I’ve worked within the digital industry for over 25 years now, and while it’s still my passion, there have been some things that just haven’t sat well with me. Why aren’t accessibility and environmental considerations the ’standard’ and seem to be the ‘obscure’ within modern digital practices?

Do you know if your website is currently inclusive towards the 𝟮 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞? How about the 𝟯 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲? Or the 𝟮.𝟴 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 neurodivergent?

How about digital sustainability? Do you know how much monthly CO2 your website produces? Bnode helps by approaching your marketing with strong ethics at heart to help you be more inclusive towards your current and potential new customers, and all while reflecting the type of company that you are.

Episodes: 58 and 58.5, On Accessible Website Design

My name is Christine Spencer and I am the owner of C & D Learning Solutions at Mental Strength and Wellbeing.

Having worked for many years in the corporate world, I set up my own business developing leaders and bring leadership and wellbeing together.

I also experienced trauma, resulting in my own poor mental health and becoming a mental health first aider helped me to understand the trauma I had experienced that led to depression.

With this experience I wanted to know more and became a Mental Health First Aid Instructor. From here I started to learn more about the world of wellbeing; including Suicide intervention and prevention, Neurodiversity, Womens Mental Health and have continued to personally and professionally develop. 

At ‘MENTAL STRENGTH and WELL-BEING’ we specialise in wellbeing for everyone and support organisations and individuals to learn more about Mental Health and Well-Being.

Our aim is to remove the stigma and discrimination attached to Mental Health and Suicide by educating more people in Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health First Aid, Suicide Prevention and Neurodiversity, that creates a greater understanding and improved knowledge to be able to support others when they are struggling.  

We work with you to elicit the solutions to your issues through coaching.

We help you work through your trauma using a therapeutic intervention

We work with you to create a culture of wellbeing in your workplace

We help you become more neurodiverse to support others

We help you work out the best solutions for you and your business, whether that be using training, coaching or therapy

Episodes: 59 and 59.5, On PTSD

Dr Jo Grace is an International Sensory Engagement and Inclusion Specialist, Research, Author, Trainer and Founder of The Sensory Projects.

Special school teacher, foster carer, consultant across education, and family: disabled family members, she is autistic, parent one autistic and one non autistic child.

Episodes: 61 and 61.5, On Sensory Engagement and Overwhelm

Samantha Renke is an actress, presenter, speaker, writer and disability rights campaigner who was named as number 3 in The Shaw Trust Power 100 List of 2020 – a list of the UK’s most influential disabled people.

Samantha is a columnist for the Metro and Enable as well as having written for The Huffington Post and Pos’Ability, Lifestyle and Glamour magazine. She also featured in the highly successful series of adverts for Maltesers based on real-life experiences of disabled people and has collaborated with brands such as Amazon Prime Video, SHARK, Eurostar and WUKA.

Samantha is co-host of Motability Lifestyle podcast and LifeDownLow’ed.

She is an experienced speaker having spoken at events for companies and organisations such as the National Education Union, Lancaster University, Paramount, Houses of Parliament, the British Red Cross, Retail Week, British Retail Consortium (RPC AND BRC) ASOS, OMNICOM and Save The Children, Pinterest and Jones Day.

She has resided as disability lead for Paramount (formerly VIACOM), UNLRN and the Diversity Trust and international Speaker for TLC Lions.

Samantha is Trustee for The Brittle Bone Society an ambassador for Scope, SENSE, Ferne Animal Sanctuary, Eve Appeal (Get Lippy Campaign) and Undressing Disability for Enhance The UK. Patron of Head2Head multi-sensory theatre company and The National Diversity Awards. She was also in The Shaw Trust’s Power 100 Lists of 2018 and 2019 as well as being nominated as Campaigner of the Year in the 2019 European Diversity Awards and Celebrity of the Year in the 2020 National Diversity Awards.

Episodes: 62 and 62.5, On Representation on TV

Shelley is a healthcare professional and career consultant who has built a fulfilling and flexible career while living with Lyme Disease. She helps other clinicians create meaningful careers that both align with their values and support their well-being.

Episodes: 64 and 64.5, On Being Healthcare Professional with a Chronic Illness