Ryan Rae Harbuck, WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A CHAIR: A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Zibby speaks to teacher, swim coach, and writer Ryan Rae Harbuck about When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Chair, a raw, humorous, and profound new memoir about her paralyzing car accident in her teens and the decision to live a life of courage, ambition, and adventure after it. Ryan shares the gut-wrenching details of her accident–the school dance and midnight bowling, the crash on the highway, the spinal cord injuries and broken bones, the loss of her boyfriend, the disintegration of her family, and a new life in a wheelchair. Finally, she explains how swimming, teaching, coaching, and paralympic competitions changed her life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
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| 0:58.4 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Ryan Ray Harbuck is the author of When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Chair, a Memoir. |
| 1:03.7 | A paralyzing car accident in her teens left Ryan with a new life to build. |
| 1:08.2 | Rarely looking back, she became a swim coach and a high school teacher. She traveled to India for experimental stem cell treatment and fought hard to make the Paralympic swim team. She even became a mom. With so many stories to tell and lessons to learn, Ryan did the only thing she could. She wrote a book. Welcome, Ryan. Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss when I grow up. |
| 1:27.9 | I want to be a chair, a memoir. Thank you so much, Zibby. I am actually less nervous than I thought |
| 1:33.5 | I would be, but I'm very like giddy feeling about being here. Yeah, I will say that I am a little |
| 1:41.3 | sick this morning because moms also don't have time to be sick, so bear with |
| 1:46.2 | that a little bit. I am, I will bear with anything. No worries at all. I have a jackhammer outside |
| 1:51.7 | my office. Everything's been delayed all day. You know, it's been one of those, one of those days, |
| 1:57.3 | but I'm delighted to finally be talking to you. Your book, your story is so |
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