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Amy Purdy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1016 total appearances

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

I made it.

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

So I came in second place.

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

Yeah.

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

And that's all I could have asked for.

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

I'm telling you to be able to experience every moment of that show.

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

I feel so blessed.

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

I mean, yeah, of course, you know, you want, we're competitive and you want to, you know, get that close.

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

You want to win, but it wasn't about that.

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

It really wasn't.

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

It was just every week was a discovery trying to figure out how.

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

how do I do this and how do we come up with moves that I can do and that work and that, you know, we didn't want it to look like I had prosthetic legs.

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

I never wanted anyone to say, oh, she's good for a girl with prosthetics.

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

You know, I want to be, if I'm in there competing, I want to be looked at as any other dancer who wants to do well.

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

And so Derek and I did everything we could.

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

We worked our butts off to, you know,

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

to i guess make it as far as we did he's a great choreographer and he's amazing he's amazing i just seriously genius intense too he's like oh yeah he's committed super intense yeah super intense but also hilarious at the same time yeah he's got the funniest personality he's good dude i've got i've had a chance to hang out a few times nice guy yeah

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

Yeah.

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

And that's what was interesting is every week we created something and had different feats and it came out of necessity.

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

I didn't use the feet just because they were cool.

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

You know, one,