Janine Shepherd Biography

Janine Shepherd is an inspirational speaker and writer whose books have become classics in the survivor genre. A champion cross-country skier in training for the 1988 winter Olympics Janine’s life changed forever when she was hit by a truck during a bicycle training ride in the Blue Mountains of Australia. Doctors warned her parents that—even if she somehow miraculously survived her massive injuries—Janine would almost certainly never walk again. After a risky procedure to rebuild her shattered vertebra and almost six months flat on her back in a hospital spinal ward Janine came home to heal. With the promise of a career as an elite athlete now gone forever Janine faced a daunting recovery and an uncertain future. Struggling to rehabilitate with permanent disabilities Janine rekindled her defiant spirit in a dramatically improbable way. Sitting outside in her wheelchair one day and watching a small plane fly overhead she declared “That’s it! If I can’t walk I’ll fly!” Still encased in a full body cast Janine had to be lifted into an aircraft for her introductory flight lesson. But within a year she had defied the odds and succeeded in gaining her private pilot’s license. Her talent and skill as a pilot subsequently earned Janine a commercial pilot license and ultimately her flying instructor’s rating. She then decided to learn to fly upside down and finally to teach aerobatic flight to other pilots.

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