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Ken Simons, Founder and Inventor of VeloChair
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.
Follow VeloChair on Instagram.
www.myvelochair.com
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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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.
Follow VeloChair on Instagram.
www.myvelochair.com
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