The Monthly News Round Up For Award Winning Advocate, Sight Loss Coach and Author Donna J. Jodhan
For the month of October 2026
Read about Donna’s external engagements
Now you can read about Donna’s press releases here
https://at-newswire.com/company_name/donna-jodhan/
And you can easily access her podcast interviews here
https://www.donnajodhan.com/rwc-interviews.html. Donna will keep this updated as new interviews take place.
RWC podcast interview with Jerry Nicholson – Accessible surveys
RWC podcast interview with Joel Snyder – Audio description
CCC podcast Interview with Steve Dawson – Greater Toronto Airport
RWC podcast interview with Mike Feir – author
RWC podcast interview with Diane Bergeron – CNIB advocacy
CCC interview with Devin Glim – ARCH staff lawyer
RWC podcast interview with Hayley – Beyond Blindness
Donna’s other activities for October included the following:
• Donna’s final meeting as part of the Air Canada Advisory Accessibility Committee.
Donna thanks Kerianne Wilson and her team for having given her the opportunity to be part of this esteemed committee.
• Discussion with the Independent Living Canada team to host a weekend retreat camp some time in 2027 to take place in Quebec.
• Discussion with Leo Bissonnette and Joan Work and others re moving forward on the John Panarese memorial initiative.
(promoting the iPhone as a way to keep up with the world to those who have recently lost their vision and to those losing it)
Donna will have an exciting announcement to make on this initiative in her next month news round up.
• Donna will also have an exciting announcement to share re her believing is achieving online virtual sessions in her next news round up.
• Donna also met with Frank Smith, recent past CEO of the National Education Association for Disabled Students to revive her mental stretch with Donna podcast in January 2027.
• Donna is also preparing to relaunch her Dining with Donna Podcast in November and her co host will be Mia emeliamaceasik.
This is going to be a dynamic new twist to this podcast.
• Donna was also interviewed by the Beyond blindness team.
• Donna was busy preparing to be part of the Christmas Sale of pottery pieces at her Soko pottery studio under the auspices of her instructor Shaun Kelly.
• She is also developing her Canadiana line of pottery pieces.
• Donna is now part of the Patient Family advisory committee of the North York General Hospital.
This is breaking new ground for Donna and she embraces this with much gusto.
She thanks her family Physician DR. Danielle Manis for creating this opportunity for her.
• On October 26 Donna met with the accessibility team of the Royal Bank of Canada to discuss challenges that she presently faces when attempting to do e transfers.
The meeting was very productive and both sides learned much from each other.
Donna thanks Mia Defreitas and Richard Papadina for having helped to set up this meeting.
• Finally, Donna is in the midst of reviving Barrier Free Canada.
This revival is presently made up of 3 board members.
Donna J. Jodhan – president.
Mia emeliamaceasik – vice president
Christopher Schiafone – director.
Donna thanks her friend and associate Anthony Tibbs for his assistance with the legal side of things.
Major news items can be found here
It’s all about Donna’s major initiatives for this month plus a lot more
You can start by taking a tour of Donna’s personal diary by visiting
http://www.donnajodhan.blogspot.com
Donna posts 3 times weekly and her posts gives you great insights into her daily life, challenges, and perspectives as a blind/vision impaired person.
Blogs posted for this month
To the http://www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog page
Get Some One To Help You! – Words No Senior Or Person With A Disability Likes To Hear
You can also view previous selections here.
Donna has also posted other articles of interest on her
http://www.sterlingcreations.com/blog page
for this month.
News round up for September
Helpful tips from the Sterling Creations team
Highlight review
A bit of this and a bit of that from Donna’s latest did you know diary
Catch up with Donna’s expert page at
and for this month
Read Donna’s author’s tip for this month
And catch up with previous author’s tips
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s articles on ask the coach for this month
Ask Sight Loss Coach Donna J. Jodhan – Safety Tips For Handling Eggs
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s tips and hints for catching up with the coach for this month
Articles posted to Donna’s contribution page from founder Donna J. Jodhan
See an archive of all of her product reviews at
https://www.toptechtidbits.com/news.html
Listen and catch up with Donna’s shows
Ask Donna advocacy in action
“ask Donna advocacy in action”( )
Ask Donna YouTube Playlist: https://donnajodhan.com/askdonna
“dining with donna”
( )
Dining With Donna YouTube Playlist: https://www.donnajodhan.com/dwd
Your mental stretch with donna
YouTube Playlist: Mental Stretch
https://donnajodhan.com/mentalstretch
Ask the business reviewer:
YouTube Playlist: Ask the Business Reviewer –
Ask an expert:
YouTube Playlist: Ask an Expert –
And now for Donna’s latest podcasts – her Blindly brilliant page on ETSE where Donna’s pottery creations are now available.
YouTube playlist: Blindly Brilliant – Etsy:
Libsyn:
https://sites.libsyn.com/521708/site
The Libsyn RSS feed link is here:
https://feeds.libsyn.com/521708/rss
For Spotify:
https://feeds.libsyn.com/521708/spotify
Finally!
Donna has resumed posting to the Access to Information News weekly online newsletter
Sponsored by Mindvault Solutions!
Highlighting More Accessible Travel – take action now and not tomorrow
To learn more about Donna as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate plus more visit http://www.donnajodhan.com
That’s it for this month.
Don’t forget to drop me an email at donnajodhan@gmail.com
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