Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Today on the podcast I'm bringing you perhaps the most remarkable, inspirational, resilient force of a human being that I've ever had the pleasure to call my friend Amy Purdy.

Now if you don't know who Amy Purdy is, I mean I don't even know where to begin because she is many many things.

She's a New York Times best selling author, she's one of the most in-demand speakers in the world.

And she's a three-time Paralympic medalist

and a total trailblazer in Paralympic snowboarding.

And when Amy was 19 years old,

she contracted bacterial meningitis,

and both of her legs were amputated below the knee. She lost her kidney, she lost her hearing in one ear, and

her spleen, and doctors gave her just a 2% chance of survival. And I discovered Amy, you'll hear in our conversation. of

a lot of the

and I discovered Amy you'll hear in our conversation via the Oprah Winfrey Super Soul sessions podcast years ago.

And I've been blessed to meet and know Amy and call her my friend in real life in recent years.

And this conversation is just such a blessing.

Amy's so generous in explaining how she lives without limits, in sharing a deeply mystical

experience that happened before she contracted meningitis, and in sharing what really keeps her going and motivated and how she manages her mind in the most incredible

and efficient way possible to allow her to continue to forge ahead no matter what happens in life and friends.

We know that life is full of unpredictability.

There is stress, there are challenges, there are suffering. and whenever I even need a source of inner

strength I think of Amy and I think of what it is that she's already

accomplished in her life and what she continues to accomplish,

even though life continues to throw challenges her way.

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