Walking the Walk with Day Al-Mohamed
Today is the right day to shine the spotlight on Day Al-mohamed. We’re focusing on her creative endeavors such as writing books, short stories, comic books and scripts. now she adds Film director and Producer to her list of credits. Hear how she began writing, learned to produce a documentary on the virtually unknown disabled Civil War soldiers known as the “Invalid Corps” and provided yours truly with some early inspiration in my adjustment to Blindness process.
Plus, she shares a story and piece of American and disability history that I guarantee you haven’t heard.
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Audio: Radio turning through different FM stations.
TR:
Rise and shine beautiful people.
Audio: Lovely Day, Bill Withers
You’re listening to WRMM better known as Reid My Mind Radio. I’m your host T.Reid.
If you just stumbled across this station while turning the dial on your virtual radio, welcome!
This is the place where you’ll find stories and profiles of compelling people impacted by blindness and disability. When I’m in the mood or have something of interest to share about my own experience I’ll serve that up to you with a bit of my sofrito if you will. My combination of spices!
Today’s episode is long overdue and that’s my bad.
But, as it turns out, it’s just the right Day to tell you a story!
Let’s go!
Audio: Reid My Mind Radio Theme Music
Day:
“I’m a big advocate for doing whatever interests you because to be honest if you have a disability , disability is going to come into it whether you want it to or not.”
TR:
That’s Day Al Mohamed. She encompasses all of those things and more. An Advocate, someone pursuing her interests and a person with a disability.
Specifically on that last point, she’s a visually impaired guide dog user.
We’ll discuss her advocacy work of course, but there’s just something I find so cool about people pursuing their passion. for Day, that’s writing.
And just as she said, disability comes up!
Some of you may be familiar with Day from her time at the American Council of the Blind. But here’s something you may not know.
Day:
I think most people don’t realize even with a last name like Al-Mohamed they assume I’m American. I don’t have an accent when I speak English or anything like that. However, I was born and raised overseas in the Middle East in Bahrain. A small island just off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It’s like 15 miles across, it’s that small. I didn’t come to the US until I was 17.
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It’s one of those things that people are like wow you’re actually a foreigner. Then I have to reveal the small cheat that my mother is American so … And then they go wow that must have been really rough for her because she’s an American and she went to this whole conservative like Middle Eastern country. And I’m like my mom was from Missouri so she went from conservative Mid West to conservative Mid-East. It was not that big of a change.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Laughs… So did you go back to Missouri when you came back to the states?
Day:
I actually went to college there at the University of Missouri and stayed on there for law school as well. I think that’s kind of where I got my start with legislative issues and policy issues were actually there in the state.
TR:
Day was presented with An opportunity.
Following a discussion about sponsoring a bill around disability employment, a Missouri State Legislator decided:
Day:
“I should put my money where my mouth is, I should get a disabled intern. You know that’s what I should do just get a disabled intern.”
And so he just put out this call for a random disabled intern and I kind of randomly got it. When I showed up at his office he was like can you answer the phone can you talk to people. So he had no idea about the capacity of people with disabilities at all.
I think that’s kind of always stuck with me and I look for other people who kind of have that same walk the walk.
TR:
That sort of attitude can really pay off; for all involved.
Day:
And by the time I’m done he’s like “Hey I need you to write this up as an amendment for the floor Go, go, go
TR:
Ever since then, Day’s been moving.
Day:
you know when you get a job it kind of starts you down a path.
I ended up actually doing an internship at the US Senate in Ron Wyden’s office and so I ended up doing more policy work there.
Next I did law school and then I actually did some stuff with the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court
before there ever was an ICC over at the Haig in Europe. They were trying to design an build it over at the UN up in New York and so I got a chance to spend a good part of summer there working with folks who were on the commission and it was amazing .
TR:
Then Day learned that the American Council of the Blind was looking for a Director of Advocacy and Legislative Affairs. This gabe her the chance to go to D.C and work on national policy.
Throughout her career, she’s worked on a wide range of topics.
Day:
social welfare, employment, technology, education.
I actually worked on Missouri’s conceal carry.
