2.10 Building Confidence: Working from Home with Disabilities with Chris Mitchell, Chief Empowerment Officer

In this episode, we are joined by ⁠Chris Mitchell⁠, the owner and CEO (Chief Empowerment Officer) of Define Yourself. Chris shares his inspiring journey as a person with multiple disabilities, emphasizing the challenges he faced in traditional employment due to societal barriers.

🌐 Learn about Chris’s Resilience and determination, navigating obstacles in the workforce as he battled visual impairment, ADHD, physical disability, and mental health struggles. Discover how he successfully convinced an Internet service provider to hire him while holding his white cane.

🤝 Chris sheds light on the discrimination he encountered during job interviews, emphasizing the importance of fostering a supportive and accommodating work environment for individuals with disabilities.

🏠 Delve into Chris’s extensive experience of working remotely since 1992, exploring how remote work became his preferred choice, especially after facing health challenges.

💪 Uncover Chris’s secret to self-confidence through his concept of “success balloons,” visual reminders of his achievements.

Get ready for one of our most positive guests on the show! Chris gives valuable advice on building self-confidence and embracing challenges. He is focused on empowering self-employed individuals with disabilities.

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Don is a serial podcaster and currently the producer and host of Work From Home Forever, a podcast highlighting remote employees and their engaging stories of furthering their careers and maintaining work/life balance. Don discovered his love for audio content creation in the 80's, when he and his brother would pretend they were DJ's and record voiceovers on cassette tapes. This passion was later reignited when he and his son created The Middle School Mind, a podcast to discuss a middle schoolers' perspective on the adolescent years.