Traipsin' Global on Wheels Podcast Hour
by Traipsin' Global On Wheels Podcast
At Traipsin’ Global On Wheels, we empower people with disabilities—especially mobility disabilities—to live with freedom, independence, and purpose. Our podcast shares stories of advocacy, resilience, and growth. We explore the intersections of disability, mental health, self-development, spirituality, and inclusion. Join us as we expand the conversation to reflect the full, vibrant lives of people with disabilities—both inward and outward.
Episodes
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Design That Heals: Janet Roche on Trauma-Informed Spaces and True Inclusion
What if the spaces we live, learn, and heal in could actually heal us back? In this powerful podcast interview, we sit down with Janet Roche, MDS, CAPS—nationally recognized design practitioner, educator, and founder of the Trauma-Informed Design Society. Janet is a pioneer in Trauma-Informed...
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Disability Pride with Grit & Humor | Laura Stinson of FairyNerdy on Art, Ableism & Authenticity
In this bold and deeply honest conversation, we sit down with Laura Stinson—a disabled artist, entrepreneur, and host of Bad Attitudes: An Uninspiring Podcast About Disability. As the founder of FairyNerdy, Laura creates feminist, sarcastic art that fuses pop culture with disability pride.🌟 In...
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How Vicki Landers Leads with Bipolar Disorder and Builds Disability Pride
🔥 Vicki Landers: The Art of Being Unapologetically Disabled, Queer & Free 🎙️ A Deep Dive into Disability Justice, Mental Health, and Conscious Activism In this powerful and unfiltered conversation, we sit down with Vicki Landers (she/they)—a queer femme, artist, activist, and Founder of...
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How to Stay Calm in a Chaotic World | Dr. Christian Conte on Emotional Mastery
🎙️ What’s Beneath Your Anger? Dr. Christian Conte on Emotional Mastery, Sensitivity & Finding Strength Without the Mask In this raw, soul-stirring conversation, I sit down with Dr. Christian Conte—renowned anger management specialist, licensed counselor, author, and co-host of Tackling Life with...
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Power, Access & Belonging — A Conversation with Civil Rights Attorney Qudsiya Naqui
What does it really mean to build a world where everyone belongs — not just in policy or design, but in spirit? In this powerful and poetic conversation, I sit down with Qudsiya Naqui, civil rights attorney and host of Down to the Struts, to explore the deep intersections of disability, justice,...
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Disability advocacy from a Canadian social worker's perspective with Stephanie Evans
Meet Stephanie Evans, a dedicated advocate for mental health and disability rights from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. With a social work degree, she’s committed to supporting individuals through advocacy and plans to open a private practice. Stephanie serves as chairperson for NEADS,...
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How to be a global disability advocate with Rabia Khedr
Rabia Khedr is a passionate advocate for equity, justice, and inclusion, particularly for people with disabilities and diverse communities. She’s served on the Accessibility Standards Canada board, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and the Minister’s Disability Advisory Group. As the National...
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How to advocate for a better future with Claudia Center, disability rights attorney
Claudia Center is a leading disability rights attorney dedicated to advancing civil rights through litigation, policy, and advocacy. She previously served as a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU and directed the disability rights program at Legal Aid at Work. She played a key role in expanding...
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Breaking Barriers: Human Rights, Disability Justice, and Advocacy with Jamie Todd-Gher
In this powerful episode of Traipsin' Global on Wheels, human rights lawyer Jamie Todd-Gher shares her two-decade journey advocating for marginalized communities. From working with the UN and Amnesty International to championing gender equality, disability rights, and reproductive justice, Jamie...
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How to advocate for people with disabilities in marketing with Seth Godin
Seth Godin is a bestselling author, teacher, and marketing pioneer known for inspiring people to think differentlyand make an impact. He’s written 20 books translated into nearly 40 languages, including The Song of Significance, The Practice, and This Is Marketing. He founded the altMBA and…
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Deb Dana, LCSW: How to cope with trauma and choose differently in relationships with self and others
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author, and international lecturer on polyvagal theory-informed work with trauma survivors and is the leading translator of this scientific work to the public and mental health professionals. A founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, Deb developed…
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Diversifying your mind about abilities with Tiffany Yu
Tiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise to elevate disability pride; the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded $92.5k to 93 disability projects in 11 countries; and the author of The Anti-Ableist...
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Guided Meditation/Visualization on feeling centered, enough and confident
In this digital world, boundaries are blurred more and more and we are left chasing for an income that is seemingly always late on arrival. This guided meditation will leave you feeling grounded/centered, enough, and confident for what this 24/7 digital life throws at you.
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Blend of Guided Meditation and Visualization Exercise on Calming
If you are feeling anxious and overwhelmed, give this short blend of a guided meditation and visualization a try!
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Stephanie Bowman, founder of One Heart for Women & Children: creating a service out of a mom's love
Stephanie Bowman is the founder of the non-profit, One Heart for Women and Children. They serve an average of 20,000 individuals by providing basic human needs such as high-quality food and life-coping skills.