I kind of ended up falling into doing more disability but in general I’m a big advocate for doing whatever interests you because to be honest if you have a disability , disability is going to come into it whether you want it to or not.
I was with the American Psychological Association and for them I did do disability policy but I also did racial and ethnic minorities indigenous populations, some of there international development work. It was a nice mix in broad areas and I wanted to help them get started on creating an immigration portfolio because we were seeing a lot more activities in that rhelm and I think we had something to say.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Do you have a special area that is very close to your heart?
Day:
It’s hard to say because I tend to fall in love with all sorts of different things. Which I guess in many ways means I’m a Lobbyist at heart. That word gets such a bad rap but honestly all it is is an advocate who gets paid.
You learn how Congress works and then you find people who are the experts or you find people with stories to tell and then basically you are connecting those pieces
TR:
Yes, the pieces are connecting! This advocate, is a storyteller.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
You can definiely talk that policy butI do want to get into the creative side.
I was looking on your website, DayAlMohamed.com, and you have a page that has different versions of your bio. What I thought was interesting was the policy stuff doesn’t come until the very end. The last two versions, the long version, but the other versions are really focused in on the creative endeavors, your writing. Am I reading into that too much? Is that your focus, do you really like to focus in that area?
Day:
I think part of it is (ahem!) I need to redo my website. Laughs!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Laughs!
Day:
For anybody looking at DayAlMohamed.com I’m trying to get it to split. One is Day in Washinton which is where I cover all of my policy work and that’s where you’ll find some policy analysis and disability related stuff.
One of the things I’ve been doing , it’s almost 10 years now is writing fiction and in the last couple of years I’ve been doing more and more writing . I write fantasy and science fiction so we have books, short stories, a couple of comic book scripts, although it’s not fantasy and science fiction I recently put out a 30 minute film and I have 4 or 5 other short films as well. And so there’s been a lot more of the creative stuff.
It started out as something to do when I first came to Washington DC. My wife actually stayed back in Missouri to finish her degree and so if you’re away from your spouse for along period of time it gets kind of boring but it also gets kind of lonely so I signed up for a writing group. and started meeting with them.
I cannot laud enough the benefit of joining a group. You have other people who are striving for the same thing you’re doing. You have people who can kind of act as a sounding board for ideas, folks to critique. Having that kind of ability to have people to do that it only makes your writing better. I would say no good writing ever came out of a cave.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
So let me anticipate a question that someone would have when they hear that. Someone new adjusting to blindness would say well what about the fact that I’m blind and I’m assuming that wasn’t a blind writing group
Day:
It was not.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
How did that play. And you know, obviously this is something you’ve been doing for a long time but did that play into it in anyway?
Day:
Not as much as I thought it would. Really,..
[TR in conversation with Day:]
How did you think it would . And I’m sorry to cut you off but I want to get that…
Day:
No, no I think it’s a good one.
I think I worried that I wouldn’t be seen as a serious writer, which never happened. Or that they would question my capacity which also never happend. The group always made a point of meeting somehwere that was metro accessible. And we’re in the DC area so they were like well yeh not everybody drives and although at that time everybody else did drive they continued to make a point to only choose metro accessible areas. Even though I know that for a couple of metings it got very tough trying to find a location.
TR:
The benefits go beyond access.
Day:
There was one member who was a copy editing guru and oh my god the number of times she yelled at me about misplaced commas which you know with a screen reader is not necessarily the easiest thing to find when you put them in wrong and to go back and read to figure out where you got it. She was nice about it but she certainly still expected me to make sure I followed through on that .
That I had a strong story arc, character development. All the same kind of things. So realistically it end up with there not being any real difference blind or sighted.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Nice, nice!
TR:
It was a nice experience for Day.
Unfortunately, she did mention how some people with disabilities reported negative experiences in other writing groups. That however, shouldn’t deter you.
Day:
I would encourage anybody, if you want to write go find a group and do it. Make a point of talking to other people about their ideas or ask them about their ideas. You can also find out about how other people have built things.
Find a group that meets regularly and a lot of things are like anything else they tel you. What you put into it is what you get out of it.
TR:
Ocasionally you may find the support going beyond notes on character development or punctuation. Llike the time day was feeling less than confident about her work.
