Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Monday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

That's kind of one of the reasons I'm here today is that I didn't get to do a lot of

traveling prior to this accident of mine, but afterwards I had some opportunities to do so,

and I found a huge passion for it and a way to open up my life.

Unless we are challenged to grow and shift our perspectives, we will forever live small

stories and as humans, we were never meant to live small stories.

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Jessica J.R. Owen.

Welcome, Jessica.

Thank you.

Jessica, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

Yep, I really am.

All righty. Jessica J.R. Owen, Jesse, is an adventurous, spirited, silly person whose path was dramatically interrupted

in 2012 when a tree fell on her family car while on a family vacation.

As a result, she lost both her parents and became a quadriplegic at the C3-C-4 level.

After the accident, Jesse began the long journey to figure out how to do life where she fit in again.

For the first two years, she focused solely on her body and regaining as much function as she could,

but she wanted more than simply being alive.

She wanted to be more than just a broken vessel and constant need of maintenance.

She wanted a life and set out to create one.

Well, Jesse, that's a summary of your amazing journey.

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