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Be Fearless Vlog

Posted by on Mar 9, 2016 in Blog, Lifestyle | 0 comments

Last week in my blog I talked about fears, why people have them and how you can overcome them. In this first Jeneration vlog, I talk more about my own fear and how I was able to get over it. If I hadn’t, I definitely wouldn’t be where I am today. 🙂 Did you miss last week’s blog? Read it here!

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Be Fearless

Posted by on Mar 1, 2016 in Blog, Lifestyle | 0 comments

Essentials for Everyday Life Be Fearless   I always like to conclude my presentations with things I believe are always important to remember in life and that will help you find and live the good life. I think of these as essentials for everyday life, because if you live by these pieces of advice anything is possible. These aren’t designed for any particular group in society. These are designed for everyone. Anyone and everyone has it in them to follow these pieces of advice, and thus anyone and everyone can find and live the good life. My first point is “Be Fearless.” Fear is something that affects many, many people. It can be in a big way or it can be something...

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Welcome to Jeneration!

Posted by on Mar 1, 2016 in News | 0 comments

Welcome to Jeneration!

Hello everyone and welcome to Jeneration! I’m excited to finally launch this and share my months of planning with you! I’ve done all of this myself, from the website design to video editing, it’s all my work. No minions doing anything for me. The only thing I didn’t do was the logo, because I am far from being an artist. It was a lot of hard work and now you get to see it! So why Jeneration? After a successful 2015 speaking tour I decided it was time to ramp things up and develop some actual branding. And as some of you know, speaking isn’t my only endeavor. I’ve been doing consulting and contract work for years. I’ve also had...

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Bound? Confined? Hardly.

Posted by on Feb 13, 2016 in Blog | 0 comments

It’s not uncommon for the media – print, online and broadcast – to refer to someone who uses a wheelchair as “wheelchair-bound” or “confined to a wheelchair.” I hate to burst their pity or sympathy-evoking bubbles, but I’m not “bound” or “confined” to my wheelchair. No one is. Webster’s Dictionary offers the following definition of the word, “bound”: “something that limits or restrains.” I think many people who use wheelchairs would not say they are limited or restrained by their wheelchair. If anything it’s the opposite. Their wheelchair makes it possible for them to move around and do things, and without their wheelchair they would actually be limited or...

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Punch-In.org

Posted by on Feb 10, 2016 in News | 0 comments

Thank you to Adrienne Kleinmann of Punch-In.org for recently featuring me in a Career Profile! You can see it here. Punch-In.org  is a project of the Great Lakes ADA Center. Great Lakes ADA Center’s mission is to increase awareness and knowledge with the ultimate goal of achieving voluntary compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Great Lakes ADA Center is a member of the ADA National Network which is comprised of 10 regional centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a division of the U.S. Department of...

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Defining quality of life

Posted by on Dec 28, 2015 in Blog | 0 comments

Defining the Quality of Life By Jen Onsum People living with disabilities strive for acceptance and inclusion in this world that wasn’t necessarily designed for us. But, above all, we strive to have people see us as being no different than someone who lives without a mobility device and without being hooked up to medical equipment that saves lives. So when CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen deemed a little girl’s life with an “incurable disease” and potential life dependent on a ventilator and other medical equipment to be a “terrible quality of life,” (Cohen, Elizabeth, “Heaven over hospital: 5-year-old changes the conversation about death,” 11/04/15) it...

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