Day:
“Oh my God I’m the biggest hack on the planet. I never want to write another word again.”
And she’s like we’re going to go out and drink some wine.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
That’s cool. That’s a nice supportive group.
I think for folks who are adjusting and new to it, it’s refreshing in a sense to know that it’s ok to have that doubt in the beginning. So you still were concerned about it but you went through with it. That’s a really important thing I think for people to grasp.
Day:
I think even if it’s a recent loss and it’s kind of tough and you’re struggling it’s a good excuse to get out . It’s a good excuse to start thinking of things you can do. What does it requirewell one is reading books so you can get an idea of what is out there and the second is trying to put your own thoughts down and whether that is personal journaling that you share with no one. Essays about your own transition or putting together fiction it’s all that same process.
I find it therapeutic but at the same time I look at it more professionally.
The more you do it the more you start finding other people like you.
TR:
Specifically other people like author of The Duff, Kody Keplinger, who’s book was made into a movie. She by the way is Blind.
Day:
Recently I had an essay that was published with one of the big Science Fiction magazines and the editor is Deaf Blind. I was like hey there’s more of us out there than you know once you start looking
TR:
Yet, it’s still a pretty big challenge to find us in the pages of books, screen plays and scripts.
Day:
I think one of the reasons I like science fiction is because it tends to be more future looking. A lot of it is very political. Things people don’t want to deal with today they’ll look at in Science Fiction.
One of the biggest problems with science fiction in general though is it
does not usually portray disability. If it does it portrays it very poorly. So basically, we don’t exist in the future. I have a huge pet peeve with that.
TR:
What would you expect then from a self described Lobbyist at heart – who uses stories to help advocate for those things that she’s passionate about.
Day:
So part of me is like I want to write it. You know we’re there. Not everything gets cured. That’s not how it works, that’s not how people work.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Talk to me about any Sci-Fi films or books that reflect a positive image of disability. Are there any?
Day:
Ooh
There’s one book it’s actually book 2 in a series.
I think the first book is called The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. The second book is called The Broken Kingdom. It’s by N.K. Jemisin. The protagonist is actually blind.
It’s a fantasy setting. Most of the time when you think fantasy people think like Game of Thrones. They think swords and wizards, it’s very Eurocentric
what Jemesen did is she does this in a lot of her things
she actually builds fantasy that is not. Culturally a lot of it is more African than anything else. And I love that. I love it. I’m seeing parts of the world reflected and cultures you don’t normally see reflected, that you don’t normally think of as fantasy.
I think this last year Jemesen won the Hugo Award think about it as Science Fiction’s Oscars. She won it for the third year in a row. Nobody has ever won it three times.
TR:
Day’s love of writing goes beyond genre and form.
Day:
When I started writing I actually didn’t want to write novels I wanted to do film scripts. It requires a team so I wasn’t sure I could do that as a Blind person so I kind of slid in to doing the novels and the other writing.
I had built up enough cache that I felt secure in my writing and so I actually went to a couple of local film groups. DC Film Makers and I also visited Womens Film and Video. They meet every month and they do … we’re gonna doa movie. Who wants to do different roles. It was a chance to try and experiment a little bit.
I originally came out going I’m just going to be the writer. Guess what I can do writing, no big deal. So I started meeting some other folks doing that.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Ok, so now, when you started that you said something so I think it revealed a little bit more…
(laughs)
Day:
Laughs…
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[TR in conversation with Day:]
I’m peeling back some stuff here.
Day:
Here wwe go!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
You said that originally the intention there was to go for film.
Day:
Yes.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Ok, so when you were younger was that the thing you kind of wanted to do?
Day:
As a kid, nah, I think it was still novels that were my thing. But when I first started writing in DC and I found that writing group the first stuff I submitted to them were scripts.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Ok, I gotcha!
So when did the interest in film come into play?
Day:
I don’t know! I may have to think about that because I don’t know!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
And probably the reason that I’m asking, well number one, I’m interested.
