Author, Momentum Speaker & Life Changer LaQuon Johnson

Welcome back to The Blind and Beyond Show! In this episode, hosts Hershi Trivedi and Dave Hillebrandt sit down with author, momentum speaker, counselor, and life changer LaQuon S. Johnson. From navigating Stargardt disease and his Bronx roots to pursuing his PhD in Counselor Education & Supervision, LaQuon shares his powerful journey of resilience, finding purpose, overcoming adversity, and transforming personal obstacles into fuel for success. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 EXPLORE LAQUON S. JOHNSON’S BOOKS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Find all of LaQuon S. Johnson's published works on Amazon, Audible, and Bookshare: 📖 The Presence of Patriarchy 👉 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Presen... 📖 Generational Ignorance 👉 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Generation... 👉 Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?keywor... 📖 Habitual Habitat: An Urban Sermon 👉 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Habitual+H... 👉 Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?keywor... 📖 Motivational Motives 👉 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Motivation... 👉 Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?keywor... 🎧 Find LaQuon S. Johnson on Audible: https://www.audible.com/author/LaQuon... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Show Intro & Welcome 03:45 - Introducing Guest LaQuon Johnson 04:20 - Meeting at ACB Conference & PhD Journey 06:00 - Growing Up in the Bronx & Stargardt Disease Diagnosis 11:00 - Early College Struggles & Navigating Accommodations 16:25 - The Accident Story & "Motivational Motives" 21:15 - Turning Point: Acceptance & Moving Forward 25:50 - Discovering Psychology & The Counseling Calling 33:45 - Becoming a Peer Mentor & Role Models in Counseling 41:00 - Family, Marriage & Overcoming Adversity 49:00 - Transparency in Counseling & Mind's Eye Vision 54:20 - PhD Dissertation: Visual Impairment & Meaningful Employment 58:25 - Blind & Beyond PSA: "We Thought You Ought to Know" 01:03:50 - Breakdown of All 4 Books (Amazon, Audible & Bookshare) 01:10:55 - The 4 Titles Recap & Inspiration 01:13:10 - Closing Remarks & How to Connect ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 CONNECT & CONTACT: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📧 For business inquiries or to contact directly: Who.cares.a11y.bar@gmail.com 🔔 Don't forget to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE to stay updated on future episodes of The Blind and Beyond Show! #BlindAndBeyond #LaQuonJohnson #VisualImpairment #StargardtDisease #Accessibility #OvercomingAdversity #LowVision #AuthorInterview #Inspiration #MentalHealthCounseling #Podcast