"A broken body isn't a broken person" is a famous talk at TEDx Kansas City by Janine Shepherd. She narrates her personal experience as to how she overcame her physical disabilities to become a commercial pilot.

1. “A Broken Body
Isn’t a Broken
Person”
Janine Shepherd

2. One of the Most
Inspirational
TED TALKS

3. About the Speaker
• Janine Lee Shepherd, is
an Australian pilot and
former cross-country
skier
• Has written 5 books
about her experiences
• Her talk at TEDx
received over 1 million
views

4. The Story….
Janine Shepherd, as a cross-
country skier and member
of the Australian Ski Team
was headed towards the
Winter Olympics.

5. As a part of her
training regime, she
went Cycling on the
Blue Mountains, West
of Sydney.

6. While Cycling, she
meets a horrible
accident and incur life
threatening injuries. 5
Broken Ribs and a
massive Blood loss.
Blood pressure was 40
over nothing.

7. Although she escaped
death, but she got
confined to a Wheelchair.
She was paralyzed from
the waist down.
“The Body was Broken”

8. Doctors told her that
she’ll have internal
injuries for the rest of
her life and if she ever
manage to walk again
it will be Clippers & a
Walking Frame.

9. However, instead of getting depressed, she thought:
“If I cannot walk, I will FLY”

10. She decided to be to be a
Pilot and started training
rigorously for it.

11. Within an year, she
gained Commercial
Pilot License
and became a
trained Aerobatics
flying instructor.

12. • She became the first
female director of Civil
Aviation Safety
Authority, Australia
• Torchbearer for 2000
Summer Paralympics
at Sydney
• Received ‘Outstanding
Person of the World
Award’ in 1998
What she is today..

13. The Message
Your Body might be limited, but
your Spirit should be
Unstoppable.

14. The Message
The only disability in life is
Bad Attitude.

15. The Message
Fear is the biggest disability
in life and will paralyze you
more than you being in a
Wheelchair.

16. The Message
“I know that I am not my
body and I also know that
you’re not yours.”
Janine Shepherd

17. Some other examples Oscar Pistorius
The first amputee to
win an able-bodied
world track medal at
2011 World
Championship

18. Stephen Hawking
One of the world’s
most renowned
scientist has a
motor neuron
disease.

19. Mark Wellman
Inspite of being
paralyzed, he is an
accomplished
mountain climber.

21. Live

22. Laugh

23. Play

24. … because a Broken Body isn’t a Broken Person !!

25. THANK YOU !!

26. Please watch this video at the following URL:
https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_shepherd_a_broken_body_isn_t_a_broken
_person?language=en

27. These slides have been created by Akshat Goenka,
IIM Lucknow, as part of a MBA course
"Personal Branding" (www.MBASkills.IN)
taught by Prof. Sameer Mathur.

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