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How to be a better caregiver for cancer patients | Josh Bedingfield | TEDxUTAustin
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-08 15:25
I need you right now. Me for what. My big sister needed me.I was 17 and she was 20. You know, Katie told me she needed me when she had brain cancer. About a year into her diagnosis, my brother and I were headed out the door to get ice cream.When she asked to go, I said yes, but this wasn't my best day as a caregiver. I slipped and I was tired and showed on my face that I was reluctant to bring her. In that moment, uh, I was balancing supporting my terminally ill sister and my own youth mental health.You kno ...
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Anthony Pompliano 🌪· 2025-08-05 22:48
Wow.America's favorite DOGE employee, known as Big Balls, recently saw a bunch of guys harassing and assaulting a woman at night.Rather than ignore the situation or walk away, he tried to help the woman and stop the attack.The guys turned and beat up Big Balls.But you want to know who is working at DOGE? You want to know who is working hard to improve our country? You want to know who is sacrificing their time to work in the government?The same young man who is willing to put himself in physical danger to p ...
Governance with Grit: Transforming Lucknow One Bold Step at a Time | Inderjit Singh | TEDxLucknow
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-04 16:58
[संगीत] मैं इससे स्टार्ट करता हूं कि कल जब लास्ट में ऑफिस से फ्री हुए तो मैं सोच रहा था कि पहले यहां जाना है कि नहीं जाना है। क्योंकि मैंने जब कल पूरा देखा उसमें जितने अगस्त लोग थे उसमें और फिर मैंने उसमें सोचना शुरू किया कि उसमें बहुत सारे स्टूडेंट्स आएंगे जो हमारे ऑडियंस होंगे तो मुझे लगा कि यस चलते हैं जो हमारी सर्विस जिसमें मैं हूं इंडियन एडमिनिस्ट्रेशन सर्विस जो उसका वैल्यू सिस्टम है जिसके लिए वो बनी है जो मैंने अपना 9 साल के करियर में अभी एक्सपीरियंस किया है वो मैं जरूर शेयर करूंगा आपसे और उससे पहले क ...
Le courage commence là où l’on choisit d’avancer malgré tout | Précilia DOSSEH | TEDxGrandBassam
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-30 14:51
Key Themes - The speaker shares her personal journey of living with sickle cell disease (drépanocytose), highlighting the challenges and societal perceptions of failure she faced [1][2][3][4] - The speech emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and embracing one's scars (cicatrices) as part of their story [1][5][6] - The speaker advocates for sickle cell disease awareness and prevention through testing (électrophorèse) and open communication [2][10][11] Societal Impact & Advocacy - The speaker discusses the financial burden of sickle cell disease, estimating monthly expenses of 60,000 francs for patients [2] - The speaker recounts facing employment discrimination due to her condition, emphasizing the need for employer understanding and accommodation [2][3] - The speaker highlights the importance of support systems for individuals and families affected by sickle cell disease, mentioning the establishment of an NGO that has assisted over 200 children [8][9] Personal Achievements & Resilience - Despite academic setbacks, the speaker achieved success in higher education, graduating at the top of her class with a high average score (18 de moyennes) [1][2] - The speaker won second place in a competition (concours M 2.0%) for a project supporting children with sickle cell disease [1] - The speaker uses the metaphor of Japanese pottery repair (Kintsugi) to illustrate the process of rebuilding oneself from broken pieces, transforming scars into something beautiful and valuable [6][7]
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The Wall Street Journal· 2025-07-26 02:33
From @WSJopinion: Courage and character aren’t merely individual aspirations. These traits make America the home of the brave. And as Carl von Clausewitz said some 200 years ago, the future of a country depends on them, writes Mike Singletary. https://t.co/HbRVT8dltZ ...
Your Next Adventure - Start with WHO | Julien Fortuit | TEDxFiesole
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-25 16:33
Okay. Well, hello everyone. Very nice to uh to be here with you tonight.Um I've been introduced as the non cheese guy, so I guess from there I can pretty much do whatever I want. Um, today I wanted to uh to tell you a very personal story that hopefully would inspire quite a quite a few people. And the idea is really to know where to start and we will start here in Paris in L Grand P.We planned to host a high-end event for jewelry with all the top clients. The whole Plaz Vondom was there. It was September 20 ...
Il coraggio non è assenza di paura | Ilenia Curiale | TEDxEnna
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-24 15:05
[Musica] [Applauso] Se io chiedessi a ognuno di voi cos'è la Sicilia per te, cosa mi rispondereste? Io questa domanda me la sono fatta anni fa e mi sono data una risposta perché Sicilia per me sta tutta nelle mani di mia nonna, quelle mani che impastano dolci e che io ammirerei ipnotizzata per ore. Per me l'energia della Sicilia sta tutta lì. Questa è una domanda che io ho fatto alla mia community esattamente 6 mesi dopo aver aperto la mia finestra sul mondo chiamata Ti ci devo portare in Sicilia e le rispo ...
Rowing Upstream:Creating A Path No One Else Can | FAYHA FATHIN PP | TEDxPeacePublicSchoolKottakkal
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-16 16:20
What if I told you that the biggest setback that you might face in life is not failure, but is rowing to somewhere that you really don't want to go to. I want all of you to close your eyes right now and imagine imagine that you're on a boat alone rowing in a stream and you look around and that you see that there's many other people on their own boats. You all are going on a stream.You look underneath and you realize this is a strong current. So you look forward and that's when you understand I am going some ...
Living the Dream | Sabina Iosub | TEDxInternational School of Bucharest
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-15 14:55
Hi everybody. I'm Sabina Yosub and I'm living the dream. I will tell you my story. Please close your eyes. Close them. Imagine that you are alone right now. Just you and your thoughts, your deepest fears, and your biggest dreams. Do you have a dream? The dream. Acknowledge it. Now, be honest with yourself. Will you be able to live it? to actually live it with your eyes wide open. The answer is in you. And maybe maybe right now and right here you are not exactly sure that you will succeed. Maybe you are afra ...
The power of community | Tony Otoa | TEDxEntebbe
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-02 15:58
[Music] My name is Tony Toa and uh I am the co-founder of Ubuntu Leadership Safari. I'm very excited to really, you know, come out here and speak about something that I'm passionate about. Growing up as a kid, I was always that naughty kid.You know, the ones who have the clicks and I do not know how many times I was expelled from the different schools because of the clicks. But there were some good clicks which were businessoriented clicks and there were some which were really naughty clicks. But you see in ...