Jade Hameister has done more in sixteen years than most of us, whatever our age.
She’s the youngest person ever to have completed what she calls the “Polar Hat Trick”–visiting both poles and crossing the Greenland ice sheet.
But when she stood up and spoke at the TEDx Conference in Melbourne two years ago, some trolls thought it would be funny to put her down. “Make me a sandwich,” they told her in the comments section of her YouTube video.
Well, she did exactly that. Although I doubt any of the trolls will have the stones to claim their sandwich–which she left for them at the South Pole. Right before she headed home to Australia to finish high school.
Her TEDx Talk is below. Take ten minutes to watch it, and read the article linked above. Then you can decide for yourself where this woman belongs: in the kitchen, making sandwiches for men who don’t have the tenth part of her courage; or wherever she wants to be, kicking ass on her own terms.
If you’ve been here more than a minute or two, you know where I fall on that scale.
Well done, Ms. Hameister. I’ll make my own sandwich. You keep being awesome.