"Disability Is Not A Bad Word!" Blind Influencer Molly Burke on Fighting Ableism with Self-Acceptance, Reality Checks, & Education

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Real Pod, Victoria sits down with Molly Burke a blind YouTube personality and motivational speaker. She shares her journey from public speaking at 5 years old to creating a YouTube channel with over 1.9M subscribers. Molly gets real about her mental health journey, burnout at a dream job, and the truth about ableism in our culture. (It's shocking, there's a lot you probably haven't even realized!) This episode is one for the books and an absolute must-listen!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.6	Do you want to start a company but have no idea where to begin?
0:06.4	Or do you have dreams of becoming an influencer?
0:08.9	Well the life with Mariana podcast is here to help.
0:11.6	I'm Mariana Hewitt, a Los Angeles-based influencer and co-founder of the Clean Skin
0:16.0	Caroline summer Fridays.
0:17.8	Each Tuesday I'm talking to my friends from business owners,
0:20.4	wellness experts and more to share all of their best advice for you to live your best life.
0:25.2	Make sure to tune in and subscribe to my podcast
0:27.7	and follow me on Instagram at Mariana-UnderScore Hewitt to see what's coming up each week so you don't miss an episode.
0:36.0	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host Victoria Garrick and this is the podcast where we hold nothing
0:41.6	back. Oh so we're getting deep huh?
0:44.4	I've really cried for 12 days straight.
0:46.8	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:50.2	Every week I'll bring you honest, unfiltered and eye-opening conversations to help uncover
0:55.5	the real in all of us. I crave the type of content that you're talking about.
0:59.2	I actually felt insecure. Oh my god am I gonna cry?
1:02.3	Let me just unload everything.
1:05.0	New episodes every Wednesday leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
1:10.7	Wow wow wow are you in for a good one today because Molly Burke is just brilliant.
1:32.5	She is wickedly smart, extremely passionate and even though she's not trying to and she'll say
1:40.0	she's not here to do this, she was inspiring. Some of you might know Molly through social media.
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