of you who are u

Podcast: From Anger to Action with Mike Calvo Part 2
August 20, 2024

Chris, Liz, and MOe talk with Mike Calvo, co-founder of Pneuma Solutions, about how, as a high school dropout, running with the wrong crowd, he found growth, success, and belonging in the blind community.Show notesPenny Forward Podcast S2024 E15Do

Podcast: From Anger to Action with Mike Calvo Part 1
August 06, 2024

Chris, Liz, and MOe talk with Mike Calvo, co-founder of Pneuma Solutions, about how, as a high school dropout, running with the wrong crowd, he found growth, success, and belonging in the blind community.Show notesS2024 Episode 14 Mike CalvoDownlo