When you run into me and, you know, looking back on it, I don’t know if he had traveled a long way building up to that incredible speed. You are a great role model for your kids and everyone out there who is fighting adversity, but you ended up helping and probably saving the lives of many other police officers because of the Ford motor company.

Other chapters brought a lump to the throat for the shear anguish experienced by an individual, a family, and a community of service providers; frustration mounts to see the same carnage over and over because of the non-caring and impersonal greed that drives many corporate decisions. This is one of the most inspiring, yet sad, stories of the strength and courage of the human spirit. I have no idea, but I’ve had so many lessons or they keep telling me every time I take a lesson, they say, stop trying to kill the damn ball and hit it like a baseball.And that just felt amazing to feel the energy in the room and to hear the laughter and the, and the gasps and everything for each thing that we all talked about. Also, the writing style of Landon Napoleon has such forward momentum that it is hard to put the book down and it definitely will be a quick read once you get started. You know, he likes to tease me that he went from working 40 hours a week to work at 90 hours a week. I firmly believed that I had the easiest part of this compared to my wife and my children, my parents, and my friends. And I’m certainly not going to be angry at him, but I do think that all of these other individuals deserve the same opportunity to go home to their families and they didn’t get that.

And sounds like they’ve learned an awful lot from you, by the way, if anybody was not paying attention, his son was born 18 months after the tragedy. Doing this podcast is one of the best decisions that I ever made because every week I get to interview some of the most incredible people in the world, leaders in healthcare and in business who have taught me so much. You know, the golf, I think it’s important to talk about that because that is the one thing that I gave up. We learn how he suffered burns to 43% of his body, with his neck, head and face being the worst, spent two and a half months in a coma, and was not expected to survive. The worst, my torso was protected by my Bulletproof vest, thankfully, and again, being unconscious, I wasn’t yelling, screaming and taking in those deep breaths, inhaling the smoke and the flames would surely would have killed me within just a few minutes and having my chest spared from the burns, which firms for those of you listening, who don’t realize burns will keep on burning.Schechterle, who began a long, gruesome, and gut-wrenching battle back to health, would also take on Ford Motor Company to stop the heinous and ultimately preventable deaths. When a taxi smashed into police officer Jason Schechterle's patrol car, the fireball that consumed the vehicle should have killed him. It encompasses every theme and trope in literature, and will leave you filled with compassion and a new determination to do better in your life.