I’m in this process now of kind of going back into events from my past sort of thing right, and then seeing where these interestsstarted and its just been interesting to me. So i ask everybody right now (laughing) I’m like do you know where your thing started from. (Fading out)
(Fading in) It’s a really cool thing because it’s like oh wait, I’m supposed to be doing this because I’ve always been interested in it. And that’s what that process kind of unveiled for me. I think it’s probably the same for a lot of people. I’m just letting you know, there’s something there. Which is great. Which means you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing.
Day:
I tend to like a lot of the writing so film, I like the short stories I really like doing the novella length work and I had a good time working on the two comics that I did. It was a lot of fun.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Visual, it’s comics, but you wrote it.
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Day:
I wrote it. I was partnered with some really good artists and the nice thing is generally in comics the decisions of what the art images are supposed to be is usually left to the artist.
TR:
Quick recap.
Day decided to pursue her interest; writing. Ultimately she was interested in writing for film, but she was uncertain how she could go about that being Blind.
Then she found her “in”. It’s specific to her, but the idea is universal.
She found a bridge or a means of getting her to her destination. In this case, writing films.
There can be multiple ways to create such a bridge. Sometimes it’s having someone close to you to share in the experience.
Day:
As the fun couple thing, my wife and I usually take turns a couple of times a year. We pick out something we want to do. She picked ballroom dancing one fall so a few years ago I said I want to do a film class and I want you to do it with me because I don’t think I can do it. There’s that as a Blind person I don’t know how it would work. I’m totally secure in writing one and I’ve been meeting with these other film groups so I have an idea how it works but I don’t know if I can actually do it. Getting cameras and all these other thingngs working well , so she said sure.
We signed up for a film classwith Adel Schmidt, who’s with Docs in progress – which is a documentary organization in Silver Springs. I’m just going to call her out by name because she was awesome. She’s like yeh, I’m not sure if you can either but let’s just go with it and see if we can figure it out.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Nice!
Day:
She says you always start with the story.
It was like a 6 to 8 week class. You should have a one or two minute either short film or clip or trailer.
So you write out the narrative about what you want to say. You need to make sure it has a good narrative arc , it has rising tension and a climax. All the things you want in good writing. Then you record the whole thing.
Audibly reading the script. That helps give you the timing.
Then figuring out what images you want to slotin at what time.
So I know at 1 minute and 10 seconds where I say this I probably want an image of this. And being able to kind of almost wriggle this grid of what the film would look like.
And then you can go to either finding a way to record the film or finding images that already match that.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
So is that storyboarding?
Day:
Right, I guess you could say it kind of was storyboarding out the whole thing.
We figured out that would be a way that I could control what was happening when making the film. It’s not somebody else making it and then me going here are the images that I think and then if we did or didn’t get those what would be the next alternative. Let me see if that works Maybe I need to change the language and then slot in the images. We talked about would there be good transitions and how to do those. I’ll admit the transitions I had to rely on somebody else to figure out whether it looked really great or not. And then adding a layer of sound effects and then a layer of music on top of that. When I got done that’s what the trailer to The Invalid Corps is. And I used that for my Kickstarter video to fund making the 30 minute documentary.
At least now I know I have a way to make videos that this will work where I can say I control it. It’s mine because there was always that little bit of doubt that if I did it with somebody else oh yeh the the person who is sighted really made the film. With this one there was no question who made it.
Audio: Civil War Marching Drums…
TR:
The Civil War, is the setting for The story of the Invalid Corps.
Day:
My wife is the Archivist at the University of Maryland , University College she does all sorts of historical research and she often heard about them because there was this song and it ended up being real popular in the 1880’s but it really made fun of them. I’m like what is this Invalid Corps. So I started playing around on the internet and finding out more and a little bit more and then I’m like wait a minute, there’s a lot more to this.
Audio: The Invalid Corps (Song)
Day:
We hhear about how many amputations there were and how many injuries and how many deaths, but nobody ever stopped to ask what happened to those guys after they were injured or after they lost a limb.
TR:
Low on man power, rather than discharging injured soldiers, an all disabled regiment was created.
They did things like;
guard supply stations, trains and other property
Work in hospitals and prisons
Day:
They created 24 separate regiments.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Confederate?
Day:
Union.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Ok, good! Laughs.
Day:
They did a lot more than people give them credit
for.
It’s a pretty awesome story.