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Mirjam Versteegh: How to book a wheelchair accessible trip around Europe!
Mirjam Versteegh is known for her leadership in the accessible travel industry. In 2017 she became the owner of Disabled Accessible Travel, based out of Barcelona. Under her guidance, the company expanded its services and geographical reach, and established itself as Europe’s leading accessible...
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Wesley Hamilton: How exercise and nutrition can transform the lives of people with mobility disabilities
From a challenging beginning in Kansas City, Missouri, Wesley Hamilton has created an extraordinary life story of resilience and transformation. Following a traumatic incident at 24 that resulted in him being paralyzed below the waist, Wes channeled his adversity into a personal revolution,...
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Amu Urhonen, Finnish Politician: What is the progress of disability justice in Finland?
Amu Urhonen is a disability activist and disability rights expert based in Tampere, Finland. She has worked with disability rights since 1997 when she was 17 and joined a disability rights organisation when she realised the importance of persons with disabilities working for their rights....
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What adaptive driving programs are out there for people with mobility disabilities?
Driving is so key to our human dignity, access to employment and social well being, and yet adaptive driving programs are so sparse. I share a couple of the adaptive driving programs I went through to give you an idea of what resources you can tap into to learn how to drive.
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What are the benefits of meditation?
I list a few types of meditations and what I have benefited from practicing meditation more consistently over the last few years...
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The path to finding one's professional purpose in life
The path to finding a vocation that lights up our soul is often a windy and lengthy one, but it is an important one nonetheless. They say most of us die with our music boxes still tightly locked within us. I think this is the most tragic scenario. As a life coach, it lights up my soul to help...
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Should you invite your wheelchair user friends to go clubbing?
As manual wheelchair users, we're often excluded from social events due to attitudinal barriers or physical infrastructural barriers. Listen or watch this short episodes on my views towards whether or not you should invite those of us who cannot walk and rely on a wheelchair to participate in...
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Samaneh Shabani: What's the disability advocacy scene like in Iran?
Samaneh Shabani is a human rights and gender equality advocate. She has a doctorate in international law, and a master in transitional justice, human rights and the rule of law. Since 2018, she has worked as project manager, capacity builder, trainer and advocate with different national and...
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Alvaro Silberstein: Wheel The World and check of your bucket list on a wheelchair accessible trip!
Alvaro Silberstein is the founder of Wheel the World. It is an organization that helps people with disabilities and seniors with accessible travel. The destinations are cool and the experiences are memorable. See how Alvaro scuba dives as a long-term wheelchair user and how you can do it, too!
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Kamil Goungor: Learning about accessible travel and disability advocacy in Athens, Greece
Kamil Goungor, 36, is from Poland but is born and lives in Greece, where he studied journalism and communication. In 2014 he co-founded i-living, the first and only Independent Living organisation in Greece, which now he chairs. Since 2018 he works for the European Network on Independent Living -...
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Hans Jorgen Wiberg: what are the nuances of raising two daughters while blind
bio from PINC Experience The colour of a tie or T-shirt, the ultimate date for use on a milk carton or the number on a bus stop, visually impaired people sometimes need to know what they can’t see. Hans Jørgen Wiberg, who started to lose his sight at 25, knows the challenges all too well. When he...
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Miro Griffiths: How to have a healthy romantic relationship
Dr Miro Griffiths is a Disability Studies scholar, based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, at the University of Leeds. His research is associated – primarily – with understanding disabled people’s experiences of resistance, activism, social movement participation, and advocacy. His...
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Is it okay to prefer to not date someone with a disability?
Finding a life partner is very much a personal choice. What's important is to understand, reflect, and be aware of what is influencing who we are attracted to and who we are not attracted to.
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Diana Pastora Carson: How to advocate for people with autism and developmental disabilities
Diana Pastora Carson, M.Ed. has been an elementary educator for over 30 years, and co-teaches a Disability & Society course at San Diego State University. She is a consultant and educator on diversity as it relates to disability, and is the author of several articles and books including Beyond...
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Four lessons having a mobility disability has taught me to do what you want to do in life
What having a mobility disability has taught me: 1. Life is short, do what’s important a. Lower backaches b. Shoulder pain 2. Be innovative if you want to do you want do. a. Using the escalators when elevators go out of service b. Using an office chair with wheels to reach kitchen counter and…
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1:1 Chat: A VERY imperfect perfect video about my resistance towards creating digital content
Thank you to the following guests for coming on the podcast show … 1. Emma Farley 2. Izzy Camilleri 3. Danielle Connolly 4. Keisha Greaves 5. Laura Andert 6. Billy Price 7. Lydia X. Z. Brown 8. Mindy Scheier I’ve been wanting to do a casual monologue episode for a while now, but nine weeks later,...
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Emma Farley: Navigating the Inaccessible Work Environment
Emma Farley is a Disability Studies student and disability activist based in Brooklyn, New York. Emma has both visible and invisible disabilities - a rare form of muscular dystrophy, ADHD, and dyscalculia. Emma's involvement within the disability community stretches back to early childhood, when...
