Amy Purdy

And, um, I remember I loved Ted leading up to it.

And so when I was asked, I remember I cried when I opened this email and I said, Oh my God, I've been invited to speak at Ted.

And I had only spoke at very few places before that, but somehow,

The flyer for one of my speeches ended up on one of the TED organizers' desks.

And from that flyer, I was invited to speak.

Amazing.

And I was given about three months.

I worked harder than I've ever worked in my life.

Because I thought, you know, how do you – I was 30.

So how do you round 30 years into an eight-minute talk?

Yeah.

Yeah, there's so many.

I mean, my talk started out –

like an hour and a half long.

But then something that helped me is the theme.

So it's always, I don't know about you, but it's always easier for me if a company or a group says, okay, our theme is living beyond limitations or our theme is passion or I can wrap my head around that.

But when people come and say, okay,

We just want to hear your story.

That's a little bit harder for me.

It's so general.