Donna J. Jodhan is a world renown advocate.
She is also an author, blogger, sight loss coach, dinner mystery writer and producer, entrepreneur, law graduate, and podcast commentator.
Donna shares her remarkable bi weekly world commentary with others where she expresses her thoughts and opinions on some of the very hottest topics of the day.
The Remarkable World Commentary Podcast is a 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 breaking down barriers in technology and everyday life, encouraging collective efforts to create a better and more equitable future for all children.
Now her remarkable world commentary podcast also features interviews with some very high profile world renown advocates along with stories shared by those who continue to support advocacy in exciting and interesting ways.
ALT: Remarkable World Commentary. By Award Winning Sight Loss Coach, Advocate and Author, Donna Jodhan. To the left, four photos of Donna Jodhan stand stacked atop one another. Donna graduating law school. Donna receiving an award from the Queen. Donna in a business suit. Donna after winning a landmark case. Across the middle is a blue swoosh. To the right is a globe of the world.
Donna invites you to listen and to share your views with her.
You can contact Donna at donnajodhan@gmail.com
Highlights for October
🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #114: Left Out or Left Behind | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
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In this pointed episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA opens October with a question she calls controversial: when barriers shut people with disabilities out, are they being left out or left behind? She points to online forms that banks, educational institutions and certification bodies still fail to make accessible, calling out the Apex organization for inaccessible sign-up forms, InnoSearch for trying and failing, and Pearson VUE for an online certification exam she says was not accessible in any way. She recounts trying to renew her business registration through ServiceOntario, where the online form was inaccessible and the first agent told her to find someone to help, until a third agent resolved it. She also raises elevators in medical buildings with no braille labels or speech, office buildings designed without accessible entrances, and the lack, as far as she knows, of a federal minister assigned to accessibility in Mark Carney’s government, adding that she is a Mark Carney fan and would apologize if a minister has been named.
Donna’s story of the month comes from a listener with multiple disabilities who used her mental stretch to cope with a lack of compassion from management and coworkers. She walks through the technique: sit or lie somewhere quiet, choose one of the senses, such as the smell of lavender, and let it send messages from the brain through the whole body, from the toes up to the head. She closes by announcing that Your Mental Stretch with Donna will be refreshed in January with a new way of doing mental stretches and an experienced co-host who writes songs and uses music therapy.
🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #115: Ask Advocate Donna | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op
EN: https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-10-02-2026/
FR: https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-10-02-2026-fr/
In this practical episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA presents her October Ask Advocate Donna, opening with one of her favorite quotes, by an unknown author: speak in such a way that others love to listen to you, and listen in such a way that others love to speak to you. Her word game sets complacent against active, arguing that complacency leaves little room for advocacy while being active makes room for it, and then turns to in kind and unkind, wondering whether being cruel to be kind applies to the pair.
Donna then shares three listener stories, asking of each what advocacy is, who gets involved, why it is necessary, how and when. A mother, Emily, told a desk agent that her son Emil was vision impaired to get a discounted pass, and Emil’s friends spoke up; Donna calls this counter-advocacy and says using a disability to gain an advantage is not right. Rico was fined after his service dog left hair in an Uber; Donna says Uber must accept service dogs and should be called out, with Rico going from the company to a lawyer and social media. Finally, a medical assistant at a lab refused to help a vision-impaired patient undress and asked the patient’s friend to do it; Donna says that was very wrong and advises reporting it to the doctor and then the medical association.