Imagine: Leverage Abilities. Access Better Solutions.

Create an inclusive, accessible co-working space for aspiring entrepreneurs with disabilities, small startups, or groups that serve the disability community.

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Greetings. The background music is John Lennon’s Imagine played by the InterPLAY Company Band non-profit music organization of 67 adult musicians with and without cognitive and other differences. They rehearse at Strathmore Hall in Rockville Maryland. Readers be sure to have a listen. Brings happy tears to my eyes.

Connection and community stoke my fires — a counterweight to Multiple Sclerosis and fatigue. Producing this podcast episode renewed my awareness of and gratefulness for connection and community in my life: Family connections, music connections; communities of podcasters and patient/caregiver advocates, decision support experts; leadership, storytelling, and marketing mastermind groups; a book club. These connections and communities nurture me, feed me, and draw me in. The networks also need care and feeding by me to sustain them. Contribute and accept energy. I both lead and follow in these connections and communities. I met Emily Zaccardi at one such community, Akimbo. Emily is the CEO and Founder of hollarhype, designing advertising opportunities through authentic voice-based technologies, and Director of Growth for…