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Amy Palmiero-Winters, Overcoming Challenges as an Amputee Athlete and Mother Amy Palmiero-Winters shares her inspiring journey from a life-altering accident to becoming a motivational figure, emphasizing that life’s challenges are her training ground.
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My name is Amy Palmera-Winters and the most important thing I want everybody to
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know about me is that I'm a mother. I have two children and we all face
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obstacles and when you have something happen to you like what happened to me I
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was just out for a ride on my motorcycle and a car happened to pull out in front
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of me and when it did it crushed my left foot and as a result I ended up losing
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my leg below the knee. So my training is really just getting through life. It's
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getting through life because a hundred miles on the treadmill is life. It's life
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You are gonna have highs, you're gonna have lows, you are gonna want to run as
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fast as you can, you are gonna want to stop and that's what life is. So for me
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I'm not your normal athlete. I don't train how someone would typically train
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for an event like this. I live my life. My life is my training. I guess I would have
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to say it's like a dream come true and so by sitting here and doing this I
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hope other people understand that you can be just as great. You just have to
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