Accessible Me: Podcast: Recent Episodes
Matt Shilcock
There are two types of people in the world: those who have disabilities and those who don’t… yet. This is a podcast hosted by Accessible Me founder Matt Shilcock, aimed at 'normalising' the discussion around disability.Each episode contains a conversation from a person with lived experience of disability.These are their stories, how they soared over their peaks and how they climbed out of their troughs.
Zoe Simmons is an Award Winning SEO Copy Writer, Journelist, Authour and Editor with a passion for making a genuine difference to the lives of people.
She talks with Matt Shilcock about her lived experience as a person newly coming to terms with her diagnosis and identity as a person with disability.
Once labelled Adelaide’s most bullied boy, Peter Dempsey has faced more physical, mental and emotional challenges than most.
Peter is a leading personal transformation strategist and a young futurist who is dedicated to seeing people succeed through all economic times, with his new trusted revolutionary, no fluff approach to innovation, startups and self mastery.
Matt and Peter speak with Ruby Nanikivell - one of Adelaide's happiest people.
Ruby shares her story about courage, gratitude and happiness; as well as her experiences living with Williams syndrome.
Dan Graham is a Theatre Director and a Disability Advocate with a particular interest in access support for neuro-diverse performing artists. Dan has a neuro-diverse disability and accompanying neurological challenges that impact his daily life including his creative ability. His directing and access work have seen him travel all over Australia and the world to research and explore access and inclusion.
Dan shares his experiences and challenges of his career and lived experience.
Sarah Houbolt is an experienced producer, performer, policy adviser and arts manager, managing multi-artform presentations, community arts programs, arts and disability festivals, disability arts theatre, media opportunities, training and DIAP development, and conference events for governments and not for profits for over 15 years. She has worked in several countries on research, evaluation and access consultancy, including Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, UK, USA and continental Europe.
Today Matt talks to Sarah about her experiences as a professional performer and athlete; and also discuss activism and right of people with disability.
Accessible Me hosts Matt Shilcock and Peter Dempsey introduce the overall themes for this podcast series.
In this series, we will be discussing:
- 'Normalising' the topic of disability and challenging the Status Quo
- Removing stigma around our conditions
- Employment, Career and Business for people with disability
- Identify and raise awareness of the things that are helpful, and how we can access them
- Identify and raise awareness of the things that are unhelpful, and how we can avoid them
It's our intention to release discussions every week, and we encourage your ideas and feedback on our social media.