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Izzy Camilleri: how to create useful and fashionable clothing for wheelchair users
Izzy Camilleri is one of Canada’s leading and most celebrated fashion designers, and a pioneer in adaptive clothing. Izzy first ventured into the world of accessible clothing after initially doing custom work for a wheelchair user in 2004. It opened her eyes to the huge necessity for this type of...
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Danielle Connolly: How to have disability pride and advocate for treatment with a rare disease
Danielle Connolly is a rare disease and disability advocate, content creator, and business and marketing professional. Being born with a muscle disease, that still has an unknown origin after twenty-nine years, has given Danielle many unique life experiences that set the course for her various...
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Keisha Greaves: how to make a difference in other people's lives with muscular dystrophy
At age 24, Keisha Greaves was diagnosed with Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy - at which point, her life changed forever. Rather than be bogged down by her diagnosis, Keisha decided to channel her energy into celebrating those with Muscular Dystrophy and other chronic illnesses. Thus began Girls...
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Laura Andert: How to move forward with career conviction
Laura Andert, born with Cerebral Palsy, is a disability consultant and benefits coach who is training to become a work incentive practitioner in her hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. As an advocate for herself and for others, Laura’s goal is to help other individuals with disabilities navigate…
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Billy Price: How to make universal design footwear accessible to all
As a teenager, Seattle native Billy Price suffered a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed from the chest down, losing the ability to move his fingers. Daily tasks became difficult, but using his creative mind and unyielding spirit, he never gave up. He continued on, facing life's challenges…
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Lydia X. Z. Brown: how to make real progress in disability justice
Lydia X. Z. Brown is the Director of Public Policy at the National Disability Institute. They have spoken and consulted internationally and throughout the U.S. on a range of topics at the intersections of disability, race, class, gender and sexuality, and has published in numerous scholarly and...
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Mindy Scheier: how to include people with disabilities fashion
Before starting the Runway of Dreams Foundation in 2014, Mindy spent 20 years working in fashion as a designer for the INC collection and as a stylist for Saks Fifth Avenue. Mindy was inspired to start Runway of Dreams after her son Oliver, who has Muscular Dystrophy, dreamed of wearing jeans…
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Podcast Relaunch Introduction
Traipsin’ Global on Wheels Podcast Relaunch – Inaugural Episode Welcome back to the Traipsin’ Global on Wheels Podcast! I am back!! It’s been a long minute since the last episode. This the inaugural episode of my podcast relaunch. As some of you may know, this podcast show has been on pause for...
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Including Youth with Disabilities in the Climate Change Movement with Jhannel Tomlinson
In this podcast episode Jhannel Tomlinson tells me more about the catalyst to her activism work. She then discusses the inclusion of disability youth in climate change activism. Jhannel also shares about climate change’s impact on people with disabilities.
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Climate Change's Impact on People with Disabilities with Alex Ghenis
In this podcast episode Alex Ghenis tells us more about climate change's impact on people with disabilities. He then discusses the issues of climate related migration. Alex also shares about disaster responsiveness for people with disabilities.
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Dating Advice from A Wheelchair Perspective with Aaron Fotheringham
In this podcast episode Aaron tells us more about his passion for wheelchair motocross (WCMX). He then discusses with us about his Guinness World Records. Aaron also shares with us about wheelchair malfunctions encountered as an extreme athlete. Finally, Aaron gives us some dating advice as a...
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Making the World Polio Free with Dr. Erin Stuckey
In this podcast episode Dr Erin Stuckey tells us more about the presence and eradication of polio by the Gates foundation. She then discusses with us about the resources that can facilitate the eradication of polio. Dr. Stuckey also shares with us about response to COVID-19 and vaccinations.
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The Importance of True Representation in Theater and the Arts with Amy Trigg
In this podcast episode Amy Trigg tells us more about getting into theater as a person with a physical disability. Amy then discusses with us about playing a Shakespearean character on a wheelchair. Finally, she shares with us about the importance of representation of persons with disabilities in...
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Accessible Travel for All with Sylvia Longmire
In this podcast episode Sylvia Longmire tells us more about her mission as an accessible travel business agent. She then shares with us some travel tips and important gadgets. She then discusses with us the pros and cons of being a miss wheelchair from the wheelchair pageant.
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Inclusion Through Digital Accessibility with Marla Runyan
In this podcast episode Marla Runyan shares with us about her parenting experience and the challenges she encountered as a mother who is visually impaired. Marla also discusses with us about the importance of digital accessibility.
About this show
At Traipsin’ Global On Wheels, we empower people with disabilities—especially mobility disabilities—to live with freedom, independence, and purpose. Our podcast shares stories of advocacy, resilience, and growth. We explore the intersections of disability, mental health, self-development, spirituality, and inclusion. Join us as we expand the conversation to reflect the full, vibrant lives of people with disabilities—both inward and outward.
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