Molly Burke

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1,048 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 21 Dec

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike · She Doesn't Want To Cure Her Blindness | Molly Burke · 12 Oct 2025 podcast

And when I started in 2014, there wasn't like a huge disability community online the way there is now.

But I was like, why not?

Why isn't there?

And at the time I had been touring as a full-time motivational speaker from 18 to 20, I toured to stadiums of 20,000 people, sharing my story alongside A-list celebrities and famous world change makers like Malala and Richard Branson.

And that was on the outside, a very glamorous experience on the inside, a very toxic one, which is another big thing that I get into in the book.

And I believe I was set up to accept that toxic behavior because of my childhood and the toxic behavior I had accepted for so long.

So I'd already been sharing my story publicly, but after two years I had a workplace accident.

I walked off a five foot stage and,

Full speed ahead, blind girl moment, severely injured my neck, had a reemergence of CPTSD, really struggled, quit my job and moved back into the dreaded suburbs from the big city with my parents.

And I was like, I'm 20 years old, I've peaked, everything's downhill from here.

And I just looked and I was like, what am I gonna do with my life?

And I knew I was still passionate about sharing my story and raising awareness.

I knew I was still passionate about entertainment.

I loved social media as a viewer ever since I discovered it at 14 when I no longer had friends in real life.

The girls I watched online felt like my friends.

So I already had all of these kind of intersectionalities going on and I was like,

maybe it's my time to just start posting.

And posting really allowed me to share more of myself than being on stage did.

People are never going to book me to do a makeup tutorial on stage, but I still think it's important to show people how I do my makeup because I get asked every day.

So I just started and 11 years later, here we are.

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