My accident 

Four weeks after my sixteenth birthday, A BMX jump gone wrong resulted in me becoming a quadriplegic. 

I was hospitalised and left to confront the incredibly hard transition that lay ahead.  

What I want the audience to take away from my presentation

Whatever it is that they connect with. I cover a range of topics and lessons: it may be an appreciation of the spinal cord in their moving, functioning body; it may be an understanding of overcoming loss, hardship, change and challenge; it may be an awareness of what they can do to minimise their chances of sustaining an injury themselves. It could be something else. I make it clear to begin, even though I speak about my story and experience, the presentation is about my audience and what they get out of it.