My Year of TED: Kylie Dunn at TEDxHobart

Kylie Dunn is a blogger, writer and maker who would not have had the courage to make any of those claims about herself two years ago. On 1 November 2011, Kylie embarked on a crazy project that she had developed called My Year of TED -- hoping to understand her authentic self by the time she turned 40. Using the wisdom of TED Talks, Kylie set about to complete twenty-one 30 day activities, while blogging about the entire experience. The project was completed on 31 October 2012, and Kylie has been continuing to make changes to her life to align it with the things she discovered during that year. This has recently included developing a business, dinkylune, to share her experiences and hard won lessons with others.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)