Podcasts By Donna Jodhan

Welcome to the Blindly Brilliant Monthly Podcast, hosted by Donna J. Jodhan - a visionary blind potter, advocate, and entrepreneur. Each month, Donna invites you into her world of creativity, resilience, and inspiration through her Etsy store, Blindly Brilliant.

The Remarkable World Commentary Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast by Donna J. Jodhan that explores topics directly affecting the future of children, particularly those with disabilities. As a blind advocate and entrepreneur, Donna shares her insights, life experiences, and advocacy efforts, aiming to inspire and inform her listeners. The podcast covers issues such as accessibility, inclusivity, and b...

The Remarkable World Commentary Podcast is a bi-weekly podcast by Donna J. Jodhan that explores topics directly affecting the future of children, particularly those with disabilities. As a blind advocate and entrepreneur, Donna shares her insights, life experiences, and advocacy efforts, aiming to inspire and inform her listeners. The podcast covers issues such as accessibility, inclusivity, and b...

In this episode of Remarkable World Commentary Donna interviews Dr. Kirk Adams, a leading blind advocate, speaker, researcher and consultant, about his journey and insights on advocacy and employment for people with disabilities. Dr. Adams shares his early experiences of losing his vision due to retinal detachment and the impact of high expectations and specialized skills on his success. He emphas...

Santa has always wanted to make sure that all girls and boys receive gifts that they really need and desire. It's not just about toys and technology! It's about so much more at this time of the year! Santa calls an emergency meeting of family, friends, elves, and reindeer. However, he has to hold this meeting in great secrecy because he has discovered that some folks out there are planning and hop...

Santa and his wife have always wanted to take a train ride at Christmas time but due to the pressures of work, this has not been possible until this year. Find out how Santa's family band together to make Santa's dream come true! Not just the train ride itself but what Santa encounters along the way! Imagination, creativity, and dreams come true are all part of this great story. Great ingredients...

It's nothing new when president Marco Sumner and his friend Nicholas are summoned just before Christmas to carry out a special mission. In fact, it has become an almost annual affair and these 2 frankly cannot remember when a Christmas has not gone by without receiving a frantic call from that special someone. For the most part Marco and Nicholas have enjoyed working with their special friend but...

Santa has always had an extra special soft heart for kid. Especially so for the newborns and little ones in cradles! and his wife MRS Clause is really no different. and at Christmas time this marvelous couple does something extra special in order to fulfill their hearts' desires! For this year, MR and MRS Clause put their heads together to come up with a plan with a twist of difference and mystery...

President Marco Sumner and his family and friends decide to take a cruise for the Christmas. The kids are so very excited to be going along with their parents and the parents are so excited to be planning something very special for them. President Marco has designed and built his very own ship for the occasion and has outfitted it with the best that Technology can provide. They set sail on a starr...

Santa is laid up with a terrible head cold on Christmas Eve but this has not stopped him from making sure that Christmas will take place this year. His reindeer and elves have been hard at work distributing Santa's toys and packages and it is now early evening as Santa settles down with MRS Clause to enjoy some quiet time. All is well in Santa's world and he is just beginning to doze off when his...

For this year, Santa has told his wife that he is going to do his bit to bring peace to the world.  Or as he puts it, he is going to give it his best try. Santa enlists his family to help him out and together they find people to assist with this mission.  They all work together to create some very interesting ways to do this. Find out how Santa goes about the business of bringing peace to certain...

President Marco Sumner and his closest friend Nicholas Gleason have been given the job to create an ice palace filled with wondrous things for some of those who do President Marco Sumner and his closest friend Nicholas Gleason have been given the job to create an ice palace filled with wondrous things for some of those who either do not have very long to live or have some other type of bad news! T...

Santa has always wanted to provide somewhere special for those in need to spend Christmas and for this year he has it all planned. However, something unexpected happens and the great plan almost goes off track. Then, thanks to a special phone call from an unexpected person; things change in a hurry! Some unexpected help comes to Santa's rescue and things happen along the way.  Santa has to use all...

Santa has been working on this special mission for some time now and he has enlisted some very special kids to help him accomplish his mission.  He has set out to do something very different and o boy is it going to be very different indeed! However, there are some evil ones who are planning against Santa but no worries; Santa has it all in hand. His super kids are going to help him make Christmas...

Tis the season to be jolly and now president Marco Sumner along with his family and close friend Nicholas Gleason and his family are working feverishly at their headquarters to put together some very exciting events for the Christmas season. Marco and Nicholas have been summoned by a friend in need to make Christmas happen because something very precious has been stolen and replacements need to be...

This is the year when Santa Clause has decided to do something very different and he decides to ask his brother Sandy Clause along with his cousins Santa Stefan and Santa Stoyan to help him plan something new and exciting for some very special folks. First however, Santa Clause has to take care of some business; this being to make sure that his broken back heals sufficiently  so that he can accomp...

Jamie Halstrum had been searching far and wide for something special to do at Christmas. He was not sure what that special something was but it did not matter. He would find it! He walked the streets, visited the food banks, the senior homes, and the hospitals and still he could not find what he was looking for.  Then one day about a month before the big day it all came to him! He found what he wa...

President Marco Sumner and his sidekick Nicholas Gleason are on a special mission this year and they are bound and determined to see this mission to the end despite certain health issues for them both.  President Marco's eye sight is a cause for concern for the family and Nicholas Gleason has broken his arm! Added to this, the president's wife is about to give birth!  Christmas is here and things...

Miko Glitzky was a happy little boy; with two older brothers and parents for family. He was bright, and always had an engaging smile and a twinkle in his baby blue eyes. He was shy but always seemed to get himself in the middle of trouble. For a brief time he had turned to petty crime and his parents had begun to worry about what would become of him but it would all change one night when Miko had...

In this episode, President Marco Sumner and his buddy Nicolas Gleason set out on a special mission. This being to help fulfill the dream of someone who needed the gift of cheer to be brought into his life. Find out how the president and his prodigy did it all! And how their mission helped to bring even more cheer to others! Innovation, kindness, thoughtfulness, and much more are the themes of this...

In this year, the real Santa Claus had decided to run a contest to find the person who could come up with the best secret Christmas mission.  Santa receives several excellent ideas and chooses a very unusual one. The winner is a little boy named Christoff Fraulic! He is quite shy and timid but Santa soon fixes this and takes Christoff under his wing!  Find out what this secret midnight mission is...

President Marco Sumner (who you first met in the episode the President's Super Christmas Plane), will tell you that thanks to a little boy called Nicholas Gleason he has had a new lease on life and now he spends much of his time helping to make dreams come true for those less fortunate.  President Marco and his new best buddy Nicholas Gleason spend much of their time working together to bring joy...

Little Kerrie Freeseling had always wished for something special and on a bright and starry night! Her dream came true! And it was a dream that even she had no idea would ever happen! Kerrie Freeseling had been especially chosen by someone special to take part in a very special and secret event and it is an event that she would never forget! Nor did several others! In years to come she would retel...

It had not been a very good year for Santa Stefan. Back problems had plagued him for most of the year and now Christmas was fast approaching. Santa Stefan knew that hundreds of thousands of kids would be depending on him to come into their homes. And in addition, many adults as well. He knew that he had to act now and act fast! Then something happened and Santa Stefan almost did not make it  but f...

Robbie had not always been the same! He had been forced to change his ways and then!  He had embarked on a very different path!  Robbie Davos had become a man of very christian beliefs and one of them was that he firmly believed in giving back and giving to those who really needed it.  Robbie would tell you that his life had been a very fulfilling one but there seemed to be something missing and h...