Emily Caruso // Pro Sailor & Empathetic Leader
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Emily Caruso has spent 18 years and counting as a professional sailor, though only first learning about the sport in her late 20s. Growing up in the countryside in England, Emily had an epiphany one day during a weekend sailing excursion and hasn't looked back since. Andy & Emily sat down in person onboard FALKEN in Cape Verde to talk about her career path, what motivates and scares her, leadership, skippering Sir Francis Chichester's legendary GYPSY MOTH IV, working for 59º North, 'deep feeling' and so much more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Emily. |
| 0:01.8 | Hang on. Tilt it more towards you. |
| 0:03.4 | There you go. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, God. |
| 0:04.5 | My name is Emily Caruso. |
| 0:06.6 | And this morning for breakfast, I had three quite weird croissants that were really thick and doughy and weren't that great. |
| 0:14.3 | Lots of fruit that was lovely. |
| 0:15.8 | Yogurt. |
| 0:16.6 | Some weird little pastis things with cheese and ham and stuff. |
| 0:22.7 | Yogurt and coffee. |
| 0:25.3 | Do you often treat yourself to hotels after having done a sailing trip? |
| 0:28.9 | I actually don't. |
| 0:30.0 | This is really unusual for me. |
| 0:31.7 | So it's really nice, really nice. |
| 0:33.1 | And there's air conditioning. |
| 0:34.1 | Did I mention that? |
| 0:34.7 | I'm happy for you. |
| 0:35.4 | You did mention that. |
| 0:36.5 | We got it on Mike now, though. O'hoie shipmates. Welcome back to On the Wind. I'm your host, |
| 0:45.2 | Andy Shell, coming at you live from the salon on Falcon in Mindello, Cape Verde. I got here |
| 0:51.5 | yesterday. We are setting out by By the time you hear this, |
| 0:55.0 | actually, on Tuesday, February 6th, if you listen to this the day it comes out, we will be |
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