Fireside Chat: Celebrate Disability Pride with Andrew Gurza and Karneshia Shantel
Update: Watch the replay now on LinkedIn or YouTube! ❤️🔥
🔔 Join us in celebrating Disability Pride Month with two incredible guests: award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant and host of the Disability After Dark podcast, Andrew Gurza, and influential ADA Consultant and Disability Advocate, Karneshia Shantel!
When: Wednesday, July 24th, at our new time, from 12-1 pm ET (9 am PT)
Where: Simulcast live on LinkedIn and YouTube. Q&A will be hosted exclusively on LinkedIn.
Presented by SexTech n' Chill, and hosted by Reuben and Sherri Johnson in partnership with Fly Media Productions, this virtual event promises to leave you inspired and enlightened.
For our entrepreneurial followers, be sure to stick around till the end for 'Integrated Insights' with business expert and good friend of ST&C, Leslie Camacho. Leslie will share insights gleaned from the conversation on maintaining consistent values in both our personal and professional worlds, despite their differing demands.
We hope to see you there!
xoxo
About our Guests:
Andrew Gurza (they/he) is an award-winning Disability Awareness Consultant and the Chief Disability Officer and Co-founder of Bump’n, a sex toy company for and by disabled people. Their work has been spotlighted by BBC, CBC, Daily Xtra, Gay Times UK, Huffington Post, The Advocate, Everyday Feminism, Mashable, Out.com, and in various anthologies. Andrew was also the subject of the award-winning National Film Board of Canada documentary, "Picture This," and has appeared on podcasts such as Dan Savage’s Savage Love and Cameron Esposito’s Queery. Renowned globally, Andrew speaks on sex, disability, and the experience of being a Queer Cripple. Additionally, they host the acclaimed podcast, Disability After Dark.
Karneshia Shantel (she/her), a Mississippi native and University of Mississippi graduate, now resides in Birmingham, Alabama. Her multifaceted career encompasses entrepreneurship, modeling, advocacy, writing, and nail artistry. She champions inclusivity in media through fashion and entertainment and has been featured in The Daily Mail, Right This Minute, Sheen Magazine, Ipush Magazine, B-Metro Magazine, Voyage ATL, and more. Karneshia is passionate about demonstrating the importance of representation by being a role model for people with disabilities. Her mission is to inspire and influence others to live their most authentic lives.
About your Hosts:
Reuben (he/him) and Sherri Johnson (she/her), affectionately known as the FlyDuo, are partners in life, love, crime, and everything in between. They are co-founders of the award-winning sex-positive brand agency Fly Media Productions and SexTech n’ Chill, an independently-owned digital lifestyle and holistic sexual wellness brand dedicated to empowering unapologetic pleasure seekers on a transformative journey of liberation and self-discovery. They’re also co-hosts of the podcast-style web show The FlyDuo Sex Project. In addition to their own projects, Reuben and Sherri currently serve as official ambassadors for Erika Lust’s “The Porn Conversation”.
About Leslie Camacho:
Leslie Camacho (he/him) is a Certified EOS Implementer and big-hearted entrepreneur with ADHD superpowers! He helps entrepreneurs get what they want from their businesses without sacrificing themselves, their teams, and especially their families. As our personal EOS Implementer, Leslie had been instrumental in helping us resurface what we as owners really want from our work personally and professionally, as well as how to make room for passion projects without neglecting our primary source of revenue.