Ken Simons is the founder and inventor of VeloChair. He is also a good friend. I have admired Ken since I first met him back when I was a flight instructor and charter pilot at Somerset Airport back in 1998. Ken was then an executive for a large home building corporation. I was never a flight instructor of his, but I remember Ken taking tailwheel lessons with a fellow flight instructor. He would come out of each lesson beaming. He would have a glow that only comes from the type of joy that arises from the sense of accomplishment of getting better at a thing that you love to do, and thirst to know more about. Being a young flight instructor around an airport is a great experience. You get to rub elbows with older and wiser people who now have the resources coupled with the sense of adventure to do things like learn to fly. Ken’s success as a businessman earned him sole ownership of a Piper Turbo Aztec, a six seat, twin engine plane. I didn’t realize it then but Ken was a living embodiment of the aspects of great leadership. Ken never takes things personally, is slow to judge, and quick to forgive. Now, having retired from construction, he has turned his disability into a gift to the world, by developing his invention the VeloChair.

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The Ted talk on seduction referenced @ 22:00: https://youtu.be/TBIL2sdfoVc

1:00 Disability

2:00 Problem solving

3:15 Who can use VeloChair

7:45 Biggest obstacles facing VeloChair today

9:00 Where you can use VeloChair and how it works

14:45 How to get a VeloChair www.myvelochair.com

15:25 How VeloChair was developed

16:45 The secret to Ken’s ability to thrive

18:25 Starting from the beginning of Ken’s life

20:30 Religion and Coca-Cola

21:40 Sensual Ken

23:00 Focusing on positives

24:40 Perspectives on forgiveness and non-judgement

28:45 Win as much as you can… trusting again

34:00 Not being afraid of fear

38:45 Leading those who are smarter than you

39:30 Hiring quality people

46:20 Different perspectives

57:00 Discovering new interests at young age and getting fit

59:30 Early money lessons

62:00 College paid for by US Army

63:10 Marrying Wendy and off to Germany

64:40 If you hang with those doobie smokers I’m calling the cops

69:50 Meeting the SS

72:00 Perspectives on the Holocaust

78:45Religion

80:30 Measuring the success of your children

82:15 Seeing eye to eye in raising kids

89:00 Ken’s rule of one

Change your perspectives of the problem

91:45 Meaning and Purpose

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