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 September
🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #109: Ask Advocate Donna | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-01-2026/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-01-2026/&source=gmail&ust=1788560627369000&sa=E>
In this practical episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA presents her September Ask Advocate Donna feature, opening with a favourite quotation, speak in such a way that others love to listen to you, listen in such a way that others love to speak to you, before turning to her recurring word game. She contrasts two pairs of advocacy words: commitment versus compliance, where committing is proactive and complying is merely following the leader, and afterthought versus forethought, illustrated with website developers who bolt on accessibility features at the end and managers who only remember employees with disabilities once the plan is already written.
She then works through three listener-submitted stories, running each one through the same four questions, what advocacy is here, who gets involved, why it is necessary, and when you step in. A listener reports drivers occupying wheelchair parking spaces they do not need, and Donna argues the response belongs to everyone, built from the ground up through awareness and escalation to community members and elected representatives. Marissa asks her condo management for a talking elevator and gets a proactive yes, which Donna celebrates as a success story of two parties working together. Chris, who is vision impaired, is refused entry to a restaurant with his guide dog; his friends rise in unison to back him, police are eventually called, and the owners comply, a case Donna frames as standing on rights that Canadian law already guarantees. She closes by inviting listeners to send their own stories.
🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #110: One Size Does Not Fit All | By Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-op https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-02-2026/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-09-02-2026/&source=gmail&ust=1788561308976000&sa=E>
In this reflective episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA presents her first solo podcast for September and builds it around a single argument: one size does not fit all. Thanking listeners who have written in, she makes the case that no template can meet every situation, because every person with a disability has a unique requirement and a unique set of needs, a mistake she admits making herself at times, and one she calls a lack of respect. It applies, she says, whether you are a phone rep, an agent, a teacher, a government department, or any other type of entity.
She then unpacks the assumption that lies underneath it. People hear blind or vision impaired and conclude the person has no vision at all, which she calls a very false statement. She walks through the range instead: functional vision, where a person moves independently but needs glasses for distance or close reading; low vision, where a screen can be read only with special devices and only slowly; minimal vision, her own, where light, dark and shadows come through; and no vision at all. The same spread exists for hearing loss, she notes, a person may be categorized as having hearing loss, but how much? Her story of the month comes from a listener who used her Mental Stretch technique, built on drawing on the different senses, after unwittingly becoming a victim of online dating. A perpetrator nearly extracted a large sum with an untrue story, but the listener sat down, gathered their resources and their thoughts, spoke to trusted friends, and recognized the scam just in the nick of time.