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February 20, 2026 · 7 min read
How I Found Resilience as My Life Fell Apart | Jane Marie Chen | TED
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Key Takeaways
- 1Do you ever wonder who you are beyond your job, your titles, your accomplishments?
- 2Ten years earlier, I had co-founded Embrace, a social enterprise that created a low-cost portable incubator for premature babies in underserved com...
- 3Over the years, we saved thousands of babies.
- 4Along the way, we were recognized by President Obama and funded by Beyoncé.
- 5Ten years in, after countless setbacks from manufacturing to distribution to funding challenges, we had to shut down the company.
Overview
Do you ever wonder who you are beyond your job, your titles, your accomplishments? This is the question I was forced to confront when the company I'd spent a decade pouring my soul into shut down. My work had been my entire identity, and without it, I didn't know who I was anymore.
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