Audio: Snare drum: colonial marching…
So the year is 1684. The war has been going on for three years now. General Grant’s making his final push through Petersberg and on to Richmond to take them down at the end.
He pulls every soldier, every able bodied soldier out of the North and basically their all marching on to Richmond.
So he’s putting a lot of pressure on Robert E Lee. They can’t get out they can’t get supplies. In this kind of desperate attempt to break that siege Robert E Lee sends General Jubal Early, this Confederate General, he sends him North…”Cause as much trouble as you can”
Here’s the issue, because Grant had pulled everybody out there wasn’t really anybody to stop Early . So Early heads North through Virginia and rather than crossing at Harpers Fall he goes up and around through Maryland and then he comes down South towards DC — think of a reverse question mark.
Because there’s nobody there to stop him, he makes it all the way to Fort Stevens which is about 4 miles North of the Capital.
There’s nobody there except some clerks, some government officials, and this Invalid Corps.
You got these Invalid soldiers on the wallsof Fort Stevens and in front of the fort basically having to hold out against like 15,000 Confederate soldiers.
Until Grant suddenly realizes “Oh my God we’re about to lose the Capital! puts the entire Civs Corps on boats and sends them up river going as fast as they can to get to Washington before Early does.
These guys hold out for 24 hours until reinforcements arrive.
The thing is Abraham Lincoln was on the Ramparts of the Fort that day and they even took pot shots at him. They ended up shooting a soldier who was a few feet away from him. They could have taken down the Union or at least taken out the Presidency.
[TR in conversation with ES:]
Wow! That’s an awesome story!
Day:
I know!
History that’s kind of gotten lost and there’s some amazing things. One of the soldiers, he was assigned to the Provost Marshall’s Office, so people knew of him as a Provost Marshall soldier but He’d actually had a disability and was with the Invalid Corps and they just decided to put him there. He was one of the guys doing the detective work to figure out who assassinated Lincoln. So he helped with the hunt for John Wilkes Booth. So he’s like I know where he is. He was doing the tracking, but he was called back to Washington so if was a different unit that got the prestige of saying they caught him. Well, basically he died!
The soldiers who were supposed to guard the conspirators, all of them were Invalid Corps.
The only soldiers who were allowed to carry Lincoln’s caufinalso was that unit.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Wow!
Day:
I know!
This piece of history, basically disability history that nobody has really researched or talked about.
TR:
A significant amount of research time went into creating this documentary. It’s not as though there are books available on the topic.
According to Day, there are a couple of people currently working on writing them now.
In the meantime, the documentary is done and ready for the festival circuit.
Day:
I want to give it a year where I’m sending to festivals and trying to look for places to screen it and after that I’ll look at finding ways that people purchase it.
It has both captioning and audio description.
The film was crowd funded Shout out to all of the amazing people who helped fund that.
As a part of supporting disability creativity sort of thing, I think there are maybe one or 2 exceptions and this is out of a couple of dozen.
Every single person who has worked on that film either has a disability or is a veteran.
It’s not like I asked flat out going do you have a disability because the 2 I don’t know about I didn’t really ask.
I wanted to make that a part of the way the film was made.
TR:
I get the sense that “walking that walk” and pursuing one’s intrests, aren’t just personal practices for Day. It appears to be a message she spreads.
I want a talk about your bucket list.
Number 1 that is so cool and scary at the same time. I said Oh my gosh. I don’t know if I would want to put out my bucket list because it kind of keeps you accountable because people are going to be watching it.
Day:
Right!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Which is a great idea. And then I saw that you challenge people to put their own bucket list . I started reading that and I was like awh damn!
Day:
It’s accountability but it also gives a picture of who you are to other people and it encourages other people to go yeh, what do I want and where do I want to go.
You’re doing this thinking where you going back and looking where you started. I think a natural out growth of that is a bucket list looking forward.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
I never really considered doing one. I never really did, that’s something I’m going to take away and start thinking about.
Two things from your bucket list I found kind of interesting.
How are you doing with the guitar? You have an electric and an acoustic now?
