Imagine being at the top of your game in the best shape of your life both physically and mentally,

you are on fire.

And then, boom!

It ends in the time it takes your heart to beat once.

Today's guest was an elite ski racer who was poised to represent her country in the Olympics.

While out for a bike ride one day, it all ended with gut wrenching finality.

For ten days she was hovering between life and death.

For six months she struggled in rehab, being told she would never walk again in wondering

if it was all worth it.

She could have given up, but instead she defied the odds.

Because fire nation, Janine the machine shepherd is defiant.

Janine what does it mean to be defiant?

Well I think I was born defiant.

I think we all are and I like to tell people that the defiant human spirit is not something

that you have.

It's something that you are.

You know I say we have this light inside of us, our pilot light that's always burning.

And we often, you know, spot it in someone else and we think that they have it, but we

don't.

But, you know, if you spot it, you got it.

We've all got it.

We're all the defiant human spirit.

...