Amy Purdy
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Podcast Appearances
It's pretty surreal.
It's really, really surreal because she was my inspiration.
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Going through everything that I went through with losing my legs and we'll get into โ
That a bit too, but just losing my legs and everything I went through.
I mean, I spent a lot of down days recovering and watching Oprah and the people that she had on the show.
And, you know, you think, oh my gosh, if those people can get through what they went through, I can get through what I'm going through.
And then to be sharing the stage with her and actually that the fact that Oprah knows who I am.
Has, you know, says my name and knows who I am.
I mean, I just feel, um, it's so surreal and she's just incredible.
I mean, you know, she's just a very real human down to earth person, which I love even more.
Yeah.
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Exciting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I, which I have to back up real fast.
You said I was a snowboarder in Vegas and people question that often, but I grew up skiing in Vegas because there's ski resorts outside of Vegas and my family skied.
And then I fell in love with snowboarding when I was 15 and just knew that it would be a part of my life forever.
And I actually โ it kind of shaped what I did after high school.