Promote Disability
Promote Disability
Podcast Description
The Promote Disability™ podcast amplifies positive soundwaves, helping everyone recognize the unique strengths, insights, and leadership that disabled professionals bring to the workplace.
Join us for insightful conversations and heartfelt stories from founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with disabilities. Through their journeys of overcoming adversity and achieving success, we aim to inspire, educate, and advocate for greater inclusion in the business world.
Hosted by Jeremy Siegers, who lives with muscular dystrophy (MD), each episode is guided by empathy, lived experience, and a deep commitment to promoting the authentic voices of business professionals with disabilities.
Together, we are building a business community that values, includes, and supports all individuals with disabilities—in every industry and at every level.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of inclusion, resilience, and advocacy in the business world, with episodes highlighting personal stories of disabled entrepreneurs and leaders. Examples include discussions on overcoming adversity, such as Jeremy's journey and the influence of family on understanding disability, communities' initiatives to support disabled professionals, and guests who share their struggles and successes to inspire others.
The Promote Disability™ podcast amplifies positive soundwaves, helping everyone recognize the unique strengths, insights, and leadership that disabled professionals bring to the workplace.
Join us for insightful conversations and heartfelt stories from founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with disabilities. Through their journeys of overcoming adversity and achieving success, we aim to inspire, educate, and advocate for greater inclusion in the business world.
Hosted by Jeremy Siegers, who lives with muscular dystrophy (MD), each episode is guided by empathy, lived experience, and a deep commitment to promoting the authentic voices of business professionals with disabilities.
Together, we are building a business community that values, includes, and supports all individuals with disabilities—in every industry and at every level.
In this final and Part 3 episode of the Promote Disability introduction, host Jeremy Siegers introduces the mission of the podcast, highlights the inspiring journey of its creation, and outlines its goals to promote inclusion and awareness through captivating stories from disabled founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. Learn about Disability:IN’s mentorship program, the significance of sharing these powerful narratives, and how Promote Disability aims to build a supportive and inclusive business community. Discover how you can stay connected and even apply to be a guest on the show.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Mission and Advocacy: Promote Disability aims to amplify awareness and inclusion for business professionals with disabilities through conversations and stories of overcoming adversity and achieving business success.
- Mentorship Inspiration: The concept for the podcast was inspired by Jeremy Seegers’ participation in a mentorship program through DisabilityIN, where he heard many compelling stories.
- Focus on Community Building: The podcast aims to build a community that values, includes, and supports individuals with disabilities in every industry.
- Guest Selection: The show will feature founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders with disabilities, as well as companies with disability-focused Employee Resource Groups (ERG).
- Educational Outreach: The goal is to promote a better understanding of the unique and valuable perspectives of disabled professionals, encouraging more inclusive hiring practices.
QUOTES
- “These stories need to be shared with the world.”
- “Our mission is in our name. Promote Disability is exactly what we are doing.”
- “Disability is an everybody community because everybody can end up with a disability sometime.”
- “At Promote Disability, we’re prioritizing quality over quantity.”
Connect with Us:
Promote Disability (https://www.promotedisability.com/) is a subsidiary social enterprise of Sharp Mill Graphics (https://sharpmill.com/), a nationally certified disability-owned business through Disability:IN (https://disabilityin.org/).
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@promotedisability)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/promotedisability)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/promotedisability)
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/promotedisability/)
Be Featured on the Promote Disability™ podcast:
Apply to Be a Guest (https://www.promotedisability.com/p/apply/)
Nominate a Guest (https://www.promotedisability.com/p/nominate/)
Podcast Host:
Jeremy Siegers
Jeremy’s Story (https://sharpmill.com/about/jeremy-siegers/)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremysiegers/)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jeremysiegers)
Podcast Producer/Guest Host:
Chris Decker
Creator Spark (https://creatorspark.com/)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/decker-christopher/)
Join our Community:
Subscribe (https://www.promotedisability.com/p/subscribe/) to the Promote Disability podcast for episodes that aim to inspire, educate, and advocate for greater inclusion in the business world.
Partner with Us:
Partnerships (https://www.promotedisability.com/p/partnerships/)
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