What Stacy Zoern, a lawyer, just pulled off down in Pflugerville, Texas should be on front page of The Wall Street Journal. She just moved a Hungarian wheelchair smart car manufacturer to Texas.

At only 31, Stacy Zoen made one of the biggest business deals for wheelchair smart cars yet. Read this blog

In episode #82 of No Free Rides, Tiffiny is joined by Jane Hash, a fun-loving woman with Osetogenesis Imperfecta who hosts her own podcast and is making a documentary about her one-of-a-kind life.

Yes, that is a real AK-47

As a practicing pagan and certified herbalist, not to mention being only 2’7″ tall, to say Jane Hash’s life is “unique” would be a understatement. Her badass attitude and dark humor make her one of my favorite guests yet. The cajones she has to be who she is, openly and with no apologies, is an example for everyone. Jane is also a political activist, a blogger and is finishing up filming a documentary about her life that’s taken nearly 3 years to complete titled, Plain Jane.

Also in this episode, Tiffiny talks about two of her recent blogs, including her blog on the creepy documentary that discusses disability in North Korea, The Red Chapel, and the upcoming reality show featuring four women who use wheelchairs that’s premiering on the Sundance Channel in April - Push Girls.

Use the player below to hear the show (56 minute run time). No Free Rides is sponsored by EasyStand.com.

Music by Lupe Fiasco ft. Evidence – ‘Catch Me’

- Jane’s blog: The Adventures of The Gimp Avenger

- Jane’s podcast: Hashing It Out With Jane for KUSF-In-Exile

- Watch the trailer for her documentary: Plain Jane

- Jane’s Facebook Group

- Jane’s funny videos: 1 Dwarf, 1 Cup, THE LITTER-BOX INCIDENT, 5 GUYS 1 DWARF

Jason Becker, a rising metal guitarist who at 20 was diagnosed with ALS (he played for Cacophony and the David Lee Roth band in the late 1980’s), refuses to raise the white flag and is still composing music.

Check out my blog here

- Tiffiny

A new reality show “Push Girls,” featuring four female wheelchair-users, has been green-lighted by the Sundance Channel. The show will change misconceptions of disability and so much more. 

I’m so freaking excited about this show. I’m friends with one of these ladies (Tiphany) and I can guarantee this will make for some good TV, and will do so much to help show the world that we can still be beautiful and sexual. Is it finally happening? To the show’s producer Gay Rosenthal, I give you a cookie.

Read this blog

- Tiff

The U.K. version of American Idol, The X Factor, helped catapult Kerry McGregor, a paraplegic from a fall at age 13, into stardom. Last week she passed away from bladder cancer. Read my blog

Comedy documentary The Red Chapel shows what happens when two Danish-Koreans, one with Cerebral Palsy, gain entry to the most evil regime in the world; a regime that notoriously hates the disabled. Read this blog

Spearheaded by a newly disabled fetish lingerie designer, the Beauty Through Damage photo project aims to obliterate previously held thoughts on beauty and bodily imperfections. 

This is an amazing collaboration and the photos are well-worth checking out. Check out my blog on this photo series here.

- Tiff

From rolling tattoo artists to medical doctors who use wheelchairs, the power of being in a profession the world doesn’t expect is huge.

We can work in any profession if we set our minds to it. Check out my blog here

Tiff

In episode #81 of No Free Rides, Tiffiny is joined by Jennifer Longdon, a fighter of a paraplegic who’s taking on everything from accessible realty and passe attitudes to disabilities to bringing diversity to Project Runway.

Jennifer Longdon is an amazing woman who found herself paralyzed after a shooting in 2004. She’s become a disability advocate since her injury and is the Chair of the Mayor of Phoenix’s Commission on Disability Issues and has become a blogger with a strong voice you simply must check out: Living Life From Butt Level: Where I Sit. She has also become a dynamic speaker, which you can see in this Ignite Phoenix video, which shows her on-stage talking frankly about life with a disability.

Tiffiny and Jen also talk about the search for a cocktail dress that can look great sitting down and the hiccups in using dressing rooms. Tiffiny also shares her top disability news of 2011 and her review of the new travel show featuring a disabled host, Rollin’ with Zach.

Use the player below to hear the show (58 minute run time). No Free Rides is sponsored by EasyStand.com.

What does it feel to be on your own two feet after waiting for 5, 10, 15 years? Do you feel like your old self or do you feel like a brand new person? Technology is creating miracles. 

I’ve been inspired by this amazing neurostimulation technology miraculously helping people with spinal cord injuries walk again. Read my blog here

- Tiff