Listen Last year we spoke to Debbie Deboo about her business, GlamSticks, and her unfortunate need to sell the company. Now Debbie tells us about her new venture, Charmability, as well as her tips on creating a successful business. I was diagnosed with ME around ten years ago. Before then I’d enjoyed a successful 15-year career as [...]
Listen Blogger and motivational speaker Glenda Watson Hyatt, who has a speech impairment, shares her post on how she became a motivational speaker. While sitting at the airport gate last July, waiting to board the plane to San Jose, where I was scheduled to deliver two presentations on web accessibility, I wondered: “How did I, [...]
Listen Steff Green is a freelance writer, blogger and illustrator living in New Zealand. She writes about disability issues, adaptive equipment and lifestyle on The Disabled Shop Blog. My story is about growing your own lemon tree, only to have some mean person come along, rip all the lemons off the tree and squash them [...]
Listen Most businesses start small but, if they’re underpinned by a great idea, they’re sure to grow. That’s exactly what’s happening with Really Useful Stuff: the Amazon of the disability living products world, where you can compare and review products. Here we speak to founder Kay Allen about its origins and growth. Like all good [...]
Listen Have you always dreamt of being your own boss? Co-editor Martyn Sibley talks about his experiences of becoming his own boss, the highs and lows as well as his top tips to get you started. I can remember visiting my dad’s office as a child. It was very clear in my mind that being [...]
Listen With January out if the way, many of us are thinking about what we want from 2013 and how we can improve our careers. If you’re planning on making changes to your job, especially when faced with barriers, Johnathan Wade’s tips are sure to set you on the right path. When thinking about the [...]
Listen Following on from our article questioning whether the Paralympic Games 2012 has changed the way disability is viewed, Disability Horizons contributor Mark Cooper gives us his view on this hot debate. As 2012 draws to a close the stand-out memory I have of the year was participating in the Paralympic Games Torch Relay. I have the [...]
Listen Back in October we attended the launch of the Stelios Award for Disabled Entrepreneurs. Winning the award was Cyclone Technologies founder, Dave Hawkins, who shares with us how he started in business and how his disability has inspired his success. A joiner by trade, I could never have imagined that at the age of [...]
Listen Geoff Madge, a blind research officer at Essex County Council, is the first worker in the country to acquire an UltraCane through the Access to Work scheme. Geoff explains to Disability Horizons how this sophisticated mobility aid helps him negotiate a complex office layout in complete safety. I had read about the UltraCane but it [...]
Listen Business owner John Stanchina, a T-12 complete paraplegic, has found success in using his own frustrating experiences to create solutions for others. Here he tells Disability Horizons about the challenges he’s faced and adaptations he’s made to help his business grow. Time is supposed to be the great equalizer, right? We’re all given the [...]
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