By Jeanette Maynes

Last Friday Ben and I attended the 3^rd Hervey Bay Business Network luncheon with keynote speaker Karni Liddell, who is a successful and respected Paralympics swimmer. Born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (a muscle wasting disability which affects all body muscles including internal), Karni has defied Doctors and the odds to have not only lived to the age of 29 but to have successfully embarked on an international sporting career.

I found Karni to be a very well spoken, inspirational and articulated young woman. Her will power, strength and life defining moments she kindly informed us off were truly inspirational and motivational. Her courage, competitiveness and drive, I felt was partly instilled by her parents at an early age as they were great role models (her father being a sporting hero also) plus their implementation of a continuous exercise program from the age of 3 has been phenomenal is Karni achieving such remarkable goals.

Karni holds every Australian record in her contested swimming events.

“Achieving things in life people say can’t be done is one of the greatest pleasures in life. Never say never!” Karni Liddell

What a fantastic luncheon and enlightening / motivational presentation and slide show.

Karni is pictured here with; L-R: Rob Garland from Jobsmart, Jeanette Maynes from Design House, Ted Sorensen Mayor of Hervey Bay, David De Bruin from Quantaslink and Scott Rowe Editor of the Independent.

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