Deni Elliott- "Catching Sight."
From The He's Just Podcasts by Jules Douge
June 5, 2026 · 57 min · Season 12 · Episode 5
About this episode
Deni Elliott shares her journey of losing her sight and learning to trust again through her partnership with a guide dog named Alberta.
Deni Elliott spent much of her life proving she could do everything on her own, until losing her sight forced her to rethink what independence really means. In her new book, Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself (co-authored with veteran guide dog instructor Graham Buck), Elliott tells the deeply personal story of learning to trust again, this time with a yellow Labrador named Alberta. What begins as guide dog training becomes a life-changing partnership that reshapes her identity, her confidence, and her understanding of strength. Catching Sight reveals the extraordinary communication, shared leadership, and emotional courage behind every successful guide-dog team. At its heart, this is a story about love, loss, resilience, and discovering that needing help is not weakness, but wisdom. Deni Elliott is Project Co-Director of the National Ethics Project, a professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, and a nationally recognized expert in media ethics and disability. But in Catching Sight , her most powerful credential is this: she learned how to let herself be guided and, in doing so, finally learned how to see herself.
People in this episode
Host: Jules Douge
Guest: Deni Elliott
Topics covered
- independence
- guide dogs
- resilience
- identity
- trust
- disability
Keywords
- guide dog
- independence
- resilience
- Catching Sight
- Deni Elliott
- trust
- disability
- identity
- emotional courage
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: National Ethics Project, University of South Florida
Books & works: Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself
Places: Alberta
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