Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.

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I'll see you on the other side.

You have friends that are beginning to become young adults and they want to go out to the club

and the only club in your area has one step in order to get into it and you're in a

power wheelchair that sort of doesn't go well together. I found video games to be that outlet where I could take my Super Nintendo into my friend's garage

and we could hang out for hours.

We'd be playing our street fighters or streets of rage

and that kind of fighting games

with my pals that were super into beating each other's but.

That butt-beating virtual street fighter is Stephen Spawn,

CEO of the nonprofit able gamers.

I found the deeper I delved into the world of gaming,

the more I felt like I was just like everyone else we're all the

same we're all just gamers. Steve got in a competitive gaming which requires

quick reflexes and precision timing in order to win. But he was facing a far greater challenge.

So my disability is spinal muscular atrophy, which essentially means that over time my muscles get weaker and weaker.

What happens is I lose abilities as we go along.

At the same time that Steve's muscles were weakening,

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