The Monthly News Round-Up for Award-Winning Advocate, Sight-Loss Coach, and Author Donna J. Jodhan
For the month of February 2025
Read about Donna’s external engagements
https://sterlingcreations.ca/current-affairs
Now you can read about Donna’s press releases here
https://at-newswire.com/company_name/donna-jodhan/
Major news items can be found here
It’s all about Donna’s major initiatives for this month plus a lot more
https://sterlingcreations.ca/current-affairs
The launch of the TNW initiative (transitioning to a new world.)
For the month of February, Donna spent many hours assembling the TNW team and is pleased to introduce them as follows.
Leo Bissonnette, Denis Boudreau, Lisa Drouillard, Glenda Nicol, and Donna Jodhan.
The TNW initiative will focus on helping students preparing to depart high school and young adults to obtain the confidence and independence to become powerful advocates and entrepreneurs who will have the tools necessary to help companies to better attract the attention of seniors and persons with disabilities who are now the bread and butter customers, consumers, and clients of the day.
Stay tuned for more news on this very exciting highlight.
February 07
Donna received a very exciting call from DR. Alan Chase; head of the Eye Retreat Organization.
- Alan informed Donna that he was in the process of applying for grants and if successful he wanted to bring Donna to the 2025 week long camp so that she could teach her entrepreneurship course to the students.
These students are kids preparing to depart high school as well as young adults.
Last July Donna was invited to teach at the Eye Retreat camp and as she says “it was the beginning of my TNW mission.”
February 15
Donna with the assistance of her friends Sam and Aaron submitted an application to receive a grant of $10,000.00 USD from the Flight for Sight organization which if successful Donna will use this grant to show travelers who are blind and vision impaired how they can use the Meta glasses to enrich their travel experiences and to become more independent travelers.
February 20
Donna’s call with Kathy Saliba of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority
And in this call Donna expressed her concerns to Kathy re the inaccessibility and non usability of the kiosks upon arrival.
Donna needed to depend on assistance from the agent accompanying her to complete her arrival forms.
Donna is sending out a shout to the CBSA to engage with them.
February 20
Donna’s call with Drew Winkelman of Apple
This was a very insightful and sobering call.
Donna and Drew discussed ways for Donna to find opportunities to honour the memory of the late John Panarese.
Donna and Drew will convene in about a month’s time to further their discussions.
February 21
And thanks to her associate Neena Saloya, Donna engaged in a very productive call with Pastor Andrew King of the Camp Frienda organization.
Donna outlined her desire to find a site whereby she could run a weekend camp for her TNW program.
Pastor Andrew was very receptive and now Donna will be making a call to the Camp Frienda folks to find a date for her camp which may take place in the fall of 2025.
February 24
Donna began her Cyber security course with the Apex organization.
In the fall of 2024, Donna was awarded a scholarship from Apex to pursue an intensive course in cyber security.
Stay tuned to learn more about Donna’s progress.
February 25
Donna engaged in a very interesting call with Dawn Campbell of the board of directors of the Touch Pad Foundation.
It was Dawn who had reached out to Donna and the 2 discussed ways to collaborate and engage further.
February 25
Donna engaged with in an extremely productive call with her friend and associate Leo Bissonnette.
They furthered their discussions to increase the strength of the Transitioning to a New World (TNW) project and Donna will have more news to share on this in her March news round up.
Just say that the excitement is rapidly building!
February 26 2025:
Donna met with the new CEO of the CNIB Angela Bonfanti.
Angela and Donna discussed ways for Donna to help Angela with one of her major projects; finding ways to engage groups more robustly to ensure that advocacy stays alive and prospers in Canada.
Emphasis to be placed on engaging more with the Canadian Government.
Angela shared her thoughts on building a team of advisors and allies.
Donna also communicated that Angela may want to reach out to Kerianne Wilson chair of Air Canada’s advisory group on accessibility issues.
You can start by taking a tour of Donna’s personal diary by visiting
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 www.sterlingcreations.ca/blog page
https://sterlingcreations.ca/blog/roadblocks-to-employment-in-the-canadian-federal-government
You can also view previous selections here.
Donna has also posted other articles of interest on her
www.sterlingcreations.com/blog page
for this month.
News round up for January
A Must-Read! Donna J. Jodhan’s News Round-Up for January 2025
Hottest tips from the Sterling Creations Business Desk
A Must-Read! February’s Helpful Tips from the Sterling Creations Desk
Donna’s highlight review
A Review of the Kolping Wien Zentral Hotel in Vienna, Austria
A bit of this and a bit of that from Donna’s latest did you know diary
Practical and Natural! – A Bit of This and a Bit of That from Donna’s “Did You Know, Diary?”
Catch up with Donna’s expert page at
https://sterlingcreations.ca/ask-an-expert
and for this month
Ask an Expert – February 2025 – 10 Tips for Learning ThunderBird
Read Donna’s author’s tip for this month
And catch up with previous author’s tips
https://sterlingcreations.ca/ask-an-author
Read Donna’s ask the scam watcher feature at
https://sterlingcreations.com/blog/ask-scam-watcher-donna-j-jodhan-scams-to-watch-for-in-february
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s articles on ask the coach for this month
Read Donna J. Jodhan’s tips and hints for catching up with the coach for this month
Donna’s ETSY announcement
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 February 2025
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/ask-donna-advocacy-in-action-february-2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfdE3Pc63pA&list=PLX95yuU4fJhjlwcjcg5PUUTMDOpGL1xp-&index=8&pp=iAQB
“ask Donna advocacy in action”( )
Ask Donna YouTube Playlist: https://donnajodhan.com/askdonna
“dining with donna” February 2025
Week 1.) Dining With Donna: Almond Fruit Dip
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/dining-with-donna-almond-fruit-dip
Week 2.) Dining With Donna: Curry Dip
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/dining-with-donna-curry-dip
Week 3.) Dining With Donna: Chili Con Queso
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/dining-with-donna-chili-con-queso
Week 4.) Dining With Donna: Sherried Meatballs
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/dining-with-donna-sherried-meatballs
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Dining With Donna YouTube Playlist: https://www.donnajodhan.com/dwd
Your mental stretch with donna
The Mental Stretch: February 2025
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/the-mental-stretch-february-2025
YouTube Playlist: Mental Stretch
https://donnajodhan.com/mentalstretch
Ask the business reviewer:
Ask The Business Reviewer: February 2025
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/ask-the-business-reviewer-february-2025
https://www.youtube.com/@donnajodhan
YouTube Playlist: Ask the Business Reviewer –
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX95yuU4fJhio7AsI1qsn2KwvIBAgFOv8
Ask an expert:
10 tips for learning ThunderBird
Ask The Expert: February 2025
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/ask-the-expert-february-2025
https://www.youtube.com/@donnajodhan
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.
Blindly Brilliant Podcast: February 2025 (A)
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/blindly-brilliant-podcast-february-2025-a
Blindly Brilliant Podcast: February 2025 (B)
https://sites.libsyn.com/538282/blindly-brilliant-podcast-february-2025-b
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
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To learn more about Donna as an award winning sight loss coach and advocate plus more visit www.donnajodhan.com
That’s it for this month.
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