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Podcast: Homesteading by Touch with Nella Foster
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Podcast: Tech Teaching and Tools with Computers for the Blind
Hosts sit down with Marci Duty, a rep for Computers for the Blind, and talk about theirlow-costlaptops and desktop computers for the blind, their partners, and the education classes you can get access to with a computer from Computers for the Blind.
Podcast: The AT Guys Story with J.J. Meddaugh
Chris and Liz sit down with J.J. Meddaugh, founder of AT Guys, to learn how he took a chance on starting an access technology business 16 years ago, and why he thinks it continues to thrive.Show notespenny-forward-podcast-S2024-E12Download Transcr