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Your Secretary in Your Pocket: Lumen’s Promise for Blind Professionals
In this episode of the Penny Forward Podcast, Chris Peterson and Liz Bottner talk with entrepreneur Sri Ram about Lumen, a voice-controlled AI email assistant designed to help blind professionals manage email hands-free. Sri shares his journey through vision loss, entrepreneurship, and building technology rooted in independence, community, and real-world accessibility.
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Treading the Waters of Life: Reflection, Action, and Impact | Penny Forward Podcast
In this episode of the Penny Forward Podcast, Chris Peterson speaks with Sylvia Stinson Perez about leadership, lifelong learning, self-advocacy, and defining impact on your own terms. Sylvia shares her journey through the blindness field, the lessons behind her book Treading the Waters of Life, and why reflection paired with action can help create meaningful…
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Designing Inclusion with Unicorn Soda
The Herb family shares how their company Unicorn Soda Design Studios turns accessibility and creativity into play through 3D printed games for the blind community.
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Tech, Tenacity, and Financial Independence
Software engineer Mike Gorse joins the Penny Forward Podcast to share how mentorship, Linux accessibility, and simple investing strategies led to his financial freedom.
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Accessible Finance Made Simple with HaloFi
In this Penny Forward Podcast episode, Chris and Liz talk with Andrew Babin, co-developer of HaloFi, about how AI and voice technology are making financial management more inclusive.
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Donate Safely After a Disaster
Disasters can strike anytime, anywhere. In the aftermath, many people want to help, often by donating money to those in need. Unfortunately, scammers also take advantage of these moments, targeting both survivors and well-intentioned donors.
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Amazon Prime to End Invitee Perk
Starting October 1, 2025, Amazon will end its Prime Invitee program, which let members share their free two-day shipping with someone outside their household.
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Auto-IRAs Expand to Five New States
Workers in Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, Vermont, and Nevada now have access to automatic individual retirement accounts, or auto-IRAs, thanks to new programs launched between 2024 and 2025.
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How an ER Visit Can Hurt Your Credit
An unexpected trip to the emergency room can be stressful enough — but the bills that follow can also put your credit at risk.
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DFW Blind & Disabilities Lions Club Launch
Hello, friends, neighbors, and changemakers from across the DFW area and beyond!