The Pain You're Avoiding Is the Key to Your Greatness Amy Purdy

Leave an Amazon Rating or Review for my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Check out the full episode: Amy Purdy was 19 when her body started failing all at once. Kidneys. Spleen. Hearing. The medical appointments were endless and the weight of it could have crushed her completely. What she figured out instead: stop carrying all of it at once. One week was just leg week. The next was kidney week. Nothing else existed but that one thing. That simple act of compartmentalization got her through the unsurvivable. She also makes a point that's hard to argue with. Anxiety makes inspiration impossible. You literally cannot picture your future when you're stuck in survival mode. But find one small thing that pulls you through, lean into it, and it grows. Her biggest belief: your challenges don't block your life. They open it. Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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The Pain You're Avoiding Is the Key to Your Greatness Amy Purdy is an episode from The Daily Motivation by Lewis Howes.

This episode is 00:07:45 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2026.

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