THE APOLLO STREAMS STORY

In 2016, I was just a dad coaching my kids in Ultimate Frisbee. Two years later, my life took a dramatic turn. While playing a competitive game of basketball, an opposing player lowered his shoulder into my chest. My heart stopped — a situation eerily similar to what happened to Damar Hamlin. I flatlined. It took CPR and multiple shocks to bring me back to life.

Most people don’t survive something like that. Those who do often face lifelong challenges. I was “lucky” enough to survive, but the trauma left me with severe short-term memory loss. For nearly two years, I couldn’t retain new information. I lost one of my most successful businesses, and with it, a future I had worked hard to build. I felt discouraged, depressed, and unsure of what I could ever do again. But I kept coaching. As our team improved and began traveling the country, I realized how difficult it was for families and fans to follow our games from afar. Streaming options like Facebook Live or YouTube were available, but the quality was terrible — no scoreboards, no zoom, no professionalism. I knew there had to be a better way.

Then something unexpected happened.

During Thanksgiving of 2019, we were visiting family in North Carolina when we decided to stop by the Wright Brothers Museum. The place was nearly empty — just one employee and my family. As I read each display, I came across a quote that stopped me cold:

     “Not within a thousand years would man ever fly.”

I could feel the weight of that doubt. I was feeling a similar discouragement in my life. And then, almost as if someone was standing beside me, I heard a question in my mind:

     “What would happen if you quit?”

That single moment flipped a switch. For the first time in years, I set a goal — not just to stay alive, but to create something that would change the world. I set out to file a patent — something I had never done before, and something that felt almost impossible given my condition. That year, against all odds, I ended up filing two. One became the foundation for the equipment used in filming Apollo Streams. The other was for a workstation I designed to help me heal — a treadmill, elliptical, and chair built into a desk so I could walk or pedal and work at the same time (FitworkStation.com).

From that point on, I poured everything I had into building Apollo Streams.

Over the next five years, I obsessed over solving the problems that no one else had cracked. I consulted Apple’s top engineers who told me, “We don’t know — that’s never been done before.” Broadcasting professionals told me what I was trying to do was “impossible.” Billion-dollar companies had tried and failed. But I kept going.

Eventually, Apollo Streams was born — a groundbreaking platform that brings professional-level broadcasting to anyone with an iPad and a vision. D-1 universities started buying my gear. The second-largest broadcasting company in the country took notice and the ball really started rolling.

And I got to coach and live-stream my son’s team winning an Ultimate Frisbee National Championship!

His name was Apollo — the perfect name for something built to rise, inspire, and reach farther than anyone thought possible.

That’s when Apollo Streams was born.

Apollo Streams started as a way to stay connected to my family and rediscover my purpose. Today, it's a powerful tool built to empower families, schools, and broadcasters everywhere.

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