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What losing everything taught me about resilience

Jane Marie Chen · TED

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About

Entrepreneur and TED Fellow Jane Marie Chen started a company that created a low-cost, portable incubator for premature babies in underserved communities, with the goal of saving more than one million babies around the world. After a decade of relentless challenges, the company shut down — pushing her into complete burnout and a profound personal reckoning. In this powerful talk, she shares what happened next and how it taught her the secret to resilience.

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDNext 2025
Speaker
Jane Marie Chen
Year
2025
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Business and management, Psychology and the brain
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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Who can watch
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