EP74 | Jo Milne & Steve White | Empathy, Awareness and Understanding | Local Heroes Podcast

Jo Milne and Steve White join us for a conversation about empathy, connection and what it means to truly understand the world from someone else’s perspective. Jo lives with Usher syndrome, a condition that causes both hearing and sight loss. After being profoundly deaf from birth, her experience of hearing for the first time through cochlear implants was captured in a video that went viral around the world. But behind that moment is a much bigger story. Together with Steve, Jo talks about their partnership, the often-unseen role of caring, navigating a world that isn’t always accessible, and why awareness begins with being willing to ask questions. From the sounds we take for granted to the importance of simply “zooming out”, this is a warm, funny and thought-provoking conversation about disability, difference, human connection and the empathy we could all do with a little more of.