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Amy Purdy Speaker

Amy Purdy

    • 3x Paralympic Medalist & Co-Founder of Adaptive Action Sports
    • NY Times Best-Selling Author of On My Own Two Feet
    • Competed on Dancing with the Stars & The Amazing Race
    • A testament to the resilience of the human spirit
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In Person-Fee 🛈

$50,000 - $100,000

Virtual Fee:

$20,000 - $30,000

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Colorado

Amy Purdy 2025 Speaker Reel

Amy Purdy 2025 Speaker Reel

How to Live Beyond Your Limits And Achieve Your Dreams | Amy Purdy | Inspiring Women of Goalcast

How to Live Beyond Your Limits And Achieve Your Dreams | Amy Purdy | Inspiring Women of Goalcast

Snowboarding UPHILL with the real life Wonderwoman

Snowboarding UPHILL with the real life Wonderwoman

Living Beyond Limits

Living Beyond Limits

Amy Purdy Speaker Biography


Amy Purdy grew up with a deep-rooted sense that her life would have a purpose that would have an impact on others but she never knew what was waiting for her around the corner.

At the age of 19, after experiencing flu-like symptoms, she was rushed to the hospital in a state of septic shock. En route to the hospital, Amy experienced respiratory and multiple organ failure which caused Amy to lose circulation to her extremities. When entered into the hospital she was given less than a 2% chance of survival, put on life support and into a coma. After multiple blood transfusions, the removal of her ruptured spleen doctors diagnosed Amy with Meningococcal Meningitis, a vaccine preventable bacterial infection. Due to the lack of circulation she had suffered at the beginning of her ordeal, doctors had to amputate her legs below the knee. She also received a donated kidney from her father a week before her 21st birthday.

After going through this life-altering experience, Amy challenged herself to move on with her life and attain goals that even people who have both legs struggle to achieve. Just 3 months after her kidney transplant, Amy entered the USASA national snowboarding competition where she won medals in three events. She went on to be the first double leg amputee competitive snowboarder and in February 2011 when she won two back to back world cup snowboard competitions, currently making her the top ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world. Amy’s creativity, positive outlook and her never give up attitude has opened doors to many other opportunities for her including a feature in a Madonna music video, a lead actress in an award winning independent film and multiple creative modeling projects including a recent photo shoot with musician and artist Nikki Sixx where her legs are custom made from steel to look like ice picks. The image was recently published in his new book “This is Gonna Hurt”. Amy is a spokesperson for multiple charitable organizations and companies including the Challenge Athletes Foundation, Flora Health and the pharmaceutical company that makes the Meningitis Vaccination Senofi Pasteur. She is also an inspirational speaker and an advocate for Element Skateboards and Element Eden where she has her own signature denim and is currently collaborating on a line of clothing based around wellness, movement and style.

Amy Purdy's story and images have been featured in numerous national and international publications including features in Women’s Health Magazine and an award winning feature in Muscle and Fitness ‘Hers’. Amy was also recently featured on Last Call with Carson Daly and was a feature on the 2010 CNN Breakthrough Women Series.

Although Amy Purdy has many accomplishments, her most significant to date is in the creation and development of the action sport organization; Adaptive Action Sports. In 2005 Amy and her partner Daniel Gale founded the non-profit organization to help youth, young adults and wounded vets with permanent disabilities get involved with action sports including snowboarding, skateboarding, moto x and all action sports. AAS is partnered with ESPN and runs “adaptive” action sport competitions at the summer and winter ESPN X Games. AAS is currently working hard to get snowboarding into the 2014 Paralympic Games. Amy believes that action sports build independence and self-confidence in individuals of all abilities and has played a significant role in the action sport movement within the disabled community. Amy plans to continue challenging herself with her athletic and artistic passions while helping others do the same.

Living Beyond Limits

Be prepared to laugh, cry and stand up and cheer while listening to Amy deliver her keynote address, Living Beyond Limits.  A veteran of the stage who has shared her story around the world, Purdy recounts a sudden, near-death experience that resulted in the loss of her legs, and the extraordinary journey she has been on ever since.  A self-proclaimed ‘Fembot’, Purdy has toured with Oprah Winfrey, danced in front of millions, and been featured in a Superbowl commercial among countless other adventures.  An expert in creativity and problem solving, Purdy empowers her audiences to believe that indeed anything is possible.  She challenges everyone to see obstacles as opportunities all while sharing her mantra that Inspiration is Contagious.

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