Name: 【TEDx】The art of making impossible, possible: Ingrid Vanderveldt at TEDxFiDiWomen
Uploaded: 2014-05-31T04:13:58.000Z
Duration: 19 min 45 s
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Okay, so before I get into my presentation,

what I'm really curious about, given that this is TEDx for Women:

How many women out there think that women are key to our global sustainable future?

I do too! That's pretty much everybody in the room!

For many, many years, I've built and sold a number of companies,

and as they've mentioned I hosted a show at CNBC,

and I've been fortunate to do a number of different things

in my life and in my career that have been a lot of fun for me.

"Ingrid, how do you make the impossible possible,

And I've never felt like I really had a good answer

because I thought, well, you just kind of do it.

And after years of really kind of doing it,

there really is an art and a science to it --

an art and a science to making the impossible possible.

Today, we're going to talk about the art,

because I dare to say, that the science piece,

which I'd love to talk about at some point as well,

without the art, it really is almost impossible

And the reason that this is important now,

is because the last company that I built and sold last summer,

And when I was doing this company, last fall,

"Universe, what is it that I need to do next?

"Ingrid, everything that you've been doing in your life to date

has been leading up to where you're going to go now."

We need to create a global sustainable future.

And the only way to do this is through a new set of eyes,

And what you're called to do is to do everything in your power

So, I knew that everything that I was doing then,

from that point forward -- and that was just a year ago --

my business, my policy, my TV initiatives,

everything needed to line up towards this vision.

But the other thing was, I realized that,

well, that's great, that the things I'm involved in

But what happens if I'm not actually doing my part to share my story,

who are exactly like me and I'm exactly like them,

and help them understand the power of possibility, the power of belief,

and the power of turning the impossible into the possible.

So, I want to share with you three things today,

and the first one talks about: The Power of Belief.

it was really interesting because the principal called my parents up,

And they said, "Hans and Joan," my parents' names,

at that time the language they used, I was failing out of school.

And they said, "Your daughter is not only learning disabled,

-- is the language they used. I was retarded.

And my parents, thank God for my parents,

didn't believe what they said -- thank you dear God.

you know, nothing's going right, we can't do anything with her,

we absolutely don't know what to do with your daughter."

Well, thank God for my blessed parents who said, "We do not believe you.

And we believe that there's something else going on here,

that if we invest a little bit of time and effort,

and maybe we can actually turn this little girl around."

which was many, many miles away from our home.

And they somehow got me to go over into this special school.

So, the school I was in had four classrooms [each] in one big room,

This classroom, or this school, had one classroom per room. Okay.

It was many, many miles away from our house,

and my parents went back to the principal and the school board and said,

"Hey, our daughter, we've gotten her over into this school

she lives far enough away from this school to deserve busing to get to the school."

And the principal and the school board said,

She's the only one from this area that's being sent over to that school.

And my parents were thinking, well, how are they going to do it.

Because my dad was working, my mom's taking care of all of the kids.

They found a loophole in this whatever the laws were, whatever,

and they said, "No, she deserves busing."

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