Day:
Yeah, I do. I still only know like 6 chords.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
That’s not bad
Day:
It’s not bad but I still need to work a little bit more on it.It’s actually one of the very few things I do that I can say is just for me and only me. And one of the only things I find relaxing. I have a hard time whinding down.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
The reason I ask you that is I got me a guitar a couple of years ago also an electric. My daughter has an acoustic and I kind of took that and started playing and now I like the acoustic better. It’s more forgiving than the electric.
Similarly I find it very relaxing. I have to get back into it because I had a little carpel tunnel…
I do want to someday be able to play with some other folks. I think that would be cool.
Day:
Right!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
That might be on my bucket list.
Day:
You know when the best time to have and use a guitar, Christmas. If I could do 5 Christmas songs. they aren’t usually that complicated. Everybody knows a Christmas song. I have a whole year to come up with 5 songs. That means I need to learn one every other month.
I could do that that’s not terrible.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
I’m gonna have to checkup see how you’re doing. Laughs
Day:
Laughs I’m gonna be in so much trouble come Christmas.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Now you have one on there number 5 and it says something about being a mentor /inspiration. I don’t think I told you that in 2006, that was my first PCB Conference.
Day:
Was it really?
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Pennsylvania Council of the Blind . That was the first time you were there.
Day:
I do not believe that man, when you rolled in with so much swagger. Come one. Seriously.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Yeah, That’s just that New York thing!
Basically two years after losing my sight.We were a new chapter and I was one of the folks who started the chapter out here in this county. I just learned so much that week. You were a big , big part of that learning. You did a keynote at that banquet and it was all about whose in your audience.
Day:
Yeah!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
I know, I remember this. And so I really took a lot away from that.
Then later on in 2007, was my first time going to the ACB Legislative Seminar and once again there you were. You were talking about Eugenics and disability. And againI’m very new to disability at that point. So you truly opened my mind and inspired me to kind of dig deeper into what disability means and what it doesn’t mean. I think you should reconsider number 5
I think that this interview has been long overdue. You know I get a little nervous too. I look at certain people as inspiration and I usually don’t like to use the word but in this case it does apply.
Day:
Well thank you . That totally makes my night. Actually it totally makes my year. That’s kind of awesome!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Laughs.
That’s along overdue thing I should have told you.
TR:
I truly mean that. It’s not only long over do that I share that story with her, but to also share Day’s story with the RMM Radio Family.
Thinking about it, this actually is the perfect time. This episode is a great follow up to the last; Disability Representation in Media
Day is telling stories including disability whether in the subject matter like the Invalid Corps, the inclusion of characters and of course making it all accessible.
And she’s continuing to inspire yours truly, this time not as much from a far.
Day:
So I got to ask, what are you thinking about writing?
[TR in conversation with Day]
(Breathes in deeply!) Laughs!
Day:
You hinted at it, you hinted at it! I’m not letting it go.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Wow! You know what I always wanted to do. And this would be something that’s on my bucket list. That’s why I was interested in the documentary. I love documentaries. Like I love that.
I’m really just trying to figure out what that specific topic is what that story is that I want to tell. I do love stories, period.
Day:
Well awesome. You should totally do it.
TR:
Big shout out to Day Al-Mohamed.
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Day, I truly, truly appreciate this. Thank you so much it was a pleasure speaking with you.
Day:
Well, I am so glad you invited me to be on your show. I kind of love listening to it so I’m like look, look I’m on the podcast!
[TR in conversation with Day:]
Laughs!
TR:
How cool is that?
Does that make you want to pursue that thing you always wanted to do?
You too can find a way to take you from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow. It may not be a direct connection, but remember, it’s not necessarily about the destination it’s all in the journey.
I hope this podcast can serve as a bridge for those adjusting to blindness and disability. Connecting this group of people with cool blind and disabled people. Exposing them to new ways of thinking about disability.
Since this conversation I’ve already been doing a lot more thinking about creating a documentary. I believe it’s something I could really do!
I’ll have to add that to my bucket list.
You can check out Day’s bucket list with over 150 items. Plus so much more about policy, writing and more.
Day:
My websites:
DayInWashington or DayAlMohamed.com
If you ran a search on Amazon you can find all my books and writings.
I still have a lot of fun on Twitter That’s my name @DayAlMohamed
TR:
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