bfcanada 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 May
🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #90: When Piggybacking Occurs | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-05-01-2026/
In this pointed and unflinching solo episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna opens the month of May with a warning to her listeners about what she calls the “piggybacking problem”, companies that walk into the blind, vision-impaired, and broader disability community posing as saviors and accessibility experts while, in her words, being “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” She argues that these outfits arrive claiming the expertise needed to make services, websites, and information accessible, and claiming to understand what people with disabilities actually need, when in reality they have never walked a mile in the community’s shoes, have no real grasp of which software works and which does not, and are simply piggybacking on the community’s vulnerability to fill their own pockets.
Donna names one company in particular, Innosearch, and accuses it of doing exactly that under the banner of helping the community shop and travel more independently, only to leave the community “high and dry” once its own pockets were full. She makes clear that this is her opinion, acknowledges that Innosearch is far from the only company guilty of the pattern, and signs off with a wish for a great day and a promise to return shortly with her second episode of the month.
Remarkable World Commentary Episode #91: Ask Advocate Donna | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-05-02-2026/
In this warm and instructive solo episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna returns for her second installment of the month with the May edition of Ask Advocate Donna, opening with one of her favorite mantras, “Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you; listen in such a way that others love to speak to you”, and a word-game segment in which she walks listeners through two advocacy-relevant pairs: polite versus impolite, and proactive versus inactive. She makes the case that the polite route keeps an advocate in others’ minds in a positive way, and that being proactive, leading by example, taking the bull by the horns, comes with heartache and high cost but also brings joy and fulfillment that the inactive route, by definition, never delivers.
She then shares three listener-style advocacy stories, walking each one through her familiar what / how / when / why framework. In the first, a woman named Emma is misled by a cell phone store agent who sells her a phone that suits the store rather than her disability-related needs; Emma fights back by going to head office, threatening to take her case to Facebook and other social media, and enlisting her husband, her children, and their friends in an action plan, while her husband documents the store and the agent with photos. In the second, a mother named Beth confronts a bakery that refused to serve her autistic son Brent despite the written shopping list and cash he had been sent in with, and Beth wins the bakery’s admission of wrongdoing by calmly drawing other customers into her side of the story and refusing to back down for an hour or two. In the third, a first-time babysitter refuses to put a blind three-year-old to bed while willingly tending to his two sighted siblings, ages ten and eight, and the older siblings become advocates in their own right by calling their parents home, leading to a calm sit-down between both sets of parents that resolves the incident, with the babysitter sent home unpaid and later corrected by her own parents. Donna closes by inviting listeners to send their own advocacy stories to her for future episodes.