This is the Ed Milach show.

All right, welcome back to the show everybody. I have a remarkable soul to share with all of you today.

And I've been following this woman's journey for a long time. We were just talking about so many mutual friends.

There's so many things you could say when you introduced her. I mean, she's really the all time I think most decorated.

Adaptive snowboarder of all time. She's an unbelievable speaker. Oprah Winfrey calls her basically the most inspirational person on the planet.

She's toward with Oprah Winfrey. She's the best selling book of on my own two feet. She's got an unbelievable podcast.

And oh, by the way, when she was 19 years old, she lost both of her legs from below her knees. And so there's a lot of time. Oh, I'll shoot a one dancing with the stars with my boy Derek.

That was a robbery, but she was runner up there. So Amy, pretty welcome to the show today. Thanks for being here.

Thank you so much, Ed. You're fantastic. I'm so excited to be here. That just got me so excited. Just, you know, you having a personal, I don't know connection to my story.

And it means a lot to me, so. Well, how can someone not an unbelievable story? I interviewed a young man that actually I his wife, his wife, his young man's wife, his mother went to high school with me.

And he had lost his legs at about three years old. His name's Cody Macastlin. And do you know who Cody is by any.

I know who Cody is. I've never met him, but I know who he is.

Okay. And I thought what a difficult thing at that age, but 19. Yeah. I mean, that's a life change. So it's tell us the story a little bit, because for my audience, they'll know some of them will know, but a lot of them won't.

It had some do with some form of meningitis at 19, correct? So take us through that.

Yeah. I mean, so first of all, I was very healthy. I grew up working out health and nutrition was always something that was just very important to me.

And so when I got sick, it definitely blindsided me. And I was a massage therapist. My whole plan was to travel the world.

I wanted a snowboard. I had this job that would travel with me. I went to massage school. I ended up going back to Vegas where I grew up to work.

I was the youngest massage therapist at this huge world class spa. I just I loved my life. And I was just stepping into the world.

And then suddenly it took a detour when I felt sick one day. So I thought I just had the flu. And when I was at work, I my neck was a little bit achy. My back was achy.

I actually had just massage to this guy who I felt was just draining my energy, because you know, sometimes people can just suck the life out of you.

So I really didn't think I was sick at first. I just thought, God, this guy's energy. This guy is just draining me. What is going on? But really over the next hour. So I realized that my back was achy. My neck was achy. I just wasn't feeling that great.

And so that night I had a temperature of 101. That's typical flu-like symptoms. Next morning, my temperature broke. So seeing that I felt better, my family went out of town. And I told them, I'll just meet up with you guys a little bit later. But that afternoon, instead of feeling better, I started to feel worse.

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