The Wheelchair Activist

Mar 01 2023 25 ep. 56 mins 4

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'Wheelchair Activist' Emma Vogelmann interviews incredible members of the disabled community and its' allies, succeeding in all areas of life. Emma will also be covering life as a disabled person with all of it highs, lows and in betweens.
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S2 E12 - The Power Of Disabled Influencers with Dom Hyams

Mar 01 2023 54 mins

Dom was born with a severe form of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (more commonly known as Brittle Bones). He had more than 25 broken bones during birth, is of short stature and uses a powered wheelchair for his mobility.Dom joined the Purple Goat agency team in February 2021 as Head of Strategy - the world's first and only disability-led and disability focused agency looking to create the

S2 E11 - The Work in Getting to Work with Alan Benson

Feb 15 2023 65 mins

Alan Benson is a disability rights activist and campaigner, with a particular interest in accessible travel. As a wheelchair user Alan has a firm belief in a pan impairment approach based on a lifetime of lived experience of discrimination and barriers. He credits much of his knowledge and success to the amazing, supportive online community. As Chair of Transport for All and Deputy

S2 E10 - Disability Down Under with Peta Hooke

Jan 25 2023 48 mins

Peta Hooke is the creator and host of The I Can’t Stand Podcast. She is thirty-something living in Melbourne, with Cerebral Palsy. Peta is a passionate advocate for the disability community through educating non-disabled people on what it is actually like to live with a disability. The I Can’t Stand Podcast, is a weekly podcast answering the audiences’ questions they have abo

S2 E09 - Accessible Content & User Experience with Zoe Portlock

Jan 11 2023 62 mins

Zoe Portlock is a Digital Accessibility Expert who established and now leads Accessibility for the UKs biggest investment platform. Zoe also writes about digital accessibility for Scope.Her work and advocacy is informed by her lived experience. She is autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, has Irlen Syndrome, M.E/CFS and fibromyalgia.Zoe is a tenacious advocate for all people with access n

S2 E08 - The Pressure to be Perfect with Holly Tuke

Dec 21 2022 57 mins

Holly Tuke is the author behind the award-winning blog Life of a Blind Girl. She is registered blind due to a condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity, and she also has ME/CFS.Holly was named as one of the top 100 most influential disabled people in the UK in the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 list in 2018 and 2019. She also won the Social Media Influencer of the Year award at

S2 E07 - Holding Fashion Brands to Account with Victoria Jenkins

Dec 07 2022 54 mins

Victoria is an award winning adaptive designer, disability advocate, speaker and writer. She has spent the past 14 years working as a garment technologist in the fashion industry before becoming disabled in her mid 20’s and has a variety of gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal conditions. This is what led to her founding Unhidden, a socially responsible universally designed fashi

S2 E06 - From Paralympian to Politician with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

Nov 23 2022 54 mins

Tanni Grey-Thompson realised at age 13 that Wheelchair Racing was her sport of choice. Tanni's first Paralympics was Seoul in 1988, where she won a bronze medal in the 400m. Her fifth and last Paralympic Games were in Athens (2004) where she won two gold medals in wheelchair racing in the 100m and 400m. In total in her Paralympic career she won 16 medals (11 gold, four silver and a

S2 E05 - The Scarcity Mindset & Uplifting Others with Shani Dhanda

Nov 09 2022 54 mins

Shani Dhanda is a multi-award-winning inclusion specialist and social entrepreneur listed as one of the UK's most influential disabled people by the Shaw Trust and BBC's 100 Women List 2020.As a keynote speaker and practitioner for inclusion across business, government, non-profit and wider society, Shani helps organisations break barriers and integrate inclusion into their busines

S2 E04 - Trailblazing with Emma Lewell-Buck MP

Oct 26 2022 49 mins

Emma is a Labour MP and the first female representative for South Shields in Parliament, having been elected in 2013. Prior to her election, Emma was as a local Councillor and a child protection social worker. She is committed to supporting vulnerable people across her constituency alongside many other important issues. Emma was diagnosed with dyspraxia at the age of 27 and is prou

S2 E03 - Unconscious Bias with Toby Mildon

Oct 12 2022 54 mins

In this episode, Emma interviews Toby Mildon, a Diversity & Inclusion Architect and founder of Mildon, a consultancy and advisory business. Toby works with businesses to devise diversity and inclusion strategies, re-engineer processes and systems to minimise the impact of bias and build a culture of inclusion. Toby is the author of the Amazon bestselling book Inclusive Growth: