Forging New Pathways for People with Disabilities | #10

The Small Business Matters Podcast

Nov 28 2022 • 24 mins

We’re focusing on people living and working with disabilities in today's episode in advance of International Day for People with Disabilities. Since 1992 the United Nations has been marking December 3rd as International Day for People with a Disability.

We have two interviews focused on small businesses from diverse industries working with disabled employees and working with disabled customers.

SEGMENT 1: Begins at 1:24

Gary Stockton talks with Lynn Wehrman, CEO of WeCo, a Minneapolis company doing amazing work creating careers with purpose in accessibility testing. As you will hear in our interview, WeCo is changing lives for employees with its approach to career development.

SEGMENT 2:  Begins at 15.54

Emily Garman sits down with Zack and Cambry Nelson to talk about their startup “Not-A-Wheelchair”, a device designed to help disabled people to get out into nature.

For any resources mentioned on the show today, visit our show notes over at experian.com/smbmatters.

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