29. Amy Purdy lost both her legs and became a 3x Paralympic medalist

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Amy Purdy chose to be here. After losing both her legs below the knee at 19 to a form of bacterial meningitis, doctors gave her a 2% chance of survival. A year later she finished third in a snowboarding competition on Mammoth mountain. Amy went on to become one of the top Paralympic snowboarders in the world, competing on Dancing with the Stars, touring with Oprah Winfrey, starting a foundation, and writing a New York Times best-selling book. But after another life-threatening setback, Amy once again found herself knocking down doors to get the help she needed and in doing so, has inspired people everywhere to push through obstacles and make dreams happen.

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0:54.4	everything secure. Welcome to All the Wiser. I'm Kimmy Kulfe. All the Wiser is a one-for-one
1:01.6	podcast. For every inspiring interview you hear, we donate $2,000 to charities around the world.
1:09.2	I believe in the power of storytelling to inspire us all to think
1:13.0	differently about the world around us. So I've combed the country for some of the most jaw-dropping
1:19.8	stories you have ever heard, people who have been to the brink and back, stories of survival
1:25.6	against all odds, and whose lives have been changed in unthinkable ways.
1:32.3	Today's interview is with Amy Purdy.
1:35.4	I actually connected with Amy over a decade ago when I was working as a producer for Oprah.
1:42.4	We spoke for about an hour on the phone, and it was one of those
1:46.1	conversations that always stuck with me. I always had this vision of reconnecting with Amy at some
1:52.1	point and playing a part and sharing her story. A few weeks ago, I got to do just that, and now I get to
1:59.9	share it with you. After college, Amy was working as a massage
2:04.0	therapist in Las Vegas when she came down with a rare form of meningitis. The illness ravaged her
2:11.4	body, leaving her in a coma where she had a near-death experience, and walking out of the hospital,
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