# What losing everything taught me about resilience

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_marie_chen_what_losing_everything_taught_me_about_resilience)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [What losing everything taught me about resilience](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jane_marie_chen_what_losing_everything_taught_me_about_resilience/655ee5e1d431), 10 min (TED's player)