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Navigating Disability
Welcome to the Navigating Disability Podcast Show!! Your hosts, Kate Read and Jenn Abbott are committed to changing the narrative around 'normal' and 'ability' and look so forward to sharing our weekly guests with you! Get ready to be inspired, empowered and enlivened as we dive into education, lived experiences, expert advice, behind the scenes on political movements and how YOU, our listeners can THRIVE within your community!
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We know how daunting the future can seem from time to time, and when you know you can lean into expert advice and interviews to get your questions answered or your faith renewed, the journey can feel more achievable.
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Navigating Disability
Jordan Jarrett-Bryan - Are we really inclusive? Do we focus on ability rather than disability?
Strap yourself in for this show where all the touchy subjects are touched! Work, friendship, sex, dating, love, inclusivity, discrimination, people of colour, disability.... And so much more!!
As super candid and raw conversation with one of the most inspiring humans talking about all the subjects we keep behind closed doors and are too scared to normalise!
Meet Jordan Jarrett Bryan.... Wow! What a show!
Jordan Jarrett Bryan is a Journalist and Sports Broadcaster in the UK. He’s worked in media for nearly 30 years across print, radio, tv and digital. He’s now the Sports Presenter forone of the UK’s most respected news programmes, Channel 4 News.
He started working in print media at the age of 13, writing for a youth magazine called Live. He went on to become Editor a year later and was in post for 8 years before going on to editother publications and radio at the BBC.
Jordan is a below the knee amputee, after having his right foot amputated aged 18 months. He’s lived with prosthetic legs since and had a 25 year career playing Wheelchair Basketball for clubs in London, GB and professional in the Italian league for 5 years.
He got his break into TV at the 2012 Paralympics Games for Channel 4 and has been working at the network’s Sports Correspondent since. He’s also worked for sports radio network talkSPORT and since set up his own video production company, Blakademik Productions.
He launched a disability positive podcast ‘Jordan Jarrett Bryan’s The Coolest Disabled In The World’, having informal conversions with people who have achieved amazing things - who just happen to have a disability.