Molly Burke: What People Get Wrong About Blindness (and Accessibility)
Post Run High
iHeartPodcasts
1.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
What does society get wrong about blindness—and how does accessibility actually affect everyone?
In this episode of Post Run High, creator, author, and speaker Molly Burke breaks down the real barriers blind people face, why disability is a design problem (not a personal one), and how small shifts in mindset and environment create massive change. Molly shares the resilience practices that helped her rebuild her life after losing most of her sight at 14, plus lessons on movement, wellness, confidence, and advocating for yourself in an inaccessible world.
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| 0:00.0 | The hardest parts of my life aren't that I can't see. |
| 0:02.5 | The hardest parts of my life are society's attitude and the inaccessibility I face. |
| 0:08.9 | My blindness isn't a negative bad thing about me. |
| 0:11.1 | It's a part of what makes Molly Molly. |
| 0:12.6 | And there's nothing negative about it. |
| 0:14.7 | At 14 is when I lost the majority of my vision. |
| 0:17.2 | I definitely hit rock bottom. |
| 0:18.5 | If you change nothing in your life, nothing's going to change. |
| 0:20.8 | I can't be a |
| 0:22.2 | passenger in recovery and expect to get better. I'm going to try to take my pain and turn it into |
| 0:29.5 | purpose. I started getting really into health and wellness practices, eating food that actually |
| 0:35.0 | fueled my mental and physical well-being, and all of that, |
| 0:38.7 | over many years combined, helped me rebuild and find new direction that felt worth living for. |
| 0:45.1 | Hope is one of the most powerful things we have, because sometimes that is all you have. |
| 1:01.2 | We've a great episode coming up today with Molly Burke, a creator, author, and a speaker who also happens to be blind. |
| 1:04.5 | We'll be right back with our conversation after this short break. |
| 1:10.9 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 1:15.8 | What is up, guys? |
| 1:17.4 | Welcome back to post-run high. |
| 1:20.1 | Today's guest is Molly Burke. |
| 1:22.1 | She is a creator, an author, a speaker who has built a massive community by talking honestly about identity, confidence, |
| 1:30.0 | and accessibility. Molly is someone who has shown the power of positive thinking and what happens |
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