Inspire-Ability

#27 Emma Henderson - Behind the Bulletproof Door

Aerobility Season 2 Episode 3

In the third offering from our conversation with Captain Emma Henderson, she expands on our previous episode’s ‘capacity bucket’ theory, and discusses the importance of accepting help when it is offered. 


Having suffered from demyelinating neuropathies and being told she may spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair, Emma describes how she was “lucky to survive”, and yet felt a need to keep flying up until the point her ailments proved debilitating, in order not to “let the side down”.  In an open and frank conversation, Emma opens up to Harriett about how she then failed “Command Course 1” by leaping back into the process too soon, and how she has since responded to these setbacks and her “second chance at life” by reevaluating her acceptance of support, and how she now approaches challenges in her many roles as a public speaker and charity CEO.


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