Disability, Innovation, and Workplace Dynamics

Women. Work. Wellbeing. by Zoe Haydn Jones

Episode notes

This is an empowering episode when host Zoe Haydn Jones and Susie Bould discuss disability in the workplace, what companies should be doing and why we need to normalise disabilities like it's normal to wear glasses.

Susie shares her heartfelt, real-life experiences of being diagnosed with a tumour in her early career and the treatment she faced thereafter.

"Being white and, educationally privileged and socially and economically privileged and having grown up in a really privileged upbringing. But then also experiencing what it's like to have a level of exclusion from... judgments from society... when I was in a wheelchair I got a lot of abuse, people yelling 'cripple'. People would be savage... It really was so eye-opening because I'd gone through life in this bubble of privilege, essentially, and then it sort of burst. And it was ... 

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