Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeff Wissel, Vice-President, Accessibility, Aira

So at the time I met you, you were still with Fidelity, but you had a cane in your hand.

So you went from covering to something else along

that

journey.

So I had an amazing thing happen.

I had the opportunity to have a temporary loan position to Margie at Fidelity.

She was leading accessibility there.

And just what amazing opportunity, what amazing human being.

And I had the opportunity to, she introduced me to a colleague that we worked with out of Boston.

I'm in Cincinnati and this woman's name's Alicia.

And she had lost her sight due to diabetic retinopathy.

20 years earlier.

And she was a coach to our senior leadership.

And Margie introduced us via email.

And so Alicia and I talked and we set up a recurring, like every other week meeting.

I now had someone in my life who was blind.

And not only that, she was a vice president and a coach to our senior leadership.

And she's speaking to me.

Nice.

We became fast friends and everything.

And the most amazing thing happened after our connection.

We would tell our colleagues about the connection that we made.

And every time I tell someone, they would say, oh, wow, that's pretty cool.

I have, you know, whatever.

Or my daughter was just diagnosed with.