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The podcast discusses how adversity can actually bring out hidden talents and lead to personal growth. It shares the stories of Amy Mullins, who overcame physical challenges to become a successful athlete, and William Cranquamba, who built a windmill to help his community in Malawi. Both faced difficulties but used them as opportunities to shine and inspire others. The message is to embrace challenges and turn them into strengths. Hello, and welcome back to your favorite empowerment podcast, Differences Makes Us Better. In today's episode, I am going to talk about a situation that impacts us all, even though we don't think it does. Nowadays, adversity is seen as something negative or very limiting, but the reality is that adversity has the effect of enlisting talents that, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Some examples of these situations can be the stories from Amy Mullins and William Cranquamba, both from very different panoramas, but have the purpose of praising the benefits during and after adversity. From Amy's story, let's start by talking about her life. At a very young age, she had half of her leg amputated and had to face a lot of surgeries. When she recovered from these, doctors gave her a wooden prosthesis, which made her life impossible. Her dad was so ashamed of her condition that he prohibited her from wearing dresses. At this time, she realized how fast she was, and by the time she was in college, she worked with many people to obtain the perfect prosthesis that allowed her to do athletics. She started to be recognized worldwide, making it a big accomplishment in her life. But also during this time, she faced issues like the one from an old teammate who made inappropriate comments about her just to make her feel bad. This confounded her, but fortunately, he didn't achieve his goals and made her even more powerful and persistent. And situations like these made her to be able to use her adversity to her biggest strength. In the story from William, it starts with a young boy living in the African country of Malawi, in which he and his family had to face a lot of financial, educational, and food problems due to drought and governmental issues that generated discord and more problems to their family. This was like the bane of his life since he could remember. One day, he was at the school library, and he saw a book that had a windmill, which gave him the idea to create one to help his family and the community to face this problem. Then, he convinced multiple people to help him create the windmill. At first, everybody thought that he was crazy, but after using bicycle parts and many other elements, he was able to prove everybody wrong and help his family. His story was also recognized globally, making others to do the same and wanting people to help him to fulfill his dream, which is constructing many more to help his country. As we can see, both of these people had to face a lot of adversities, but with help, time, perseverance, confidence, and positivism were able to transform these adversities into talents that made them shine and make things for their own benefit and the benefit of others, inspiring people around the world. Now, let's stop thinking we can't achieve things. If people like them, you can also do it. So, get up, face your challenges, and use them as your biggest strength. Until next time!