Our Ability Podcast | Disability in the Public Square
Our Ability: Disability in the Public Square is a first-of-its-kind daily podcast that applies a disability lens to mainstream news, entertainment, and public policy. Each episode takes one story from the day's news cycle and asks the question no one else is asking systematically:
"Where are people with disabilities in today's story — and how are we being framed?" - John Robinson
The show treats disability not as a niche personal issue but as a civic, mainstream subject — as central to public life as race, gender, or class.
Our Ability Podcast | Disability in the Public Square
Latest Episodes
Technology, Purpose & Possibility: Todd Stabelfeldt's Story
In this episode of Disability in the Public Square, John Robinson talks with entrepreneur, technologist, and C4 Consulting founder Todd Stabelfeldt.Todd shares his journey as a C4 quadriplegic, how he built a successful business...
Mobility Roadside Assistance: From an Overlooked Need to an International Service
In this episode of Disability in the Public Square, John Robinson sits down with fellow entrepreneur Jim Speer, founder and CEO of Mobility Roadside Assistance. Jim shares how a conversation with a wheelchair user at a VA hospital insp...
From Microsoft to Workday: Why Disability Belongs in the AI Hiring Conversation
AI is transforming how companies find and screen job candidates- but what happens when disability isn’t properly represented in the data? In this episode of Disability in the Public Square, we explore Our Ability’s collaboration with M...
Get Off Your Knees: The John Robinson Story
Edited Audio - In this episode of Disability in the Public Square, John Robinson reflects on the documentary Get Off Your Knees: The John Robinson Story and the unexpected way it changed his life. What began with a conversatio...
Why Section 508 Exists, abli.ai, and Beta testing
What happens when you can’t see the words on a page, hear the lyrics in a song, or navigate a website? You’re not missing convenience- you’re missing information. That’s why Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act exists: to require accessible di...
