Today’s guest is a special repeat offender to life uncut! She first joined the podcast back in 2021 and has also been a special guest at 2 of our live shows. There are only a few people that we refer to with the description of ‘human sunshine’ but Em Carey is absolutely one of them! You can listen to Em’s episode from 2021 here.

Em Carey is a survivor of a 2013 skydiving accident in Switzerland, which resulted in a paraplegic spinal cord injury, leaving her with no feeling from the waist down. She is now a bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, a keynote speaker, an artist and potentially a future marathon athlete!

A lot has happened in Em’s life since we last spoke publicly. Some of what Em has been up to has been shared on social media but a lot of it hasn’t. Em has, in her own words, clocked off from social media in the last two years and so today we wanted to speak with her about why she decided to enter herself into the New York Marathon, an uncommon form of parental estrangement, dating with a disability and finding an identity outside of being the girl who fell from the sky. 

In today’s episode we speak about:

• Why Em feels so detached from being the ‘girl who fell from the sky’
• The guy who dumped Em ‘because she had a disability’
• Em’s dad cutting her off the same week that her book came out
• Struggling with strangers loving and admiring her when her own parent didn’t want anything to do with her
• Most estrangement is adult child cutting off parent, but Em’s situation is the reverse
• Why Em lost her confidence and turned away from public life
• Why she chose to attempt a marathon when she can’t physically run
• Em’s ambitious goal of raising $100k for
• “Who” Em is now in her 30s and her identity feeling different

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