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The School of Greatness

The Mindset That Took Her From 2% Survival Odds to the Paralympics | Amy Purdy

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

At 19, Amy Purdy was given less than a 2% chance of living and woke up without her legs. What she built from that moment will change how you think about limitations, loss, and what you're actually capable of.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone back to School Greatest Podcast.

0:02.2

Very excited about our guest today.

0:03.6

Her name is Amy Purdy. Good to see you. Thanks for coming. I appreciate it. Absolutely. I've been trying to get you on for like three years now. I know. We made it happen. Thanks to my persistence and Julianne Huff making the introduction and all these other things. So I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. going on.

0:21.8

And I told you a story just before we started on camera.

0:24.1

Amy Storke. all these other things. So I'm glad you're here. And you've been traveling a lot and you've got a lot going on.

0:24.0

And I told you a story just before we started on camera.

0:26.0

Amy stole $25,000.

0:28.2

He ripped it from my wallet.

0:30.5

She took it from my heart.

0:36.2

And I was, to tell the story, I was, you know, I do speaking just like you do a lot of speaking.

0:38.0

It's part of your business, your brand.

1:14.3

And this conference asked me to speak. And they were like, it's down to you and one other person. And then they didn't give it to me. They gave it. And I was like, who is it? And they were like, Amy Purdy. I was like, ah, it's tough to beat her out. Yeah, yeah, it's all good. Well, that makes me that I'm actually honored to know, well, this sounds bad, but they chose me over you because you're so amazing, though. You know, like it was between the two of us. It's all good. Sorry about that. There's a world of abundance. There's many speedy opportunities. I'm not worried if we missed one each. But, you know, that is kind of funny. You can put a dollar sign on it. Exactly. You still $25,000 for me.

1:11.4

It's all good. I'm not worried if we missed one each. But, you know, that is kind of funny. You can put a dollar sign on it.

1:12.4

Exactly. You stole $25,000 for me.

1:14.4

It's all good. Yeah. One day we'll be speaking on the same stage. Yeah. That would be amazing. Let's do it. We'll make it happen. For those that don't know about your story, you have an incredible story. and I want to dive into it

1:26.5

but Oprah essentially said

1:28.2

you're like the most inspiring person in the world

1:29.9

which is pretty cool

1:31.6

right? I don't know if that's the exact quote, but it's something like that I have done in this summer. She's like the person I look up to, someone you're inspired by for her. Yeah. Which is pretty cool. It's pretty surreal. With all the people that she meets and connects with, you're her inspiration.

1:45.6

You know, it's really, really surreal because she was my inspiration, you know, going through

1:51.4

everything that I went through with losing my legs and, you know, we'll get into that a bit, too,

1:57.7

but just losing my legs and everything I went through.

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