Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 32 segments
Mike Kinner created Air O Sport around a simple challenge: how could he play a sport he loved with his daughter, his aging father, and friends who did not see themselves as athletic? In this…
i want to tie into that um we've mentioned this on the show a couple times but we don't do screens for our kids like none so we'll watch disney family movies um on occasion like maybe two or three a week and that's it and when my wife and i decided to do this because all of our friends are pretty much not doing that I was like, we got to create experiences for them.
So we built the zip line and a tree fort and we have all these climbing nets and we have archery, like have an archery range set up in our backyard and all kinds of stuff, BB guns.
But when we get other kids over there, It's incredible because the kids will come over and they're like, can we watch a movie? No.
And as a result, our kids are massive readers because if it's cold outside, I'm like, read a book.
When are you going to finish it? He's like, I've read it three times already and call it the wild.
I'm like, wow, that's, you know, I haven't read them in forever, but I'm like, yeah, the classics are great.
It's like, how do we almost shock people? out of this like, we're just kind of walking down this treadmill of boring, mundane experiences.
And even in our offices, if you can just give somebody, you mentioned when you came in, bring the joy, which I think is a Brendan Burchard.
Like if we can bring that joy, if we can activate somebody and have them feel differently than they have in every other white collar service space, it brings a whole new dynamic to that relationship.
i want to tie into that um we've mentioned this on the show a couple times but we don't do screens for our kids like none so we'll watch disney family movies um on occasion like maybe two or three a week and that's it and when my wife and i decided to do this because all of our friends are pretty much not doing that I was like, we got to create experiences for them.
So we built the zip line and a tree fort and we have all these climbing nets and we have archery, like have an archery range set up in our backyard and all kinds of stuff, BB guns.
But when we get other kids over there, It's incredible because the kids will come over and they're like, can we watch a movie? No.
And as a result, our kids are massive readers because if it's cold outside, I'm like, read a book.
When are you going to finish it? He's like, I've read it three times already and call it the wild.
I'm like, wow, that's, you know, I haven't read them in forever, but I'm like, yeah, the classics are great.
It's like, how do we almost shock people? out of this like, we're just kind of walking down this treadmill of boring, mundane experiences.
And even in our offices, if you can just give somebody, you mentioned when you came in, bring the joy, which I think is a Brendan Burchard.
Like if we can bring that joy, if we can activate somebody and have them feel differently than they have in every other white collar service space, it brings a whole new dynamic to that relationship.
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