Another big week at Purple Goat Agency! I’ve continued my weekday livestreams, interviewing leaders in the disability world. I’ve also continued my daily Disabled Founders Journal podcast, alongside some of the livestream interviews on my channel here https://open.spotify.com/show/5or9a7baTKyL7NZDv37qET?si=sRgRDBCDTxCsjZFOUhOkTw. Three of my favourite Daily Sib interviews include: 1) Elizabeth Ransome-Croker and I discussing the founding story of… Continue Reading
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Sir Bert Massie – A life without limits
Over the years I’ve totally geeked out on both disability rights and civil rights. There’s nothing better than a leader building a movement, defying the odds, and beating Goliath. A big reason for me wanting to learn about this subject, is to inform my disability activism today. “We have to understand the past to shape… Continue Reading
Sparks of Change
Peaks and Troughs. Ebb and Flow. However much I strive for consistency, it always seems to evade me. Partly because I guess ‘that’s life’. Partly because I seem to like to mix things up! I tend to regularly kick off new challenges. From finishing 2014 tired, living back home, and struggling with a deterioration in… Continue Reading
Polish Project: Dignity and Equality
If you are in a hurry, please click on the fundraising page and donate just£10. Do you remember my Epic European Disability Roadtrip last year? In October I travelled in my Motability car to my grandfathers homeland of Lithuania, down to Prague, back to the UK, and everywhere inbetween. I overcame personal barriers, met disabled… Continue Reading
Facing fears and Still changing the world
Hola to my lovely blog readers! Hope all is well in your world 🙂 This blog post is going to touch on a few points, so brace yourself. I want to bring you up to speed on my recent happenings, tussles with my future direction and give you some advice on how to change the… Continue Reading
Ability – don’t dis it, but own it
If you are disabled, have a relationship to someone who is, work in this world or maybe just read my blog; you get the base issues faced. When writing on the subject of disability, you can’t be everything to everyone. Despite having an impairment, people are still people. A medical condition will vary making life’s… Continue Reading
A Simply Social Strategy
Three and a bit years ago I was lucky enough, or maybe destined, to meet AJ and Melissa Leon of Misfit-Inc. They spoke about social media at the Institute of Fundraising convention. I was working my way up in fundraising at Scope and finding my way generally post uni. Their strategy was simple and yet… Continue Reading
Disability eConference
I am excited to launch a new project with you guys today – the Disability eConference! It is a new concept in the disability field! Using web based tools, personal experiences and all created by you; it will make a great impact in the disability world. The first topic, which was decided back in April… Continue Reading