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Four months later I was back up on a snowboard, although things didn’t go quite as expected:

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and at one point I traumatized all the skiers on the chair lift – when I fell and my legs, still attached to my snowboard – went

– and I was on top of the moutain still.

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I was so shocked, I was just as shocked as everybody else, and I was so discouraged, but

,that I would be able to do this again.

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And this is when I learned that

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one, stop us in our tracks or two,

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I did a year of research, still couldn’t figure out what kind of legs to use, couldn’t find any resources that could help me.

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and I put random parts together and we made a pair of feet that I could snowboard in.

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And yes, I can change my toe nail polish

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It was these legs and the best 21st birthday gift I could ever recive - a new kidney from my dad – that allowed me to

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I started snowboarding,

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Then in 2005 I co-founded a non-profit organization for

with physical disablilities so they could get involved with action sports.

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where I helped to put shoes on thousands of children’s feet so they could attent school.

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And just this past February, I won two back to back

–which made me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world.

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But if you ask me today, if I would ever want to change my situation,

Because my legs haven’t disabled me, if anything, they’ve enabled me.

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, and that’s why I believe that our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through borders

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it’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives

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And although today is about innovation without borders, I have to say that in my life, innovation has only been possible

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I’ve learned that borders are where the actual ends but also

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So the thought that I’d like to challenge you with today is that maybe instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something negative or bad,

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, magnificent gifts that can be used to

and help us go further than we ever knew we could go.

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it’s not about beaking down borders.
It’s about pushing off of them and seeing what amazing places

Thank you.