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Your Mental Stretch with Donna and Frank Podcast

🌐 Also available in: Français

Episodes

The first episode arrives in January 2027. Every episode will be listed here.

Welcome to the Your Mental Stretch with Donna and Frank Podcast

Your Mental Stretch: Music and sound to help you relax, refresh and get back on track!

Your Mental Stretch with Donna Jodhan and Frank Smith is a monthly podcast about using music and sound to deal with whatever is around you. Donna and Frank share relaxation and meditation techniques, yoga with music, walking with music, and the comfort of church music. The first episode arrives in January 2027!

About the Podcast

Life can be loud. Life can be stressful. And sometimes, the right sound is all it takes to bring you back to calm!

Your Mental Stretch with Donna Jodhan and Frank Smith is a monthly podcast about how music and sound can help you deal with what is around you. Donna and Frank show you how music can soothe you, relax you and get you back on the right track, with simple ideas from sound therapy that you can use every day.

Each month, Donna and Frank explore:

  • Relaxation techniques with music and sound
  • Meditation techniques with music
  • Yoga with music
  • Walking with music
  • The comfort of church music

Join us in January 2027 for our very first episode, and stretch your mind with us every month!

Your Mental Stretch is for relaxation and general well-being. It is not medical advice.

About Your Hosts

Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA, is a world-renowned blind advocate, accessibility champion, author and sight loss coach based in Toronto. She won the landmark 2010 Charter challenge that required the Government of Canada to make its websites accessible, and she hosts Podcasts By Donna Jodhan. Her mental stretch uses the senses to refresh, rejuvenate and renew the mind.

Frank Smith was the founding National Coordinator of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), which he led for 40 years, from its founding in 1986 until he retired at the end of September 2026. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University, received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2003, and was named one of Ottawa Life Magazine’s Top 25 People in the Capital in 2014. He is also a singer-songwriter in the folk-rock bands Halcyon Phase and Sills & Smith.

Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA
Global Leader In Disability Rights, Digital Accessibility, And Inclusive Policy Reform
Turning policy into progress for people with disabilities.

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